Director, Marketing AI Transformation

USA (Remote)

$142K/yr – $290K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the AI transformation for marketing by defining the roadmap and driving adoption across prioritized workflows with measurable impact on speed, quality, and creativity.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Establish governance and measurement to track real adoption beyond training miles.
  • Demand Generation: Turn strategic bets into sequenced AI adoption plans that respect team readiness and tooling maturity.
  • Workflow Prioritization: Identify high-leverage AI opportunities and build playbooks to redesign them for scale.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Growth Infrastructure: Define and drive an AI transformation roadmap aligned with marketing strategy and business goals.
  • Demand Generation: Translate strategic bets into sequenced adoption plans that account for team readiness, tool maturity, and infrastructure dependencies.
  • AI Workflows Priority: Identify high leverage workflows and build the playbook for redesigning them around AI.
  • Adoption Programs: Build and run scalable enablement resources, training programs, and change management approaches that meet teams where they are.
  • Adoption Metrics: Own the metrics that distinguish real adoption from performative activity, tracking workflow changes and behavior shifts.
  • Governance and Quality: Design standards, review processes, and decision frameworks to move fast while maintaining brand consistency, quality, and compliance.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in marketing operations, marketing strategy, or marketing transformation, with experience leading change management or organizational transformation programs at scale.
  • Demonstrated experience embedding emerging technology (AI or otherwise) into marketing workflows across a large organization (200+ person marketing team preferred).
  • Deep understanding of how marketing teams actually work: campaign operations, content production, demand generation, brand, analytics.
  • Track record of building programs that drive measurable, sustained behavior change and actual workflow adoption.
  • Experience designing governance frameworks for new capabilities at scale.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to present transformation progress to senior leadership with clarity and honesty.
  • Comfort with ambiguity; this is a role where the playbook is still being written.

Preferred

  • Experience at a company that has gone through a similar AI transformation within marketing.
  • Familiarity with the B2B SaaS marketing tech stack and how AI tools connect to it.
  • Experience with AI specific tooling ecosystems: Claude/Anthropic, Gemini, agent frameworks, MCP integrations.

Benefits

  • Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
  • Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process with accommodations available for persons with disabilities. Contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com for assistance.
  • We Thrive Together — hybrid work model details and emphasis on collaboration to empower the hospitality community.
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Toast

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Toast empowers restaurants of all sizes to build great teams, increase revenue, improve operations, and delight guests. We pair our deep understanding of the restaurant industry with powerful cloud based software and restaurant-grade hardware to deliver an intuitive, all-in-one platform, across point of sale, guest marketing, digital ordering & delivery, and payroll & HRWe are Toasters! Think you could be one too? https://careers.toasttab.com/

Founded in 2011
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
7.4K employees (366 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
71% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
60.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$798.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24%
Direct
49.8%
Referral
22.7%
Social
2.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
240 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
12.5 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$962M
Last Raise
$60M
Secondary Market, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2020
    Secondary Market • $60M
  • Feb 2020
    Series F • $400M
  • Mar 2019
    Series E • $250M

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