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Director of Marketing Operations roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations when tied to a directly related degree in marketing, business, or a related field. Employers file a Labor Condition Application before sponsorship begins. No lottery exemption exists, but large tech and enterprise companies sponsor this title regularly.
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At Auction.com, we’re transforming real estate. As the nation’s leading online platform for buying and selling residential bank-owned and foreclosure properties, we connect buyers, sellers, and investors with innovative technology. With over $70 billion in assets, our success is driven by a culture of innovation, collaboration, and impact. We go beyond the bid—empowering our people to thrive and shape the future of the industry.
Senior Director of Marketing Technology & Operations
The Role
Auction.com is moving into its next stage of transformation to deliver rich customer experiences and requires the right technology foundations to enable valuable interactions at every touchpoint, both on and off-property. We're looking for a Senior Director of Marketing Technology & Operations to partner with our technology, product and marketing organizations to develop our martech vision and execute it across our entire stack.
Set the vision and own the roadmap
- Partner with our product and technology organization to define the marketing technology and operations strategy, including what we build, buy, integrate, consolidate, or retire.
- Translate business goals into a prioritized roadmap with clear ROI, and communicate trade-offs to marketing and executive leadership.
- Partner with technology and marketing teams to identify, evaluate and implement martech / adtech platforms that enable the vision.
Run the marketing technology stack
- Own our existing Salesforce Marketing Cloud architecture, administration, and operations.
- Own our email and expand our RCS/SMS delivery strategy on SFMC and Twilio/SendGrid: deliverability, IP and domain reputation, authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), and API-driven transactional and triggered messaging; TCPA compliance, preference center strategy.
- Partner with the technology organization to lead our Customer Data Platform strategy: identity resolution, C360 event and profile unification, audience building, and activation to downstream channels.
- Partner with Digital Marketing to build, enable and operate the advertising technology stack, including audience syndication, retargeting, and the data flows that power paid media and demand generation programs.
- Partner with Product and Tech orgs to enable and utilize our data foundations (eventing, signals, and attributes) to power our orchestration engines (CDP), and activation platforms (DSPs, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Twilio SendGrid, and others).
Drive AI adoption at scale
- Activate high-value AI use cases, such as predictive scoring, audience modeling, generative content workflows, send-time and next-best-action optimization, and automation of manual operations.
- Move ideas from pilot to production with clear success metrics, governance, and training so adoption sticks across teams.
- Partner with business, legal and compliance teams to ensure adherence to responsible-AI practices covering data privacy, brand safety, and human review.
Enable Product and Lifecycle Marketing teams
- Partner with Product and Lifecycle Marketing leaders to execute performant and scalable campaign builds, testing, and reporting.
- Create scalable templates and playbooks to enable the business and marketing teams to execute efficiently based on ever-shifting demand.
- Partner with data science, data engineering, and analytics teams to build and enable experimentation frameworks and reporting to drive strong outcomes and demonstrate efficacy.
Build Operational Excellence
- Design scalable processes for lead management and nurture, lifecycle and education stages, campaign operations, and reporting/analytics.
- Own data quality, governance, and compliance (CAN-SPAM, CCPA, TCPA, consent and preference management).
Lead, mentor and enable your team for evolution and success
The good faith base salary range for this role at the time of posting and hire is $190,000 – $215,000 per year. Actual compensation offered will be determined based on a number of factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and geographic location.
In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus.
Auction.com also offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including (but not limited to):
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Auction.com contributes an amount equal to 25% of your eligible contributions in our 401k plan.
- Paid Time Off (PTO), including 12 paid holidays.
The availability and value of benefits may vary and are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plan documents.
The Company reserves the right to modify compensation and benefits programs at any time, consistent with applicable law.
Auction.com is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
To all recruitment agencies: Auction.com does not accept agency resumes unless you are part of our preferred partner network. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Auction.com employees or any other company location. Auction.com is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
INTRODUCTION
At Auction.com, we’re transforming real estate. As the nation’s leading online platform for buying and selling residential bank-owned and foreclosure properties, we connect buyers, sellers, and investors with innovative technology. With over $70 billion in assets, our success is driven by a culture of innovation, collaboration, and impact. We go beyond the bid—empowering our people to thrive and shape the future of the industry.
Senior Director of Marketing Technology & Operations
The Role
Auction.com is moving into its next stage of transformation to deliver rich customer experiences and requires the right technology foundations to enable valuable interactions at every touchpoint, both on and off-property. We're looking for a Senior Director of Marketing Technology & Operations to partner with our technology, product and marketing organizations to develop our martech vision and execute it across our entire stack.
Set the vision and own the roadmap
- Partner with our product and technology organization to define the marketing technology and operations strategy, including what we build, buy, integrate, consolidate, or retire.
- Translate business goals into a prioritized roadmap with clear ROI, and communicate trade-offs to marketing and executive leadership.
- Partner with technology and marketing teams to identify, evaluate and implement martech / adtech platforms that enable the vision.
Run the marketing technology stack
- Own our existing Salesforce Marketing Cloud architecture, administration, and operations.
- Own our email and expand our RCS/SMS delivery strategy on SFMC and Twilio/SendGrid: deliverability, IP and domain reputation, authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), and API-driven transactional and triggered messaging; TCPA compliance, preference center strategy.
