Marketing Manager

Strategy Financial Group; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly bonus

Hybrid work environment

Autonomy & ownership culture

People-first environment

Job summary

Strategy Financial Group is seeking a hands-on Marketing Manager to translate strategy into execution, manage a small team, and drive a high volume of projects with strong processes, technology, and automation.

You will work closely with the CMO to turn strategy into organized plans, clear accountability, and consistent execution while remaining actively involved in day-to-day work. This role blends leadership with hands-on execution and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive marketing experience or equivalent.
• Experience managing people and leading complex projects.
• Experience building or improving marketing operations and workflows.
• Fluent across digital channels and channels performance.
• Strong editing and quality-control skills.
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to remain hands-on while leading others.
• Must reside in the Phoenix metropolitan area and be available for hybrid in-person collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operations of the marketing department and a small marketing team
• Turn strategic priorities into clear project plans with defined owners, timelines, dependencies, deliverables, and accountability
• Manage a high volume of concurrent initiatives across events, digital marketing, communications, content, creative, and company-wide projects
• Own and continuously improve marketing project‑management systems, workflows, technology, and automations
• Identify practical uses of AI and automation that improve productivity, quality, and scalability
• Provide oversight for a marketing operation supporting200+ events annually, including attending approximately six events per quarter
• Review marketing communications and creative materials for messaging, accuracy, brand consistency, and overall quality
• Maintain working knowledge across digital advertising, social media, email automation, SEO/AEO, website/CMS, content marketing, and video/YouTube
• Ensure marketing dashboards, CRM data, campaign results, and reporting processes are accurate and dependable
• Manage day-to-day relationships with selected agencies, technology vendors, and marketing partners
• Step into execution personally when needed; this is ahands‑on leadership role, not a manage-from-the-sidelines position

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Digital marketing

Communication

Process optimization

Tools

Salesforce/Pardot

HubSpot

Marketo

Job description

Strategy Financial Group is an independent financial services firm dedicated to building long-term, trusted relationships with our clients. We take a thoughtful, personalized approach to financial planning, combining strategy, clarity, and genuine care.

We are seeking a hands-on Marketing Manager who can translate strategy into execution, bring order to a high volume of projects, and lead with sound judgment. This person will manage the day-to-day work of a small marketing team while remaining actively involved in execution.

Help Us Build the Marketing Department of the Future

This isn’t a traditional Marketing Manager role. We’re looking for a tactical, hands‑on player‑coach who can lead a small marketing team, manage a high volume of simultaneous projects, and think like a leader while remaining closely involved in the work, improving the department through stronger processes, technology, and automation.

You’ll work closely with our Chief Marketing Officer, who owns long-term marketing strategy, positioning, and growth initiatives. You will translate that strategy into organized plans, clear accountability, and consistent execution.

For the right person, this is an opportunity to make a visible impact on a growing organization.

What You’ll Do

• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the marketing department and a small marketing team
• Turn strategic priorities into clear project plans with defined owners, timelines, dependencies, deliverables, and accountability
• Manage a high volume of concurrent initiatives across events, digital marketing, communications, content, creative, and company-wide projects
• Own and continuously improve marketing project‑management systems, workflows, technology, and automations
• Identify practical uses of AI and automation that improve productivity, quality, and scalability
• Provide oversight for a marketing operation supporting200+ events annually, including attending approximately six events per quarter
• Review marketing communications and creative materials for messaging, accuracy, brand consistency, and overall quality
• Maintain working knowledge across digital advertising, social media, email automation, SEO/AEO, website/CMS, content marketing, and video/YouTube
• Ensure marketing dashboards, CRM data, campaign results, and reporting processes are accurate and dependable
• Manage day-to-day relationships with selected agencies, technology vendors, and marketing partners
• Step into execution personally when needed; this is ahands‑on leadership role, not a manage-from-the-sidelines position

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive marketing experience, or an equivalent combination of experience demonstrating increasing responsibility
• Demonstrated experience managing people and leading complex, concurrent projects
• Proven success building, implementing, or substantially improving marketing operations, workflows, or project‑management systems
• Broad digital‑marketing fluency across multiple channels
• Strong marketing and creative judgment
• Excellent editing, proofreading, and quality‑control skills
• Strong organizational, prioritization, project-management, and problem‑solving abilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage changing priorities while maintaining accuracy, accountability, and follow‑through
• Willingness to remain hands‑on in execution while leading others
• Must reside in the Phoenix metropolitan area and be available for regular in‑person collaboration in a hybrid work environment
• Ability and willingness to attend approximatelysix company events per quarter, including events that may occur outside standard business hours

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of marketing technology, automation, and project‑management tools
• Experience implementing, managing, or improving a CRM and/or marketing automation ecosystem; experience with Salesforce/Pardot, HubSpot, Marketo, or similar platforms is valuable
• Demonstrated experience using AI or automation to materially improve a business workflow, process, or team function

Financial services experience is not required. We can teach you our industry and compliance environment; leadership, judgment, accountability, and learning agility are more important.

Who Thrives in This Role

You create order in a fast-moving environment. You prioritize quickly, establish accountability, anticipate problems, and reliably get important work across the finish line.

You’ll thrive here if you are:

• Calm under pressure.Changing priorities and urgent requests don’t derail you.
• Highly accountable.When something goes wrong, you focus on fixing it and preventing it from happening again.
• Independent and resourceful.You troubleshoot before escalating and bring recommendations, not just problems.
• Confident and collaborative.You listen attentively, communicate honestly, challenge ideas appropriately, and are receptive when your own ideas are challenged.
• Highly reliable.People don’t need to chase you for updates or follow‑through.
• Coachable and quick to learn.You absorb feedback, understand the underlying lesson, and apply it going forward.
• Technology‑minded.You’re genuinely interested in making teams better through smarter systems, emerging technology, AI, and automation.
• People‑first.You know how to establish expectations and hold people accountable while still treating them with respect.

Why Work at Strategy Financial Group

• Quarterly firm‑performance bonus opportunity
• Weekly half‑day Fridays supporting work‑life balance
• A culture of trust, autonomy, and ownership
• Professional, collaborative, and people‑first environment
• Opportunity to influence and improve a growing marketing department
• Stable, growing firm with long‑term career opportunity

This role is ideal for someone energized by building better systems, developing people, and turning important ideas into consistent execution. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Salary Range: $85,000 - $105,000; DOE

Bonus:Eligible to participate in the firm's quarterly performance bonus program