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Director, Performance Marketing Engagement Lead

Genentech

South San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Director
187k-348k
4 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Director, Performance Marketing Engagement Lead at Genentech is responsible for leading the adoption and integration of performance marketing principles across brand teams. This role supports the digital marketing transformation by ensuring training, tools, and methodologies meet brand goals and drive high-quality business outcomes at scale. The position reports to the Senior Director, Performance Marketing, and works closely with cross-functional partners to optimize marketing performance and foster a data-driven marketing culture within the organization.

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as a Performance Marketing expert and business lead, driving complex change from current to future state.
  • Enable A-to-B shifts by implementing new capabilities, coaching teams, and partnering with L&SD on training content.
  • Lead champion team, coaching and measuring successful adoption of changes.
  • Lead change management initiatives with brand teams to ensure seamless transition to new strategies, practices, and processes.
  • Actively engage with each brand to onboard them into Performance Marketing practices.
  • Design and deliver comprehensive training on Performance Marketing topics tailored to brand team needs.
  • Build strong partnerships with brand marketing to surface needs and opportunities.
  • Document and report on the health of Performance Marketing engagement and escalate challenges.
  • Lead or support special projects such as large-group presentations, trainings, and workshops.
  • Identify and collaborate on revising or overhauling Performance Marketing operations processes.
  • Work with cross-functional partners to identify capabilities/platforms to be delivered and leveraged across marketing.
  • Partner with marketers and agencies to identify opportunities for optimizing marketing performance and developing measurement plans.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to leverage advanced performance marketing capabilities for strategic growth.
  • Conduct regular office hours to support brand teams on tools and methodologies.
  • Establish forums or communities of practice for cross-brand knowledge sharing and best practice dissemination.
  • Provide strategic feedback to inform the evolution of the enterprise performance marketing roadmap, tools, and training programs.
  • Collaborate with leadership to ensure performance marketing initiatives align with broader franchise and business objectives.
  • Advocate for standardized measurement frameworks, governance practices, and insight-sharing protocols.
  • Evaluate external agency partners’ effectiveness in delivering performance marketing objectives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • Minimum of 8 years of work experience, including at least 6 years in sales, marketing, market access, or customer insights, with two years in marketing.
  • Experience owning tactics or pieces of marketing strategies, with ability to articulate business problems and develop content from strategy through execution.
  • Demonstrated experience in contributing to brand strategy development and executing integrated marketing plans.
  • Significant experience in performance marketing roles, utilizing data-driven insights to manage, measure, and optimize campaigns.
  • Hands-on experience with marketing analytics platforms and business intelligence tools to analyze data and inform strategies.
  • Proven ability to interpret complex data, identify trends, and generate actionable insights.
  • Experience operating effectively in a data-driven marketing environment and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
  • Strong project management, communication, and leadership skills.

Nice to Have

  • MBA or related graduate degree.
  • Experience in the managed care, pharmaceutical, or biotech industry.
  • Experience creating marketing strategies that strengthen market positioning and drive high-value outcomes.
  • Hands-on experience with advanced marketing measurement tools such as Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM).
  • Proficiency with web analytics and customer experience tools (e.g., Content Square, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics).
  • Experience supporting incrementality testing initiatives.
  • Deep experience applying performance marketing principles within pharmaceutical or biotech contexts.
  • Strong change management skills, especially in adopting new analytics tools and data-driven processes.
  • Experience working with media partners to optimize campaigns based on performance data.
  • Ability to think with an enterprise mindset and thrive in transformational environments.

Qualifications

  • Educational background with a Bachelor's degree.

Benefits & Perks

  • Expected salary range of $187,100 - $347,500 based on experience and qualifications.
  • Discretionary annual bonus based on individual and company performance.
  • Comprehensive benefits package as detailed by the company.

Working at Genentech

Genentech fosters a culture of inclusivity, integrity, and creativity. The company emphasizes acting as one team, embracing differences, accelerating learning, simplifying processes, making impactful decisions, and thinking long-term. It is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and promotes a collaborative, innovative work environment aligned with its Roche Operating Principles.

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Job Details

Posted AtSep 3, 2025
Salary187k-348k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeOnsite
ExperienceDirector

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About Genentech

Website

gene.com

Location

South San Francisco, CA

Industry

Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing

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