Vice President, Audience Strategy & Insights

El Segundo, CA (On-site)

$160K/yr – $245K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive enterprise audience strategy and scalable activation for Mattel, aligning growth, brand strategies, and data-driven audience enablement across regions.

  • Must-have: 8+ years in audience strategy, analytics, or related roles with cross-functional collaboration.
  • Standout: Experience translating identity and data concepts into enterprise audience strategies and governance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Audience Strategy & Growth Enablement
  • Define and own Mattel’s enterprise audience strategy vision aligned to business objectives, growth priorities, and brand strategies.
  • Translate enterprise and brand level business questions into audience hypotheses, segmentation frameworks, and growth audience approaches.
  • Connect audience strategy to marketing technology, data, and identity capabilities to enable scalable, addressable activation globally.
  • Build and govern a durable body of audience knowledge across brands, regions, and markets to inform ongoing and future planning.
  • Audience Informed Planning & Lifecycle Integration
  • Partner with Analytics & Insights leadership during planning to ensure audience definitions, identity considerations, and segmentation logic are reflected in measurement and learning agendas.
  • Ensure audience strategy informs planning and activation decisions across teams while not owning performance measurement or adjudication.
  • Embed audience thinking consistently from briefing through post campaign learning, refinement, and future roadmap development.
  • Identity, Segmentation & Addressability
  • Lead enterprise approaches to audience segmentation and growth audience development using first party, second party, and third-party data.
  • Translate identity, privacy, and data connectivity complexity into clear, actionable audience strategies for executive, internal, and external stakeholders.
  • Partner with data architecture, marketing technology, and privacy teams to operationalize audience definitions within internal platforms and tools.
  • Provide executive guidance on the opportunities and limitations of identity, addressability, and data connectivity globally.
  • Activation Partnership & Enablement
  • Partner closely with Media and Activation leadership to ensure audience strategies are executable and aligned with channel and platform capabilities.
  • Establish standards and best practices for audience onboarding, deployment, reuse, and governance across brands and markets.
  • Identify enterprise or brand specific needs requiring custom audience solutions and coordinate delivery with appropriate internal teams.
  • Audience Learning & Insight Translation
  • Interpret analytics and measurement outputs through an audience lens in close partnership with Analytics & Insights teams and translate learnings into strategic recommendations for future audience refinement and growth.
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