Sr Director - Marketing Intelligence & Strategy

Early Warning Services•New York City, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Lead the development of enterprise intelligence, strategic insight, and organizational learning capabilities to improve marketing and business decisions across Early Warning Services and its portfolio of brands. As part of a newly evolving Marketing Intelligence & Insights function, this role helps shape the development of a modern enterprise intelligence capability that connects customer, market, competitive, brand, and performance intelligence to business strategy and decision-making. The position partners across marketing, analytics, product, strategy, and leadership teams to establish scalable approaches for intelligence generation, synthesis, and enterprise learning. Drive enterprise marketing intelligence, research, strategic synthesis, and decision support that strengthen understanding of customers, markets, competitive dynamics, brand performance, and emerging trends. This role shapes enterprise learning agendas and translates intelligence into actionable guidance, strategic narratives, and decision frameworks for executive and cross-functional stakeholders, helping influence how the organization learns, prioritizes, and makes decisions over time.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, communications, research, strategy, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience in strategy, intelligence, insights, research, consulting, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, marketing intelligence, or related disciplines.
Typically, a minimum of 15 years of progressive experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role.
Experience working in a matrixed environment.
Demonstrated entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate effectively in evolving environments and build new capabilities.
Experience synthesizing customer, market, brand, performance, and business intelligence into strategic recommendations and executive-level guidance.
Strong executive communication, storytelling, and presentation skills, with demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across functions.
Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
Demonstrated curiosity and understanding of how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping intelligence, strategy, organizational learning, and decision-making.
Background and drug screen.
Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in business, marketing, strategy, communications, research, analytics, or a related field.
Experience in insights, research, consulting, brand strategy, marketing intelligence, or related disciplines.
Experience building or significantly evolving an intelligence, insights, or strategy capability in a complex organization.
Experience supporting a multi-brand, B2B2C, payments, financial services, or highly regulated environment.
Experience translating customer, market, competitive, and business intelligence into executive-level strategic recommendations, thought leadership, or enterprise decision support.

Responsibilities

Develop enterprise marketing intelligence and research strategy and oversee the design and execution of programs, processes, and operating rhythms to deliver actionable intelligence, strategic insight, and decision support.
Provide leadership to direct and indirect resources in achieving objectives; lead and develop a high-performing team across insights, research, thought leadership, and strategic intelligence.
Extract, analyze, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative intelligence from a variety of sources to identify meaningful patterns, opportunities, risks, and strategic implications.
Manage and implement analytics and research project lifecycles, including defining deliverables based on requirements.
Analyze brand, marketing, customer, market, and communications activities to identify trends, emerging opportunities, competitive dynamics, and strategic implications.
Define and guide enterprise learning agendas to strengthen understanding of customers, markets, competitive dynamics, brand perception, and emerging trends.
Translate intelligence into clear implications, recommendations, and executive-ready strategic narratives decision frameworks that influence planning, prioritization, investment decisions, and enterprise strategy
Create a more holistic view of the business by connecting customer, brand, market, performance, merchant, and operational inputs across a complex B2B2C ecosystem.
Guide development of thought leadership, enterprise perspectives, and commercial narratives informed by customer, market, competitive, and performance intelligence.
Explore practical AI-enabled approaches to intelligence synthesis, knowledge management, insight distribution, and decision support, while balancing innovation with governance and organizational readiness.
Partner across marketing, product, analytics, strategy, and leadership teams to align intelligence efforts with enterprise priorities and scalable ways of working.
Design and evolve a modern enterprise intelligence capability, including methodologies, operating models, tools, partnerships, and scalable ways of working
Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
Company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA)
Pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility for the 401(k) Retirement Plan
Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees
Generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees
11 paid company holidays
Paid volunteer day
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Maven Family Planning support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.