Marketing Innovations Associate, Paylocity
$49.1-61.9k
2-3 days a week in office (Schaumburg, IL )
Cloud-based HR, payroll and spend management software solutions
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Cloud-based HR, payroll and spend management software solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$49.1-61.9k
2-3 days a week in office (Schaumburg, IL )
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create workplaces where employees thrive, and businesses excel.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field
- 0–2 years of experience (internships, academic work, or early career experience acceptable)
- Strong interest in marketing, content creation, AI, and emerging digital trends
- Demonstrated curiosity and willingness to learn across multiple disciplines
- Ability to take initiative and operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Builder mindset – enjoys creating, testing, and iterating, not just ideating
- Curiosity & creativity – constantly exploring new ideas, tools, and approaches
- Adaptability – comfortable working across a variety of tasks and projects
- Bias for action – moves quickly from idea to execution
- Collaborative – works effectively across teams and functions
- Confidence & presence – comfortable sharing ideas and perspectives with leadership
What the job involves
- Marketing is evolving rapidly, with new technologies, platforms, and audience expectations shaping how companies engage with the market. To stay ahead, Paylocity is investing in a dedicated team focused on innovation, experimentation, and new ways of working
- The Marketing Innovation Associate is part of a newly established “Marketing Innovation Lab” team within Paylocity’s Brand & Marketing organization. This team operates as an internal think tank and execution group, focused on driving innovation, experimenting with new ideas, and rethinking how marketing shows up in the market
- This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys both thinking and doing. The Marketing Innovation Associate will generate ideas, build and test concepts, and help bring new approaches to life across content, campaigns, social, and emerging channels while
- Leveraging AI
- A core focus of this role is leveraging AI to accelerate marketing, including using, building, and shaping AI-driven workflows and agents that improve how work gets done
- The goal of this role is to accelerate innovation within marketing by quickly moving from idea to prototype to real output and supporting the broader organization in scaling what works
- Innovation & Idea Development
- Contribute to a team that functions as a marketing think tank, generating new ideas across content, campaigns, and brand experiences
- Identify emerging trends, platforms, and technologies and translate them into actionable marketing concepts
- Challenge traditional approaches and introduce new ways of thinking about how we engage our audience
- Build & Experimentation
- Rapidly prototype ideas using AI tools, content platforms, and emerging technologies
- Turn concepts into tangible outputs such as social content, campaign ideas, videos, and marketing experiments
- Test new formats, channels, and approaches with a focus on learning and iteration
- Execution & Activation
- Take ownership of bringing ideas to life, from initial concept through execution
- Partner with internal teams (Creative, Campaigns, Product Marketing, Events) to activate and scale successful ideas
- Contribute to quick-turn initiatives tied to market moments, launches, or trends
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Brand & Marketing leadership to align innovation efforts with business priorities
- Collaborate across teams to ensure ideas are integrated into broader marketing programs where appropriate
- Present ideas, concepts, and outputs clearly and confidently to stakeholders
- Operates within a dedicated innovation-focused team inside marketing
- Blends think tank strategy with hands-on execution
- Provides exposure to multiple areas of marketing, rather than a single specialization
- Offers direct visibility to marketing leadership and opportunities to influence broader strategy
- Focuses on building real outputs that can scale across campaigns and programs
- Example Areas of Focus:
- Social media experimentation and new content formats
- AI-driven content creation and marketing workflows
- Rapid prototyping of campaign ideas and brand storytelling approaches
- Innovation in event, sponsorship, and experiential marketing concepts
- New ways to activate customer stories and market messaging
Our take
HR and payroll can quickly become a headache and businesses are often juggling different systems for payroll, benefits, hiring and employee data, creating extra admin and room for mistakes. So, as companies grow, keeping everything simple gets harder.
Paylocity tackles this by bringing HR, payroll, finance and IT tools together in one platform. It covers everything from payroll and benefits to recruiting and employee engagement, while its AI tools are designed to take care of more of the repetitive works.
The platform is used by more than 41,000 clients and now Paylocity is looking to go beyond payroll and become a bigger part of how businesses manage their people - using AI to make HR less about paperwork and more about people.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$60m
SERIES B
Mar 2020
$23.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $90.5m
Company benefits
- Paid Parental Leave
- Adoption Assistance
- Miltstork program for moms who travel on business to ship breastmilk and get fully reimbursed
- Health and wellness programs ranging from Lyra to Garner to Hinge Health
- Health insurance
- Discounted Employee Stock Purchasing program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- SoFi program to consolidate and refinance federal and private student loans
- Volunteer In Action program for paid time off to volunteer
- Onsite workout facilities
- Healthy snack options like fresh fruit, hummus, and trail mixes onsite only
- Sparkling and flat flavored water, gourmet coffee drinks, hot chocolate onsite only
Company HQ
Schaumburg Township, Schaumburg, IL
Leadership
Toby Williams
(CEO & President)Toby joined Paylocity in 2017 as CFO, they then became Co-CEO in 2022 and CEO in 2024. Prior to Paylocity, they spent nearly 7 years at Ellucian as an SVP and Chief Product & Strategy Officer.
Ryan Glenn
(CFO)Ryan joined Paylocity in 2013 as VP of FP&A & Investor Relations and moved into the role of CFO in 2022. Prior to Paylocity, they were a Manager of Capital Markets at PWC. They graduated from Cornell University with an MBA in Finance.
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