How to Screen Marketing Manager CVs

Screen marketing manager CVs against the role: channel and metric evidence, red flags, and marketing interview questions.

Marketing CVs span very different disciplines — demand gen, brand, product, content — so screening starts with channel and metric fit for the role. Look for owned outcomes tied to numbers, not a list of campaigns.

What to look for:

Channel fit (e.g. paid, SEO, lifecycle, brand) matching the role.

Quantified outcomes: pipeline, CAC, conversion, growth.

Budget and team ownership at the right scale.

Evidence of testing and iterating, not one-off launches.

Red flags to probe:

Lists of campaigns with no results or ownership.

Channel mismatch with the role's core need.

Vanity metrics only (impressions, followers) with no business impact.

Results

Walk me through a campaign you owned and the numbers it moved.

Tell me about an experiment that failed and what you learned.

Strategy

How do you decide where to spend a limited budget?

How do you align marketing metrics with revenue?

What's the key signal in a marketing CV?
Owned outcomes tied to business metrics in the channels your role needs. Screen for channel-and-metric fit before anything else.

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