Product Marketing Manager – Self-directed Growth

Be part of an exciting growth marketing team, helping to earn the business of the next generation of long-term Vanguard investors. As the Self-directed Growth Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for setting the strategy for Vanguard's Personal Investor prospecting efforts. This includes helping to shape the messaging for Vanguard's core retail offer, orchestrating paid and owned channel tactics, and developing experiences to help new clients get the most out of their Vanguard relationship.

Responsibilities:

• Leads the product marketing strategy for the respective area of the business, focusing on target audience identification, product value proposition, and client needs analysis. Partner with various stakeholders including senior leadership to align marketing team's objectives to cross-functional priorities. Informs marketing budgets.
• Mentors and coaches colleagues to ensure they develop and maintain a broad knowledge and awareness of the product marketing industry forces, competition, and trends to act as a trusted advisor in developing marketing strategies.
• Helps establish the vision for competitive product marketing strategy, planning, measurement, and relationship management for a product/initiative or set of products/initiatives. Ensures the plan meets tactical and strategic objectives and overall business strategy.
• Communicates with stakeholders, leaders, team members, management, and department partners to ensure that requirements and priorities are understood. Monitors product marketing activity, progress, and results and submits regular status reports to management and internal and external stakeholders. Identify necessary actions to re-align to strategic outcomes as needed.
• Drives the development of a continuous feedback loop to gather input from clients and key stakeholders. Proactively see opportunities to improve positioning of topics critical to the business area.
• Leads the development of marketing tracking methodology to set parameters of success based on relevant data, analytics, and desired results that are measurable. Leverages these measures to regularly share updates on the status of product marketing strategy efforts.
• Ensures all steps are taken to mitigate risk and retains control, compliance, audit, and legal requirements in marketing plans. Maintains an appropriate level of technical marketing and business knowledge to support program implementation.

Qualifications:

• Minimum eight years related work experience, three years of marketing experience.
• Experience leading paid media marketing strategies.
• Broad knowledge of Vanguard's investment product line-up and an understanding of the overall investment markets.
• Undergraduate degree in Marketing or equivalent experience required. Graduate degree preferred.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Vanguard’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is central to our ability to deliver on our mission. We aspire to create a work environment that is inclusive, equitable, and diverse—one that enables our employees, whom we call crew, to thrive and bring their best selves to work every day on behalf of our clients.

Cultivating DEI lifts our entire organization, and everyone shares accountability for our progress—from our senior leaders who lay the foundation and set the example for inclusive behaviors to crew who are growing in their personal DEI learning experiences.

Together, we’re on a mission. We are fueled by the value of diverse voices and connected through friendships and a culture of care—for our clients, our communities, and each other.    

Vanguard’s DEI journey has no finish line. Our commitment is enduring, and we remain focused on the path ahead. To learn more about Vanguard goals and progress toward DEI, download our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.