CRM Lead
- Contract
- Department: Marketing
Job Description
- Role: CRM & Lifecycle Marketing Lead
- Duration: 8 months (September–April)
- Location: Remote
- Hours/week: 40 hours/week
- Hourly Rate: $75–$85/hour, depending on experience
- This will be a W2 Engagement, click here to learn more
- Background Check Required
- Benefits available.
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About the Role:
Our client is seeking a senior-level CRM and lifecycle marketing leader to backfill for an upcoming parental leave and recent team changes. This is a strategic leadership position requiring someone with the experience and confidence to own the organization’s CRM strategy during a peak season while collaborating cross-functionally across a matrixed organization without peer-level guidance.
The ideal candidate will serve as both a stabilizing force and strategic operator, ensuring the CRM roadmap is executed successfully while also navigating internal dynamics and championing CRM priorities at the highest levels.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic CRM Leadership
Own and steward CRM strategy across holiday and early 2026 planning cycles
Shadow current CRM leader prior to leave and ensure smooth transition
Guide journey planning, testing, segmentation, and performance optimization
Agency Management
Be the primary CRM contact during creative and technical audits
Drive prioritization of agency recommendations with CDP Product Owners (DTX & IT)
Review agency burndown reports and align staffing to quarterly plans
Ensure implementation of new agency processes (e.g. Campaign Request Forms, Template Library)
Team Leadership & Day-to-Day CRM Oversight
Directly manage 2 CRM leads with oversight of 2 indirect team members supporting translation and deployment
Review and advise on campaign planning, creative, and reporting dashboards
Ensure delivery on campaign requests from regional teams and business units
Lead CRM discussions on segmentation, journey management, suppression, opt-ins, and platform optimization
Collaborate with IT to deliver complex CRM initiatives and explore automation opportunities
Ensure execution of holiday campaigns per plan, resolving content/resource gaps as needed
Executive & Leadership Reporting
Collaborate with agency, platform, and IT partners to deliver QBRs and CRM performance updates
Provide ongoing reporting and insights to the leadership team
Planning & Innovation
Partner with platform teams to scale SMS marketing and pilot agentic or AI-enabled solutions
Contribute to FY26 planning focused on revenue growth, efficiency, and platform enablement
Help connect data-driven personalization strategies across CRM, paid, and web channels
Website Content Marketing Oversight
Manage 2 direct reports responsible for promotional campaigns, product launches, and content updates across owned websites
Align CRM and content teams to build integrated campaigns across email, SMS, and web
Contribute to strategic planning for website migration and unified brand experience
Qualifications
10+ years in CRM, lifecycle, or digital marketing leadership roles
Experience with global consumer and e-commerce marketing, including high-volume seasonal cycles
Proven success navigating matrixed orgs and managing global content and translation workflows
Strategic fluency in Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud (not hands-on execution)
Expertise in agency management and multi-channel planning
Track record of managing high-performing teams across CRM and content functions
Excellent communication, influence, and executive stakeholder management skills
Strong grasp of data-powered personalization and cross-channel integration
Clear thinker with calm authority—comfortable driving results independently
Additional Information
We Are Rosie provides strategic consulting and talent solutions for the marketing industry. We partner with more than 200 of the world’s biggest brands and agencies to help them solve unique marketing challenges with the best people, swiftly and at scale. Founded by former advertising executive Stephanie Nadi Olson in 2018, We Are Rosie is on a mission to redefine how marketing works, with an inclusive, human-centric approach that’s better for business and better for marketers. Our company has been recognized as an industry trailblazer and earned many accolades, including being named to the 2023 Global Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces, the Inc. 5000 2022, and Adweek’s Fastest Growing Agencies in 2021.
We Are Rosie is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.