Location: Los Angeles, San Diego
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Studio+ Marketing and Communications Lead - Manager
Role Overview
We are seeking a strategic Marketing & Communications Leader to define and execute messaging strategy for a high-impact client engagement. This role will oversee a global, distributed team driving customer experience, digital engagement, and marketing communications across multiple channels. The ideal candidate is equally adept at crafting compelling narratives and guiding execution in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment.
This leader will shape and deliver integrated campaigns, messaging frameworks, creative assets, websites, design systems, and communications spanning customer, stakeholder, and internal communications. They will help grow our West Coast marketing practice while ensuring world-class delivery tailored to the complexities of a regulated and rapidly evolving industry.
Key Responsibilities:
Messaging Strategy: Define and drive the messaging architecture across campaigns, digital properties, and customer communications to ensure clarity, consistency, and impact.
Team Leadership: Lead, inspire, and mentor a blended global team of writers, designers, digital strategists, and MarCom specialists in a decentralized, AI-driven work environment.
Integrated Marketing Execution: Oversee campaign development, AI-enabled asset creation, web/digital design, customer, stakeholder and employee communications.
Client Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to client marketing, communications, and customer experience leaders, balancing creativity with regulatory and organizational requirements.
Practice Growth: Play a key role in building our West Coast marketing capability, shaping team culture, attracting talent, and developing new offerings.
Innovation: Leverage AI-driven marketing tools and approaches to accelerate content production, personalization, and campaign effectiveness.
Quality & Compliance: Ensure all outputs meet brand standards, regulatory requirements, and high levels of creative and messaging excellence.
Qualifications:
· 10+ years of experience in marketing, communications, creative leadership, or customer experience roles.
· Proven track record leading messaging and creative strategy for complex, regulated, or global organizations.
· Experience managing large global teams in distributed, hybrid, or offshore/onshore models.
· Demonstrated ability to balance strategic oversight with hands-on direction.
· Expertise across campaign development, messaging frameworks, digital/UX design, branding, social media, and media activation.
· Strong client-facing presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex requirements into compelling communications.
· Passion for mentoring and developing marketing talent.
· Curiosity and/or experience in AI-driven marketing and creative technology.
· Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Design, or related field; advanced degree a plus.
What We Offer:
Opportunity to lead messaging and MarCom transformation for a high-profile engagement.
A platform to grow a West Coast Marketing practice.
A collaborative culture that values creativity, innovation, and client impact.
Access to cutting-edge AI and digital marketing tools to push the boundaries of communications work.
What we offer you
At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more .
We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $128,400 to $235,300. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $154,000 to $267,400. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
Under our flexible vacation policy, you'll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You'll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
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