Strategic Operations Lead, Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$401K/yr – $445K/yrSenior Level14+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and run the core Marketing planning system, including annual and half-year planning, QBRs, roadmap inputs, operating reviews, and executive-ready decision forums.
  • Own the leadership decision process for Marketing's headcount, PID, and resourcing asks, partnering with Finance, Recruiting, People, finance-ops owners, and functional leaders to make asks explicit, track decisions, and surface tradeoffs.
  • Set the leadership-level budget governance rhythm and use the full Marketing budget tracker as a decision tool, partnering with the finance-ops owner on forecasting, spend execution, variance analysis, and reporting.
  • Design and operate the Marketing leadership operating system, including staff agendas, follow-through, internal communications, decision logs, and cross-functional alignment mechanisms.
  • Lead strategic projects that help the Marketing organization scale from 0-1, including operating-model design, role clarity, launch operations, planning architecture, and executive communication.
  • Create crisp written narratives, recommendations, and operating materials that help senior leaders make decisions quickly and stay aligned across fast-moving workstreams.

Requirements

  • 14+ years of relevant experience across strategy and operations, business operations, Chief of Staff, marketing operations, or related leadership roles in a 0-1 or high-growth environments.
  • Top-tier management consulting experience or equivalent strategic operating experience, with strong structured problem solving and executive communication skills.
  • Deep experience with planning cycles, QBRs, budget governance, headcount planning, operating cadences, agency/RFP workflows, and cross-functional program leadership, with clear judgment about when to own a system versus partner with specialist operators.
  • Can translate ambiguous priorities into clear plans, owners, decisions, and follow-through without creating unnecessary process.
  • Are comfortable working with senior leaders, Finance, Recruiting, People, Communications, Product Marketing, Growth, Creative, Media, and external agency partners.
  • Write clearly and operate with high judgment, especially when distilling complex inputs into concise updates, decision memos, and leadership communications.
  • Have strong analytical fluency and can use data, trackers, and operating artifacts to reveal tradeoffs, unblock decisions, and improve execution quality.
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OpenAI

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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.

Founded in 2015
San Francisco, California, USA
9.9K employees (629 in marketing)
91% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
266.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.5%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
9.4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
429 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
1.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
21

Funding

Total Funding
$189B
Last Raise
$110B
Corporate Round, 17 days ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Corporate Round • $110B
  • Dec 2025
    Corporate Round • $1B
  • Oct 2025
    Secondary Market • $6.6B

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