Marketing Director

Our client, a well-established and growing professional services firm in Hampton Roads, is looking for a Marketing Director to serve as the operational right hand to their CMO. You are stepping into a four-person team that runs multiple events per year, manages a database of 80,000 contacts, and works against a marketing budget projected to reach $3 million in 2027. The CMO owns vision, brand, and major spend decisions. What she needs is someone who owns how that vision gets executed: the approvals, the timelines, the checklists, and the processes that keep a busy department moving without everything routing through one person. You will make real decisions aligned with the CMO's strategic vision. What You Will Do Serve as final approver on press releases, graphics, and routine creative so campaigns move without bottlenecks Own event execution end to end: build the checklist, assign the tasks, hold the team to the timeline, and run the debrief Own departmental processes and improve them. If a workflow is broken or slow, you are expected to find it and fix it without being asked Keep every project on timeline and flag risks early, not after deadlines slip Dig into campaign and channel data, ask the second and third question, and bring recommendations rather than just the reports Bring new ideas. Following the process and improving the process are both the job Over time, represent the CMO in select vendor and internal meetings and return with informed recommendations What We Are Looking For Must-Haves: 5+ years of marketing experience with demonstrated ownership of execution and process Event management experience leading a small team through multiple events per year Proven ability to lead projects and influence a team without formal direct reports Nice-to-Haves: Legal, financial services, or other professional services marketing background Working knowledge of email marketing infrastructure including DKIM, SPF, and database segmentation Experience managing an email database in the tens of thousands of contacts You Are the Right Fit If... You get satisfaction from making an operation run better You have led events, not just staffed them You look at a report and immediately have three questions about why the numbers look that way You make decisions in your lane without waiting for permission You would rather fix a process once than work around it fifty times #J-18808-Ljbffr Titus Talent Strategies