Lead Solutions Marketing Manager [AQ-24157]

Aquent; East Moline (IL); On-site; USD 124,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent Studios partners with a leading innovator in the technology and manufacturing space, shaping the future of industries through cutting-edge solutions. This exceptional opportunity invites you to join a team that values ingenuity, customer impact, and strategic vision, contributing to products that redefine how work gets done globally.

The role leads technology marketing strategy, audience frameworks, and messaging architecture, translating customer insights into compelling value

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications or related field.
• Experience in strategic marketing and go-to-market planning.
• Ability to translate insights into messaging and campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology marketing strategy and audience frameworks to boost relevance and impact.
• Translate insights into compelling value propositions and go-to-market guidance.
• Collaborate with product marketing, insights, market intelligence, and regional teams.
• Create scalable playbooks, tools, and processes for consistent marketing across portfolios.
• Champion portfolio marketing and bundled solutions communicating integrated value.
• Benchmark external best practices to elevate marketing maturity and positioning.
• Influence stakeholders with clear executive-ready recommendations and frameworks.

Skills

Strategic marketing

Product marketing

Go-to-market

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Customer insights

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Marketing/Business/Engineering/Technology)

Job description

Aquent Studios is partnering with a leading innovator in the technology and manufacturing space, a company dedicated to shaping the future of industries through cutting-edge solutions. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a team that values ingenuity, customer impact, and strategic vision, contributing to products that redefine how work gets done globally.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the development of technology marketing strategy, message architecture, and audience frameworks to boost customer relevance, solution adoption, and business impact.
• Translate deep customer insights, market trends, and business priorities into compelling value propositions, messaging guidance, and effective go-to-market recommendations.
• Collaborate strategically with product marketing, customer insights, market intelligence, product management, and regional marketing teams to ensure cohesive technology positioning and execution.
• Create scalable playbooks, tools, and processes that foster consistent, customer-centric technology marketing across all product portfolios, segments, and regions.
• Champion portfolio and bundled solution marketing strategies, effectively communicating the integrated value and superior customer outcomes of our technology offerings.
• Continuously benchmark external technology marketing best practices, integrating innovative approaches to elevate marketing maturity and strengthen competitive positioning.
• Influence and align cross-functional stakeholders through strategic recommendations, clear executive communication, and practical frameworks that drive decisive action.

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive experience in strategic marketing, product marketing, commercialization, or technology adoption within a complex business environment.
• Proven expertise in developing customer segmentation, crafting impactful value propositions, defining precise positioning, building messaging frameworks, and executing successful go-to-market strategies.
• A strong customer insight orientation, with the ability to transform research, market intelligence, and business priorities into dynamic, always-on marketing strategies.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives and effectively influencing stakeholders across product, marketing, sales, insights, and regional teams.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical topics and unify teams around clear, actionable recommendations.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Agricultural Business, Engineering, Technology, or a related field.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience in creating scalable playbooks, tools, processes, and governance models to enhance consistency and execution across marketing efforts.
• Prior experience collaborating with agencies, consultants, research partners, or other external strategic partners.
• A genuine curiosity for external best practices, emerging marketing trends, and innovative technology-driven customer engagement models.
• Knowledge of specialized B2B markets, such as agriculture or precision technology, characterized by complex customer needs and intricate channel dynamics.
• An advanced degree or certification in marketing strategy, product marketing, customer insights, segmentation, or go-to-market strategy.

Client Description

Aquent Studios is a global creative studio that delivers scale, speed and efficiency to the world’s most recognized brands. We create the work that matters the most to them—work that has a real impact on their business. As an Aquent Studio team member, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world, solving design challenges and extending their brands across tactic types and platforms, including digital design, UI/UX, video, motion, content, print design, web development, and more. If you want to do work that matters in a collaborative setting that values ingenuity and personal growth, you have found the right place!

Other Requirements

Compensation Range: 124-187k yearly DOE. W2 only, no C2C. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.