Partner Marketing Manager
Owns marketing planning, execution, and performance for major co-branded credit card partners. Builds roadmaps, executes campaigns across paid/owned channels, optimizes full-funnel metrics like CAC and LTV, and manages cross-functional relationships. Requires 7-10+ years FinTech growth marketing experience.
Responsibilities
- Own marketing planning, execution, and performance for major co-branded partners, with accountability for partner growth outcomes
- Build and maintain 12-month marketing roadmaps in partnership with GMs, including quarterly planning and budget allocation
- Design and execute acquisition campaigns across paid channels (paid social, paid search, affiliate, direct mail) and owned channels (lifecycle, in-app, email)
- Partner with Lifecycle Managers and analytics to optimize full-funnel performance: application rate, approval rate, activation rate, spend behavior, and retention
- Develop experimentation frameworks and run tests to improve CAC, LTV, and partner-specific KPIs
- Create audience segmentation, positioning, and messaging strategies that enable creative teams and strengthen partner channel marketing
- Own relationships with external vendors (affiliate platforms, direct mail bureaus, media agencies) and internal cross-functional partners (product, engineering, analytics, creative)
- Track and report on key metrics including application volume, approval rate, activation rate, insurance attach, partner revenue, retention, and LTV
- Identify gaps in marketing infrastructure or process and drive improvements in campaign deployment speed and quality
Qualifications
Required
- 7-10+ years of growth marketing or partner marketing experience in financial services or FinTech, with a track record of launching and scaling products or partnerships
- Deep technical knowledge of marketing workflows across paid and owned channels, including lifecycle campaign deployment through tools like Braze
- Experience with affiliate platforms (e.g., Impact, AWIN) and paid acquisition channels (paid social, paid search)
- Strong analytical skills with experience tracking and optimizing metrics such as CAC, approval rates, activation rates, LTV, and retention
- Proven ability to build marketing plans, experiment frameworks, and funnel optimization strategies in partnership with cross-functional teams
- Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to represent the company in partner-facing conversations
- Clear communicator who can translate partner objectives into actionable marketing strategies
Nice to Have
- Growth marketing focus: Experience launching and iterating on performance media campaigns with a strong understanding of CAC optimization and paid media strategy
- Direct mail expertise: Experience deploying pre-screen direct mail or ITA campaigns, working with data providers (TransUnion, Axiom) and direct mail vendors (e.g., DMS)
- Experience working in high-growth startups or scaling marketing programs in resource-constrained environments
- Familiarity with product marketing for new product launches (not just management of existing products)
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Leading configured work computers of your choice
- Flexible paid time off
- Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
- Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
- 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
- Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units
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