VP of Marketing vs Marketing Director

VP of Marketing typically pays more — median total comp around $180K vs $108K for Marketing Director on Growth.Talent listings.

VP of Marketing: Senior marketing leader. Owns brand + demand + the team. Marketing Director: First-line marketing leader. Two layers below CMO, hands still on. The two roles overlap most heavily in strategy and full-funnel ownership; they diverge on whether the focus is performance/operator (often VP of Marketing) or brand/cross-functional leadership (often Marketing Director).

Marketing Director — 53 open roles vs 4 for VP of Marketing on Growth.Talent.

VP of Marketing — 25% of open VP of Marketing roles allow remote, vs 21% for Marketing Director.