
Group Director – MarTech
DEPT®
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $176,300 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Strategic leadership of MarTech-powered, connected experiences for our clients.
- Showcase DEPT’s expertise and leadership by representing our technical capabilities to clients and key stakeholders; develop and maintain senior and executive leadership relationships.
- Lead cross-practice and cross-craft technical initiatives that drive strategic innovation and collaboration across the agency to ensure we are delivering high-capable and efficient solutions.
- Partner with peers in the Data & Analytics team and Platforms team to draft and deliver comprehensive MarTech architectures for clients.
- Evolve our MarTech Audit and reference architecture using our proprietary tools and AI to accelerate time to market.
- Leverage your hands-on experience to lead teams in the execution of MarTech initiatives in collaboration with cross-craft peers.
- Provide mentorship for your team of Architects, Principles, and Analysts; use your MarTech expertise to distill organizational goals for alignment with individuals’ growth goals.
- Support strategic resource planning for your team, working with our resource management team to cast talent to opportunities and grow the team.
- Support the pitch process for qualified MarTech opportunities by building proposals and scopes, leading pre-sales activities, and being the face of DEPT’s MarTech expertise in the Americas.
- Oversee a team that does the following:
- Setup, configuration, and optimization of diverse martech platforms
- Build and manage customer journey automations, trigger-based campaigns, and advanced segmentation across platforms
- Design and implement data flows between CDPs and activation platforms, including identity resolution and real-time synchronization
- Execute technical implementations including API integrations, custom templates, tracking frameworks, and platform migrations
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues across the martech stack and maintain integration documentation
- Build attribution models, A/B testing frameworks, and automated reporting dashboards
- Conduct technical audits and health checks of existing martech implementations
Requirements
- A decade or more of hands-on experience implementing and managing marketing technology platforms.
- Strategic vision and ability to translate abstract client business problems into structured, high-value technology engagements.
- Proven leadership of large teams and navigating complex, multi-workstream client environments where partnership with Delivery is critical.
- Hands-on proficiency across diverse MarTech platforms such as:
- Email/messaging platforms (Iterable, Braze, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Adobe Campaign)
- Customer Data Platforms (Segment, Hightouch, mParticle, Tealium, AEP)
- Analytics platforms (Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel)
- Marketing automation (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, Marketo)
- Integrations with Content and Commerce systems
- Additional martech tools relevant to client needs
- Demonstrated success in pre-sales, account expansion, and building complex technical proposals.
- Excellent communication skills, effectively balancing high-level strategy with the necessary technical detail.
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
Benefits
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
- 401k plan, plus matching
- PTO
- Paid Company Holidays
- Parental Leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
MarTech architectureAPI integrationscustomer journey automationA/B testing frameworksdata flows designattribution modelstechnical auditstracking frameworksplatform migrationssegmentation
Soft Skills
strategic visionleadershipcommunicationmentorshipcollaborationresource planningproblem-solvingclient relationship managementteam managementtechnical detail balancing
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in MarketingBachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Information Systems