Vice President, Digital Marketing Burford Capital
Listed on 2026-09-02
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IT/Tech
Digital Marketing
Location: New York
Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law. Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management , asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities. Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, Singapore, and Dubai.
Burford Capital is seeking a Vice President of Digital Marketing to lead the firm’s digital marketing efforts across channels and the digital customer journey.
This role is responsible for developing and executing integrated digital marketing programs that enhance market visibility, deepen audience engagement and support lead generation and conversion in complex, long-cycle B2B markets. The position oversees digital channels including paid and social media, website experience and marketing automation activation, ensuring that Burford’s digital presence operates as a cohesive and high-performing growth engine.
This is a hands-on leadership role for a commercially minded digital marketer who can translate strategic priorities into effective digital execution, optimize performance over time and bring best-practice thinking to website experience and customer journey design.
The base compensation range for this role is $160,000 - $175,000. Burford also pays a discretionary annual bonus and provides welcome Restricted Stock Units to all full-time employees.
Burford Capital is the largest and most experienced provider of commercial finance to the legal sector in the world, with a core expertise in identifying and optimizing the value of legal assets for companies and law firms. Since its founding in 2009, Burford has worked with hundreds of law firms and corporations, including 94 of the AmLaw 100 and 92 of the Global 100 largest law firms.
Our team has grown from five people at the end of 2009 to over 150 people today, including over 45 lawyers.
Burford possesses the resources and expertise of a large company while retaining the flexibility and creativity of a startup. Team members are smart, creative, collaborative, curious, and confident. Everyone rolls up their sleeves to perform and engage collectively for the overall success of the business. Burford values rigorous thinking, clear communication, and efficient execution. Burford is an "always on" environment in which everyone needs to be accessible by email when outside the office, including during evenings and weekends
Burford pays base salaries consistent with the financial services industry and favors incentive compensation to reward performance. Burford provides competitive health care benefits and a 401k matching program. Burford Capital is committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, whether or not they have a disability.
POSITIONREQUIREMENTS
- Develop and execute digital marketing strategies aligned with regional and practice growth priorities
- Translate strategic objectives into channel plans across paid, organic and owned platforms
- Identify opportunities to improve digital performance, visibility and engagement across priority audiences
- Own the strategic direction and continuous optimization of Burford’s website as a coremarketing and conversion platform
- Lead the design and evolution of end-to-end digital customer journeys from initial engagement through conversion and nurture
- Provide subject matter expertise and best-practice guidance on website structure, user experience and conversion pathways in partnership with the CMO and Regional Marketing Strategy leads
- Drive conversion rate optimization initiatives including landing page strategy, user flowsand testing programs
- Design and execute digital components of integrated marketing campaigns
- Translate regional and corporate campaign objectives into coordinated digital…
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