Introduction "Do you enjoy using both the right and left side of your brain, combining analytical and creative thinking? Do you thrive in situations where you are required to make rapid decisions based on analytics insights? Do you flourish in an environment where there isn’t one right answer, but constant experimentation, testing, and failure to lead you in the right direction?
The Product Led Growth team is highly skilled and dedicated cross functional team with the mission to improve performance for a small subset of IBM’s products. As a Demand Lead within Product Led Growth, you will lead the cross functional team for a specific product and work closely with marketing experts, product managers, and sellers. You will be responsible for setting the strategy through data driven insights to achieve growth KPIs , translating that strategy into clear actions and experiments for the team, and managing the execution of those actions. "
Your Role and Responsibilities A demand lead is responsible for the design, development, and optimization of omni-channel marketing programs associated with demand motions.
Strategy Planning & Customer Journey Design
Understand the market landscape, business objectives, target personas, key use cases, and product offers for your product
Translate business objectives into actionable marketing outcomes across the funnel.
Create an omnichannel digital journey for key audiences, including but not limited to: organic search, paid search, web, email, and routing.
Ongoing experimentation and manical focus on outcomes
Design the customer journey for specific segments across strategic accounts.
Execution Orchestration
Communicate demand strategy to relevant stakeholders, including but not limited to: global stakeholders, digital stakeholders, geohub teams, field marketing, BU stakeholders, etc.
Manage the execution of actions for your specific product team.
Partner with content, digital, and email experts to create and execute an omnichannel experimentation plan.
Performance Optimization
Understand brand demand performance trends for the assigned product and optimize performance issues.
Deep analysis of marketing performance across aspects such as tactic type, content asset, channel, audience segment, or business line
Evaluation of relevant KPIs (such as impressions, web traffic, organic search performance, leads, pipeline, or wins) with a keen eye on benchmarks and yield rates
Readiness to explain emerging performance opportunities or challenges
Strategies to deliver “next best actions” and support targeted pipeline coverage and revenue for the business
Insight into action—cycling of performance insights directly back into planning and orchestration.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
12+ years relevant work experience, including experience in a digital marketing
Deep critical thinking skills and curiosity to pursue open-ended problems
Strong presentation skills and ability to effectively communicate data and action plans to stakeholders and leadership
Business acumen with the ability to develop data-driven business recommendations
Demonstrated ability to multitask and prioritize with a proven ability to meet tight deadlines
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
8+ years’ experience in omni-channel demand generation or related role.
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