Senior Marketing Strategist, Paid & New Demand Channels
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Posted 4 days ago
Job Summary
Owns end-to-end B2B paid demand strategy across paid search and emerging channels, translating pipeline goals into audience and channel plans, and partnering with Performance Marketing to optimize execution, pilots, and budget decisions.
- Define audience operations and day-to-day execution with the performance team
- Lead pilots and structured experiments to validate new channels and scale success
- Collaborate with Finance and Sales to align budgets with pipeline and ROI targets
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Owning the B2B paid and emerging-channel demand strategy across paid searchs, and selected emerging channels.
- Translating pipeline goals into audience and channel strategies, including ICP and segment priorities, buying groups, intent signals, channel roles, forecast assumptions, budget recommendations, campaign architecture, and a rolling experimentation roadmap.
- Partnering closely with Performance Marketing to define B2B audience operations, optimization, and day-to-day execution.
- Building the strategy and partner portfolio for content syndication and third-party demand media, including partner selection, audience and content fit, lead-validation standards, commercial terms, follow-up paths, and pipeline measurement.
- Designing full-funnel tests with Performance Marketing metrics alone.
- Owning B2B channel-mix and budget recommendations in partnership with Financeance to determine where investment should shift.
- Identifying and validating new demand channels through structured pilots with clear hypotheses, guardrails, success thresholds, and scale-or-stop decisions.
- Developing clear performance narratives and recommendations for leaders and cross-functional partners, including what’s working, what isn’t, and what should change next.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience across B2B performance marketing, paid acquisition, demand generation, or growth, ideally supporting enterprise and multi-segment audiences.
- Deep expertise in B2B audience strategys, conversion tracking, and vendor management.
- A track record of managing meaningful budgets and improving qualified pipeline, ROI, CAC efficiency, conversion, or revenue outcomes.
- Strong quantitative judgment across forecasting, experimentation, incrementality, attribution, funnel analysis, and budget optimization.
- The ability to set B2B strategy and provide clear execution direction while partnering effectively with a Performance Marketing team that owns channel activation, optimization, and day-to-day media operations.
- Excellent communication and influence across Finance, Sales, RevOps, Analytics, Creative, Product Marketing, Web, and executive stakeholders.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, learning quickly, and making disciplined decisions when data is incomplete.
- Genuine curiosity about emerging AI-native marketing workflows and a commitment to responsible experimentation and rigorous quality control.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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$227K/yr – $295K/yr
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- Feb 2026Corporate Round • $110B
- Dec 2025Corporate Round • $1B
- Oct 2025Secondary Market • $6.6B


























