- Partner with the technology organization to lead our Customer Data Platform strategy: identity resolution, C360 event and profile unification, audience building, and activation to downstream channels.
- Partner with Digital Marketing to build, enable and operate the advertising technology stack, including audience syndication, retargeting, and the data flows that power paid media and demand generation programs.
- Partner with Product and Tech orgs to enable and utilize our data foundations (eventing, signals, and attributes) to power our orchestration engines (CDP), and activation platforms (DSPs, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Twilio SendGrid, and others).
Drive AI adoption at scale
- Activate high-value AI use cases, such as predictive scoring, audience modeling, generative content workflows, send-time and next-best-action optimization, and automation of manual operations.
- Move ideas from pilot to production with clear success metrics, governance, and training so adoption sticks across teams.
- Partner with business, legal and compliance teams to ensure adherence to responsible-AI practices covering data privacy, brand safety, and human review.
Enable Product and Lifecycle Marketing teams
- Partner with Product and Lifecycle Marketing leaders to execute performant and scalable campaign builds, testing, and reporting.
- Create scalable templates and playbooks to enable the business and marketing teams to execute efficiently based on ever-shifting demand.
- Partner with data science, data engineering, and analytics teams to build and enable experimentation frameworks and reporting to drive strong outcomes and demonstrate efficacy.
Build Operational Excellence
- Design scalable processes for lead management and nurture, lifecycle and education stages, campaign operations, and reporting/analytics.
- Own data quality, governance, and compliance (CAN-SPAM, CCPA, TCPA, consent and preference management).
Lead, mentor and enable your team for evolution and success
The good faith base salary range for this role at the time of posting and hire is $190,000 – $215,000 per year. Actual compensation offered will be determined based on a number of factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and geographic location.
In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus.
Auction.com also offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including (but not limited to):
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Auction.com contributes an amount equal to 25% of your eligible contributions in our 401k plan.
- Paid Time Off (PTO), including 12 paid holidays.
The availability and value of benefits may vary and are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plan documents.
The Company reserves the right to modify compensation and benefits programs at any time, consistent with applicable law.
Auction.com is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
To all recruitment agencies: Auction.com does not accept agency resumes unless you are part of our preferred partner network. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Auction.com employees or any other company location. Auction.com is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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Frame your degree for specialty occupation
USCIS requires a direct connection between your degree field and the Director of Marketing Operations role. A general business or marketing degree works, but an unrelated degree paired with years of experience often triggers an RFE. Document the academic-to-role link explicitly in your resume and cover letter.
Target companies with LCA filing history
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up certified Labor Condition Applications for marketing operations titles. Companies that have filed LCAs for this role before understand the process and are far less likely to withdraw sponsorship midway through hiring.
Get your prevailing wage tier right before negotiating
The LCA locks in a prevailing wage level for your specific location and role. Look up the O*NET classification for Marketing Managers, then cross-reference wage levels in the OFLC Wage Search for your metro area before you enter salary discussions with any employer.
Search Migrate Mate for verified sponsoring employers
Filter by Director of Marketing Operations and your target city on Migrate Mate to find employers with confirmed H-1B LCA sponsorship history for this role. That filing history signals the company has completed the process before and has an internal mechanism to do it again.
Push for PERM language in your offer letter
If green card sponsorship matters to you, ask the recruiter whether the company initiates PERM labor certification for director-level marketing hires. Some employers sponsor green cards only above a certain seniority threshold, and marketing operations directors often sit right at that line.
Clarify H-1B transfer timing with your new employer
If you're already on H-1B status, you can start with a new employer once the new petition is filed with USCIS, without waiting for approval. Confirm the new employer's HR team understands H-1B portability so your start date isn't delayed unnecessarily by their legal team's caution.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Director of Marketing Operations role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS requires the role to normally demand a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related specialty. Marketing operations directors typically qualify under marketing, business administration, or information systems degrees. The employer documents this requirement in the LCA and I-129 petition. Roles that accept any degree, regardless of field, are more vulnerable to RFEs.
Which visa types can sponsor a Director of Marketing Operations?
H-1B is the primary path for most nationalities. Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which has its own annual cap, no lottery, and requires an LCA but no USCIS petition for initial applications made at a U.S. consulate. Chilean and Singaporean nationals may qualify under H-1B1 visa. TN visa is not an option since marketing operations director is not on the USMCA profession list.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor this role?
Search Migrate Mate for Director of Marketing Operations positions to browse employers with verified H-1B LCA sponsorship history for this title. That history is the clearest signal that a company has an established sponsorship process and won't stall when the question comes up.
Does the type of industry affect H-1B sponsorship approval for this role?
Industry affects LCA volume and employer familiarity, not USCIS approval standards directly. Technology, e-commerce, financial services, and large consumer goods companies file LCAs for marketing operations titles far more frequently than small or mid-market firms. Employers who have never sponsored this role before may underestimate the documentation required to demonstrate specialty occupation, which raises RFE risk.
Can a Director of Marketing Operations role qualify for an EB-2 or EB-3 green card?
Yes. EB-2 applies if the role requires an advanced degree or the candidate has exceptional ability. EB-3 applies for skilled workers with at least two years of experience. Both categories require PERM labor certification from DOL before USCIS reviews the I-140 petition. Director-level roles frequently qualify for EB-2 given standard job posting requirements, but the employer must drive the PERM process.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Director of Marketing Operations jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.