At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.
Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.
Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.
Overall Purpose
The Sr. Marketing Manager, Corporate Reputation position will support business initiatives through the strategic management of thought leadership initiatives focused on company reputation. Instrumental in strategy and driving marketing team goals to include enterprise-wide thought leadership programs, event amplification strategy, partnerships, and campaign execution. This role is ideal for a self-starter who thrives on both strategy and execution, managing complex initiatives individually while collaborating across teams.
Essential Functions
Develops enterprise-wide narratives and messages, ensuring alignment with overarching marketing goals, in partnership with Senior Director, Corporate Reputation Marketing and other key stakeholders across the organization.
Identifies new, bold strategies and leads initiatives that showcase the company’s expertise, insights, innovations, and impact, including strategic reputation and thought leadership materials, campaigns, and partnerships, industry collaborations, and external engagements, ensuring alignment with company objectives and industry trends.
Owns thought leadership calendar and the creation and distribution of engaging corporate thought leadership content such as articles, blogs, videos, podcasts, and social media posts for EWS and for executives, when needed.
Builds a strategy that maximizes the value of thought leadership content as well as corporate-sponsored and led events, creating toolkits or templates to streamline thought leadership content production and identifying opportunities for pre-event, live-event, and post-event content creation (e.g., articles, social media, videos, recaps) and amplification.
Works with Senior Director, Corporate Reputation Marketing and other key stakeholders across the organization to build and execute the pilot thought leadership program for executives, developing scalable content strategies and frameworks for future expansion.
Builds and maintains strong relationships with a diverse set of internal and external partner constituencies including marketing teams, legal, finance, product, sales and executive leadership.
Analyzes insights/trends in and outside of the financial industry as well as keep up to date on marketing best practices.
Reviews the effectiveness and impact of current marketing initiatives with tracking and analysis and advises on how to optimize accordingly.
Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Minimum Qualifications
Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor's degree.
A minimum of 7-10 years of progressive direct/ related experience .
Demonstrated prior marketing experience.
Excellent writing, messaging, editing, and strategic storytelling skills - with the ability to write in different voices.
Ability to engage with and influence key stakeholders.
Comfortable working across functions and balancing multiple priorities in a faced-paced environment
A marketing generalist mindset – someone who thrives on wearing multiple hats and executing across different disciplines.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity in a new role with an evolving scope and able to bring a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset to the role.
Ability to handle multiple complex projects, work independently, provide timely, clear follow-up communications, and meet tight deadlines for deliverables.
Excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills to interact proficiently with all levels of management, staff and vendors.
Strong project management skills.
Highly engaged, self-starter with ability to balance achieving results and fostering collaboration.
Background and drug screen.
Preferred Qualifications
Previous experience managing relationships with varying levels of seniority, creating successful marketing programs and go-to-market strategies for partnerships, campaigns and enterprise initiatives.
Financial services or fintech marketing experience a plus.
Experience analyzing data.
Superior copywriting and presentation skills.
Physical Requirements
Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.
Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.
Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness
Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
Paid Time Off – Unlimited Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.
And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!
Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.
Early Warning Services LLC is a proud participant in E-Verify, a federal program to help ensure a legal and authorized workforce. As part of our hiring process, we electronically verify the employment eligibility of all new hires through E-Verify. For more information on your rights and responsibilities under E-Verify please visit Home | E-Verify.
Early Warning Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Early Warning and has not been reviewed or approved by Early Warning.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a 100% company match on the first 6% of pay and automatic enrollment strengthens long‑term savings. This robust employer match is a notable pillar of the total‑rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible/unlimited PTO for exempt staff, tiered accruals for non‑exempt employees, 11 paid holidays, a paid volunteer day, and generous civic/military leaves indicate wide coverage. These provisions offer substantial flexibility for time away from work.
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Parental & Family Support — Twelve weeks of 100% paid parental leave are provided, complemented by company‑covered Maven support for family planning and caregiving. These benefits expand support for birth, adoption, and ongoing family needs.
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What We Do
For almost 3 decades, our identity, authentication and payment solutions have empowered financial institutions to make decisions, make payments & prevent fraud. Early Warning has been a leader in technology that helps protect and advance the financial system. We serve a diverse network of approximately 2,500 financial institutions, government entities and payment companies. Our product solutions enable real-time funds availability for a variety of payment types through our payments network.
