Director of Global Marketing Operations

Bethesda, MD (Remote)

$185K/yr – $220K/yrDirector/Executive6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive marketing operations and analytics to connect activity to revenue through an end-to-end GTM and pipeline lifecycle.

  • Must-have: 10–12+ years in B2B marketing operations with 6+ in leadership.
  • Standout: Deep MarTech, AI tooling, and cross-functional executive alignment.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Pipeline Strategy & Analytics
  • Build and operationalize a full-funnel pipeline generation and progression model from awareness through expansion, tied directly to revenue and bookings outcomes
  • Develop multi-touch attribution models and a single source of truth reporting foundation across the lead-to-opportunity lifecycle
  • Define and track KPIs across conversion, velocity, and pipeline source in partnership with RevOps, Marketing, and Finance
  • Translate complex data into actionable insights that connect marketing activity to business outcomes
  • Shift the organization from activity-based to outcome-driven decision-making through accessible, real-time reporting
  • GTM Alignment & Lead Lifecycle
  • Own end-to-end lead lifecycle: routing logic, scoring models, rules of engagement between Marketing and Sales, and handoff quality
  • Serve as the key integration and escalation point across teams, resolving conflicts and ensuring GTM alignment globally
  • Exercise sound judgment to distinguish transitional noise from true performance signals, providing reliable insights to leadership
  • Marketing Technology Data & Segmentation
  • Optimize the full marketing technology stack, governing utilization, integration, and ROI across all tools
  • Help set-up and execute programs targeting our ICPs, establishing account-level visibility by integrating CRM, marketing automation, and usage data
  • Drive data hygiene, enrichment, governance, and operational excellence across the marketing and revenue tech stack
  • Build closed-loop analytics that surface conversion friction, performance gaps, and revenue opportunities
  • Own marketing data quality: account scoring models, persona data, segmentation, hygiene, enrichment, and governance standards
  • Operations & Execution
  • Audit existing technology investments; retire tools not delivering measurable value; evaluate emerging platforms and AI tools with rigor
  • Clarify and document how teams engage with Marketing (intake processes, SLAs, approvals) to create predictable, transparent ways of working globally
  • Build and maintain centralized marketing repositories to ensure institutional knowledge is documented, current, and accessible)(note: kept as-is in line with content)
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