Director Business Operations - Digital Marketing

California, MO (On-site)

$196K/yr – $269K/yrDirector/Executive15+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You will: - Help modernize our digital marketing strategy, assure achievement in Digital KPIs and its connectivity to the Marketing and Company goals - Instill data-driven decision-making - Align teams, remove friction and carry through the exec key priorities, ensuring cohesive execution at scale Your Impact: - Executive Proxy & Alignment: Serve as the face and voice of the SVP across Digital Marketing and broader cross-functional teams. Carry through their strategic vision, requests, and priorities to ensure organizational alignment and momentum. - Strategic Roadmapping & Coordination: Partner with Digital Marketing leadership and the Digital Strategic Operations team to translate enterprise business objectives into a cohesive, multi-year strategic roadmap. Align Digital Marketing initiatives with Product, Sales, Finance, IT, and broader GTM teams. - End-to-End Program Delivery: Oversee key strategic initiatives from inception through launch, working through cross-functional project leads and functional workstreams to achieve organizational goals. - Executive Communications: Author high-impact presentations, board-level materials, strategic memos, and organization-wide communications on behalf of the SVP. Distill complex data into clear, compelling narratives for executive consumption. - Special & High-Stakes Projects: Spearhead high-impact initiatives directly such as evaluating new agency delivery models, piloting AI integration into digital workflows, or optimizing global team collaboration. - Budget & Headcount Strategy: Strategically partner with Finance and DSO  to track and monitor the Global Digital Marketing operating budget and headcount plan. Identify cost-optimization opportunities and implement spend guardrails to maximize ROI. - Organizational Health & Enablement: Partner with HR to champion team culture, talent development strategies, offsites, and internal communications to keep the global team engaged, aligned, and informed. - Cross-Functional Orchestration: Work hand-in-hand with the Digital Strategic Operations team and functional leads to resolve systemic bottlenecks across the digital marketing lifecycle and drive program frameworks that balance speed with enterprise stability. - Drive full delivery of Digital KPI, keep all roadmaps from each digital team on time and ensure high quality deliverables. - Own Planning cycles and visibility into Digital Marketing’s plans, budgets and strategy across marketing

Requirements

  • Industry Experience: 15+ years of experience in Digital Marketing, Marketing Operations, Strategic Operations, or Chief of Staff roles within a global enterprise technology or SaaS company.
  • Strategic Executive Presence: Proven track record as a high-impact individual contributor operating as a trusted advisor to senior executives (VP/SVP/C-Suite) and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Proactive Problem Solver: Strong ownership mindset with a reputation for identifying risks before they escalate to the SVP’s and CMO’s desk, arriving with structured analysis and clear decision frameworks.
  • High Integrity & Discretion: Absolute integrity and experience handling sensitive operational decisions, organizational changes, budget allocations, and executive communications.
  • Matrix Collaboration: Exceptional skill in coordinating through central strategy and operations teams (specifically Digital Strategic Operations) to align priorities, track deliverables, and execute programs smoothly.
  • Deep GTM & MarTech Knowledge: Strong understanding of modern enterprise B2B SaaS demand generation, digital marketing channels, MarTech/AdTech ecosystems, and lead-to-revenue models.
  • Data-Driven & Tech Fluent: Comfortable utilizing BI dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Adobe Analytics) to monitor health metrics, pipeline velocity, and marketing performance to inform strategic recommendations.
  • Financial Acumen: Strong familiarity with global marketing budgets, ROI tracking, vendor spend, and headcount planning in an enterprise setting.
  • Master Storyteller: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to synthesize complex operational concepts into compelling strategic narratives.
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Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

Founded in 2015
Santa Clara, California, USA
18K employees (731 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
90% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$196K/yr – $269K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$65M
Last Raise
$10M
Series C, 17 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2008
    Series C • $10M
  • Aug 2008
    Series C • $27M
  • Jun 2007
    Series B • $18M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$664.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.4%
Direct
42.4%
Referral
17.4%
Social
0.9%
Paid
1.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~18.4K

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Director Business Operations - Digital Marketing

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