Marketing Innovation Manager

The Intersection of Calling & Career

World Vision is now hiring for Marketing Innovation Manager

00 At a Glance

Role: Marketing Innovation Manager

Level: Mid-Level (requires 5 years minimum experience, individual contributor)

Job Design: Propose and qualify marketing innovations to drive growth and improve donor experience (50%). Support programs designed to build a culture of innovation and improve organizational capabilities related to effective innovation (25%). Help to create and deliver multi-year work plans to grow the innovation pipeline (25%).

Required Experience: A Bachelor's degree or 8 years of equivalent work experience. Additionally, this role requires at least 5 years of experience in marketing, fundraising, or related areas.

Preferred Experience: Market research or consumer insights as well as experience creating new concepts, products, or customer experiences.

Salary Range: $75,705.93 - $ 119,412.45. Applies to locations with a market similar to our U.S. HQ in the Greater Seattle area. A different range may apply based on your work location. The typical hiring range is $78,000 - $97,500. Job offers within the range are based on relevant job qualifications and pay equity. See the “Salary Range & Benefits” section below for more details on our compensation and benefits.

Benefits: Yes. Click here to learn more.

Location: United States. The role can be based in nearly 40 states.

Company Size/Type: Nearly 1000. Non-profit charitable organization. Together, we empower the most vulnerable children to overcome poverty and experience the fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

01 The Job At World Vision, we’re building a world-class culture of innovation and looking for a passionate innovator to help design the pathways, invest in the people, and create the portfolio of innovations needed to reach our multi-year growth goals. If you want to be part of building an enduring innovation function within an organization that creates transformational impact around the world, look no further.

In this role, you’ll identify, develop and qualify product, commercial and experiential innovations, expanding the portfolio of innovation ideas that make up the innovation pipeline. You’ll lead innovation projects from challenge definition, through creative solutioning, and then through experimentation and qualification.

As one of a small number of fully dedicated innovators, you’ll be both an example of innovation best practices and an agent of change, helping to build the organization’s capabilities for innovation and fostering a culture where innovation thrives.

You’ll work closely with the donor research and analytics team and grow into an expert in topics such as industry trends, the addressable market, target donor segments, emerging technologies, and other disrupters that are changing the non-profit industry, creating new opportunities to reach, attract and retain donors.

You will be joining a team that flipped the script on child sponsorship with the introduction of Chosen®, recognized by AdWeek, MediaPost, Upworthy, Christianity Today and winner of two 2020 ANA REGGIE Awards We're honored to say World Vision USA has earned a 4-star rating (out of 4) with Charity Navigator as well as having received GuideStar's Platinum Seal of Transparency.

02 What success looks like

03 You Bring A Bachelor's degree or 8 years of equivalent work experience. Additionally, this role requires at least 5 years of experience in marketing, fundraising, or related areas.

04 Additional skills we’re interested in Preferred but not required experience includes involvement in market research or consumer insights as well as experience creating new concepts, products, or customer experiences.

05 Salary Range & Benefits Your compensation and benefits are important to you so they’re important to us. The salary range for this role is $75,705.93 - $ 119,412.45. Applies to locations with a market similar to our U.S. HQ in the Greater Seattle area. A different range may apply based on your work location. The typical hiring range is $78,000 - $97,500. Job offers within the range are based on relevant job qualifications and pay equity. World Vision employees see our Salary Administration Guidelines and My Life My Benefits pages on our organization intranet known as The Vine. Please indicate the range you're targeting when asked during the application process. In addition, we have a robust and comprehensive benefits package to round out our total compensation package. Click here to learn more (this position is a grade 225). Additionally, merit, auto allowance, and relocation are available to eligible employees based on existing plans. Help improve this content.

06 Where this job could take your career World Vision U.S. is a part of the larger World Vision International partnership. Globally, we have 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries. About 1000 of us call World Vision U.S. home. You'll have opportunities to advance within our robust and talented group of professionals as you continue to stretch and grow your career for the future.

07 About World Vision U.S. When you work at World Vision, your passions and talents come together to help meet the greatest needs in the world today. We tackle poverty at its roots, with a focus on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. Our staff around the world are committed to demonstrating God’s unconditional love for all people by serving every child we can, of any faith or none. And we’re one of the world’s most trusted charities, with more than 70 years of experience working alongside communities, donors, partners, and governments to create opportunities for better futures for vulnerable children ... even in the toughest places. Are you feeling called to explore joining us? We hope so.

08 Let your work be your faith in action In 2021 an estimated 5 million children under the age of 5 years died, mostly from preventable and treatable causes (USAID, WHO). That’s why we’re looking for someone who is ready to place their expertise behind helping the world’s most vulnerable children experience life in all its fullness. As a marketer and innovator at World Vision, your work will help create new, dignity-affirming experiences for donors, drawing them closer to God’s heart for children living in some of the hardest contexts in the world. Every innovation you work on will help influence whether someone chooses to help today or not. If not you, then who?

09 To Apply Press the appropriate button on this page.

10 What happens next? Glad you asked. We owe you that and strive to not leave you wondering. We review applications nearly every day assessing the strength of fit for the role. Sometimes questions arise on our end so we message you to learn more. Short-listed candidates are contacted for an initial conversation with our recruiting staff. Moving deeper into our selection process you can expect to interview 1:1 with a hiring manager. Finalists normally participate in a panel interview where the opportunity to meet additional members of our staff lends itself to a 360-degree view of the role. Our most valuable resource is our talented staff. Our goal is to fill this vacancy with the right person in the shortest amount of time, so we have all hands on deck to move this important work forward.