Dir, Enterprise Marketing Finance

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$149K/yr – $303K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the enterprise marketing finance partnership, shaping strategy and investment decisions by turning data into action across ABM, events, and digital programs.

  • ROI & attribution: connect marketing spend to pipeline, revenue, and customer value.
  • Investment prioritization: align cross-functional leaders on where to fund growth and where to reallocate.
  • Budgeting & forecasting: own planning, scenarios, and financial modeling for Enterprise Marketing.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Business Partnership & Data-Informed Decision Making
  • Serve as the dedicated finance business partner to the Enterprise CMO and her senior leadership team, providing strategic financial guidance across all Enterprise Marketing functions including field marketing, account-based marketing (ABM), events, and digital programs.
  • Act as a proactive thought partner to marketing leadership, shifting discussions from reporting results to understanding performance drivers, implications, and forward-looking actions.
  • Evaluate performance across acquisition, pipeline generation, conversion, retention, and engagement initiatives to inform investment prioritization and resource allocation decisions.
  • Build executive-ready analyses and presentations that translate complex financial and marketing data into clear narratives and confident, data-backed recommendations for senior partners.
  • Lead and contribute to quarterly business reviews and executive reporting, surfacing key trends, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions for the Enterprise CMO and her leadership team.
  • Guide cross-functional alignment on investment priorities across Enterprise Marketing, Sales Finance, Product Marketing, and Finance leadership teams.

Marketing Effectiveness & Investment Optimization

  • Build and maintain sophisticated Return On Investment (ROI) measurement frameworks and attribution models that connect marketing investments to pipeline generation, revenue outcomes, and customer lifetime value.
  • Proactively identify diminishing returns, underperforming programs, and budget reallocation opportunities to improve marketing efficiency across the enterprise funnel (CAC, LTV, funnel economics).
  • Partner with Marketing Operations, Analytics, and Sales Finance teams to ensure consistent, integrated reporting across the customer journey.
  • Build and maintain an executive-level Marketing ROI scorecard providing ongoing visibility into program performance and spend efficiency for Enterprise Marketing leadership.
  • Drive operational improvements and automation in planning, forecasting, and reporting workflows to increase speed of insight generation.

Budget Management & Financial Planning

  • Own end-to-end financial management of the Enterprise Marketing budget, including annual planning, quarterly forecasting, risk and opportunity assessments, and scenario planning.
  • Build a defensible, strategically aligned annual budget in close partnership with the Enterprise CMO and her leadership team.
  • Establish investment guardrails, approval workflows, and re-forecast protocols that balance financial rigor with the agility that modern enterprise marketing demands.
  • Translate Enterprise Marketing strategies into financial models and forecasts, identifying optimization opportunities throughout the planning cycle.

Leadership & Team Development

  • Lead and develop a strong marketing finance team, fostering analytical rigor, business insight, and a culture of continuous improvement.
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Founded in 1982
San Jose, CA, US
40K employees (5,864 in marketing)
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88% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
315.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$7.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.8%
Direct
58.6%
Referral
6.1%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~41.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3,063 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
18.5 years
Median Tenure
7.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
19

Funding

Total Funding
$2.5M
Last Raise
$2.5M
Series Unknown, 41 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 1984
    Series Unknown • $2.5M

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