Senior Marketing Strategist, Paid & New Demand Channels

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$266K/yr – $295K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and evolve the B2B demand strategy across paid and emerging channels, translating pipeline goals into audience, channel, and budget plans, while collaborating with Performance Marketing, RevOps, Analytics, and Finance to drive qualified pipeline and revenue.

  • Own full-funnel test design and measurement with cross-functional partners
  • Build partner ecosystems for content syndication and third-party demand media
  • Shape budgets and channel mix based on downstream performance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owning the B2B paid and emerging-channel demand strategy across paid search, paid social, display and retargeting, content syndication, third-party demand media partnerships, sponsorships, review platforms, and selected emerging channels.
  • Translating pipeline goals into audience and channel strategies, including ICP and segment priorities, buying groups, intent signals, channel roles, forecast assumptions, budget recommendations, campaign architecture, and a rolling experimentation roadmap.
  • Partnering closely with Performance Marketing to define B2B audience, campaign, offer, creative, landing-page, conversion, and measurement requirements, while Performance Marketing owns media activation, platform operations, optimization, and day-to-day execution.
  • Building the strategy and partner portfolio for content syndication and third-party demand media, including partner selection, audience and content fit, lead-validation standards, commercial terms, follow-up paths, and pipeline measurement.
  • Designing full-funnel tests with Performance Marketing, RevOps, and Analytics that connect media exposure and engagement to qualified leads, meetings, opportunities, pipeline, and revenue—not platform metrics alone.
  • Owning B2B channel-mix and budget recommendations in partnership with Finance, Performance Marketing, and Marketing leadership, using downstream performance to determine where investment should shift.
  • Identifying and validating new demand channels through structured pilots with clear hypotheses, guardrails, success thresholds, and scale-or-stop decisions.
  • Developing clear performance narratives and recommendations for leaders and cross-functional partners, including what’s working, what isn’t, and what should change next.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience across B2B performance marketing, paid acquisition, demand generation, or growth, ideally supporting enterprise and multi-segment audiences.
  • Deep expertise in B2B audience strategy, paid search, and paid social, with practical experience across content syndication, third-party demand media partnerships, audience platforms, conversion tracking, and vendor management.
  • A track record of managing meaningful budgets and improving qualified pipeline, ROI, CAC efficiency, conversion, or revenue outcomes.
  • Strong quantitative judgment across forecasting, experimentation, incrementality, attribution, funnel analysis, and budget optimization.
  • The ability to set B2B strategy and provide clear execution direction while partnering effectively with a Performance Marketing team that owns channel activation, optimization, and day-to-day media operations.
  • Excellent communication and influence across Finance, Sales, RevOps, Analytics, Creative, Product Marketing, Web, and executive stakeholders.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and making disciplined decisions when data is incomplete.
  • Genuine curiosity about emerging AI-native marketing workflows and a commitment to responsible experimentation and rigorous quality control.
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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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Traffic Source Mix
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37.3%
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Social
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Headcount Trend

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Marketing Team

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429 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
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Last Raise
$110B
Corporate Round, 17 days ago

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    Corporate Round • $110B
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    Corporate Round • $1B
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    Secondary Market • $6.6B

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