Senior Manager Demand Gen Strategy

Oregon, IL (Remote)

$132K/yr – $194K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 10 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end demand generation program across enterprise and mid-market, guiding strategy, execution, and optimization; lead cross-functional teams across demand strategy, media, analytics, and operations to drive pipeline.

  • Owns the overall demand generation plan, operating rhythms, and pipeline-aligned priorities.
  • Directs campaign architecture, budget allocation, and data-governance practices across multiple channels.
  • Steers measurement, attribution, and leadership reporting to enable timely optimization decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own departmental demand generation plans, priorities, and operating rhythms aligned to pipeline objectives across enterprise and mid-market segments.
  • Lead managers and senior professionals across related demand strategy, media buying, and performance analytics workstreams; establish clear accountabilities and quality standards.
  • Direct end-to-end campaign architecture by product and segment, including audiences, target accounts, offers, channel and touch sequencing, landing experiences, qualification criteria, and sales or partner handoff.
  • Control a multi-million-dollar media budget and related resources; translate performance across spend, leads, opportunities, pipeline, and return into allocation and buying-mix decisions.
  • Establish target-list and data-governance practices, including sourcing, prioritization, suppression, refresh, and routing in partnership with Marketing Operations and data teams.
  • Set the measurement framework, attribution approach, funnel-stage success metrics, and leadership reporting cadence; ensure insights lead to timely optimization decisions.
  • Lead weekly tactic reviews, monthly mix reviews, and quarterly plan resets; look beyond existing methods to resolve complex performance, channel, and portfolio challenges.
  • Influence Product Marketing, Field and Partner Marketing, Creative, Marketing Operations, and Sales Development; provide input to functional strategy and serve as the demand generation subject-matter expert.

Requirements

  • Eight or more years of B2B demand generation experience, including end-to-end strategy, execution, measurement, and optimization.
  • Experience leading managers and/or a large team of senior professionals across multiple related demand generation workstreams
  • Direct accountability for a multi-million-dollar annual media budget spanning at least three channels.
  • Strong command of funnel economics, including cost per lead, cost per qualified opportunity, conversion, pipeline velocity, attribution, and return on investment.
  • Working knowledge of ABM platforms such as Demandbase or 6sense, marketing automation, CRM reporting, and audience-data practices.
  • Experience with partner or channel marketing motions, including third-party lead routing and extended measurement chains.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence across a matrixed organization, communicate with senior leaders, and turn complex analysis into clear business decisions.

Preferred

  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • Ten or more years of B2B demand generation experience.
  • Extensive technology-industry experience and understanding of market dynamics, customer needs, and industry trends
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Lumen Technologies

Lumen connects the world. We digitally connect people, data and applications – quickly, securely and effortlessly. Everything we do at Lumen takes advantage of our network strength. From metro connectivity to long-haul data transport to our edge cloud, security, and managed service capabilities, we meet our customers’ needs today and as they build for tomorrow.

Founded in 1968
Monroe, Louisiana, USA
50K employees (627 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$132K/yr – $194K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Demand Generation median pay in the United States

$118K/yr

Most pay falls between $90K and $163K. Based on 944 salaries.

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Funding

Total Funding
$2.4B
Last Raise
$425M
Post IPO Debt, 6 months ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $425M
  • Aug 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $2B
  • May 2023
    Post IPO Equity

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$262.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
23.6%
Direct
54.3%
Referral
14.2%
Social
6%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~50K
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Senior Manager Demand Gen Strategy

Lumen Technologies · Oregon, IL · Remote