**Discover. A brighter future.** With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine. Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover. **Job Description:** **What You'll Do** Manages the creative strategy and development process for monthly Student direct mail and email campaigns that drive smart, insightful, innovative and inspiring creative solutions. Challenges status quo and drives continuous improvement of creative strategies and processes that advance the alignment and integration of marketing efforts. The candidate will play a leading role in our ongoing efforts to innovate within the invitation to apply direct mail and email channels for the Student Discover it card product. We are looking for a customer-focused, data-driven marketer who can execute creative strategy, optimize creative communications through test and learn plans, and ensure consistent messaging across channels. A successful candidate will exhibit a strong creative point of view, the ability to partner with cross-functional teams and a passion for creating integrated and engaging customer experiences. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. **How You'll Do It** + Manage the creative strategy and development process end-to-end for monthly Student direct mail and email campaign; including creative briefs and agency rounds of review, legal review and risk assessment and quality control checks before assets are sent to be printed or email launch to ensure flawless execution. + You’ll be responsible for approximately: 15+ Student Campaigns per year, 25+ Creative tests per year + Partners with business partners (Channel & Audience Teams) to drive development of creative brief inputs and improve the creative testing framework to optimize targeting, contact strategy, messaging and creative format. + Lead agency management for the creative execution process that drives deeper inspiration of creative teams and generation of innovative ideas and solutions that fuel the business. + Partner with Creative execution team, Print Production and external suppliers to ensure flawless implementation. + Partners with business partners to uncover consumer, customer, industry, competitive and business insights for further exploration, prioritization and development. + Partners with business partners to facilitate brainstorms and working sessions among key stakeholders to further plan creative campaigns and concepts. + Helps in documentation and evaluation of monthly creative campaign performance and results share outs to drive further messaging, audience and channel optimizations and extract creative learnings for further test and implementation. + Stays informed, up-to-date and reports out on cultural/social trends and customers’ views and attitudes to ensure broader lens of consumer landscape is at the forefront of creative strategies and creative work developed. + Build a robust creative repository to document creative controls and test learnings. + Manage creative agency budget to ensure projects are being managed efficiently, per yearly plan and contract scope. + Lead process simplification and optimization to reduce versions and cycle time, increase print efficiency. + Obtain and store proper documentation in a centralized location ensuring business controls and compliance needs are achieved. **Qualifications You'll Need** **Minimum Requirements** + Associates Marketing + 2+ years Creative Agency Planner, Creative Strategist, Communications Strategist or Related + **In Lieu of Education Experience** 6+ years Creative Agency Planner, Creative Strategist, Communications Strategist or Related **Preferred Requirements** + Bachelors Marketing + 2+ years Digital and/or Print Marketing experience or Related **Physical and Cognitive Requirements** The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws: + Primarily remain in a stationary position. + No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job. + No + Primarily performed indoors in an office setting. + Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator. + Ability to communicate verbally. Ability to communicate in written form. + Travel Requirements - No _Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis._ **Application Deadline:** The application window for this position is anticipated to close on May-21-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed. **Compensation:** The base pay for this position generally ranges between $67,000.00 to $113,000.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position. **Benefits:** We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include: + Paid Parental Leave + Paid Time Off + 401(k) Plan + Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account + Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances + Recognition Program + Education Assistance + Commuter Benefits + Family Support Programs + Employee Stock Purchase Plan Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com . What are you waiting for? Apply today! All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights) (https://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal) Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email HireAccommodation@discover.com . Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation. At Discover, we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace through our Fair Chance Hiring practices. Fair Chance Hiring means that we base our hiring decisions on an applicant’s qualifications rather than their criminal record. All our positions are subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Our applicants go through a background check, and we follow all applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance (LA County Fair Chance (https://dcba.lacounty.gov/fairchance/) ). Positions marked as remote eligible are limited to remote locations within the country in which the position is based. Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.