Senior Marketing Manager

Who We Are:

At Rover, pets and their people are at the heart of everything we do. We connect pet parents with trusted pet care across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we're a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We're investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.

We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington's Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. At Rover we're committed to creating an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming community, which starts with our employees.

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

Who We're Looking For:

As a Sr. Marketing Manager, you are the definitive architect of Rover's consideration engine. While a separate Brand team defines our identity, you own the strategic deployment of that identity across upper-funnel channels (Linear TV, OTT/CTV, Audio, Podcast, OOH, Programmatic etc.) to drive measurable business impact and growth.

You are a "Master of the Craft" who can operate independently without the need for daily functional support. You will take the lead on two key initiatives: stewarding a massive media investment with surgical precision through advanced measurement (MMM/Geo-Uplift) and pioneering the future of our marketing operations.
This is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Downtown Seattle Office two days per week on Mondays and Thursdays. For this reason, candidates must be based in the Greater Seattle Area or willing to relocate.

Your Responsibilities:

1. Consideration Strategy & Business Influence

• Strategic Direction: Autonomously drive the long-range strategy for Upper Funnel Channels, driving New Customers while understanding the change to measured consideration. You set the goals and OKRs that determine how we win in the upper funnel.
• Planning Leadership: Have a material influence on annual planning cycles, providing the business with leverage through deep expertise in media best practices and emerging industry shifts.
• Cross-Functional Bridge: Serve as the model for collaboration, ensuring the Upper Funnel strategy seamlessly integrates with the Brand team's vision while providing the performance-data feedback loop they need.

2. Mastery of Upper Funnel Media

• Advanced Channel Stewardship: Demonstrate best-in-class expertise in Linear TV, OTT, CTV, Audio, and OOH and Programmatic channels. You are an expert in media buying, media negotiations, inventory quality, and placement strategy.
• Complex Agency Orchestration: Manage external agency relationships of high complexity and impact. You do not just manage them; you coach them to meet Rover's high performance standards and hold them accountable to performance benchmarks.
• Financial Stewardship: Manage large-scale program budgets with accuracy. You are the model for financial organization and attention to detail with your budget.

3. Measurement Science & Data Optimization

• Marketing Measurement Ownership: You can work with Marketing Data Science in developing new marketing metrics and measurement frameworks. You own the interpreting and application of Rover's Media Mix Modeling (MMM) for your channels as well as proposing Geo-Uplift tests to prove the incrementality of upper-funnel spend.
• Problem Solving: Work exclusively on highly complex issues, such as solving for signal loss in CTV or optimizing multi-channel attribution in a privacy-first environment.

4. Automation & AI Integration

• Workflow Automation: Identify and execute on massive process efficiencies by automating marketing workflows. You won't just use AI tools; you will operationalize them into the department.
• Tool Architecture: Deeply understand the broad array of AI tools available and architect the appropriate scenarios for their use to solve complex business problems.

5. Communication & Mentorship

• Organizational Communicator: You are a highly effective communicator who understands when and how to share key information. You distill complex media and AI concepts for executive stakeholders.
• Knowledge Dissemination: Set up business rhythms to share findings across the organization, up-leveling the entire marketing team's understanding of prioritization and efficiency.

Your Qualifications:

• Experience: 10-12+ years of relevant experience in high-scale media strategy with a consumer brand (ideally a two sided-marketplace). You have demonstrated expertise in leverage upper funnel channels to drive new customers and know how to measure the impact.
• AI/Automation Mastery: You have demonstrated improvements to workflow automation, leveraging Scripts,Python, SaaS tools and AI. Your successes have given you and your prior team significant leverage. You can…