Sr. Merchant Marketing Manager

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$154K/yr – $193K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Owns merchant marketing strategy and programs, leads scalable co-branded campaigns, and drives cross-functional partnerships to grow Paze usage and merchant engagement.

  • Owns marketing strategy and program outcomes
  • Leads co-branded campaigns and performance optimization
  • Manages cross-functional partnerships and agencies

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Sets the vision for merchant marketing with a focus on scalable, co-branded campaigns that drive Paze usage and transaction growth across enterprise merchants
  • Leads the strategy, development, and execution of co-branded campaigns with merchants, ensuring alignment with shared business goals and delivering measurable impact
  • Drives a performance marketing approach, leveraging a test-and-learn methodology across creative, offers, audience segmentation, and channel strategy to continuously optimize campaign performance
  • Participates in the development and management of merchant marketing toolkits and assets to support scalable, high-quality campaign execution
  • Provides marketing leadership and support for new merchant onboarding, including collaborating directly with partners on integrated marketing plans (PR, social, owned and paid channels)
  • Partners closely with and manages external agencies to develop creative, execute campaigns, and optimize performance; ensures strong strategic direction, quality, and delivery
  • Oversees complex, cross-functional marketing initiatives end-to-end, including defining processes, timelines, deliverables, and success metrics
  • Builds and maintains strong relationships with a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders, demonstrating excellence in stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
  • Ensures campaigns deliver a seamless and compelling customer experience while strengthening the Paze brand
  • Supports the company’s commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data

Requirements

  • Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or related field
  • Typically a minimum of 12 years of experience in marketing, with a strong foundation in brand and integrated marketing
  • Proven experience developing and executing co-branded or partnership marketing campaigns
  • Demonstrated expertise in performance marketing, including testing and optimizing creative, offers, audiences, and channels
  • Experience working with and managing external agencies to deliver high-quality marketing outcomes
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience collaborating across internal teams and external partners
  • Demonstrated success in client-facing roles and working directly with partners
  • Experience working in a start-up or high-growth environment preferred
  • 3–5 years of experience creating and scaling marketing programs
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong active listening

Preferred

  • Experience working in a start-up or high-growth environment preferred

Benefits

  • Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
  • Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
  • 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.
  • And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!
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Early Warning Services, LLC, a financial services technology leader, has been empowering and protecting consumers, small businesses, and the U.S. financial services ecosystem with cutting-edge risk, fraud and payment solutions for more than three decades. Through our network intelligence and partnerships with more than 2,500 bank and credit union brands, we increase access to financial services and products, and protect financial transactions. We are the company behind Zelle® and the PazeSM online checkout solution.

Founded in 1990
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
1.7K employees (96 in marketing)
25% recommend to a friend
14% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$154K/yr – $193K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
81 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
2.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
45.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.3%
Direct
60.3%
Referral
6.5%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.7K

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Sr. Merchant Marketing Manager

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