Sr. Manager - Campaign Measurement & Insights

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$181K/yr – $289K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own measurement and insights for Visa campaigns, turning data into actionable optimization across awareness, consideration, and engagement with a focus on sponsorships, experiential activations, and integrated programs.

  • Campaign measurement ownership: define KPIs, learning agendas, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Research programs: brand lift, pre/post studies, exposed/control designs across awareness to intent.
  • Vendor management and executive-ready storytelling: synthesize findings into recommendations for clients and internal teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a campaign measurement subject matter expert for Visa clients and internal Marketing Services stakeholders.
  • Support measurement of sponsorships, partnerships, experiential activations, merchant campaigns, and integrated marketing programs.
  • Lead research methodologies such as campaign effectiveness studies, brand lift, pre/post research, exposed/control studies.
  • Define measurement objectives, KPIs, learning agendas, success metrics, and evaluation frameworks for client marketing campaigns and activations.
  • Design and manage research programs to evaluate campaign effectiveness across outcomes such as awareness, consideration, brand perceptions, message recall, engagement, intent, and other relevant business or marketing indicators.
  • Help clients understand what worked, what did not, why results occurred, and how future campaigns can be improved.
  • Develop repeatable measurement approaches, best practices, benchmarks, scorecards, or tools that strengthen measurement consistency and rigor.
  • Manage external research vendors from scoping and proposal review through execution, analysis, reporting, and final presentation.
  • Synthesize measurement findings into clear implications, optimization opportunities, and recommended actions.
  • Develop executive-ready presentations that clearly explain methodology, results, implications, and next steps.
  • Present findings confidently to clients, internal teams, and senior stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with Marketing Services, strategy, creative, media, sponsorships, analytics, and account teams to embed measurement thinking into client marketing recommendations.
  • Help teams design campaigns with clear objectives and measurable outcomes from the start.

Requirements

  • 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
  • 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
  • 8+ years of relevant professional experience in market research, campaign measurement, marketing effectiveness, consumer insights, or a related insights function.
  • Demonstrated expertise in quantitative research, especially campaign measurement, brand lift, or marketing performance studies.
  • Experience with qualitative research and the ability to integrate qualitative insights with quantitative findings.
  • Strong understanding of campaign measurement design, including KPIs, learning agendas, pre/post studies, exposed/control approaches, and campaign impact evaluation.
  • Experience managing external research vendors and overseeing research projects from brief through final presentation.
  • Proven ability to translate measurement findings into actionable marketing recommendations.
  • Excellent written, verbal, visual communication, and presentation skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build credibility with clients, internal stakeholders, and cross-functional partners.

Preferred

  • Experience measuring sponsorships, experiential activations, and integrated marketing programs.
  • Experience working at a research agency, insights consultancy, media measurement firm, or similar client-side role.
  • Experience in financial services, payments, retail, commerce, technology, media, sports, entertainment, or consumer marketing.
  • Familiarity with media effectiveness, sponsorship tracking, event measurement, brand lift, and campaign optimization methodologies.
  • Experience developing measurement frameworks, benchmarks, scorecards, dashboards, or repeatable playbooks.
  • Experience working in a matrixed organization with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
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Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Learn more at Visa.com.

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29K employees (1,634 in marketing)

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