Sr. Manager, Performance Marketing

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $169K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 18 hrs ago

Job Summary

Lead the marketing investment planning and optimization across PenFed, guiding budget processes, governance, forecasting, and performance analytics.

  • Own enterprise marketing budget planning, tracking, forecasting, and reporting.
  • Partner with Product, Finance, and Marketing to evaluate requests and prioritize investments.
  • Drive measurement through MMM, attribution, and analytics to optimize spend and growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Marketing Investment Strategy & Planning
  • Lead annual and on-going marketing budget planning processes across all product lines and marketing channels.
  • Develop and maintain an enterprise-wide marketing investment framework aligned with PenFed strategic priorities.
  • Partner with Product, Finance, and Marketing leaders to evaluate budget requests and prioritize investments based on expected business impact.
  • Establish investment guardrails and governance processes to ensure efficient use of marketing resources.
  • Support long-range planning and multi-year investment forecasting.
  • Budget Management & Forecasting
  • Own enterprise marketing budget tracking, forecasting, and performance reporting.
  • Monitors spend against budget and proactively identify risks, opportunities, and reallocation recommendations.
  • Develop forecasting models for marketing expenditures, acquisition volumes, revenue contribution, and ROI.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, Business, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Analytics, or related field.
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in marketing analytics, marketing strategy, FP&A, business analytics, or investment optimization.
  • Minimum 2 years of people leadership or project leadership experience.
  • Strong understanding of marketing measurement, attribution, ROI analysis, forecasting, and financial modeling.
  • Experience with Marketing Mix Modeling, multi-touch attribution, customer lifetime value modeling, and marketing performance optimization.
  • Experience managing large marketing budgets and working with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or similar analytics platforms.
  • Strong storytelling and executive presentation skills.
  • Experience using AI tools preferred.
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) preferred.

Benefits

  • Benefits
  • At PenFed, we offer a robust benefits package designed to support you both personally and professionally. You'll have access to comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; and family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access. Financial wellness is encouraged through features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage. We also support growth via education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.
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PenFed Credit Union

Our mission isn’t simply to help our members get by. We exist to help them realize every ounce of their potential. We exist to educate, but also to encourage. We exist to usher their dreams into the land of reality. Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country’s strongest and most stable financial institutions serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $30 billion in assets. We offer a wide range of financial services helping you with loans, savings and credit cards. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico and Okinawa. Best of all, everyone is eligible to apply to be a member of PenFed. We are federally insured by NCUA and an Equal Housing Lender. To learn more about PenFed Credit Union, check out our Life, Jobs and People sections here on LinkedIn, visit PenFed.org, like us on Facebook and follow us @PenFed on Twitter. Interested in working for PenFed? Check out our Careers at careers.penfed.org. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer!

Founded in 1935
McLean, Virginia, USA
2.5K employees (91 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$85K/yr – $169K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Performance Marketing median pay in the United States

$109K/yr

Most pay falls between $85K and $150K. Based on 863 salaries.

See all PenFed Credit Union salaries

Funding

Total Funding
$447.4M
Last Raise
$398.5M
Debt Financing, 6 months ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2025
    Debt Financing • $398.5M
  • Aug 2024
    Debt Financing • $447.4M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.9M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.9%
Direct
73.7%
Referral
3.6%
Social
0.2%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.5K

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Sr. Manager, Performance Marketing

PenFed Credit Union · District of Columbia, USA · Hybrid