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

Chicago, IL (On-site)

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

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Lead transformation of client MarTech programs by shaping roadmaps, governance, and change plans across MarTech, AdTech, AI orchestration, and integrations to deliver measurable business outcomes.

  • Define roadmaps, value milestones, and cross-functional delivery plans
  • Drive discovery, prioritization, and executive storytelling with senior stakeholders

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.
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Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

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$168K/yr – $242K/yr

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