Marketing Strategy and Operations Lead

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$164K/yr – $226K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate the marketing operating system and strategic agenda, translating vision into prioritized bets, AI-enabled workflows, and cross-functional alignment that tie to business outcomes.

  • Strategy-to-execution: Translate the CMO’s vision into annual/quarterly plans, OKRs, and measurable milestones across Marketing and shared GTM functions.
  • AI-driven operating model: Define cadence, tools, and program management to move top bets from concept to impact with AI-enabled workflows.
  • Cross-functional enablement: Build strong GTM partnerships with Sales, Revenue Ops, Strategy, Product, and Finance, surfacing clear metrics and executive narratives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a core member of the Marketing Leadership team — helping set the strategic agenda, shaping priorities, and bringing structured thinking and a steady hand to the organization's biggest decisions and most ambiguous problems..
  • Translate the CMO's vision into a clear, coherent strategy for the marketing organization, framing the hardest problems, developing options and recommendations, and helping leadership decide where to focus and where to place its biggest bets.
  • Design and run the operating system for the marketing organization ensuring decisions happen on schedule and alignment is built in, not chased.
  • Own the annual and quarterly planning process and OKR discipline, translating the Marketing team’s strategic intent into clear priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes across teams.
  • Own marketing budget and headcount planning in partnership with Finance/FP&A — building integrated resource plans and developing clear investment and tradeoff recommendations for leadership.
  • Champion new ways of working across marketing by harnessing AI to reinvent how a world-class marketing organization operates and unlocking new levels of creativity, leverage, and speed.Drive strategic initiatives end to end — defining the plan, standing up the operating model, and program-managing execution from 0 to 1 on the organization's highest-priority bets.
  • Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships across Marketing, Sales, Revenue Operations, Strategy team, Product, and Finance, ensuring GTM and system alignment.
  • Define the metrics, reporting cadences, and leadership narratives that show how marketing is progressing against business goals.
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Founded in 2009
San Francisco, California, USA
6.4K employees (363 in marketing)
53% recommend to a friend
53% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
32.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$429.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.4%
Direct
63.9%
Referral
5.8%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
280 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
3.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$2.3B
Last Raise
$1.8B
Post IPO Debt, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1.8B
  • Mar 2019
    Series E • $150M
  • Aug 2017
    Secondary Market

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