VP, Campaign Planning & Operations, CNN Marketing

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.$161K — $299K *
Media
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in progressive marketing leadership, particularly in media, entertainment, or digital sectors.
  • Hands-on management of paid media campaigns and owned marketing channels.
  • Proven ability managing complex, high-profile marketing initiatives and developing long-term promotional strategies.
  • Skilled in prioritizing team workload based on business objectives and potential contributions.
  • Experience with operational transformation in complex, matrixed organizations, and integrating new enterprise tools.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning and execution of holistic marketing campaigns across various verticals.
  • Act as the primary liaison for cross-functional teams to ensure campaign alignment from planning to optimization.
  • Oversee the development and enforcement of standardized campaign timelines and milestones.
  • Conduct governance forums to ensure campaign readiness and drive cross-functional alignment.
  • Streamline approval processes to enable timely decision-making and minimize operational bottlenecks.
  • Facilitate accurate and timely campaign delivery to meet quality assurance standards before launch.
  • Lead post-campaign reviews to capture insights and drive future performance improvement.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead high-impact marketing strategies at a major media corporation.
  • Access to cutting-edge resources and AI tools to enhance campaign effectiveness.
  • Collaborative work environment that fosters team growth and development.
  • Involvement in strategic decision-making with senior marketing leadership.
  • Chance to influence modern marketing practices and operational excellence.
Full Job Description

Your New Role...

CNN Marketing is seeking a strategic, highly collaborative, and dynamicVP,CampaignPlanning& Operationsto lead theplanning and executionof holisticmarketing campaigns. Reporting directly to theHead of Marketing, this executive will serve as the criticalcross-functionalbridge andown the end-to-end marketing campaignoperatingmodelthatconnectsallmarketing verticals.

Crucially, this role will serve as the centralpointforcross-functionalplanningand executionfor complexmarketingcampaignsand operational modernization,driving internal efficiencyand alignment.This includesstandardizingworkflows, upgradingcampaigndocumentationand knowledge sharing, and actively championingthe integration of cutting-edge automation and AI efficiency tools across the marketing organization.

As a member of the marketing leadership team, this role is accountable for drivingmarketing effectivenessin partnership with brand and growth teamleads, ensuring campaigns delivermeasurable businessoutcomes with executionalexcellence andrigor.

Your Role Accountabilities...

Campaign Orchestration & Integration

  • Campaign Prioritization:Track official intake, timing, dependencies, and troubleshooting for all tiered marketing initiatives that are directly tied to measurable business objectives. Work with marketing leadsand content leadersto define clear, data-backed criteria for prioritization and manage and communicate rolling updates.

  • Integration Across Functions:Act as the primary touchpoint to unifymarketing verticalstoensureon-strategyandon-timecampaign execution.Ensurefull coordinationacross teams, maintaining alignment from planning through optimization.

  • Holistic Campaign Planning:Oversee campaign planning architecture, ensuringall marketingverticalsarefully synchronized from brief to executiontopost-mortem.Define and enforcestandardized campaign timelines and key milestones across all initiatives todelivercoordinated, on-time execution.

  • Cross-Functional Governance:Establish and lead structuredgovernance forums (e.g. campaign readiness reviews, weekly orchestration meetings, etc.) to drive alignment and mitigate risk.

  • Approvals & Decisioning:Ensure clear, streamlined approval processes across all campaign stages, enabling timely decision-making and minimizing bottlenecks across stakeholders.

  • Delivery Excellence:Facilitate seamless, accurate, and timely campaign delivery, ensuring all assets and deliverables meet defined quality assurance standards prior to launch.

  • Post-Mortems:Lead standardized post-campaign reviews to capture process andkeylearnings, improve future planning, and drive continuous performance improvement.

TeamLeadership

  • Team Management:Build and scale theCampaignPlanning andOperations function over time,includingclearly defining existing and new functions,day-to-day team management, active mentoring, and career growth opportunities.

  • ResourcePlanning:Continually assessteambandwidth and capacitywith respect to integrated campaign planningand execution, working withHead of Marketingand Marketing Leadstoassess known gaps andsupport shifting business priorities.

Operational Excellence, Standards & AI Innovation

  • Ways of Working:Define, implement, and enforce modernized, agile ways of working across the marketing ecosystem. Break down departmental silos to ensureteamsmove in lockstepto accomplish shared goals and exceed business KPIs.

  • Performance Benchmarks:Define and enforceoperationalKPIs and performance benchmarks to ensure consistency and accountability.

  • Strategic Documentation:Establish and scale unified templates for strategic briefs, campaign frameworks, roadmaps, and post-mortems to ensure consistency, clarity, and executive-ready quality across all team outputs.

  • AI-DrivenPlanning &Efficiency Tools:Lead the exploration, onboarding, and adoption of modern AI-drivenoperationaltoolsfor marketing teamproductivity. Empower the team to automate repetitive workflows,optimizeresource management, and scale campaign execution through emerging technology.

  • Single Source of Truth:Establish a centralized campaign management approach and tooling to facilitate reliance on a unified and transparent single source of truth.Set upunifiedmarketing repositoryandoptimizecreative and media workflows to enable consistentplanning,execution,and reporting.

Qualifications & Experience...

  • 12+ years ofprogressive marketing leadership experience within major media, entertainment, streaming, or digital consumer brands.
  • Hands-onoperationalmanagementofpaidmediacampaignsand/orowned and operatedmarketingchannels.

  • Proven track record of managing complex,high-profilecampaignsand building long-range marketing calendars or promotional roadmaps.

  • Ability toprioritizeteamworkloadbased onknown orpotentialcontribution tobusinessobjectives.

  • Demonstrated experience drivingoperational transformationwithin complex, matrixed organizations,including rewriting organizational workflows, scalingmarketingstructures, and rolling out new enterprisetools.

  • Experience operating across integrated marketing ecosystems, including brand, media, digital, social,and content production.

Skills & Competencies

  • Operational Modernizer:Passionate about organizational design and internal efficiency; possesses a strong point of view on how modern marketing teams should collaborate, document strategy, and utilize technology.

  • AI & Tech-Forward Mindset:Forward-thinking approach to internal tools, with practical familiarity regarding how Generative AI, automation, and project management tools can optimize marketing workflows.

  • Diplomacy & Influence:High emotional intelligence; an executive who can confidently usher teams through change management, standardizing processes without stiflingstrategic andcreative output.

  • Enterprise Operator:Ability to operate at scale within a global, matrixed organization, balancing strategic vision with operational rigor and execution discipline.

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About Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. WBIE was founded on January 14, 2004 under Warner Bros. and transferred to the Home Entertainment division when that company was formed in October 2005. WBIE manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, Monolith Productions, WB Games Boston, Avalanche Software, and WB Games Montréal, among others.
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