Senior Director, Marketing Operations

California, MO (On-site)

$259K/yr – $356K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the Marketing Operations and AI roadmap, leading cross-functional programs across IT, data, and governance to scale AI, optimize MarTech, and improve pipeline velocity.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • AI North Star Roadmap: Define, prioritize, and execute Marketing’s long-term AI strategy, scaling generative, predictive, and agentic AI use cases across personalization, content orchestration, audience segmentation, and attribution.
  • AI Operationalization & Governance: Transition AI from experimental pilots to production workflows while partnering with Legal, InfoSec, and Data teams to establish operational guidelines and data-privacy guardrails.
  • Technology Modernization: Assess the enterprise MarTech landscape to eliminate redundancy, optimize TCO, and build a modern, adaptable architecture.
  • Strategic IT Partnership: Serve as the primary Marketing Operations liaison to IT leadership, co-architecting and executing a unified Joint Marketing–IT Roadmap.
  • Enterprise Infrastructure & Data Architecture: Ensure seamless integrations across marketing automation, CRM, CDP, BI tools, and product telemetry.
  • System Integrity & Security: Establish enterprise-grade SLAs for pipeline-critical infrastructure and ensure strict regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA).
  • Multi-Year Operational Blueprint: Translate high-level business goals into a prioritized operational plan across all global marketing regions.
  • Cross-Functional Delivery: Lead transformations across Sales Ops, Product, Finance, IT, and Marketing.
  • Change Management & Enablement: Drive change management to maximize adoption and ROI on new processes, platforms, and AI toolsets.
  • Impact & Velocity Metrics: Track operational KPIs including pipeline velocity, conversion efficiency, and MarTech adoption; own MTA, MMM, and lead scoring strategies.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience leading Marketing Operations, Revenue Operations, Business Strategy, or MarTech Transformation within large-scale, global B2B SaaS or enterprise technology environments.
  • Proven track record defining and operationalizing an enterprise AI roadmap, applying machine learning and generative/agentic tools to automate workflows and drive efficiency.
  • Demonstrated success co-leading technical roadmaps alongside IT, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering teams.
  • Deep expertise in enterprise architectures, including Salesforce, Marketo/HubSpot, Snowflake, Segment/CDPs, BI tooling, and orchestration layers.
  • Strong executive presence with experience advising and influencing C-suite leaders across highly matrixed organizations.
  • Advanced financial and analytical acumen with direct ownership of multi-million-dollar budgets, headcount models, and vendor consolidation initiatives.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead change, redesign legacy workflows, and drive operational improvement across global teams.
  • Extensive experience recruiting, developing, and leading senior managers, technical architects, and program managers across distributed global teams.
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Palo Alto Networks

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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

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$259K/yr – $356K/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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Senior Director, Marketing Operations

Palo Alto Networks · California, MO · On-site