Director, Marketing Strategy and Analytics (Hybrid)

Director, Marketing Strategy and Analytics (Hybrid 3-4 days onsite per week)

Overview:

The Director, Marketing Strategy and Analytics is a critical business partner for the Marketing team, focusing on strategy, planning, data and analytics. This role utilizes comprehensive data sets to develop and track progress toward key business performance indicators, identify changes in marketing funnel performance, and drive strategic analyses to optimize performance. You’ll use your quantitative background and work with other data scientists to solve many exciting challenges including customer acquisition, customer activation and retention as well as media mix modeling, marketing attribution and experimentation. If you enjoy building, testing, learning and optimizing marketing performance and customer LTV, we’re looking for someone like you!

The impact you'll make:

• Work with the data engineering team to create quantitative analysis and provide insights that help the marketing team understand marketing performance, customer quality & user behaviors.
• Collaborate with the marketing functional leaders to recommend strategies for achieving company goals, determine key metrics, and create executive dashboards to monitor progress.
• Ensure that marketing teams and leadership have the right level of data, transparency and insight they require to achieve objectives.
• Analyze and surface trends in our marketing funnel to all levels to understand what’s working, what’s not and where to pivot.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Analytics, Sales Analytics, Customer Success Analytics, and FP&A professionals to develop data and insights strategies.
• Manage a team of individual contributors by providing day to day guidance, support and mentorship as needed.
• Partner with the rest of the Marketing Ops team in defining marketing processes, workflows, systems and data evolution to enhance efficiency, scalability and maximize ROI.
• Proactively identify issues with our systems/processes and take ownership to fix them.
• Present monthly and quarterly marketing performance reviews and ensure that teams have the data and insights needed to measure success and identify opportunities
• Will manage, evaluate, and mentor cross-functional teams in a highly collaborative environment.

What you've accomplished:

• 7-10 years of experience with marketing data analytics within CPG and ecommerce/marketplace sectors, managing multi-channel, multi-million dollar brands to achieve high-volume results in lean organizations.
• Ability to define problems, gather data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Proficiency in data analysis and metrics-driven decision making
• Experience working with B2B and B2C products as well as with small and large clients.
• Experience with research methodologies such as brand health studies, customer tracker studies, segmentation studies, maxdiff studies, focus groups, ethnographies, copy testing, survey design, and conjoint analysis.
• Strategic in nature, insights oriented, problem-solving driven.
• Ability to combine a disciplined approach with flexibility.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills to work with and influence individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Supervisory/management experience with ability to lead and mentor others in a highly collaborative environment.

The base pay range for this position is: $152,000.00 - $173,000.00 per year

2024 Benefits for Full-Time, Regular Employees:

• Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision:
• Employee - employer paid premium 100%
• Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
• For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
• Mental Health benefits:
• Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
• Employee Training
• Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
• Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
• Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Family planning/fertility
• Identity theft protection
• Legal access to a network of attorneys
• Paid parental leave

Why Work at Weedmaps?

• You get to work at the leading technology company in the cannabis industry
• You get to play a meaningful role in helping to advance cannabis causes, including helping improve the lives of patients who rely on the benefits of cannabis
• You get an opportunity to shape the future of the cannabis industry
• You get to work on challenging issues in a collaborative environment that encourages you to do your best 
• You get to work in a casual and fun environment; no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
• Generous PTO and company holidays
• Numerous opportunities and tools to learn and grow your professional skills
• Endless opportunities to network and connect with other Weedmappers through speaker series, Employee Resource Groups, happy hours, team celebrations, game nights, and much more!

Weedmaps is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion and religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.

Applicants  are entitled to reasonable accommodations under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state/local laws, unless the accommodation presents undue hardship. Please email us at peopleoperations at weedmaps.com if you would like to confidentially discuss a potential accommodation during the interview process.

About Weedmaps:

WM Technology, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: MAPS) mission is to power a transparent and inclusive global cannabis economy. Now in its second decade, WM Technology has been a driving force behind much of the legislative change we’ve seen in the past 10 years.

Founded in 2008, WM Technology, is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry, comprising a B2C platform, Weedmaps, and B2B software, WM Business. The cloud-based SaaS solutions from WM Business provide an end-to-end operating system for cannabis retailers. WM Business’ tools support compliance with the complex, disparate, and constantly evolving regulations applicable to the cannabis industry. Through its website and mobile apps, WM Technology provides consumers with the latest information about cannabis retailers, brands, and products, facilitating product discovery and driving engagement with our retail and brand customers.

WM Technology holds a strong belief in the power of cannabis and the importance of enabling safe, legal access to consumers worldwide. Since inception, WM Technology has worked tirelessly, not only to become the most comprehensive platform for consumers, but to build the software solutions that power businesses compliantly in the space, to advocate for legalization, social equity, and licensing in many jurisdictions, and to facilitate further learning through partnering with subject matter experts on providing detailed, accurate information about the plant.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, WM Technology supports remote work for all eligible employees. Visit us at www.weedmaps.com.

Notice to prospective Weedmaps job applicants:

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