Senior Manager, Marketing Operations — Systems and Automation

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$134K/yr – $165K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own governance and health of core marketing systems, drive a scalable ops roadmap, and coordinate cross-functional ownership and handoffs for GTM workflows.

  • Own governance, documentation, and operational standards for marketing systems.
  • Translate ambiguous needs into clear requirements and automation opportunities.
  • Collaborate across Marketing, Sales, and Web teams to improve flow and data quality.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own governance, documentation, and operational health for core marketing systems, including Marketo and adjacent GTM tools.
  • Identify and reduce technical debt across marketing-owned systems, integrations, workflows, field/process governance, and recurring operational processes.
  • Build and manage a Marketing Ops systems and automation roadmap focused on improving speed, quality, consistency, and team capacity.
  • Establish clear operating standards for marketing systems and workflow requests, including intake, prioritization, documentation, ownership, escalation paths, and change management.
  • Partner across Marketing, Sales, Sales Ops, Web, and internal systems/data teams to clarify ownership, requirements, and handoffs for shared GTM workflows, including enrichment, routing, lifecycle processes, data quality, and CRM handoffs.
  • Triage systems and workflow issues, identify root causes, and coordinate resolution with the right owners.
  • Identify high-friction manual workflows that can be simplified, automated, or AI-assisted, and translate those opportunities into clear requirements, owners, dependencies, risks, and success measures.
  • Create and maintain enablement materials and documentation that help marketers, sales partners, and internal operators understand how to use systems, follow key workflows, and submit requests correctly.
  • Support adoption of AI-assisted workflows across Marketing Ops, with a focus on measurable improvements in manual effort, cycle time, QA, documentation, or operational consistency.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Marketing Operations, Marketing Systems, Revenue Operations, GTM Operations, or a related function, preferably in B2B SaaS or a complex enterprise GTM environment.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Marketo or a comparable marketing automation platform, including governance, admin standards, program architecture, troubleshooting, and scalable process design.
  • Strong working knowledge of Salesforce and common GTM systems, integrations, lifecycle processes, routing/enrichment workflows, and data flows.
  • Proven experience improving marketing systems governance, process documentation, workflow design, data quality, and operational scalability.
  • Experience with GTM automation, enrichment, or workflow tools such as Glean, Clay, ZoomInfo, Common Room, Workato, Qualified, 6sense, or similar platforms.
  • Practical experience using automation and/or AI tools to improve workflows, documentation, QA, troubleshooting, analysis, or operational throughput.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear process, system, automation, or documentation requirements.
  • Strong written communication and documentation skills, with a bias toward scalable systems over one-off fixes.
  • Strong cross-functional partnership skills, including the ability to work effectively across Marketing, Sales, Sales Ops, Web, internal systems/data teams, and technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
  • We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
  • We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
  • Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.
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Diligent

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Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.Headquartered in New York, Diligent also has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney. Discover why IDC calls Diligent a leader in 2025 GRC MarketScape at diligent.com.#LifeatDiligent #ModernGovernance

Founded in 2001
New York, New York, USA
2.8K employees (197 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
62% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$134K/yr – $165K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
136 (5% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$30M
Last Raise
$3M
Private Equity, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2020
    Private Equity
  • Feb 2018
    Corporate Round
  • Mar 2009
    Post IPO Equity • $3M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
209.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$167.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
51.2%
Direct
38.8%
Referral
7.5%
Social
1.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.9K

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Senior Manager, Marketing Operations — Systems and Automation

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