Marketing Jobs Over $200K

The U.S. marketing job market remains more or less unchanged: steady as she goes.

This week, there are 33,685 open roles across the country, barely budging from 33,702 two weeks ago. That’s a slight year-over-year dip of 1.3%, but nothing dramatic.

Meanwhile, things are a touch more upbeat at the senior end. Director-level roles and above have reached 4,319 listings, marking a 1.1% increase YoY. Just over half (55.3%) of those come with salary ranges, and the pay is solid: median compensation for senior roles stands at $152,495, while the median across all marketing jobs is $84,989.

Here are the median salaries by seniority of marketing positions:

• Chief Marketing Officer: $249,995

• SVP/Head of Marketing: $205,005

• VP/Director of Marketing: $163,093

• Marketing Manager: $117,520

• Marketing Specialist: $70,002

And the median salaries of senior marketing jobs in major U.S. cities:

This week, we’re seeing some seriously enticing senior roles from major brands - affirmation that demand for experienced marketing leaders is holding strong, echoing the steady momentum we saw throughout Q2 2025.

In fact, it was soooo hard to pick from the list!

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What a time to be in the Denim business! Beyoncé’s new “Denim Cowboy” short paints Levi’s as feminist armor, Gap’s fabulous and fresh “Better in Denim” film drills self-expression through choreography, and MAGA darling Sydney Sweeney’s “good genes” quip for American Eagle just lit up cable panels from Fox to MSNBC. 2025’s denim chatter is loud, political, and global.

Levi Strauss & Co. now needs a VP of Global Marketing in San Francisco on a base of $347-389K. Half of revenue already flows through Levi’s own stores and site, record gross margin sits above 61%, but Asia, which is the fastest-growing jeans region, was flat last quarter.

The real remit here, in my view, is to move culture at TikTok speed without losing global discipline: compress the concept-to-consumer calendar, enlarge women’s share, and repeat the Beyoncé halo in Seoul and Bengaluru before another trend passes.

CMO Kenny Mitchell calls Levi’s “the unofficial uniform for progress” and says the brand’s latest work “puts women at the centre of the narrative.” Show up ready to prove that line in cash terms. Sketch a women-first drop that can carry a verified green label, price in the 9.7 % premium shoppers will pay for credible sustainability, then loop every resale, repair and laser-custom order back into first-party data. Three slides, sixty seconds: culture velocity into revenue velocity.

If Taligence had the brief, we’d be tapping talent from Nike for the DTC engine excellence, Lululemon for their proven strength in loyalty, and UNIQLO for their continued strong results across Asia.

Candidates forged in those arenas already speak Kenny’s language of speed, inclusion and proof. If you can do the same, the red tab is yours.

TransUnion sits at the crossroads of credit data and advertising tech. The Chicago-based company, best known for consumer credit reports, now sells a growing suite of “TruAudience” identity and targeting tools to marketers in 30-plus countries. Press releases and the leadership page list no CMO; brand, demand generation, and PR live in three different corners of the org chart: commercial, product, and communications, so the enterprise voice can feel disjointed.

Regulators smell blood. In January, the FTC banned Mobilewalla from selling precise location data, creating worries for every data broker.

TransUnion’s answer is to bulk up its privacy-first graph: after pulling Neustar’s files into TruAudience last year, the company now covers about 250 million U.S. consumers without relying on third-party cookies. The strategy is paying…Q2 2025 revenue rose 10% to $1.14 billion and guidance went up.

To keep that curve rising, TransUnion is hiring a title so long it will take your breath away - Senior Vice President, Marketing Solutions - Global Product Pillar Lead, Insights, Platforms & Innovation…blimey.

[My longest ever job title was 8 words, this one clocks in at 12!! Write to us if you can beat that crazy count, and we’ll award the winner a year of free access to CMO Ladder]

You will own a 3-year roadmap for its Insights products, decide when to build, buy, or partner for new data, and ensure every tool passes privacy tests in the U.S., EU, and Asia. Risk skills are mandatory, the spec flags them three times…and you will juggle product managers across five regions while steering M&A talks.

If you can get past the Workday ATS, you will report to Brian Silver, a 25-year identity veteran who arrived from Oracle in April. Silver says TransUnion’s goal is to give brands “a single place” to discover and measure audiences instead of juggling “upwards of sixteen different solutions.” Show up ready to explain, in plain words, how you will keep match rates high when [if?!?] Chrome finally kills cookies.

Where Taligence would poach if we had this recruiting assignment: we would start with LiveRamp, whose RampID engineers already scale a cookieless graph under strict consent rules. Next comes WPP’s media arm, specifically Choreograph and InfoSum, where client losses and a profit warning have left senior data leads restless. We would also tap Acxiom and other IPG data units; 2,400 layoffs tied to the looming Omnicom acquisition mean proven product heads are on the market. Finally, privacy-first players like Permutive are interesting.

The right candidate can map a global identity stack that sells ads, respects consent and survives the next FTC headline - exactly what this post demands.

Zoom’s glory days as the default video app are fading fast. Revenue is forecast to grow just 3% about $1.2 billion this quarter, while Microsoft’s decision to sell Office without Teams in Europe means disgruntled IT buyers are suddenly in play. Zoom smells opportunity.

