Marketing Operations Lead

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own marketing operations and planning discipline for a global function, turning strategy into executable plans with clear owners, rhythms and decision points.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build scalable planning cadences, cross‑team accountability, and decision rights across London and New York marketing teams.
  • Demand/Lifecycle Execution: Ground plans in campaign goals, attribution, and dashboards, enabling fast iteration and measurable impact.
  • Operations & Collaboration: Unify channels, streamline workflows, and automate repeatable tasks to speed execution and reduce risk.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • We are looking for a Marketing Operations Lead to join our Internal Operations team on a 12-month fixed term contract, owning how Marketing operates at scale.
  • Guide Marketing through quarterly and annual planning, ensuring clear objectives, priorities, and alignment
  • Alongside functional leads, translate strategy into structured, executable, feasible plans with clear ownership, sequencing, and decision points
  • Establish and evolve effective ways of working and operating rhythms across our geographically dispersed (London & NY) marketing functions
  • Continuously improve the operating model to increase focus, speed, and predictability
  • Introduce lightweight planning structures that support experimentation (e.g. test-and-learn cycles, campaign iteration loops) without slowing teams down
  • Partner with Strategy and Insights leads to ensure marketing plans are grounded in clear performance frameworks (e.g. campaign goals, success metrics, attribution approach), enabling consistent evaluation and iteration
  • Act as the “glue” across marketing channels and teams, ensuring delivery of a unified marketing plan
  • Ensure execution is supported by clear, scalable workflows internally and with our parent company (e.g. campaign setup, approvals, tracking, reporting)
  • Drive alignment and ensure clear prioritisation and trade-offs are made to create more significant impact and ensure clarity of focus for Marketing teams

Requirements

  • You have considerable marketing operational experience, with a proven track record in leading large initiatives, ensuring alignment and resolving dependencies and conflicts swiftly and amicably
  • You have excellent stakeholder management, influencing and relationship building skills, which you use to ensure visibility and collaboration across marketing teams and cross-functional boundaries
  • You have exceptional communication skills, and can tailor your message to suit audiences at every level of the company, using empathy and active listening to read situations quickly
  • You’re hands-on with marketing operations tooling and workflows (e.g. CRM systems, campaign management, lifecycle or growth operations)
  • You’re adept at driving accountability, and have strong command skills, you’re not afraid to take challenging stances with senior stakeholders
  • You’re user and business value driven, with hands on experience collaboratively scoping, kicking off and delivering campaigns

Nice to have

  • You have experience partnering with technical and product teams to ensure a seamless user experience across all touchpoints
  • Experience working as a consultant, or in a fast paced, product scale up environment
  • Experience introducing automation or AI into operational workflows to improve efficiency or quality
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Depop is a circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable, affordable secondhand fashion. Since Depop was founded in 2011, our community of 43M registered users has helped popularise preloved fashion and drive forward resale culture, globally.Today, our platform is defined by its breadth, depth and diversity. Whatever your style, whatever the mood or moment - you’ll find the fashion you love. A place where anyone can clear out their wardrobe and explore their style, where new cult brands are born, and where celebrities and stylists source unique vintage finds.Together with our community, we’re on a mission to make fashion circular - encouraging millions more people to choose secondhand and extend the lives of their clothes.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and a team of approximately 400 employees. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. Find out more at www.depop.com Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We’re continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.

Founded in 2011
London, England, GBR
3.8K employees (277 in marketing)