VP, Marketing Creative and Operations
Job Description
VP, Marketing Creative & Operations
Location: Remote (U.S.)
We're partnering with a well-known, mission-driven education company to find a Vice President of Marketing Creative & Operations. This executive will lead a large, established marketing organization while helping transform creative from a production function into a strategic business driver.
This is not a traditional Creative Director or Creative Operations leadership role.
We're looking for a marketing executive first—someone who has built their career in brand management, integrated marketing, or marketing strategy, and has also led creative, brand, content, and creative operations teams as part of a broader marketing leadership scope.
You'll partner closely with executive leadership to connect creative strategy with business priorities, marketing channels, customer experience, and measurable business outcomes.
What You'll Do
What We're Looking For
This is an outstanding opportunity for a marketing executive who enjoys building high-performing organizations, influencing at the executive level, and shaping how creative and marketing work together to drive business growth.
Location: Remote (U.S.)
We're partnering with a well-known, mission-driven education company to find a Vice President of Marketing Creative & Operations. This executive will lead a large, established marketing organization while helping transform creative from a production function into a strategic business driver.
This is not a traditional Creative Director or Creative Operations leadership role.
We're looking for a marketing executive first—someone who has built their career in brand management, integrated marketing, or marketing strategy, and has also led creative, brand, content, and creative operations teams as part of a broader marketing leadership scope.
You'll partner closely with executive leadership to connect creative strategy with business priorities, marketing channels, customer experience, and measurable business outcomes.
What You'll Do
- Lead an established organization spanning Brand, Creative, Content Strategy, and Creative Operations.
- Develop the long-term vision for how creative supports business growth, customer acquisition, engagement, and brand differentiation.
- Partner with executive leadership to shape enterprise marketing strategy and elevate creative as a strategic business function.
- Connect brand strategy with integrated marketing across digital, lifecycle, paid media, web, field marketing, and communications.
- Guide senior leaders responsible for creative, content, brand, and operations while building alignment across the broader marketing organization.
- Lead organizational transformation, operating model improvements, workflow optimization, and AI-enabled marketing initiatives.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration across Marketing, Product, Analytics, Technology, Communications, Finance, and executive stakeholders.
- Establish measurement frameworks that connect creative effectiveness to marketing and business performance.
- Oversee agency relationships, budgets, organizational planning, and operational excellence.
What We're Looking For
- Executive-level marketing leadership experience within a large, complex, highly matrixed organization.
- Career progression rooted in brand marketing, integrated marketing, or marketing strategy—not solely creative production or creative operations.
- Experience leading creative organizations while maintaining responsibility for broader marketing strategy and business outcomes.
- Strong executive presence with experience influencing senior leadership and presenting strategic recommendations.
- Demonstrated success leading organizational transformation, operating model design, and cross-functional change initiatives.
- Experience partnering across multiple business functions and influencing without direct authority.
- Proven ability to balance brand building with performance, customer experience, and commercial objectives.
- Experience leading sizeable teams through senior managers/directors in complex organizations.
- Comfort leveraging AI and modern marketing technology to improve team effectiveness and scalability.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a marketing executive who enjoys building high-performing organizations, influencing at the executive level, and shaping how creative and marketing work together to drive business growth.