Title: Direct Marketing Manager (Credit Card & Creative Strategy)
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Posted 2 days ago
Job Summary
Own the credit card direct mail engine from strategy to deployment, driving creative testing, end-to-end production, and performance analysis.
- Lead strategy, development, and rotation of direct mail creative assets
- Manage end-to-end production including data, VDP, postal optimization, and deployment
- Coordinate with agencies, vendors, and QA to ensure accuracy and on-time delivery
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Creative Strategy & Testing: Lead the strategy, development, and rotation of Credit Card direct mail creative assets. Design and execute multi-variant test matrices to continuously optimize response, approval, and pull-through rates.
- Full-Lifecycle Production Execution: Manage end-to-end print and mail production, overseeing lettershop execution, data file transfers, variable data printing (VDP), postage optimization, and deployment schedules across all Credit Card streams.
- Vendor & Agency Management: Serve as the primary operational link with external creative agencies, print vendors, and lettershops to ensure campaign deliverables are produced efficiently, cost-effectively, and on time.
- Quality Assurance & Proofing: Establish rigorous proofing, sampling, and audit controls across complex variable data streams to guarantee 100% execution accuracy.
- Regulatory Compliance & FCRA Governance: Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to ensure all pre-screen disclosures, credit terms, and FCRA requirements are flawlessly maintained across every printed variant.
- Performance Analysis: Partner with Analytics to track key performance metrics and leverage campaign results to inform future creative and production decisions.
Requirements
- 5–8+ years of direct marketing experience in financial services or consumer lending, with hands-on expertise in both creative development and direct mail production management.
- Production & Print Expertise: Deep working knowledge of direct mail production processes, including digital/offset printing, variable data printing (VDP), postal regulations, and lettershop operations.
- Creative Direction & Testing: Experience writing or evaluating high-converting direct response copy, managing agency partners, and running multi-variant matrix testing.
- Detail-Oriented QA Mindset: Meticulous attention to detail with a proven track record of managing zero-defect campaigns in a highly regulated credit environment.
- Cross-Functional Tools: Proficient in Excel, JIRA, and Confluence, with strong project management skills in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Benefits
- generous benefits
After training over 70,000 students in 80 countries we know what it takes to help people earn more.There are over four hundred of us passionate employees here at Prosper dedicated to changing the way the world views education. Simply put, we believe that education should pay. Fast. Throw out the fluffiness of theory and laser-focus on the principles, strategies, and actions that lead directly to increased earnings.
Salaries
Posted range
$148K/yr – $184K/yr
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