That is why the company has posted a Global Head of Growth Marketing role at $319 K–$340 K, open to remote candidates or a San Jose-based. The brief is clear: stitch Meetings, Phone, Contact Center, Events and the new AI Companion into one self-serve funnel that lowers CAC and lifts expansion revenue around the world. You will report to fresh-minted CMO Kimberly Storin, who says she intends to “bring the swagger back to Zoom” and prove the brand is “far beyond video.” Walk in ready to show how you will convert free AI users into paid bundles and how you will court the 250-to-1000-employee segment now tagged as the growth sweet spot.

If Taligence were running this search, we would tap growth leads at Shopify and Atlassian who live and die by product-led funnels, seasoned lifecycle marketers from HubSpot who excel at mid-market nurturing, acquisition heads at Notion or Miro who know how to sell collaboration software without a heavy field force, and performance directors inside Salesforce (Slack). Operators from those pools can speak the language of sign-ups, product-qualified leads, and expansion ARR in plain English, exactly what this seat demands.

If you don’t know them already, Synchrony is the bank that issues more than 100 store-branded credit cards (Amazon, Lowe’s, TJ Maxx) and also runs an online savings bank that pays about 3.80 % APY on its flagship high-yield account. Competitors like Peak Bank and EverBank now dangle 4%-plus rates, so winning fresh deposits is getting harder.

The lender is also under a brighter consumer spotlight. Last year, it began adding a $1.99 monthly fee for customers who insist on paper statements…an easy headline for critics who already link the brand to high credit-card APRs.

At the policy level, Washington’s battle over late-fee caps reminds every card issuer that new rules (or court reversals) can hit revenue without warning.

Into this mix comes a new SVP, Consumer Bank - Chief Marketing Officer on a salary of $235K to $390K, with the option to work remote or from hubs in Stamford, Chicago, Kansas City or Costa Mesa. Your mission is plain: pull in low-cost deposits, keep them from fleeing when rates slip, and soften a card-heavy image so savers trust Synchrony with their rainy-day cash. That means juggling ad-spend, loyalty perks and price moves week by week alongside the bank’s CEO and treasury team. You will also own the app, website and every bit of copy the FDIC and CFPB might read.

If Taligence were filling the seat, we would start with deposit-growth leaders at Ally and Capital One 360, who already know how to sell rate, ease and trust in one pitch. We would court marketers from SoFi and Marcus, experts at trading splashy signup bonuses for long-run value. And we would tap heads of rewards banking at Discover and PayPal Savings, who live daily at the intersection of card perks and sticky deposits. These people speak in clear dollars-and-cents, carry compliance muscle, and are used to fighting for attention in a crowd of 4 % offers, the exact mix Synchrony’s consumer bank needs right now.

Estée Lauder’s sales keep slipping. Net revenue fell 10% to about $3.6 billion last quarter, and a wider “Beauty Reimagined” turnaround is now underway to claw back growth and restore margins. As we recently covered on the CMO Ladder, the board just hired Aude Gandon ex-Google brand builder and Nestlé CMO as the group’s first Chief Digital and Marketing Officer, reporting straight to the CEO. Her brief is simple: make every consumer touchpoint work harder, from TikTok to the beauty counter.

That urgency trickles down to Bobbi Brown, the house’s clean-cut makeup line that often stands in the shadow of La Mer’s luxury glow. The company is looking for a VP, Marketing, North America in New York on a base of $222K–$377K. The hire will run a 360-degree playbook; social, PR, media, stores, loyalty…and must refresh the brand for Gen Z without losing the artistry roots that keep longtime fans spending.

You will own the A&P budget, guide a cross-functional team and defend every dollar with clear ROI. Gandon will want evidence that Bobbi’s TikTok shots, in-store demos and CRM emails roll up to one story that grows both reach and repeat sales.

Where Taligence would poach talent if we had this assignment: we’d open with growth VPs from Fenty Beauty and Rare Beauty, brands that turn every social post into sell-outs; add lifecycle marketers from Glossier and e.l.f., who know how to feed data back into product drops; and court experience leads at Sephora who already juggle online tutorials with countertop theatre. These operators can talk clean storytelling, fast content testing and full-funnel numbers in the same breath which is, in my opinion, the exact mix Bobbi Brown needs while Estée Lauder fights to get its digital mojo back.

Swiss watches just got 39% pricier in the United States after Washington slapped a harsh tariff on imports from Switzerland. New Rolex or Patek buyers now face four-figure surcharges, while second-hand prices hold steady…a windfall for The RealReal, who are already the largest luxury-resale site with 37 million members and a watch vault run by in-house horologists.

Revenue tells the same story. The RealReal’s latest quarter came in at $165 million, up 14% year-on-year, powered by high-ticket consignments like timepieces and fine jewelry. Tariffs that squeeze primary-market demand should push even more traffic toward authenticated resale. and that creates a louder media spotlight just as the company looks for a VP of PR & Corporate Communications.

The brief is classic: shape every external word from earnings sound-bites to TikTok explainers so that investors, sellers and shoppers hear one clear story of trust and growth. You will run crisis playbooks, feed watch-price data to journalists hunting tariff angles, and partner with IR each quarter. The role needs a sharp writer who can switch from lifestyle sparkle to SEC-safe language in a single morning!

If Taligence were filling the seat, we would tap PR leaders at LVMH’s watch maisons who already spin tariff turbulence, comms heads at StockX and Farfetch. Ex-agency directors from top IPG and WPP PR shops who worked the retail-tech space would also be qualified in.

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