Company Name: IG North America (tastytrade, tasty live , tastyfx, tastycrypto) Role: Head of Marketing Operations Location: Chicago, IL – Hybrid (3 days/week in office)
Come join an innovative team of marketing and growth experts dedicated to building the future of trading. We're looking for a Head of Marketing Operations to accelerate our speed to market, establish operational excellence, and ensure exceptional creative execution. As a visionary marketer, you thrive on delivering impact on time and on budget.
You will serve as the strategic architect of our marketing execution engine, designing and implementing systems that enable rapid, high-quality campaign delivery. You will refine the technical infrastructure and drive innovative and intelligent design and copy that power personalized, scaled growth at every phase of the customer journey. You will be adept at eliminating bottlenecks, driving accountability, and ensuring every creative touchpoint delivers measurable impact with our target market. As part of the marketing leadership team, you'll report directly to the Chief Marketing Officer and help shape the strategic direction of our growing company.
What You’ll Do:
Build the engine for scalability by optimizing workflows, creating documentation, improving collaboration, and building core delivery processes for campaign management.
Deliver audience-centric creative excellence by building a creative governance systems that maintains brand integrity while enabling innovation and continuous improvement.
Build and maintain marketing technology stack and automation systems while ensuring team usage of features and functionality and martech optimization.
Develop templates, systems, and AI-powered tools that accelerate velocity across all teams.
Work with technology and data teams to ensure data flows, security, and system integrity.
Take ownership of delivery excellence for marketing, driving on-time, on-budget execution while upholding process rigor and high quality standards.
Master resource and capacity planning to ensure the right talent is aligned with the right projects at the right time—maximizing utilization while managing internal bandwidth and freelance support as needed.
Proactively develop and implement comprehensive client journey maps and optimization systems that deliver on business goals through personalization and conversion rate optimization. Build personalization capabilities that increase conversion rates and client satisfaction.
Who You Are
You bring 10+ years of marketing operations and technology experience, preferably in trading, investing, D2C financial services, fintech or a closely related industry
You hold a Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or related field; MBA preferred
You have 5+ years of experience building high-performing teams
You have expertise in capacity planning, resource allocation, and process optimization in a multi-disciplinary, high velocity environment
You have built comprehensive marketing management systems or frameworks that combines strategic planning with operational execution
You are comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels, seamlessly navigating between executive-level planning and hands-on problem-solving
You possess an analytical mindset with a track record of driving measurable business outcomes
You can balance short-term needs with sustainable growth strategies
You have a high propensity to innovate and experiment with new approaches
You have a go-getter mentality and are proactive and resourceful
You excel at cross-functional collaboration and demonstrate systems thinking
You're a natural developer of talent and team builder who can inspire and guide others
You have strong technical skills and experience with marketing automation platforms, CRM systems, email systems, CMS systems, data integration, and analytics tools
You have experience with customer journey mapping and personalization strategies
You have a proven track record of improving marketing efficiency and conversion rates
You have a track record of successful marketing technology implementations and experience with AI-powered marketing tools
You thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
Performance Bonuses
Stock Purchase Options
401k Plan
20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)
10 Paid Sick Days
Pet Insurance
Wellness & Mental Health Programs
Charitable Donation Matching
Daily catered lunch when in the office
Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
Shuttle to/from Metra
Office located in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars
Salary Range: $180,000 - $220,000
This is an estimated range. The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's level of experience and qualifications.
About Us:
The tastyhouse of brands empowers individual traders differently. tastylive, founded in 2011, is an online financial media network,tastytrade (previously known as tastyworks) is a self-directed retail brokerage firm that launched in 2017, tasty Software Solutions and tastyfx, is a registered Forex broker-dealer.
In 2021, London-based IG Group acquired tastylive, Inc. (previously known as tastytrade) and assigned it to lead business in North America.tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US over the past few years. Changing the IG US name to tastyfx marks the next chapter, in aligning with the tasty brand family and offering a more forex-focused experience. This combined team has years of experience like institutional brokers, but also a passion for disrupting the entire trading industry.
Our dream is simple: we want more people to find more success witha bettertrading experience. That’s why we’re investing heavily in the right people, technology, and media to make that happen in the US and across the globe.
Location: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars.
*Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they have every single qualification. Our team is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
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