Senior Director, Brand & Product Marketing Strategy

tastytrade$195K — $230K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12-15 years of marketing leadership experience, particularly in product marketing, brand, and creative.
  • 5-8 years of managerial experience with a proven track record of team building.
  • Experience in regulated industries, particularly in financial services or fintech, is highly preferred.
  • Strong familiarity with FINRA regulations and a willingness to obtain Series 24 license as needed.
  • A portfolio demonstrating high-quality creative output delivered at scale under time constraints.
  • Fluency in brand measurement and connecting brand efforts to tangible business results.
  • Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

  • Establish a structured product marketing discipline and manage the launch calendar and processes.
  • Translate customer segmentation into compelling messaging for high-value targets.
  • Set and track adoption targets for product launches, ensuring messaging consistency across teams.
  • Oversee messaging standards across social media, PR, and other communications channels.
  • Manage the full creative quality and production pipeline, ensuring timely and high-standard delivery.
  • Implement a testing framework for creative content and incorporate learnings into marketing strategies.
  • Collaborate with compliance to integrate advertising reviews into the marketing timeline.

Benefits

  • Performance bonuses based on individual and company achievements.
  • Stock purchase options for employees.
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental benefits.
  • 401k retirement plan offerings.
  • 20 paid vacation days, plus an additional day off during the birthday month.
  • 10 paid sick days to support employee health.
  • Gym membership reimbursement to encourage fitness.
  • Commuter benefits to aid in travel costs.
  • Pet insurance options available for employees' furry family members.
  • Wellness programs that focus on mental health and overall well-being.
  • Charitable donation matching to support employee contributions to causes they care about.
  • Two paid volunteer days to encourage community involvement.
  • Daily catered lunches at the office when in-person and a fully stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages.
  • Access to an in-building gym for convenient fitness options.
  • Shuttle service to/from Metra for ease of commuting.
Full Job Description
Department: Marketing

Reports To: Head of Growth

Employment Type: Full-Time

Salary: $195,000 - $230,000

About the Role

You own the message across every surface the company controls. From first strategic thought to the last asset a customer sees, you make sure what we say is sharp, on brand, and worth paying attention to. You are the single person accountable for the message surviving every handoff intact.

In a brokerage, message integrity is two things at once: editorial and regulatory. You hold both. The work must be the best in the category, and it must clear review. The promise: on time, at pace, at quality, on message, and in compliance, the whole way down.

What You'll Do:

Product Marketing
  • Build a real product marketing discipline where there is ad-hoc coordination. Own the launch calendar, gate process, and cross-org dependencies so every launch runs from one master plan.
  • Translate customer segmentation into positioning that speaks to our highest-value targets. Own a live competitor matrix; in derivatives, outdated positioning is a liability.
  • Set cross-product adoption targets on every launch and produce messaging enablement, so every customer-facing team carries consistent differentiation.
  • Track launch on-time rate, gate adherence, cross-product adoption, and message consistency across customer-facing surfaces.

Comms & Social
  • Own messaging and editorial standards across owned social and communications. Hold a brand voice consistent on every surface we control.
  • Own communications, PR announcements, brand moments, and the narrative around launches. Amplify executive voices and turn earned moments into owned content.
  • Build and operate this function
  • Track owned channel engagement, audience growth, and share of voice.

Creative Strategy & Production
  • Own the creative quality bar and the production pipeline end to end. Compress cycle time by pairing internal leads with outside resources, scaling partner capacity to meet demand without quality drift.
  • Move to a testing framework. Run testing methodology for owned and brand creative and feed structured learnings into the Performance team's paid-creative work.
  • Track creative production volume, on-time delivery rate, and brief-to-launch cycle time.

Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Co-own the advertising review workflow with Compliance (FINRA advertising review, including options of disclosure requirements). Build review into the timeline as a standing gate, not a surprise.
  • Own brand-health measurement: awareness, sentiment, and share of voice, reported to leadership quarterly.
  • Track brand health, compliance, first-pass approval rate, and review cycle time.
  • Support revenue, new accounts, and ARPU by contributing to the upper-funnel quality and message that make them move.
  • Support CAC and conversion by raising the quality of the message and creative that prospects encounter before they ever reach a performance channel.

Who You Are:
  • 12-15 years in leading marketing with real depth across product marketing, brand, and creative.
  • 5-8 years leading teams including managers, with a track record of building and developing people.
  • Experience in a regulated industry, strongly preferred in financial services or fintech. FINRA familiarity and willingness to obtain a Series 24 are a plus.
  • A portfolio that shows high-quality creative shipped at scale and the judgment to hold a quality bar under deadline pressure.
  • Fluency with brand measurement and the ability to connect brand work to business outcomes without overclaiming.
  • Bachelor's degree required.

Why This Role Matters:

Most of the company's revenue comes from a small core of high-value, experienced traders, and the strongest channels for reaching them are the ones we own and earn, not the ones we buy. That makes this role the lever. Get the message right, ship it fast, keep it compliant, and the whole engine works better. This is where brand stops being decoration and becomes the thing that compounds.

Company Perks + Benefits:
  • Performance Bonuses
  • Stock Purchase Options
  • Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
  • 401k Plan
  • 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)
  • 10 Paid Sick Days
  • Gym Membership Reimbursement
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Pet Insurance
  • Wellness & Mental Health Programs
  • Charitable Donation Matching
  • Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
  • Daily catered lunch when in the office
  • Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
  • In-building gym
  • Shuttle to/from Metra

Discretionary Performance Bonus: 15-20% of base salary based on individual and company performance.

Location: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars.
tastytrade | tastylive | tastyfx
1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607

About tastytrade

tastytrade is a financial media company that provides online trading education, research, and financial news. The company was founded in 2011 by Tom Sosnoff and Kristi Ross, and has since grown to become one of the leading online trading platforms in the United States. tastytrade offers a wide range of financial products and services, including options trading, futures trading, and stock trading. The company is known for its innovative approach to trading education, which emphasizes the importance of risk management and probability-based trading strategies. tastytrade has received numerous awards and recognitions for its contributions to the financial industry.
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2011

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