Senior Director, Digital Operations

Role Overview

TheSeniorDirector, Digital Operations plays a key role in advancingCoca‑Cola’sdigital transformation by enabling the effective operation, integration, and optimization of marketing technology capabilities across the enterprise. This roleis responsible forensuring that marketing technology platforms, processes, and data ecosystemsoperateseamlessly to supportdata‑driven, personalized, and scalable marketing execution.

Operating within aproduct‑centricdigital model, this role partners closely with marketing, digital product, data, and technology teams to translate enterprise transformation priorities into reliable andhigh‑performingmarketing operations. TheSeniorDirector will focus on integrating platforms, improving workflows, and embedding analytics and automation into marketing processes to enhance speed, efficiency, and business outcomes.

This role requires a strong combination of operational leadership, technical fluency, and stakeholder collaboration to ensure marketing technology investments deliver measurable value. TheSeniorDirector will help modernize marketing operations through data, automation, and artificial intelligence while ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture, governance, and global standards.

The Senior Director will also serve as the operational anchor for media technology management, ensuring that paid, owned, and earned media platforms are seamlessly integrated within the broader marketing technology ecosystem to drive coordinated, data-driven campaign execution.

This role will work in close partnership with media and agency teams to embed media operations governance, performance measurement, and ad tech infrastructure management as core capabilities within the digital operations function.

What You will do for us

Lead the operational management and continuous optimization of marketing technology platforms to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance aligned with digital transformation goals

Partner with marketing and digital product teams to operationalize aproduct‑centricapproach, embedding technology intoend‑to‑endcampaign and content workflows

Design and implement integrated marketing technology ecosystems that enable seamless data flow across platforms and channels

Drive automation of marketing processes, including campaign execution, audience management, and performance tracking, to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort

Enabledata‑drivenmarketing by ensuringaccuratedata capture, integration, and availability across customer and campaign systems

Collaborate with data and analytics teams to embed measurement capabilities and performance dashboards into marketing operations

Ensure alignment of marketing technology operations with enterprise architecture, governance, privacy, and security standards

Lead vendor and partner management activities to ensure delivery quality and alignment with enterprise strategies

Identifyand resolve operational inefficiencies and system gaps, driving continuous improvement in marketing processes and platformutilization

Support change management and capability building to increase digital and data fluency across marketing and operations teams

Requirements and Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field

8+ years of experience in marketing operations, marketing technology, or digital operations roles in a global or complex organization​

Proven experience managing media technology operations, including paid media platforms, programmatic ecosystems, ad tech infrastructure, and media data integrations, with a strong understanding of digital media taxonomies, identity resolution frameworks, and cross-channel attribution at enterprise scale.

Familiarity with the evolving media landscape, including clean room technologies, cookieless targeting approaches, and AI-driven media optimization tools, combined with demonstrated ability to partner with media agencies, brand teams, and internal stakeholders to operationalize data-driven media planning, activation, and measurement workflows.

Proven experience managing andoptimizingmarketing technology platforms such as customer data platforms, marketing automation tools, and campaign management systems

Strong understanding of data integration, data governance, and analytics as applied to marketing use cases

Experience implementing automation and operational improvements that increase efficiency and scalability

Familiarity with artificial intelligence applications within marketing, including personalization and campaign optimization

Experience working in agile orproduct‑centricenvironments withcross‑functionalcollaboration between business and technology teams

Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse teams without direct authority

Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into operational and technical solutions with measurable outcomes

Experience managing external vendors and technology partners to deliverhigh‑qualitysolutions

Strong analytical andproblem‑solvingskills combined with clear and effective communication capabilities

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Application Development, Budgeting, Business Processes, Business Value Creation, Change Management, Decision Making, Financial Forecasting, Leadership, Long Term Planning, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office, Negotiation, Process Improvements, Risk Assessments, Risk Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Strategic Alignment, Strategic IT, Structured Query Language (SQL), Vendor Management, Waterfall Model

Pay Range:

United States: 202,000 - 229,000 USD


Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

30

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

October 14, 2026

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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