Vice President, Product Marketing

Swindon, UK (Hybrid)

$217K/yr – $290K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end product marketing and audience strategy to grow Edelman Financial Engines’ brand, align cross-functional teams, and accelerate growth for mass-affluent financial planning audiences.

  • Own end-to-end audience strategy and cross-channel journeys.
  • Must-have: 10+ years in marketing with mass affluent or financial services.
  • Standout: proven ability to define a differentiated brand and scale it across a matrixed organization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Bring the client and planner value proposition to life:
  • Define and evolve EFE’s value proposition using data, insights, and market understanding, clarifying who we are for our clients and why EFE is the best place for financial planners to build a meaningful, scalable career and practice.
  • Quarterback the audience experience:
  • Own the end-to-end strategy for acquiring, engaging, and retaining our core financial planning audience, driving lifetime value, satisfaction, and NPS.
  • Define and activate audience strategy through insights:
  • Own and deliver audience segmentation strategy across the organization, leveraging data, competitive intelligence, and internal/external feedback to inform positioning, messaging, and program development.
  • Expand product marketing discipline for strategic impact:
  • Establish clear frameworks for positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy. Translate insights into actionable plans, ensuring consistency and clarity across channels and teams.
  • Deliver integrated customer journeys:
  • Develop end-to-end journeys that inspire and guide priorities across marketing, product, and planner/client-facing teams.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment and execution
  • Establish and lead a collaboration model across brand, growth marketing, product, and Client teams to ensure cohesive strategies and effective execution across all channels.
  • Champion experimentation and continuous optimization:
  • Embed a test-and-learn mindset across marketing, product, and planner experiences to accelerate growth and innovation.
  • Set strategy, goals, and operating rhythm:
  • Define OKRs, budgets, and priorities in partnership with the business. Serve as the strategic conduit between business objectives and marketing execution.
  • Develop and optimize talent:
  • Build, coach, and scale a high-performing team, investing in talent development, capability building, and creating clear paths for growth and impact.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in marketing, ideally with mass affluent audiences and/or financial services
  • Proven ability to define and scale a differentiated brand or category, aligning organizations around a clear audience and value proposition
  • Deep expertise in product marketing, including positioning, segmentation, and go-to-market strategy
  • Strong leadership track record with a focus on developing, optimizing, and inspiring high-performing teams
  • Exceptional influence skills with a collaborative, partnership-driven mindset
  • Demonstrated ability to bring structure, clarity, and strategic discipline to complex, matrixed environments
  • Experience leveraging data, insights, and experimentation to drive growth and performance
  • Excellent communication and executive presence

Preferred

    Benefits

    • health, dental and other wellness plans, and 401(k) contributions.
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    Edelman Financial Engines

    For more than 35 years, Edelman Financial Engines has been helping people move their financial lives forward.Our founders set the tone for our mission – giving individual investors access to sophisticated investment modeling tools that were previously available only to institutional investors, and providing financial planning and wealth management advice with the belief that everyone should have a trusted financial advocate who is always acting in their best interests. Today, we’re one of America’s top independent wealth planning and workplace investment advisory firms, serving more than 1.3 million clients (as of Dec. 2024).Our unique combination of high-tech and high-touch services helps people wherever they are on their personal financial journey. Through our Wealth Management services, we deliver straightforward wealth planning and investment advice to help individuals and families connect the dots between key parts of their financial life so they can build, grow, protect and preserve their wealth. Through our Employer Services, we work with many of the nation’s leading employers, offering an integrated suite of personalized financial solutions to support employees across their major life events and milestones – from their first paycheck all the way through retirement.In serving clients from coast to coast, we know that when individuals have better confidence and command over their own financial journey, this can have a positive lasting impact on families, communities, and generations over time. This mission-driven purpose is deeply embedded in our values, our culture, and across all of our teams.

    Founded in 1987
    Santa Clara, California, USA
    1.5K employees (98 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    225.7K
    Monthly Google Ads Budget
    $431.6K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    41.4%
    Direct
    52.9%
    Referral
    4.4%
    Social
    0.3%
    Paid
    1.1%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~1.5K

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    80 (5% of company)
    Median Career Experience
    17 years
    Median Tenure
    3.2 years
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    1

    Funding

    Last Raise
    Private Equity, 5 years ago

    Funding History

    • Mar 2021
      Private Equity

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