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What you’ll be doing...

We’re looking for an Agile Digital Marketing leader to set the testing direction for a multi-functional team, generate and prioritize testing ideas, and leverage experts in the team to launch experiments with the sole purpose of improving click-through and conversion rates.

The key to success in this role sits at the intersection of your ability to lead and elevate the contribution of the team, your experiences in Agile digital marketing practices in the context of a fun, exciting, fast-paced setting where learning through experimentation is the name of the game, and the flexibility to go from generating bold ideas to removing obstacles so others can execute, and at times rolling up your sleeves and getting it done yourself…

In this capacity, you will be directly responsible for the operational calendar and cadence of the team, generation and prioritization of testing ideas, for the velocity with which the team launches in-market experiments as well as the success rate of those experiments.

Leads a group of experts that execute quick-turnaround experiments designed to create real bottom-line impact.

• Sets the testing direction for the pod, ensuring a diverse set of tests that balances learning and boldness of the tests with delivering bottom-line business impact.
• Owns the pod's backlog of testing ideas, actively generates and prioritizes ideas to ensure a healthy pipeline of future tests
• Works with the Scale & Campaign group to prioritize the backlog for review with the Control Tower, and influences the enablement team so technical solutions needed to launch future tests are created
• Works closely with the Test Lead to execute sprints, ensuring deadlines and milestones are achieved so tests can be launched as expected.
• Organizes and leads Agile ceremonies including daily standups and working sessions needed to launch tests, sprint retrospectives so lessons learned are incorporated into future sprints and leveraged across the RTM program, and ideation sessions in which ideas are generated and prioritized.
• Owns delivering 4+ tests per month with a 50% success rate.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience in marketing or digital operations.
• Experience working in a fast paced setting in which outcomes are time-boxed, and pivots in how to deliver against those outcomes are expected.
• Experience with digital marketing tools (web analytics, personalization, media activation)

Even better if you have:

• Master’s Degree or MBA.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Experience in agile project management.
• Ability to motivate and channel the energy of a group of functional experts that report into their respective functional leaders
• Highly organized and thrives in a fast-paced, multi stakeholder environment and can manage multiple priorities.
• Critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience in segment marketing.
• High level of business acumen.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Highly collaborative with the ability to coach, motivate, mediate conflict and facilitate efforts across a cross-functional team focused on a common goal.
• Refined organizational skills - provide structure and planning to keep projects on track.

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