Marketing Operations Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly firm-performance bonus

Hybrid work environment

In-person collaboration

Culture of trust and ownership

People-first environment

Long-term career opportunity

Job summary

Strategy Financial Group is seeking a hands-on Marketing Manager to translate strategy into organized plans and lead a small marketing team in a hybrid Phoenix setting. You will own day-to-day operations, build clear project plans, and drive execution across events, digital marketing, and communications.

You will work closely with the Chief Marketing Officer to improve processes, technology, and automation, staying involved in execution while guiding others.

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 approximately six company events per quarter, including events that may occur outside standard business hours

Responsibilities

• 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 supporting 200+ 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 a hands-on leadership role, not a manage-from-the-sidelines position

Skills

People leadership

Project management

Digital marketing fluency

Editing & quality control

Written & verbal communication

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Hands-on leadership

Event participation

Tools

Salesforce/Pardot

HubSpot

Marketo

Job description

Strategy Financial Group is seeking a hands-on Marketing Manager to translate strategy into organized plans and lead a small marketing team in a hybrid Phoenix setting. You will own day-to-day operations, build clear project plans, and drive execution across events, digital marketing, and communications.

You will work closely with the Chief Marketing Officer to improve processes, technology, and automation, staying involved in execution while guiding others.