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.

• 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

• 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

• 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 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