Senior Director – Owned Digital Tech

JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a Senior Director to revolutionize customer experiences through innovative data solutions. Youll shape a culture where empowered cross-functional teams focus on solving real customer and business problemscreating impact quickly learning continuously and improving outcomes iteratively. You will partner closely with Marketing Product Data and Engineering leaders to ensure our MarTech investments directly advance the companys strategic goals and customer experience.

• Lead development teams: Lead technical execution of Marriott Media network with a cross-functional team to drive business outcomes across owned channels.

• Accelerate time-to-value: Champion a culture of experimentation and agility enabling teams to deliver early wins learn fast and scale successful initiatives.

• Bridge business and technology: Translate complex MarTech capabilities into clear business opportunities and measurable growth levers for marketing and commercial stakeholders.

• Establish operational excellence: Build frameworks for governance prioritization experimentation and measurement that balance innovation with reliability and compliance.

• Coach and grow future leaders: Develop talent within your organizationcreating clarity of purpose empowering decision-making and modeling the behaviors of trust curiosity and shared accountability.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required:

• 8 years of experience working with MarTech Platforms with a strong focus on Adobe Experience Platform or similar technologies

• 3 years hands-on experience leading teams in application development and/or big data engineering tools

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification

Preferred:

• 10-12 years of experience working with Customer Data Platforms with a strong focus on Adobe Experience Platform Adobe RT CDP Adobe Target or similar technologies

• Experience working with the digital data layer timeseries data and real-time data integrations

• Expertise in data integration tools and ETL processes SQL and database management

• Experience with APIs data modeling and big data technologies is highly desirable

• Proven ability to analyze complex data issues develop solutions and troubleshoot technical problems efficiently.

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing requirements and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Capable of performing requirement analysis solution architecture reviews and high-level solution design resource-based and API specification development

• Experience connecting paid media platforms (Google Ads Meta DSPs etc.) to owned-channel ecosystems for unified measurement and retargeting.

• Knowledge of programmatic advertising ad network APIs and cross-channel attribution

• Familiarity with edge personalization real-time streaming and next-gen identity frameworks (e.g. clean rooms data collaboration environments)

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Technical Leadership

• Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes.

Delivering Technology

• Performs more complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects.

• Work with SSE to provide consultation for routine and complex systems development

• Coordinates with Operations and Infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities

IT Governance

• Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance SM&G Architecture etc.) and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed

• Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk

• Follows the defined project management standards and processes