Strategy & Operations Lead, Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$320K/yr – $400K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Shape and run the operating system for a fast-scaling marketing organization by turning strategy into scalable plans, budgets, and a disciplined rhythm that surfaces ROI across Marketing, Finance, and leadership.

  • Own annual and quarterly roadmaps with clear owners, timelines, and budget controls.
  • Coordinate cross-functional programs and complex projects end to end to unblock senior leaders and hit milestones.
  • Define the metrics and dashboards that prove marketing investments are moving the business.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive annual and quarterly planning alongside the rest of the strategy and operations team, turning company and marketing strategy into clear plans with owners, timelines, and budgets
  • Project-manage high-stakes, high-visibility projects from start to finish, keeping many moving parts and busy senior leaders aligned and on schedule
  • Quarterback complex, cross-org special projects, pulling in the right people, setting the plan, and driving to the finish even when no single team owns the work
  • Partner on budget planning, forecasting, and management across marketing teams, making sure spend maps to the highest-priority work
  • Help build the operating rhythm the marketing org runs on, including how teams plan, prioritize, track progress, and report results, designed to scale as we grow
  • Build analytics and reporting that show how marketing is performing and give leaders the insight to make sharper calls
  • Drive cross-functional programs across Marketing, Finance, Legal, Creative Studio, and agency partners, keeping fast-moving work coordinated and unblocked
  • Partner with marketing leadership and Finance on resource and headcount planning, building the trust to influence without owning the teams directly
  • Find friction and remove it, so teams can move faster and focus on the work only they can do
  • Help define the metrics and measurement that tell us whether our marketing investments are working
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Anthropic

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We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale.Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

Founded in 2021
3K employees (168 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
11.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$175.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38.4%
Direct
48.7%
Referral
11.3%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
130 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
1.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

Funding

Total Funding
$63.7B
Last Raise
$30B
Series G, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Series G • $30B
  • Sep 2025
    Series F • $13B
  • May 2025
    Debt Financing • $2.5B

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