Marketing Test & Learn Product Owner

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Job Description

The Marketing Test & Learn Product Owner is a key member of the Marketing Analytics Product Owner team within Marketing Analtyics & Technology. The Marketing Analytics & Technology team is an enabling function supporting the Business Unit Marketing and Enterprise Analytics & Customer Experience teams (EACX) and thereby the Chief Product Officers/Line of Business, responsible for measuring, assessing and articulating the efficacy of our marketing strategies to help drive growth and/or efficiency opportunities across the bank. With sister teams participating alongside the marketing lifecycle of the various segments, the Marketing Analytics Product Owner team is enabling those analysts with the data, tools, frameworks and centralized reporting they need to generate insights and report on performance.

We are seeking a strategic Marketing Test & Learn Product Owner that will partner closely with our sister Marketing Analytics teams to embed a test-and-learn culture, centralize and govern experimentation test & learn approach, and ensure experimentation delivers actionable business impact. A key responsibility is ensuring that experimentation results are systematically integrated into Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) to calibrate models, validate assumptions, and improve long-term marketing investment strategies.

The ideal candidate is a motivated professional who is passionate about Agile ways of working, fosters a positive team atmosphere, welcomes innovation, supports the fail-fast philosophy, and drives for results. They should have a product mindset that puts focus on the customer and delivering value and can motivate and actively support a team with a long delivery roadmap. They must feel confident in their technical and analytical skills, their ability to develop a product roadmap well into the future, their ability to understand the business goals/needs and translating those into delivering data driven insights that lead to actionable recommendations. This role requires technical skills that drive the team towards efficiency, automation and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and own the vision and roadmap for marketing’s experimentation framework.

• Drive adoption of a “test-and-learn” culture across marketing.

• Ensure experimentation is designed to support MMM calibration and broader marketing effectiveness goals.

Experiment Design & Governance

• Manage a centralized Channel Optimization Testing agenda in conjunction with sister teams, establishing governance standards to ensure tests are rigorous, unbiased, aligned with marketing and business objectives, and consistent between LOBs.

• Define best practices for randomization, control groups, and sample sizing to ensure reliable and interpretable outcomes.

• Create guidelines to define how to reconcile output of different methodologies and enable/educate throughout the organization

Execution & Enablement

• In conjunction with sister teams, identify campaigns, channels, and audiences best suited for controlled experiments.

• Partner with sister teams to define success metrics and ensure experiments are measurable, actionable, and aligned with KPIs.

• Provide frameworks, playbooks, and training to empower marketers to run high-quality experiments independently.

Measurement, Insights & MMM Calibration

• Manage a centralized Incrementality Testing agenda to support MMM Calibration, in conjunction with sister teams.

• Partner with the MMM Product Owner to translate experimental findings into inputs for MMM calibration (e.g., channel ROI adjustments, saturation effects, lag structures).

• Catalogue all marketing testing being conducted across various marketing groups (Business Line Marketing, Marketing Activation, etc) and share-out key learnings in periodic forums to ensure learnings are taken into account in future experiments.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent work experience

• Six to eight years of statistical an