Marketing Director

About the OpportunityOur 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.What You Will DoServe as final approver on press releases, graphics, and routine creative so campaigns move without bottlenecksOwn event execution end to end: build the checklist, assign the tasks, hold the team to the timeline, and run the debriefOwn departmental processes and improve them. If a workflow is broken or slow, you are expected to find it and fix it without being askedKeep every project on timeline and flag risks early, not after deadlines slipDig into campaign and channel data, ask the second and third question, and bring recommendations rather than just the reportsBring new ideas. Following the process and improving the process are both the jobOver time, represent the CMO in select vendor and internal meetings and return with informed recommendationsWhat We Are Looking ForMust-Haves:5+ years of marketing experience with demonstrated ownership of execution and processEvent management experience leading a small team through multiple events per yearProven ability to lead projects and influence a team without formal direct reportsNice-to-Haves:Legal, financial services, or other professional services marketing backgroundWorking knowledge of email marketing infrastructure including DKIM, SPF, and database segmentationExperience managing an email database in the tens of thousands of contactsYou Are the Right Fit If...You get satisfaction from making an operation run betterYou have led events, not just staffed themYou look at a report and immediately have three questions about why the numbers look that wayYou make decisions in your lane without waiting for permissionYou would rather fix a process once than work around it fifty times