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Lead Marketing Strategist

Job in Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, 97030, USA
Listing for: Principal Financial Group
Full Time position Listed on 2026-11-14
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Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 127000 - 171000 USD Yearly USD 127000.00 171000.00 YEAR

Job Description & How to Apply Below

What You’ll Do

As a Lead Marketing Strategist, you'll connect customer needs, market insights, and business priorities to develop messaging and content strategies that help audiences understand complex products and solutions. You'll partner across marketing and the business to understand our audiences, develop positioning and messaging, and turn complex ideas into clear, relevant stories. You'll then help bring those stories to life through content and go-to-market initiatives.

You'll also apply customer, competitive, and market insights to strengthen how solutions are positioned and identify opportunities to evolve our marketing.

What you’ll do:
  • Develop positioning, messaging, and content strategies grounded in customer needs, market insights, and business priorities.
  • Translate complex products, solutions, and concepts into clear and compelling audience-focused stories.
  • Partner across marketing and the business to understand audiences and align stakeholders around strategic direction and messaging.
  • Apply customer, competitive, and market research to inform marketing strategies and identify opportunities.
  • Partner with creative teams to translate strategy into effective content.
  • Lead through influence, bringing stakeholders together around clear strategies, priorities, and messages.
  • Manage complex projects and competing priorities while maintaining strategic focus.
  • Look for new and innovative approaches to marketing, including thoughtful opportunities to apply AI where it can improve the work.
Who You Are
  • A bachelor's degree (BS or BA) or equivalent.
  • 10+ years of related marketing experience resulting in advanced knowledge of the marketing profession and modern marketing strategies.
  • Demonstrated experience building and implementing strategic marketing programs that deliver strong results.
  • Experience developing positioning, messaging, and content strategies for complex products, solutions, or audiences.
  • Ability to translate data and analytics into meaningful implications and actionable marketing strategies.
  • Advanced strategic and critical thinking skills, with the ability to connect customer needs, market insights, and business priorities.
  • Strong ability to simplify technical or complex information and turn it into compelling, audience-focused stories.
  • Strong influence and informal leadership skills, with the ability to bring stakeholders together around a clear strategy and consistent message.
  • Thorough understanding of the customer journey, competitive landscape, market opportunities, and customer experience.
  • Experience partnering across teams, including with creative teams or agencies, to bring strategies and stories to life.
  • Ability to manage complex initiatives, competing priorities, and deadlines.
Preferred experience
  • Experience with in financial services, retirement, asset management, or another complex industry.

How you'll make an impact

Success in this role requires equal parts curiosity, strategic thinking, storytelling, and collaboration. You'll help teams understand both what we need to say and why it matters to the customer, creating stronger connections between customer insight, business strategy, and the stories we take to market.

Salary Range Information

Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

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