VP, Growth Marketing
Genius Sports · New York, NY · 3 wk ago
Marketing$260k–$300k/yrFull-time
About the role
We are looking for a strategic and performance-driven VP, Growth Marketing to lead our global growth marketing function and drive measurable business impact across key markets and business lines.
Key Responsibilities
- Growth Strategy & Demand Generation
- Develop and lead the global growth marketing strategy across priority business areas, customer segments, and markets.
- Build integrated marketing programs that drive awareness, engagement, qualified demand, pipeline growth, and revenue impact.
- Partner with Sales and Revenue leadership to align marketing initiatives with commercial priorities, target accounts, and market opportunities.
- Translate business objectives into audience strategies, campaign plans, channel approaches, and measurable marketing programs.
- Identify opportunities to improve lead generation, account engagement, conversion rates, nurturing, and overall funnel performance.
- Integrated Campaign Leadership
- Lead the planning and execution of integrated marketing campaigns across paid, owned, earned, and event-driven channels.
- Partner with Product Marketing to ensure campaigns are grounded in strong positioning, customer value propositions, and market insights.
- Collaborate with Field Marketing to align global campaigns with regional priorities, client events, trade shows, and sales activities.
- Work closely with Communications, Content, Creative, and Sales Marketing teams to deliver compelling and commercially relevant campaigns.
- Ensure campaigns include clear objectives, audience targeting, messaging, activation plans, sales follow-up motions, and performance metrics.
- Paid Media & Channel Performance
- Oversee paid media strategy and performance across search, social, display, retargeting, sponsorships, and other demand-generation channels.
- Manage media planning, budgeting, optimization, testing, and reporting.
- Partner with internal stakeholders and external agencies to improve audience targeting, creative effectiveness, and return on investment.
- Continuously optimize channel mix, spend allocation, conversion rates, and campaign outcomes using performance data and insights.
- Ensure paid media efforts are fully integrated into broader marketing and sales strategies.
- Lifecycle Marketing & Customer Engagement
- Develop lifecycle and nurture programs that guide prospects and customers through the funnel with relevant, timely, and personalized content.
- Partner with Marketing Operations, Sales, Product Marketing, and customer-facing teams to create audience journeys, nurture programs, re-engagement initiatives, and customer communications.
- Improve segmentation, personalization, and targeting across lifecycle marketing programs.
- Leverage behavioral, engagement, and account-level data to improve campaign effectiveness and conversion performance.
- Ensure nurture programs are aligned with product messaging, sales priorities, and customer needs.
- Marketing Operations & Performance Measurement
- Partner closely with Marketing Operations to ensure all growth marketing activity is measurable, scalable, and aligned with sales and marketing systems.
- Define campaign KPIs, reporting frameworks, attribution models, and performance dashboards.
- Monitor and analyze campaign performance across channels, audience segments, and funnel stages.
- Use data-driven insights to optimize marketing investments and maximize commercial impact.
- Foster a culture of testing, learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Sales Alignment & Revenue Impact
- Work closely with Sales leadership to ensure marketing efforts support pipeline generation and revenue objectives.
- Partner with Sales Marketing and Sales Operations to optimize lead management, account targeting, follow-up processes, and sales motions.
- Create stronger alignment between marketing campaigns, sales outreach, account plans, and events.
- Gather feedback from sales teams to improve campaign relevance, lead quality, messaging, and conversion outcomes.
- Ensure marketing contributes directly to commercial momentum and business growth.
- Leadership & Team Development
- Lead and develop the growth marketing function, including demand generation, paid media, lifecycle marketing, and related growth programs.
- Establish clear priorities, operating rhythms, and processes for planning, execution, reporting, and optimization.
- Manage internal team members, agency partners, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Build strong partnerships across Product Marketing, Sales Marketing, Field Marketing, Communications, Creative, Insights, Sales, and Revenue Operations.
- Act as a senior marketing leader who brings focus, structure, accountability, and energy to growth initiatives globally.
- Significant experience in growth marketing, demand generation, performance marketing, or integrated B2B marketing leadership roles.
- Proven track record of building and executing campaigns that drive measurable demand, pipeline growth, and commercial impact.
- Deep understanding of paid media, lifecycle marketing, marketing automation, funnel conversion, campaign measurement, and sales alignment.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to drive decision-making and performance optimization.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Product Marketing, Marketing Operations, Field Marketing, Communications, Creative, and Revenue teams.
- Experience managing teams, agencies, vendors, budgets, and complex stakeholder groups.
- Ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on and execution-focused.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience within B2B technology, sports technology, media, advertising technology, SaaS, data, or related industries.
- Experience building and scaling global demand generation and growth marketing functions.
- Strong understanding of account-based marketing strategies and enterprise sales environments.
- Experience implementing data-driven testing, optimization, and attribution frameworks.
- Demonstrated success leading marketing transformation and driving operational excellence.