SVP, Chief Marketing Officer

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This position will be supporting Experian Consumer Services - a passionate and innovative team with a mission to provide Financial Power to All™ by redefining the consumer experience related to credit access, financial well-being and safety.

The SVP, Chief Marketing Officer of Experian Consumer Services will lead the marketing strategy and execution for our direct-to-consumer digital financial platform. The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader with expertise in balancing brand building and performance marketing, a passion for fintech, and a proven track record of driving customer acquisition, engagement, and retention while elevating brand equity in a competitive digital financial environment. 

What you'll be doing:

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute a holistic marketing strategy that balances long-term brand building with short-term performance goals, aligned with the company’s vision and business growth objectives.
• Lead the transformation of the brand’s identity, ensuring a consistent, compelling, and emotionally resonant message across all channels
• Foster a data-informed culture where branding decisions are tied to measurable business outcomes.
• Build and define strategic marketing partnerships to expand our influence and presence across the consumer financial landscape. 

Customer Acquisition & Growth

• Design and implement integrated multi-channel marketing programs (paid, earned, owned, and shared media) to drive user acquisition while reinforcing brand values.
• Leverage advanced segmentation and personalization strategies to create targeted campaigns and experiences that balance direct-response tactics with brand reinforcement.
• Optimize marketing funnels through A/B testing and predictive analytics, ensuring efficiency in customer acquisition and alignment with brand messaging.

Customer Engagement & Retention

• Unlock the value of our latent consumer population of 80m to drive product utilization and maximize performance outcomes on platform.
• Enhance the customer journey by integrating brand storytelling into touchpoints that drive engagement and deepen emotional connections.
• Use behavioral insights and customer feedback to inform both brand innovation and engagement strategies.

Data-Driven Decision Making

• Utilize real-time analytics and advanced attribution models to measure campaign effectiveness and ROI, optimizing strategies to achieve performance KPIs.
• Combine market research and customer data to ensure that brand positioning evolves with market trends and consumer expectations.
• Optimize success metrics including brand, performance and customer experience metrics to track both long-term growth and near term success.

Team Leadership

• Build and lead a cross-functional marketing team skilled in creative, branding, media, consumer insights, content and analytical performance marketing.
• Foster a culture of innovation and accountability, where team members collaborate to achieve both brand resonance and quantifiable business outcomes.
• Develop succession plans and opportunities for team members to contribute to both creative and performance objectives.
• Define and manage our agency relationships; including strategic prioritization, responsibilities and best practices. 

Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Technology, Revenue Operations, General Managers and other departments to ensure that brand narratives and performance campaigns reflect product capabilities and customer needs.
• Lead cross-departmental initiatives that connect go to market efforts to product experiences and innovation to drive both customer delight and business results.

Brand Development & Thought Leadership

• Establish the company as a trusted, top-of-mind brand in the consumer finance space, combining credibility with emotional resonance.
• Develop innovative storytelling frameworks to communicate the company’s purpose and vision, ensuring differentiation in the market.
• Build and develop content strategy – organic and syndicated – to transform our brand position.

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of relevant experience, including 10 years in a senior leadership position overseeing both brand and performance marketing teams.
• Proven success as a senior marketing executive, preferably as a CMO or SVP of Marketing, in a scaled consumer digital platform, fintech, or technology-driven industry.
• Track record of driving both brand growth and business outcomes, including customer acquisition, engagement, and retention, through innovative, cross-channel campaigns.
• Proven expertise in leading and influencing stakeholders, driving alignment on strategic initiatives, and fostering collaboration in matrixed organizations.
• Track record of building and running a high performance team while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and scale a brand identity while optimizing marketing investments for measurable growth KPIs.
• Expertise in digital marketing channels, including performance marketing, programmatic, SEO/SEM, social media, and content marketing, with a focus on balancing immediate ROI with long-term brand equity.
• Deep understanding of customer journey mapping and the ability to align brand touchpoints with performance outcomes for a cohesive marketing strategy.

Desired Qualifications:

• Strategic and creative thinker with a history of designing campaigns that deliver measurable growth while strengthening long-term brand loyalty and equity
• Strong analytical skills, including experience with attribution models and advanced performance metrics, ensuring data-driven optimization of marketing spend.
• Exceptional storytelling abilities to translate complex data into compelling brand narratives.
• An entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action, innovation, and the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, results-driven environment.
• Ability to cultivate a culture of followership by inspiring and empowering team members to embrace the company's vision and values

Perks

• Comprehensive executive level total rewards package including your health and insurance benefits, accumulated wealth and equity, unlimited vacation time, wellness programs, online discounts, employee discounts, pet insurance, employee stock purchase programs, and more.
• 401K with a 4% company match with immediate vesting.
• Flexible schedule, ability to work remotely, hybrid, or in-office #LI-Hybrid

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