Product Marketing Strategist I

Overview

Serve as a marketing executional product owner, supporting lead product owners with directing the delivery of holistic marketing campaigns from market strategy development to implementation to engage the member/prospect, achieve business goals, and increase share among members. Translate the business and product strategy into actionable and effective features/campaigns and user stories/campaign briefs to leverage member insights, cross-channel strategy, and intelligent targeting. Support cross-functional relationships and expertise in the Navy Federal brand and product portfolio. Assist portfolio subject matter expert (Chief Product Owner) and other marketing product owners within various value streams to anticipate, prioritize and plan campaign strategy across paid, owned, and earned channels. Apply internal and external marketing insights, data-driven strategy, and enterprise goals to guide and evolve both campaigns and initiatives to drive results. Works on assignments requiring considerable judgment and initiative. Minimum supervision.

Responsibilities

Serve as marketing campaign executional product owner within scrum teams, supporting lead product owner in translating vision and directing execution of holistic marketing strategy to ensure engaging messaging and creative assets for integrated campaigns, prospecting campaigns, engagement campaigns, and product launches
Support the business, Chief Product Owner, lead Product Owner, and marketing leaders to identify opportunities to drive product adoption, engagement, retention, and cross-sell/up-sell/referral behavior in all paid, owned, and earned channels based on performance; continually prioritize initiatives
Support cross-functional leads in strategizing on the implementation of a wide range of data-driven marketing initiatives including member insights, audience selection, trigger qualification, suppressions, and segmentation
Assist lead Product Owners with the ownership and development of campaign briefs/user stories and contribute to data requirement briefs to execute a range of marketing campaigns through owned channels (such as email, push, and in-app messaging) and paid media (such as national and local broadcast, radio, display ads, online video, and search); collaborate with other marketing channel partners to drive desired business outcomes
Contribute to the planning of the product marketing roadmap(s) by supporting the strategy around campaign execution and testing
May act as product owner within marketing scrum teams; assist scrum masters and lead product owners with identifying and prioritizing the backlogs, refinement, and sprint planning to ensure alignment with product roadmaps and business unit stakeholder goals
Shape acceptance criteria and marketing output standards with full scrum team to determine when marketing product or service meets the definition of done/ready with appropriate stakeholders within organization
Support business-critical processes such as compliance review, marketing metrics, project management systems, agile processes, and stakeholder approvals
Basic knowledge of Navy Federal's brand, products and services, research and competitive trends, in addition to member insights, to support marketing forecasting, third party vendors and opportunities that drive business goals
Assist the lead product owners with evaluating and reporting on campaign performance, test results/learnings, and data insights to the product marketing group, business units, cross-functional partners, and all levels of leadership
Assist in delivering compelling and effective communications/presentations to departmental and executive management, as well as socialization into all marketing activities
Support the collaboration with the Chief Product Owner and lead Product Owner to manage advertising agency relationship, briefings and development and evaluation of media plans and paid media creative to ensure integrated strategies and campaigns are executed, optimized and delivering against business goals
Collaborate and communicate with key corporate stakeholders, including Business Units as appropriate, with education on marketing concepts, process and tools, media constraints, and opportunities
Contribute as needed to ad hoc initiatives which require expertise on campaigns and lifecycle management
Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Experience in supporting large brand, product, and/or marketing campaigns with business risk and impact; to include strategy, execution, innovation, problem solving and decision-making
Experience in client relationship building, project leadership, and campaign execution; including initiatives with marketing, advertising, product strategy, cross-functional teams and external partner team members
Experience in supporting and developing go-to-market plans that drive results toward business priorities and goals
Ability to multi-task and prioritize with minimal direction; possesses appropriate tactfulness and assertiveness to problem-solve and propose changes in team processes
Basic understanding of how to synthesize results of analyses, and develop and make recommendations using quantity and quality data in order to solve unique and complex problems
Working knowledge of financial and marketing industry trends, products, and services
Experience with PCs and related software packages as well as learning different collaboration and product management tools
Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Effective organizational, planning, and time management skills
Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as Marketing, Strategy, Business, Finance, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Desired Qualifications

Product Owner Certification or equivalent training/experience
Working knowledge of Navy Federal products, services, programs, policies, procedures and systems to launch and drive campaigns
Working knowledge of Navy Federal's functions, philosophy, operations and organizational objectives
Experience/familiarity with auto, mortgage, equity, personal and/or student loans

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180

About Us

You have goals, dreams, hobbies, and things you're passionate about—what's important to you is important to us. We're looking for people who not only want to do meaningful, challenging work, keep their skills sharp and move ahead, but who also take time for the things that matter to them—friends, family, and passions. And we're looking for team members who are passionate about our mission—making a difference in military members' and their families' lives. Together, we can make it happen. Don't take our word for it:

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• Forbes® 2022 The Best Employers for New Grads

• Fortune Best Workplaces for Women

• Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®

• Computerworld® Best Places to Work in IT

• Ripplematch Campus Forward Award - Excellence in Early Career Hiring

• Fortune Best Place to Work for Financial and Insurance Services

Equal Employment Opportunity: Navy Federal values, celebrates, and enacts diversity in the workplace. Navy Federal takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities, disabled veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans. EOE/AA/M/F/Veteran/Disability EOE/AA/M/F/Veteran/Disability

Disclaimers: Navy Federal reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower grade level based on business need. An assessment may be required to compete for this position. Job postings are subject to close early or extend out longer than the anticipated closing date at the hiring team’s discretion based on qualified applicant volume. Navy Federal Credit Union assesses market data to establish salary ranges that enable us to remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range, based on your experience, location and market position

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