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About the Role

The Director, Martech Technology Strategy is a senior client-facing role responsible for shaping and leading Mazda North America Operations’ enterprise Martech roadmap. This role connects Mazda’s business goals to the technology, data, platform, governance, and operating model decisions needed to drive measurable growth. This leader owns the integrated Martech picture across CDP, CRM, personalization, content operations, taxonomy, media activation, analytics, and data engineering, translating strategic needs into clear roadmaps, use cases, requirements, and decisions.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end Mazda Martech roadmap across CDP, CRM, personalization, content operations, taxonomy, analytics, media activation, and data engineering.
Translate Mazda’s business priorities and customer experience goals into a sequenced technology strategy, roadmap, and portfolio of fundable use cases.
Provide clear recommendations on build, buy, partner, defer, or stop decisions across the Martech ecosystem.
Identify risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and decision points early, and frame them for executive stakeholders in clear business language.
Lead strategy and ongoing optimization for Mazda’s Adobe Experience Platform and Real-Time CDP program.
Define audience frameworks, lifecycle segmentation, suppression logic, activation requirements, and measurement expectations.
Ensure audience definitions are consistent across CRM, paid media, personalization, analytics, and reporting.
Partner with data engineering and platform teams to validate feasibility, data readiness, identity logic, and activation dependencies.
Lead Mazda’s enterprise taxonomy program, with Claravine serving as the system of record for naming, metadata, campaign classification, and audience definitions.
Define governance standards across Claravine, Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time CDP, AJO, AEM, CJA, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, media platforms, WPP Open, Domo, and reporting tools.
Establish naming conventions, metadata standards, decision rights, approval processes, versioning, and change management for taxonomy and audience governance.
Ensure taxonomy supports activation, reporting, measurement, personalization, AI classification, and long-term scalability.
Set the strategic direction for Mazda’s CRM and personalization roadmap across owned channels and customer journeys.
Translate priority moments into use cases with clear owners, dependencies, triggers, suppression rules, success metrics, and platform implications.
Connect segmentation strategy to measurable outcomes such as lead quality, conversion, service engagement, loyalty, retention, and sales lift.
Serve as the senior Martech Technology Strategy voice across Mazda Marketing, Digital, IT, Legal, Data Privacy, Analytics, Media, and executive stakeholders.
Coordinate work across VML, WPP Media, WPP Choreograph, Shift Digital, Adobe, TransUnion, Salesforce, and other ecosystem partners.
Pair with client and delivery leadership to shape roadmap decisions, maintain trust, and drive alignment across teams.
Facilitate workshops, roadmap reviews, retrospectives, and executive alignment sessions that turn complex inputs into a clear plan.
Define the measurement framework for CDP, CRM, personalization, media activation, taxonomy, and content orchestration.
Partner with analytics and reporting leads to connect platform activity to business outcomes.
Build value-realization narratives for executive forums, steering committees, quarterly business reviews, and roadmap funding conversations.
Identify opportunities for influenced revenue, expanded scope, reusable assets, partner motion, and broader WPP Enterprise Solutions value creation.
Lead and develop Martech Technology Strategy resources supporting Mazda across CDP, CRM, personalization, taxonomy, content pipeline, and orchestration.
Set the quality bar for roadmaps, use case maps, operating models, taxonomy frameworks, business requirements, recommendations, and points of view.
Build team capability in strategic judgment, executive communication, business analysis quality, and client-facing presence.
Contribute reusable frameworks, account learnings, and thought leadership to the broader Technology Strategy practice.

Requirements

Minimum of four days per week in-office presence, with travel to Mazda and key partner locations as needed.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Marketing, Business, Strategy, or a related field.
8+ years of experience in technology strategy, marketing technology strategy, digital transformation, business architecture, consulting, or enterprise platform strategy.
Experience owning or shaping enterprise technology roadmaps across multiple teams, platforms, and stakeholders.
Strong knowledge of Martech ecosystems, including CDP, CRM, personalization, analytics, customer journey orchestration, media activation, content operations, and data governance.
Experience with Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time CDP, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Target, or Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Experience defining audience frameworks, segmentation logic, taxonomy standards, journey triggers, suppression rules, activation requirements, and measurement expectations.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional or multi-partner programs, facilitate executive alignment, and influence without direct authority.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technology decisions into clear business recommendations.
Experience in automotive, retail, financial services, or another multi-tier, data-intensive industry.
Experience with Mazda, MNAO, or automotive manufacturer / dealer ecosystem operating models.
Adobe certification or equivalent expertise across AEP, RT-CDP, AJO, CJA, AEM, or Adobe Target.
Experience with Claravine, Domo, TransUnion, LiveRamp, The Trade Desk, DV360, Meta, Google Ads, Salesforce CRM, or WPP Open.
Experience designing taxonomy councils, governance models, change management processes, and platform adoption frameworks.
Working knowledge of privacy, consent, profile stitching, deletion chain, and audience activation considerations.
Experience with content supply chain or creative automation platforms such as Adobe Workfront, GenStudio, Frame.io, Bynder, or Brandfolder.
Advanced degree in a related field.

Skills

Martech strategy
Technology strategy
Roadmap development
CDP
CRM
Personalization
Content operations
Taxonomy
Analytics
Data engineering
Adobe Experience Platform
Real-Time CDP
Adobe Journey Optimizer
Customer Journey Analytics
Adobe Experience Manager
Adobe Target
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Claravine
Domo
TransUnion
LiveRamp
The Trade Desk
DV360
Meta
Google Ads
Salesforce CRM
WPP Open
Adobe Workfront
GenStudio
Frame.io
Bynder
Brandfolder
Executive communication
Business analysis
Client-facing presence

Location

In-office (minimum 4 days per week)

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Director
8+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree
Advanced degree

Salary/Compensations

$100,000—$230,000 USD

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

About the Company

WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on.
WPP Enterprise Solutions leads clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution.
Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets.
WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses.
VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience.
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence and world-class partnerships – all united by our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.

Equal Opportunity

WPP (VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.