DEPT®

Group Director – MarTech

DEPT®

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaIllinoisUnited 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