VP Marketing

Vibrant Credit Union•Moline, IL

16h•$98,388 - $147,636•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President of Marketing leads Vibrant’s marketing function as both an enterprise communication strategist and a strategic partner for business owners, service leaders, sales leaders, and internal stakeholders. This role owns the integration and orchestration of member lifecycle communications across business lines and touchpoints, helping ensure member messaging is coordinated, timely, relevant, compliant, and aligned to Vibrant’s brand, member experience, and organizational priorities. The role also translates business priorities into clear messaging, coordinated campaigns, disciplined creative execution, and reliable marketing tools and workflows. Success in this role is measured by whether Vibrant’s leaders, teams, and members receive practical, timely, compliant, coordinated, and effective marketing support that helps the organization communicate clearly, reduce message overlap, support members, create demand, strengthen relationships, and advance approved business priorities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field.
8+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience.
Demonstrated success leading integrated marketing functions that support business objectives.
Experience managing brand strategy, digital marketing, campaign development, member/customer communications, content production, and marketing analytics.
Experience leading teams, agencies, contractors, vendors, and cross-functional initiatives.
Strong understanding of marketing technology platforms, CRM systems, marketing automation, website tools, and performance measurement.
Ability to manage creative production, operational workflows, stakeholder requests, and competing priorities with discipline and clarity.
Exceptional leadership, communication, judgment, and relationship-building skills.

Nice To Haves

Financial services, banking, credit union, fintech, or highly regulated industry experience.
Sales, business development, or revenue-support experience.
Experience implementing and optimizing marketing technology platforms such as HubSpot or similar tools.
Experience leading brand transformation, digital marketing modernization, or marketing operations improvements.
Familiarity with AI-enabled marketing tools, customer data strategy, and emerging marketing technologies.

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic marketing partner to business owners, service leaders, sales leaders, and internal stakeholders.
Translate business priorities into clear marketing plans, communication strategies, creative briefs, and execution roadmaps.
Ensure marketing capacity is prioritized against the work that best supports organizational goals and member needs.
Build a support-oriented marketing culture where the team wins when its business partners and members win.
Develop and maintain a clear, differentiated market position for Vibrant and its key business lines.
Ensure consistent brand representation across all channels and member touchpoints.
Lead marketing efforts that increase awareness, understanding, relevance, and preference among target audiences in support of approved business-line and organizational priorities.
Monitor market trends, competitive positioning, and member needs to inform marketing strategy.
Own the enterprise-wide member communication lifecycle strategy, ensuring communication touchpoints across business lines, service areas, and channels are integrated, coordinated, and aligned to Vibrant’s brand, member experience, and organizational priorities.
Partner with business and service leaders to understand the member needs, product priorities, service expectations, and lifecycle moments within each area, while ensuring those efforts work together as part of a cohesive member communication experience.
Manage the timing, sequencing, segmentation, and coordination of member communications to reduce overlap, avoid message fatigue, and improve the effectiveness of communications across the full member journey.
Lead the marketing function’s standards, workflows, and execution support for member communications, including required day-to-day communications such as holiday hours, service updates, product education, and member notices.
Use member insights, segmentation, performance feedback, and business input to make communications clear, relevant, timely, compliant, and useful.
Develop and execute marketing programs that support awareness, engagement, and qualified opportunities aligned to business-line priorities.
Ensure marketing systems produce reliable data, actionable reporting, and measurable business insights.
Own the marketing technology roadmap, including automation, CRM, analytics, website tools, and emerging technologies.
Maintain marketing review workflows that support compliance, accuracy, brand consistency, and appropriate approvals across channels.
Partner with risk, compliance, legal, and business owners to ensure marketing materials and member communications are accurate, clear, and appropriately reviewed before release.
Maintain standards, templates, workflows, and documentation that help internal teams and external partners execute consistently.
Ensure urgent or required communications can be produced and distributed with appropriate speed, quality, and controls.
Lead the effective use, administration, and continuous improvement of marketing technology platforms, including automation, CRM-related tools, analytics, website tools, and emerging marketing technologies.
Partner with technology, data, and business stakeholders to improve the reliability, usability, and reporting value of marketing systems.
Recommend marketing technology enhancements and support implementation priorities that improve efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability.
Lead the marketing team’s development and coordination of marketing content, visual design, video, digital assets, campaigns, member communications, and stakeholder support materials.
Support approved creative and communication needs that may not directly drive conversion but are important to the organization, including internal merchandise, recruiting materials, presentations, events, and employee-facing initiatives.
Ensure creative work reflects Vibrant's brand standards, strategic objectives, audience needs, and compliance expectations.
Balance internal resources, freelance capacity, and external partnerships to meet production needs efficiently.
Recommend, manage, and evaluate agency, contractor, media, and marketing technology relationships in alignment with budget, procurement, and leadership expectations. Ensure external partners deliver quality work, strategic value, and measurable results.
Support vendor selection, contract management, budget tracking, and performance expectations for marketing-related partners.
Develop and maintain marketing metrics, dashboards, and reporting that help evaluate marketing performance and inform business decisions.
Measure effectiveness of campaigns, channels, creative investments, communications, and marketing systems.
Provide leadership and business owners with data-informed recommendations to help prioritize marketing resources, capacity, and support needs.
Build, develop, and lead a high-performing marketing team.
Establish clear goals, priorities, workflows, and accountability within the marketing function.
Coach and develop team members while fostering collaboration across departments.
Create an environment that balances service orientation, strategic thinking, creative excellence, compliance awareness, and execution discipline.