Marketing Strategy & Operations Lead

New York City, NY (Remote)

$170K/yr – $205K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

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Job Summary

You will lead high-impact marketing initiatives and shape cross-functional programs that align brand, growth, and measurement goals. The role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, governance, and data-driven decision making across marketing operations and brand management.

  • 5+ years in marketing operations, brand, and creativity
  • Strong PM and cross-functional leadership to drive complex initiatives
  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and drive business outcomes through brand

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of large, high-impact projects (ie. GTM launches, regulatory implementations, major product rollouts)
  • Manage complex cross-functional workstreams by centrally owning communications and timelines, launching high quality creative on-time, and raising creative standards and outputs across teams to increase brand consistency
  • Establish and streamline marketing operations processes and approval workflows to increase efficiency and improve ways of working
  • Optimize and oversee marketing operations tools to streamline campaign execution
  • Partner closely with marketing leadership on marketing planning cycles by translating business objectives into actionable marketing roadmaps, setting KPIs, and optimizing resource and budget allocation across channels to drive growth
  • Collaborate with leadership on ambiguous, high-impact special projects such as pilot marketing initiatives, identifying brand growth opportunities, and developing structured, data-driven business cases
  • Scale the brand measurement learning agenda and experimentation framework, including reporting dashboards
  • Develop and maintain brand governance frameworks, including brand guidelines, messaging architectures, and visual identity standards

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience within marketing operations, brand, and creativity
  • Experience designing and implementing complex brand marketing processes and workflows with relevant tools
  • Strong project management skills with experience leading cross-functional projects
  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and solve problems in a structured way
  • Deep understanding of how brand drives business outcomes

Benefits

  • Company-wide performance reviews every 6 months
  • Generous pay increases for high-performing team members
  • Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted
  • 15 days annual leave a year + 5 additional floating flexible days per year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo)
  • 1 extra day a year to be used for learning and 1 extra day for volunteering
  • 401k matching
  • Medical Insurance, Dental and Vision care
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo
  • Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
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Cleo

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Cleo. Where AI meets money. Cleo launched in 2016 by people who have been burned by banks. Fed up with the broken system, we decided it was time to make a change. Since then, the cost of living has skyrocketed, the rich have continued getting richer, and our vision has only become clearer. Our mission? To change the world's relationship with money.Cleo is a platform for the 99% – an AI assistant defining a new category, one that goes beyond saving and budgets to actually changing how we feel about our finances. Using simplicity and humor, she’s helped millions of people improve their relationship with money, because we believe that everyone has the potential to achieve financial well-being in just one generation. Through a personalized chat, she provides you with deep insight about your money and tailored financial tools that increase your ability to save, all while making you laugh. We’re a product for the next generation. That means that we are committed to inclusive and unbiased financial growth for all. It also means dropping the BS.In the past year or so we’ve grown the Cleo team from 100 to 250+, and closed a $80m Series C led by Sofina (that’s a $500M valuation).Want to get involved? You know that awful feeling when you wake up wondering if what you’re about to do for the next 8 hours actually matters? That doesn’t happen here much. Everything we do is grounded in purpose. And because we’re all showing up for the same reason, collaboration comes easy.We have a culture of stepping up. We want, and expect you to grow and develop. You’ll have our support in everything you do. But more importantly, you’ll have our trust. We treat our people as humans first, employees second, which means giving everyone a voice. All perspectives are embraced here.

Founded in 2016
London, England, GBR
520 employees (81 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
72% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
487.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$24
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.3%
Direct
48.8%
Referral
7.8%
Social
1.9%
Paid
2.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~540

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
48 (9% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$138.8M
Last Raise
$81.3M
Series C, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2022
    Series C • $81.3M
  • Dec 2020
    Series B • $44M
  • Jun 2019
    Debt Financing

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