Manager Systems Development - Marketing Technology

Empowered to live. Inspired to work.
Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.

How we support you:

• Hybrid model - up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!

Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.

To learn more about Compeer Financial visit www.compeer.com/careers.

Where you will work:

This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The contributions you will make:

This position oversees the strategic planning, software development, implementation, administration, and maintenance of a suite of marketing technology applications. The incumbent is responsible for inspiring the Marketing Technology team and creating an advanced platform and toolkit to boost marketing capabilities. Key duties include developing digital client experience solutions that align with business objectives, improving profitability, efficiency, and the experiences of both clients and team members. Leads a collaborative team and cultivates an environment where each member is equipped with the skills and resources needed to excel. Core responsibilities include transforming the team through implementation and optimization of cloud-based solutions, ensuring seamless integration with existing processes. Focuses on enhancing team members' expertise in cloud technologies, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation to deliver exceptional results for the organization, partners, and clients.

A typical day:

Marketing Technology Strategy and Implementation

• Champions the brand; serves as a role-model for Compeer's vision, mission and values.
• Develops and maintains a deep understanding of Compeer's brand, target audience, and competitive landscape to inform technology decisions in support of effective marketing strategies.
• Builds and manages the team with a focus on client digital experience.
• Leads the strategy for web and digital technology as an enabler to the digital client experience transformation strategy.
• Manages Compeer's marketing websites and continuously improves the technology stack.
• Implements and maintains Content Management System (CMS) and Salesforce Marketing Cloud in a way that allows Marketing to selfservice audience management and targeting.
• Drives the transformation of the team and the technology stack by developing capabilities needed to drive innovation through emerging technologies and creating a digital-capable organization.
• Focuses on speed of delivery, usability of tools, controls to prevent issues, and scale of our technology stack to keep up with growth strategy.
• Engages in shaping the product strategy, architecture, and engineering design.
• Provides guidance in estimation, drives predictability, and ensures teams' ability to live up to the delivery commitments and expectations.
• Collaborates across Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure & Operations, Security & Risk Management, Compeer Integration Platform, and Engineering & Operational Enablement teams to align on strategy and accelerate development and deployment of seamless, unified, and integrated client experience.

Team Leadership

• Creates and promotes a positive culture and work environment that leverages team member talents and abilities in achieving goals of the team.
• Creates and promotes a values and trust-based culture of highperformance and execution across the team.
• Selects, develops, motivates, and engages great talent to create and maintain a high-performing team; ensures a talent-pipeline to meet the future needs of the team.
• Initiates, inspires and leads change within the team.
• Creates/modifies team structure and identifies capabilities and roles needed to evolve team as new capabilities and business opportunities are introduced to the organization.
• Determines performance standards and development plans, and effectively communicates them to team members.
• Manages the evaluation and compensation processes for direct and indirect reports.
• Acts as a point of escalation for technical issues, providing solutions and guiding the team through complex challenges.
• Coaches team members on more complex and challenging issues and decisions.
• Manages human capital budget and forecasting.

Development and Delivery Process Management

• Drives the adoption of best practices and standards for coding, testing, and deployment to ensure high-quality, secure, and efficient SDLC process.
• Drives continuous process improvement across software engineering capabilities by keeping abreast of development and delivery best practices that increase quality and reduce time-to-value for our internal and external users.
• Collaborates with other managers and leaders to align on technical strategies and shares best practices.
• Collaborates with engineering and product teams in ensuring longterm tech health and viability.
• Nurtures a culture of technical quality from design, code to production.
• Assists with the budget planning process.

Industry Expertise

• Stays up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in marketing and digital client experience technology domain to ensure Compeer remains at the forefront of digital marketing and advertising.
• Maintains relevant knowledge of current and emerging technology, tools, and techniques in the software development industry with emphasis on Marketing technology solutions and practices.
• Offers innovative and relevant advice and presents actionable improvement recommendations in Compeer's marketing technology capabilities in line with latest industry advancements.

The skills and experience we prefer you have:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Advance-level information technology experience, preferably in a financial institution.
• Previous leadership and management experience, preferred.
• High learning agility with demonstrated ability to apply past experiences and learnings successfully in new situations.
• Exceptional people leadership and talent development skills including a proven ability to select, evaluate, engage, motivate, mentor, train, delegate, reward and lead team members.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage values-based leadership to shape and influence culture; able to lead in a hybrid work environment.
• Proven track record in leading and delivering complex digital experience platforms.
• Solid experience and deep understanding of digital marketing technologies, specifically in responsive and reactive web design.
• Experience with Content Management Systems (WordPress, Salesforce CMS, Ketico, Drupal, etc.)
• Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• Experience with observability, analytics, end-to-end automated testability (cross-browser), automated accessibility, and SEO of a marketing website.
• High degree of curiosity across leadership and technology disciplines.
• Experience in leading technology transformation and change initiatives.
• Advanced system thinking skills with an ability to identify process improvement opportunities.
• Operates as a change agent at multiple levels of an organization with outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills conducive to collaboration at all levels.
• Strong listening, written and verbal communication skills, with ability to communicate at all levels of the organization.
• Solid skill in developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships.
• Solid problem solving, decision making and organizational skills.
• Strong sense of urgency in delivering results.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations.
• Strong strategic thinker, able to deliver tactical deliverables.

How we will take care of you:

Our job titles may span more than one career level (associate, senior, principal, etc.). The actual title and base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for variable compensation and other benefits.

Compeer Financial is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Compeer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.