Senior Manager of Strategic Partner Marketing Job Chicago area,Illinois USA,Marketing / Advertising / PR

Metropolis is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Partner Marketing to serve as the marketing anchor for our highest-value National Account partners
In this role, you will lead go-to-market strategy, define audience segmentation, and build joint campaigns that grow brand relevance, adoption, and revenue across our most important real-estate portfolios
Embedded directly inside Partner Success, you will act as the connective tissue between enterprise accounts and central marketing teams—including Creative, Lifecycle, Events, and Performance Marketing—turning premium co-marketing programs into measurable location-level performance
Design and lead end-to-end go-to-market and joint co-marketing campaigns and product launches with strategic partners
Own high-impact marketing launches for qualifying properties meeting financial and volume thresholds, coordinating custom member collateral and hyper-local, multi-channel visibility
Deploy and optimize site-level digital media programs, including Google Ads, Meta, and geofencing, in partnership with performance marketing
Act as the voice of the consumer, leveraging research and behavioral data to craft compelling positioning narratives
Manage monthly performance reporting and client-facing dashboards for SEM spend, reservation volume, and store-visit ROAS to optimize against KPIs
Manage partner marketing relationships to ensure tight alignment on brand guidelines, messaging, and shared business objectives
Drive adoption of localized loyalty, consumer rewards, and third-party reservation-marketplace integrations to lift location-level performance
Partner with the Creative Project Manager to prioritize design requests and adapt brand templates for localized collateral
Coordinate with lifecycle marketing to weave localized partner perks into member retention and engagement journeys
Align with event strategy on Tier 1 launch activations and networking events for major properties

Benefits

We subsidize high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
Equity options
- We offer ownership opportunities through stock options
Wellness benefits - A wellness program designed to support a variety of needs
Health insurance
- We subsidise high-quality health insurance coverage for full-time and hourly employees
401(k) match
- Plan for your future with a 4% company match
Parental leave
- Receive support prior to, during leave, and as you transition back to work
Time off
- Unlimited PTO for salaried employees, and a generous PTO package for our hourly employees
Paid holidays
- We observe major holidays with company-wide closures, and double hourly rates for those who work
Hybrid environment
- Magic happens face to face, but we support a flexible working model

Experience leveraging AI tools to transform static workflows into responsive, high-output processes
Experience owning marketing relationships or localized growth for high-value enterprise accounts or premier real-estate portfolios
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify complex ideas for broad audiences
Demonstrated comfort balancing short-term execution with long-term planning in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
5+ years of experience in consumer marketing, partner/co-marketing, or strategic partnerships
Strong analytical and dashboard skills with a proven ability to build data-driven performance narratives for enterprise stakeholders
Proven ability to influence and collaborate across product, sales, analytics, and external partners
Aback ground in real estate, mobility, retail, or another location-based / multi-site marketing context
Hands-on experience with geofencing, location analytics, or store-visit attribution
Experience standing up marketing programs from scratch or inside a fast-scaling organization

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