First American Financial Corp.
Marketing Operations Manager
First American Financial Corp., Santa Ana, California, United States, 92725
What We Do
As part of our Performance Marketing Center of Excellence (CoE), the Marketing Operations Manager ensures the integrity of our marketing data, systems, and performance measurement. You will own the operational foundation that makes every marketing dollar accountable—driving consistency in tracking, reporting, and governance while enabling the team to scale. A key part of this role is unifying data across disparate systems into a trusted, single view of marketing performance, ensuring accuracy and availability for decision-making. As a people leader, you will coach and develop talent while building scalable processes to support future team growth. By pairing strong leadership with operational rigor, you’ll help position the CoE as a trusted growth engine for the business.
What You\'ll Do
Leadership & Team Development Manage and coach direct report(s), ensuring clarity of goals, accountability, and professional growth.
Build scalable processes and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Data Management & Availability Unify marketing data across disparate systems (CRM, MAP, paid media, analytics platforms) into a single, trusted view.
Partner with IT, Analytics, and divisional teams to ensure integrations and data pipelines are accurate, consistent, and accessible.
Establish data governance practices to improve availability, accuracy, and usability for reporting and analysis.
Tracking & Attribution Own campaign tracking architecture, UTM governance, and attribution setup.
QA lead routing and conversion tracking to ensure accuracy and integrity.
Maintain alignment across platforms to eliminate duplicate or misattributed data.
Reporting & Dashboards Build dashboards for spend, performance, ROI, and pipeline contribution.
Ensure timely and accurate reporting for daily operational use and executive insights.
Collaborate with Analytics to deliver clear, actionable performance readouts.
Testing & Incrementality Lead experiment design and incrementality measurement across campaigns.
Ensure tests are properly instrumented and results are trustworthy.
Share learnings broadly to refine investment and optimization decisions.
Process & Governance Establish and enforce data quality standards across all performance marketing activities.
Create governance frameworks for routing, QA, and reporting accuracy.
Continuously optimize processes to improve efficiency and scalability.
Tools & Technology Fluency with marketing operations and analytics tools, including:
Analytics & Attribution:
Google Analytics (GA4), Looker Studio, attribution platforms.
CRM & MAP Systems:
Salesforce, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, or equivalent.
Tracking & QA:
Tag management systems, UTM governance tools.
Collaboration & Workflow:
Project management and campaign orchestration platforms.
What You\'ll Bring
Required Education, Experience, Certification/Licensure
7+ years
in marketing operations, performance marketing, or related data-driven marketing roles.
Experience managing and developing operational or technical talent.
Proven expertise in
tracking, attribution, and campaign QA .
Hands-on experience building
dashboards, reporting frameworks, and governance processes .
Strong attention to detail, with a reputation for data accuracy and operational rigor.
Collaborative leader who can partner across marketing, analytics, and technology teams.
Mindset
Thinks big picture:
Growth is holistic, expanding beyond just acquisition and performance marketing.
Experimental:
Naturally curious; makes data-driven decisions, in a timely manner, to solve problems and propose ideas.
Forward thinking:
Demonstrates a continuous improvement mindset, respecting the past while remaining flexible and open to new ideas and driving transformation.
Acts like an owner:
Keeps the big picture in mind while managing the inputs daily to achieve intentional outcomes. Holds accountability in the highest regard and instills others to follow suit. Translates results into digestible information and avoids buzzwordy jargon.
Why Join Us
Be part of a newly formed Performance Marketing CoE with executive visibility, where your work directly shapes enterprise growth strategy.
Lead the
operations and governance backbone
of a new Performance Marketing CoE.
Build and grow a team that ensures marketing is accountable, transparent, and scalable.
Play a critical role in making every marketing investment
measurable and tied to growth .
Salary Range : $95,400.00 - $127,100.00
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).
First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.
What We Offer By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term. Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.
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As part of our Performance Marketing Center of Excellence (CoE), the Marketing Operations Manager ensures the integrity of our marketing data, systems, and performance measurement. You will own the operational foundation that makes every marketing dollar accountable—driving consistency in tracking, reporting, and governance while enabling the team to scale. A key part of this role is unifying data across disparate systems into a trusted, single view of marketing performance, ensuring accuracy and availability for decision-making. As a people leader, you will coach and develop talent while building scalable processes to support future team growth. By pairing strong leadership with operational rigor, you’ll help position the CoE as a trusted growth engine for the business.
What You\'ll Do
Leadership & Team Development Manage and coach direct report(s), ensuring clarity of goals, accountability, and professional growth.
Build scalable processes and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Data Management & Availability Unify marketing data across disparate systems (CRM, MAP, paid media, analytics platforms) into a single, trusted view.
Partner with IT, Analytics, and divisional teams to ensure integrations and data pipelines are accurate, consistent, and accessible.
Establish data governance practices to improve availability, accuracy, and usability for reporting and analysis.
Tracking & Attribution Own campaign tracking architecture, UTM governance, and attribution setup.
QA lead routing and conversion tracking to ensure accuracy and integrity.
Maintain alignment across platforms to eliminate duplicate or misattributed data.
Reporting & Dashboards Build dashboards for spend, performance, ROI, and pipeline contribution.
Ensure timely and accurate reporting for daily operational use and executive insights.
Collaborate with Analytics to deliver clear, actionable performance readouts.
Testing & Incrementality Lead experiment design and incrementality measurement across campaigns.
Ensure tests are properly instrumented and results are trustworthy.
Share learnings broadly to refine investment and optimization decisions.
Process & Governance Establish and enforce data quality standards across all performance marketing activities.
Create governance frameworks for routing, QA, and reporting accuracy.
Continuously optimize processes to improve efficiency and scalability.
Tools & Technology Fluency with marketing operations and analytics tools, including:
Analytics & Attribution:
Google Analytics (GA4), Looker Studio, attribution platforms.
CRM & MAP Systems:
Salesforce, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, or equivalent.
Tracking & QA:
Tag management systems, UTM governance tools.
Collaboration & Workflow:
Project management and campaign orchestration platforms.
What You\'ll Bring
Required Education, Experience, Certification/Licensure
7+ years
in marketing operations, performance marketing, or related data-driven marketing roles.
Experience managing and developing operational or technical talent.
Proven expertise in
tracking, attribution, and campaign QA .
Hands-on experience building
dashboards, reporting frameworks, and governance processes .
Strong attention to detail, with a reputation for data accuracy and operational rigor.
Collaborative leader who can partner across marketing, analytics, and technology teams.
Mindset
Thinks big picture:
Growth is holistic, expanding beyond just acquisition and performance marketing.
Experimental:
Naturally curious; makes data-driven decisions, in a timely manner, to solve problems and propose ideas.
Forward thinking:
Demonstrates a continuous improvement mindset, respecting the past while remaining flexible and open to new ideas and driving transformation.
Acts like an owner:
Keeps the big picture in mind while managing the inputs daily to achieve intentional outcomes. Holds accountability in the highest regard and instills others to follow suit. Translates results into digestible information and avoids buzzwordy jargon.
Why Join Us
Be part of a newly formed Performance Marketing CoE with executive visibility, where your work directly shapes enterprise growth strategy.
Lead the
operations and governance backbone
of a new Performance Marketing CoE.
Build and grow a team that ensures marketing is accountable, transparent, and scalable.
Play a critical role in making every marketing investment
measurable and tied to growth .
Salary Range : $95,400.00 - $127,100.00
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).
First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.
What We Offer By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term. Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.
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