Messenger Hiring For Messenger Brand and Product Marketing, Strategy & Planning Manager at Menlo Park, CA Full Time
Messenger’s goal is to empower people to feel closer even when they’re not physically together. In this world, everyone can stay connected and share experiences with friends and family everyday. Messenger has spent years as Facebook’s communication platform that connects billions of people around the world. Today, we are connecting people more than ever as we expand our mission to other mediums, networks and realities with new products and platforms. The Brand and Product Marketing team is building Messenger’s brand and bringing exciting new products to market. As we grow our team, we are looking for someone to fulfill a new role driving strategic planning and business operations.
The Strategy & Planning role will report into the Director of Messenger Brand and Product Marketing as a key strategic leader. This person is responsible for key business operations to help Messenger Marketing maximize business and consumer value. The work spans across marketing and brand strategy, portfolio investment strategy across the app, and organizational operations (e.g., more flexible and clear talent management and resourcing for cross-company priorities). This role supports strategy and business operations for key horizontal strategic initiatives, holistic marketing strategies and plans, and alignment between key stakeholders, and across the portfolio of apps. This person partners closely with marketing leadership to ensure that initiatives and strategic projects are prioritized and translated into concrete and integrated plans, and that we can successfully operationalize our resources and cross-company marcomms to deliver.
Messenger Brand and Product Marketing, Strategy & Planning Manager Responsibilities
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Drive Strategic Planning and Goal Setting: Responsible for strategic planning, including prioritization and setting annual plans. Build investment cases to land annual plan and resource asks, including driving trade-off discussions. Define and track organization-level goals and OKRs, and manage intra-quarter pivots. Masterfully communicate up/down/across org to ensure transparency and alignment.
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Manage Processes for Financial Accountability: Work with cross-functional partners (e.g., finance, recruiting, functional leaders like Media, CreativeX, etc.) to enable informed business decision making (e.g., on recruiting and talent, country prioritization, budget allocations, etc.). Distill business insights from how we’re managing resources across OpEx, House Ads, and headcount across portfolio. Ensure accurate and consistent financial tracking across forecasts/actuals.
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Enable Organizational Engagement and Accountability: Lead organizational operations such as talent reviews, resourcing and headcount management, restructures, Pulse action planning, team communications, leadership meetings. Collaborate with partner organizations such cross-functional teams on cross-organizational projects and alignment opportunities (this includes helping structure and drive best practice sharing and implications across marketing functional disciplines, for example how we’re handling goaling and measurement across apps). Drive internal team communications across HPMs (monthly updates), All Hands, Summit, Content Calendars of Activations, and Industry Insights.
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People Management: Lead a small and mighty team of 1-2 individuals contributors who will enable the team to extend arms into the organization and program manage complex priority projects.
Minimum Qualifications
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10+ years of experience working in strategy consulting, business operations and/or consumer brand or product marketing capacity.
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Proven experience developing break-through business strategies and translate those strategies into actionable plans.
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Experience effectively managing and developing a small group of talented individuals.
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Demonstrated capacity to communicate complex, large-scale concepts clearly and simply.
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Proven success in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Demonstrated day-to-day flex between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
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About the Facebook company
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we’re building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we’re creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities — we’re just getting started.
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