Vice President Group Director, MarTech Strategist – Systems and Experience Engineering

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$168K/yr – $242K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 9 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end MarTech strategy and delivery, translating business goals into roadmaps, governance, and AI-enabled operating models across delivery teams.

  • Shape future-state solutions with cross-functional architects across MarTech, AdTech, and AI agents.
  • Build practical roadmaps, guardrails, and change plans that drive measurable value.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assess client MarTech environments, workflows, data usage, vendor dependencies, and adoption gaps.
  • Translate business problems into product opportunities, user requirements, priorities, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
  • Shape future-state solutions with solution architects across MarTech, AdTech, AI agents, integrations, and orchestration layers.
  • Create practical roadmaps with clear phases, dependencies, risks, decision points, and value milestones.
  • Identify where AI and automation can improve operations, campaign execution, personalization, analytics, measurement, and experience delivery.
  • Define what should be automated, assisted, escalated, or kept human-led, with clear decision rights and oversight.
  • Evaluate platform capabilities, vendor roadmaps, licensing constraints, data access, permissions, and orchestration options.
  • Establish guardrails for privacy, consent, brand safety, auditability, governance, escalation, and model limitations.
  • Build business cases, executive recommendations, and vendor evaluation inputs that support clear investment decisions.
  • Design operating models and change plans covering roles, governance, communications, training, launch readiness, and post-launch support.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in technology strategy, product strategy, MarTech consulting, digital product, or enterprise marketing technology leadership.
  • Experience in an agency, consulting, professional services, or client-facing advisory environment.
  • Ability to turn business goals, user needs, workflows, platforms, and constraints into clear product direction, requirements, roadmaps, and delivery-ready briefs.
  • Familiarity with MarTech, AdTech, data flows, generative AI, agentic workflows, orchestration, and responsible AI practices.
  • Experience developing business cases, value models, adoption plans, and executive-ready recommendations.
  • Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, and client engagement skills, especially with senior stakeholders.
  • Experience guiding cross-functional teams through discovery, prioritization, planning, and delivery alignment.
  • Strong written and visual storytelling skills, including assessments, roadmaps, operating models, workflow maps, and recommendations.

Preferred

  • Background with a major consultancy, systems integrator, digital agency, or enterprise MarTech organization.
  • A track record of leading enterprise marketing technology assessments, selections, and transformation programs for large or complex organizations.
  • Experience building business cases and presenting them to executive and financial decision makers.
  • Exposure to AI orchestration, workflow automation, agent-enabled operating models, or vendor/platform evaluation.
  • Experience supporting change management or adoption programs for marketing, content, media, data, or experience teams.
  • Certification or hands-on experience with enterprise marketing platforms.
  • Experience in regulated categories such as financial services, healthcare, or automotive.
  • Public speaking published thought leadership, or external-facing point-of-view development.

Benefits

  • Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Digitas North America

3.9 Glassdoor

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

Founded in 1980
Boston, Massachusetts, US
2.8K employees (892 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
82% CEO approval

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$168K/yr – $242K/yr

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