Strategy & Operations Lead, Marketing

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

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

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the marketing operations backbone and ensure cross functional programs are planned, funded, and measured for impact.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build planning rhythms, owners, timelines, and budget linkage to strategy.
  • Cross-functional Programs: Lead high visibility initiatives with Finance, Legal, Creative Studio, and agencies to unblock work.
  • Marketing Ops: Define metrics and reporting to drive sharper leadership decisions.

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
  • 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

Requirements

  • Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
  • Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
  • Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
  • Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices
  • Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas. However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this

Preferred

  • 10+ years in marketing operations, strategy, business operations, or a related field
  • Familiarity with marketing measurement and attribution methods
  • A background spanning more than one marketing discipline, such as brand and performance, or enterprise and product
  • Experience scaling operations through rapid company growth

Benefits

  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space to collaborate with colleagues
  • optional equity donation matching
  • competitive compensation and benefits
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Bessemer Venture Partners India

Bessemer Venture Partners is one of the world's oldest and most active venture capital firms, founded in 1911. We have 400+ active portfolio companies, and 150+ IPOs and deSPACs to our name.We've been investing in India since 2006 with a dedicated, on-the-ground team focused on early-stage founders building enduring companies. With over 80 investments in India, we back businesses across AI, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Fintech, and Healthcare. Our India portfolio includes Swiggy, BigBasket, Urban Company, Bharat Matrimony, Medi Assist, NephroPlus, Moxie, Boldfit, Aivar, Graph AI, Easebuzz, Perfios, Transbnk, and more. Globally, our portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, LinkedIn, DocuSign, Fiverr, Toast, and ServiceTitan. We pride ourselves on partnering with many of our companies from the earliest of stages until their IPO and beyond. Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer’s storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its investment decisions (see Memos) and also learn from the investments we didn’t make (see Anti-Portfolio).We are committed to forging the legacy companies of tomorrow and if you're building something that matters, we'd like to connect.

Founded in 2006
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IND
16 employees (1 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
229K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.3%
Direct
38.5%
Referral
5.5%
Social
8.1%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~16

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5