Marketing Technology Manager

We started a movement in which everyone can win – shoppers, retailers, society and every person on our team. To play fair, trust people and reward them for doing the right thing. We see and feel the impact of our work as more and more people gain financial freedom and retailers grow across the globe.

Founded 10 years ago in Sydney, Australia, Afterpay has over 24 million active customers globally and more than 250,000 of the best retailers around the world including Anthropologie, Revolve, DSW, GOAT, Finish Line, Levi's, Mac Cosmetics, Ray-Ban and many others.

Afterpay is helping people spend responsibly! We empower customers to access the things they want and need, while still allowing them to maintain financial wellness and control, by splitting payments in four, for both online and in-store purchases. Afterpay is deeply committed to delivering positive outcomes for customers. Now under the Block ecosystem, we are focused on supporting our community of shoppers.

We trust in the next generation and share a vision of a more accessible and sustainable world in which people are rewarded for doing the right thing. Join a movement in which everyone can win.

The Role

As the Marketing Technology Manager, you will scale and optimise Afterpay's martech ecosystem, ensuring seamless workflows, technology integration, and data-driven insights. Reporting to the Global Marketing Technology Lead, you will manage day-to-day vendor relationships, drive martech adoption, and foster a culture of innovation to enhance marketing capabilities.

You will partner with Engineering, Data, and Marketing to refine workflows, streamline integrations, and automate processes, enabling scalable, self-service solutions that drive marketing efficiency.

We're looking for a technology futurist and problem-solver—someone who anticipates industry shifts and translates complex challenges into actionable solutions. This role requires strong project management, hands-on martech expertise, and problem-solving skills within a fast-paced, global environment.

You Will

• Foster an innovation-first mindset by encouraging experimentation and promoting forward-thinking approaches to maintain a competitive edge in marketing technology.


• Manage daily interactions with vendors to ensure optimal performance and value from marketing technology partnerships.


• Partner cross-functionally to enhance measurement capabilities, ensuring accurate assessment of marketing effectiveness and return on investment.


• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to optimise data ingestion and enhance audience activation, journeys, and personalisation through CDP expansion.


• Support strategic alignment of objectives and key initiatives across teams and business units, ensuring prioritisation of effort for maximum impact.


• Enable the adoption of marketing technologies across teams by providing training and information sessions, ensuring all marketers can effectively leverage available tools.


• Additionally, this role will support their lead in the below responsibilities.
  
  
  
  • Assist in aligning and expanding vendor use across Block, collaborating with procurement on contract negotiations and agreements.
  
  
  • Support the execution of the marketing technology roadmap by coordinating cross-functional efforts and ensuring alignment with business priorities.
  
  
  
  

You Have

• 5+ years of experience in marketing technology, CRM, ad tech, or marketing operations within a fast-paced environment.


• Deep expertise in martech ecosystems, including CRM platforms, CDPs, analytics, automation, and personalization tools, with the ability to drive cross-functional adoption.


• Strong experience in vendor management, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders across global teams.


• Proven ability to drive innovation, fostering a test-and-learn culture to continuously improve martech adoption and marketing effectiveness.


• Excellent project management and execution skills, ensuring timely delivery of initiatives.


• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, translating technical marketing concepts into actionable plans for cross-functional teams.


• Experience working in a matrixed environment, coordinating across teams in different regions.


• A problem-solver who thrives in a fast-moving, high-growth environment with a keen eye for process improvement and automation.

We're working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to identity or other legally protected class. We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Block is a globally distributed company and this role will require working with other employees in multiple time zones. You may be required to perform work outside of normal business as part of this role.