Director, Marketing Operations

New York, USA (On-site)

$202K/yr – $274K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead Marketing Operations and MarTech at Contentful, owning strategy, data, and lifecycle optimization to drive pipeline in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.

  • Must-have: 10+ years in Marketing/Revenue Operations with leadership and hands-on Marketo experience
  • Standout: Proven cross-functional delivery in B2B SaaS with data governance, lifecycle definition, and AI-enabled workflows
  • Ownership of end-to-end lead management, data hygiene, and reporting cadence

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the Marketing Operations strategy and operating model, balancing day-to-day execution with scalable process design and long-term platform roadmap.
  • Oversee the MarTech stack at Contentful to ensure tools and technologies are integrated, adopted, and used efficiently and strategically.
  • Manage the technical and operational aspects of key marketing systems used to capture, generate, route, nurture, and report on leads.
  • Improve marketing data foundations and hygiene across systems: lifecycle stage definitions, campaign and UTM governance, field standards, enrichment strategy, sync quality, and reporting consistency.
  • Own end-to-end lead management processes including routing, scoring, and follow-up workflows; ensure operational excellence across SLAs, exceptions, and continuous optimization.
  • Drive ongoing optimization of Marketo including lifecycle architecture, nurture operations, segmentation, templates, deliverability practices, and campaign QA.
  • Partner with Demand, Growth, and Web teams to operationalize high-performing acquisition and conversion experiences, ensuring seamless handoffs and measurement from first touch through pipeline and revenue.
  • Further operationalize Qualified (conversational marketing) experiences leveraging additional AI functionality and ensure routing, meeting conversion, and downstream reporting are instrumented end-to-end.
  • Stay current on emerging AI capabilities across marketing operations and the broader MarTech ecosystem, evaluating and operationalizing AI-enabled features and tools to streamline workflows, enhance targeting/segmentation and personalization, improve data quality and reporting/insight generation, and accelerate experimentation.
  • Establish and maintain a strong reporting and insights cadence—connecting program and channel performance to funnel conversion, pipeline contribution, and efficiency metrics.
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Contentful

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The leading digital experience platform helping you to meet your growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. We enable dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across the globe.🟡 Create and manage content from anywhere to go everywhere with Contentful Platform: https://ctfl.io/4aDVheL🔵 Let anyone assemble on-brand experiences at scale with Contentful Studio: https://ctfl.io/3UV8N7U🔴 Easily compose your own best-in-class platform with Contentful Ecosystem: https://ctfl.io/4e37KLNJoin our Developer Community on Discord: https://www.contentful.com/discord/Work for our distributed team around the world: https://ctfl.io/3sznz6y

Founded in 2013
Berlin, Berlin, DEU
990 employees (134 in marketing)
49% recommend to a friend
62% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$360.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.2%
Direct
58.3%
Referral
7.5%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~990

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
107 (11% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
3 years

Funding

Total Funding
$349.6M
Last Raise
$175M
Series F, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2021
    Series F • $175M
  • Jun 2020
    Series E • $80M
  • Dec 2018
    Series D • $33.5M

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