Senior Manager, Demand Generation

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$130K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own demand generation strategy and end-to-end execution, influencing pipeline targets and ABM programs while coordinating with sales, marketing, and external partners.

  • Own MQL and pipeline targets and drive strategy
  • Lead ABM program design and cross-functional execution with sales and marketing

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own quarterly and annual MQL and pipeline targets — and drive the strategy to hit them
  • Lead target account selection and ABM program design in close partnership with sales and marketing teammates
  • Maintain a continuous focus on improving pipeline conversion metrics, qualified lead volume, and account targeting effectiveness
  • Track and report on program performance, making data-driven recommendations to the VP of Marketing and broader leadership team
  • Stay current on Demand Gen trends in an AI-first, agent-led world and translate insights into actionable adjustments for Vibes
  • Serve as the hands-on owner of marketing campaign execution across paid advertising (Google, LinkedIn), email, SEO/SEM, webinars, and content syndication
  • Build and manage automated nurture programs and one-off campaigns in HubSpot, including writing the emails yourself
  • Launch campaigns, landing pages, and new resources on the Vibes website; learn and use Webflow for hands-on website management as part of a small, nimble team
  • Lead relationships with external consultants supporting SEM, SEO, and content syndication
  • Partner closely with sales AEs on demand generation strategies, target account selection, and daily execution

Requirements

  • 6–10 years of hands-on, strategic & tactical demand generation experience — 4+ years in B2B required, B2B SaaS experience strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated ownership of MQL and pipeline targets, with a track record of building and optimizing programs inside a marketing automation platform (HubSpot strongly preferred; Marketo or Pardot also relevant)
  • Hands-on experience managing paid media campaigns across Google Ads and LinkedIn, including budget management and performance optimization
  • Data fluency: you're comfortable in dashboards, can build a performance report, and make decisions from metrics — not gut alone
  • ABM experience or strong familiarity with account-based strategies and sales-marketing alignment in a B2B context
  • Strong written communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to identify and solve problems proactively
  • Confident making recommendations and selling through your ideas
  • Working knowledge of SEO/SEM fundamentals and experience managing agency or consultant relationships in those areas
  • AI-literate: you understand how AI tools are reshaping demand gen and are actively incorporating them into your workflow

Preferred

  • Experience with Webflow or a comparable CMS
  • Familiarity with content syndication platforms (e.g., Bombora, TechTarget, Integrate)
  • Background in martech, mobile, or messaging industries

Benefits

  • Vibes offers a full benefits package including competitive equity, medical/dental/vision coverage, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, 11 paid holidays, flexible vacation, commuter benefits, 401(k) with company match, and paid parental leave.
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Vibes

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Vibes’ mobile-first platform creates personal, revenue-driving and long-term mobile engagement between consumers and the world-class brands they love. Industry leaders like Chipotle, Kohl’s and Polo Ralph Lauren use Vibes to grow customer relationships with relevant, high-volume mobile messaging and mobile wallet marketing on a global scale. Vibes enables marketers to seamlessly connect with their customers using a data-rich and API-packed solution that beautifully optimizes and unifies their SMS, MMS, RCS and Mobile Wallet campaigns.

Founded in 1998
Chicago, Illinois, USA
360 employees (51 in marketing)
54% recommend to a friend
61% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
101.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$59.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38.3%
Direct
45.9%
Referral
8.4%
Social
4.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~363

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
26 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$60M
Last Raise
$45M
Series B, 10 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2016
    Series B • $45M
  • Sep 2008
    Series A • $15M

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