Marketing Director Career Path
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Based on 518 Jobtrees users who were a Marketing Director in their career, on average, they have 3.95 years of experience and 2 jobs prior to this one. They have spent a significant amount of time in this job before moving on 4.5 years on average and earn $118K per year on average in this more senior role.
7% of Jobtrees users moved to another job with this same title in their next career step. The most common career steps after Marketing Director are Marketing Manager, Vice President Of Marketing and Business Owner. While Marketing Manager isn't from the Marketing - General job family, there are common paths within the same discipline as Marketing Director shown by Vice President Of Marketing also being a next career step Jobtrees users are taking.
If you are looking for more ideas on potential career paths from this job, you should also consider Chief Marketing Officer, Creative Director and President as they commonly lead to Marketing Director as well. Find more insights below about this specific career path based on our Jobtrees users' experience.
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How can I become a
The most common career steps to get to Marketing Director are Marketing Manager, Senior Marketing Manager and Vice President Of Marketing based on actual career paths reported to Jobtrees.
Marketing Manager, the most common step before Marketing Director, is a more senior role which is common to see in career paths. This is a natural and common career progression as titles aren't synonymous across companies so a higher title doesn't always mean higher pay and larger scope. Focus more on the scope of the next role than title progression in building a path to Marketing Director.
While Marketing Manager is the most common, there is no specific role leading to Marketing Director that is an overwhelmingly common path. Another characteristic of the Marketing Director career path is that experience within the same job family as this role isn't common and as a result likely not necessary. This shows there are many potential paths to becoming a Marketing Director so focusing on translatable skills is likely more important than a specific role.
While Marketing Manager isn't from the same job family as Marketing Director, Marketing - General, it can help to have direct experience in this discipline shown by Senior Marketing Manager also being a common career path to Marketing Director.
If you are looking for more potential career paths to Marketing Director, you should also consider Head Of Marketing, Executive Director and Marketing Consultant as they commonly lead to Marketing Director as well.
What should I know about the career path
Career paths aren't linear with people often returning to a prior role which is what you see with Marketing Manager being the most common role to and from Marketing Director. This is common when people move to companies of different sizes or choose to return to a function they fit well with. Career paths aren't linear with people often returning to a prior role which is what you see with Marketing Manager being on the path to and from Marketing Director. This is common when people move to companies of different sizes or choose to return to a function they fit well with.
Marketing Director is part of the Marketing - General job family which has a variety of unique role within that discipline. Choosing to pursue a role within this family likely will mean that you will need to look outside of your discipline to find new roles and so should focus on related skills as part of that search.
Other common titles that have similar job requirements and career paths as Marketing Director are Director Of Marketing, Director Of Marketing And Communications, Director Of Marketing And Sales.