Marketing Associate – Direct Mail

Overview

Aquent’s leading financial partner is seeking an energetic, organized and resourceful Marketing Associate who can work in a fast-paced, always evolving environment. The Marketing Associate role will help manage Direct Mail creative strategy, new testing opportunities, review cycles and performance measurement across multiple products. Our core values are at the center of how we think about serving our members, building our company, and most importantly, how we work together. With our client, you’ll become part of a new kind of finance company whose ambition is to help our members achieve financial independence and reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members’ financial lives, and to help every member get their money right. They have achieved significant growth, with ambitious plans ahead, but to continue this growth we need great talent.

Qualifications:
● BA/BS degree with 1-2 years experience in Direct Mail. Will consider 3-5 years marketing experience driving revenue and user growth in a high growth company
● Experience in financial services
● Knowledge of Direct Mail processes and best practices
● Experience managing and building vendor relationships with an eye towards quality control and long term partnerships
● Strong collaboration skills with the ability to effectively work and communicate with ease across the organization
● The ability to use data to get to the truth and make principle based decisions

Personal Characteristics:
● Work independently and yet be highly collaborative
● Creative thinker and vicious problem solver
● Positive, enthusiastic and kind
● Willingness to be hands-on and ‘pitch-in’ as needed to support team members
● Strong problem solving skills and the ability to identify and overcome barriers
● Strong work ethic
● Dedication to providing high quality work
● Passion for personal finance and tech

Desired Skills:
● Excellent proofreading skills with an eye for detail
● Solid knowledge of the Google suite of tools (Sheets, Docs, Slides, etc)
● Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
● Hands-on project management skills
● Highly motivated, self-starter, able to prioritize and manage competing tasks and show good problem-solving judgment
● Adaptability – comfortable with competing demands, able to deal with frequent change, delays and unexpected events
● Maintains a positive, optimistic attitude and welcomes change, challenges and new opportunities for growth

Specific Tasks:
● Work with the Direct Mail Team and agency of record (AOR) on creative strategy, development, and execution of monthly Direct Mail marketing and Trigger campaigns
● Drive Direct Mail creative management review and approval cycles for Direct Mail assets and Direct Mail landing pages
● Work with our AOR and Compliance Team in the management of up to 60+ Direct Mail creative assets across product lines each month
● Work cross functionally with Web Services, Compliance Team & Product Marketing Managers in the development of monthly Direct Mail landing pages
● Monitor and update Direct Mail Creative Testing Roadmap for accuracy and plotting upcoming data and creative tests
● Lead creative presentation meetings in conjunction with the AOR
RequirementsLocal to SF preferred (onsite 1 day/week), but remote anywhere okay Experience working in a fast-paced environment