Verndale

Delivery Director, Marketing Services

Verndale

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

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About the role

  • Oversee the delivery of multiple Marketing Services programs and performance initiatives across strategy, discoverability, content systems, automation, experimentation, and performance marketing.
  • Establish clear, accountable delivery ownership for each engagement, ensuring proactive management of scope, budget, risk, performance metrics, and client expectations.
  • Implement and enforce best-in-class delivery frameworks, governance, and quality assurance processes aligned to marketing OKRs and measurable business outcomes.
  • Partner closely with client sponsors, Client Success Leads, and capability leaders to maintain alignment, transparency, and outcome accountability.
  • Serve as an escalation point for delivery conflicts and trade-offs, making timely, commercially sound decisions that protect client relationships and practice health.
  • Develop and refine delivery processes tailored for Marketing Services engagements within a performance-driven model, including transformation programs and ongoing optimization retainers.
  • Ensure standards are documented, communicated, and adopted across the practice.
  • Drive continuous improvement through delivery metrics, operational reviews, and performance retrospectives.
  • Align delivery performance to practice health metrics, including revenue growth, gross margin, revenue per employee, CSAT, and operational efficiency.
  • Partner with capability leads and the resourcing team to forecast and manage staffing needs, ensuring optimal resource allocation and scalable capacity planning.
  • Contribute to the evolution of tools, AI enablement, governance models, and reporting frameworks that support efficient, high-impact execution.
  • Build, coach, and retain a high-performing team of Engagement Managers and Discipline. Leads operating across strategy, content, data, automation, experimentation, and performance marketing disciplines.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, commercial awareness, experimentation, and outcome-driven problem solving.
  • Provide clear growth paths and mentorship that strengthen delivery leadership capability and support long-term talent retention.
  • Promote collaboration across capabilities to ensure integrated execution within the Marketing Performance System.
  • Serve as a senior delivery point of contact for key client relationships, reinforcing trust, accountability, and measurable impact.
  • Partner with account and sales teams to scope new Marketing Services opportunities, estimate effort, and shape scalable, performance-oriented delivery models.
  • Contribute to business development by providing delivery assurance during pre-sales, proposals, and client presentations.
  • Support practice revenue objectives by ensuring disciplined estimation, strong commercial governance, and effective scope and change management.

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years’ experience leading Marketing Services or performance marketing delivery for complex, multi-workstream engagements in agency or consulting environments.
  • At least 5 years managing cross-functional teams across strategy, SEO/discoverability, content systems, data & analytics, automation, experimentation, and performance marketing.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in delivery governance, estimation, SOW development, risk management, and change control across both transformation initiatives and ongoing performance retainers.
  • Strong commercial acumen, including revenue recognition, margin management, utilization planning, and forecasting.
  • Track record of effective people leadership, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning.
  • Executive presence with clear, confident communication and the ability to resolve escalations while maintaining trust and partnership.
  • Preferred Certifications (i.e. PMP, CSM/SAFe).
  • Experience standardizing delivery methodologies and tools at the practice level.
  • Pre-sales and solutioning experience, including developing delivery models and estimates for complex programs
Benefits
  • Generous paid company holidays, vacation, and paid sick time to every employee starting on day one.
  • Top-of-the-line Health Insurance, plus monthly perks customized to meet individual employees’ needs.
  • Support a healthy work/life balance.
  • Fully remote enabled and embrace the evolving definition of the workplace.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
performance marketingdelivery governancerisk managementchange controlestimationSOW developmentdata analyticsSEOautomationcontent systems
Soft Skills
people leadershipcommercial acumenclear communicationproblem solvingmentorshipcollaborationtrust buildingaccountabilitycoachingperformance management
Certifications
PMPCSMSAFe