Senior Marketing Manager

Senior Marketing Manager

Endurion is a mission integrator built by and for the Special Operations community, providing end-to-end solutions across intelligence, operations, and technology. Founded and led by former Special Operations Forces operators and mission experts, the organization is rooted in firsthand experience with complex operational environments and high-stakes missions. Endurion partners closely with its customers to understand their unique challenges and deliver tailored, mission-focused capabilities. Team members join a culture that values adaptability, operational excellence, and innovation in support of critical national security objectives.

Position Overview:

The Senior Marketing Manager leads Endurion's enterprise marketing function, turning corporate strategy, growth priorities, and brand direction into integrated campaigns, strategic communications, thought leadership, content, events, and market-facing initiatives.

This player-coach leads the Marketing Specialist and external partners while remaining hands-on with campaigns, presentations, messaging, content, and event planning. Working across senior leadership, Growth, Business Development, Capture, technical teams, Operations, and Finance, the Director strengthens Endurion's brand and supports measurable growth in defense and national-security markets.

Primary Responsibilities:

Marketing Strategy Brand and Content

• Develop and execute the annual marketing plan and integrated campaigns aligned with corporate strategy, target markets, capabilities, customer needs, budgets, timelines, and success measures.
• Translate enterprise strategy, technical capabilities, customer priorities, and market differentiation into compelling messaging for multiple audiences.
• Own brand execution and editorial priorities across written, visual, video, digital, and social channels; personally develop or edit high-priority deliverables.
• Lead executive thought leadership and work with subject-matter experts to turn complex technical or mission information into accurate, persuasive content.

Growth Business Development and Capture

• Translate market intelligence, customer insights, and pursuit strategies into targeted marketing support for Growth, Business Development, and Capture.
• Develop presentations, graphics, capability materials, customer collateral, and reusable messaging that communicate Endurion's capabilities consistently.
• Support opportunity shaping, customer engagement, capability positioning, market-entry initiatives, and major pursuits while balancing planned enterprise campaigns.

Event Support and Digital Marketing Engagement

• Plan and execute major conferences, sponsorships, trade shows, customer engagements, recruiting events, and other strategic activations, including messaging, collateral, vendors, logistics, and budgets.
• Lead digital and social media strategy, publishing priorities, content cadence, audience development, and channel performance
• Track campaign, channel, audience, and event performance and use the findings to improve future activity and investment.

Marketing Operations Budget and Leadership

• Develop and manage the annual Marketing budget, purchase and procurement processes, sponsorships, vendor engagements, invoices, renewals, and expenditures.
• Direct agencies, freelancers, printers, event vendors, and other external partners, ensuring quality, timeliness, and value.
• Establish effective intake, prioritization, planning, approval, asset-management, technology, KPI, and performance-reporting processes.
• Lead and develop the Marketing Specialist, support internal communications and brand adoption, and identify future staffing, technology, vendor, and resource needs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, public relations, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Five or more years of progressive marketing experience, including ownership of campaigns, brand initiatives, communications, or integrated marketing programs.
• Two or more years of team or functional leadership experience directing employees, contractors, or cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated success developing integrated campaigns from strategy through execution and measurement, with hands-on experience across digital, social, event, content, and brand marketing.
• Strong strategic writing and messaging skills, including the ability to translate complex capabilities and business priorities into compelling content for multiple audiences.
• Experience managing marketing budgets, vendors, procurement processes, expenditures, multiple priorities, deadlines, stakeholders, and deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a player-coach and communicate effectively with executives, Growth and Business Development, technical teams, Operations, and external partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Marketing experience in defense, federal contracting, national security, aerospace, or another business-to-government environment; familiarity with the SOF or USSOCOM ecosystem is especially valuable.
• Experience supporting Business Development and Capture through opportunity shaping, customer engagement, capability positioning, or major pursuits.
• Experience developing executive thought leadership and marketing complex technical or mission-focused capabilities.
• Experience leading major conferences, sponsorships, and event activations.
• Experience building or maturing a marketing function and managing agencies, freelancers, printers, and other external partners.
• Working proficiency with Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, CRM or email-marketing tools, social platforms, analytics tools, and project-management systems.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Integrated marketing strategy, brand management, content development, digital and social media, event marketing, audience segmentation, and performance measurement.
• Exceptional writing, editing, storytelling, presentation, and verbal communication, including translation of complex technical and mission concepts.
• Leadership, delegation, coaching, collaboration, executive communication, and cross-functional stakeholder management.
• Budgeting, forecasting, vendor management, procurement coordination, project management, and organization.
• Sound judgment, initiative, independent work, data analysis, and the ability to adjust strategies, priorities, and investments.

Endurion complies with all Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) requirements. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. Endurion will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Management retains the discretion to add to or modify the duties of the position at any time. Employment with Endurion is at-will, meaning that either the employee or the employer may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or advance notice, provided it does not violate applicable law.