SVP, Strategy

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$176K/yr – $289K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive enterprise strategy across marketing, experience, and performance to deliver measurable client outcomes.

  • Own the integrated strategy vision across strategy, communications, performance marketing, experience strategy, and content
  • Must-have: 15+ years in performance, growth, or lifecycle strategy, with 7+ years in financial services
  • Standout: Lead large, multidisciplinary teams to shape transformation roadmaps and sustained results

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the integrated strategy vision for the client across strategy, communications, performance marketing, experience strategy, and content
  • Guide the evolution of an enterprise creative platform and other enterprise initiatives into full-funnel, multi-channel activation
  • Champion a customer-first planning approach, mapping emotional and functional jobs-to-be-done across the lifecycle to ensure every activation meets a real member need
  • Inform annual and quarterly business reviews, bringing forward market trends, competitive shifts, cultural signals, and new member behaviors
  • Architect an outcomes-based performance strategy aligned to the client's business goals (eligibility, consideration, acquisition, CLV, retention)
  • Connect performance to creative, ensuring briefs are insight-driven, audience-led, and designed for measurable impact

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience leading performance, growth, or lifecycle strategy—with at least 7+ years in financial services, including banking, insurance, fintech organizations (nice to have)
  • Proven track record of designing and leading acquisition, onboarding, and cross-sell strategies that drive measurable business outcomes
  • Mastery in full-funnel strategy, performance marketing, CRM, and digital experience planning
  • Ability to connect business outcomes, member insights, human behavior, and cultural signals into clear strategic direction
  • Confidence presenting to and influencing C-suite executives
  • Experience leading large, multidisciplinary strategy teams
  • Demonstrated ability to shape long-term transformation roadmaps and mobilize teams around them
  • Comfort working in a highly regulated environment with a strong sense of mission and purpose

Preferred

  • (nice to have) in financial services, including banking, insurance, fintech organizations
  • (nice to have) Deep knowledge of financial services marketing, compliance requirements, and customer behavior across product lines

Benefits

  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
  • Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances
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Razorfish

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Hi there! We’re Razorfish. We see consumers as more than just metrics. We see them as people – wonderful, complex, interesting people. Grounded in deep digital expertise for over 25 years, we continue to navigate the ever-changing marketing landscape to forge meaningful connections that enrich people’s lives. Our diverse teams of strategists, creative thinkers, experience builders, and technologists are passionate about connecting creativity to business impact. Razorfish is part of Publicis Communications North America.

Founded in 1995
New York, NY, US
1.8K employees (823 in marketing)
73% recommend to a friend
73% CEO approval

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24.6K
Traffic Source Mix
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Direct
46.9%
Referral
5.2%
Social
1.7%
Paid
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Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
471 (22% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
5.3 years
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