VP, Marketing Strategy & Operational Excellence

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$195K/yr – $275K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and accelerate Smartly’s marketing operations by translating strategy into actionable goals, aligning planning and governance, and driving data-driven, automated initiatives across marketing, RevOps, and external partnerships.

  • Translate strategy into marketing objectives and OKRs and lead planning
  • Standardize cross-functional handoffs, SLAs, and agency partnerships
  • Build self-service data, automation, and AI-enabled campaigns to boost revenue-focused outcomes

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Establish a disciplined process for translating company strategy into marketing strategy. Partner with the CMO and marketing leadership team to translate Smartly’s company goals, growth priorities and market opportunities into marketing objectives and OKRs.
  • Drive integrated marketing planning. Lead annual and quarterly marketing planning across functions, turning priorities into an integrated roadmap with clear priorities and lead upstream marketing briefing process for global and tentpole marketing initiatives.
  • Rebuild Cross-Functional Handoffs: Standardize and enforce the operating model between Product/Product Marketing, Partnerships, and Brand Marketing. Solve the current "reactive" work cycle by acting as the ultimate gatekeeper for resource planning.
  • Establish SLA Governance: Author and enforce strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Implement a zero-tolerance policy for partner marketing requests arriving without a fully documented brief and a mandatory 12-week lead time (such as joint campaigns with key platforms like Meta, Roku, Google, and LinkedIn).
  • Lead Strategic Agency Partnerships: Lead the operational and budgetary governance of external creative and execution agencies. Direct the strategy to shift creative ideation for events to external partners, allowing the internal team to focus on budget management and commercial execution.
  • Unify Marketing & Sales Funnels: Partner closely with the Revenue Operations (RevOps) team—specifically collaborating with our newly transitioned Revenue Operations Lead—to bridge marketing and sales funnels and ensure single-source-of-truth reporting.
  • Champion Data Literacy: Turn the department's data literacy from a baseline score of 2/10 for data-pulling into a model of self-service. Design and implement mandatory data onboarding, continuous training, and self-service protocols.
  • De-silo Systems & Hygiene: Drive data sanitization across Salesforce, Marketo, Greenhouse, and other marketing systems to align algorithms, ensure data hygiene, and restore absolute executive confidence in reporting.
  • Own the Marketing Tech Stack: Transition the department from manual, repetitive execution (e.g., chasing case studies, manual reporting, and repetitive copywriting) to high-efficiency automated workflows.
  • Lead AI Agent Deployment: Direct the roadmap to build and deploy custom AI agents, establishing a centralized Campaign Performance Knowledge Hub to synthesize historical creatives, benchmarks, and campaign strategies in minutes.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Marketing Operations, Revenue Operations, GTM Strategy, or Business Transformation.
  • Proven track record of scaling marketing departments in mid-sized B2B SaaS or digital media organizations (500–2,000 employees).
  • Demonstrated success in dismantling manual operational workflows, in-housing or out-housing agency retainers, and driving department-wide tech stack transformations (Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot).
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or a highly analytical field.

Preferred

  • MBA or advanced certifications in Agile/Six Sigma are a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Five weeks paid time off (PTO), 11 company paid holidays, unlimited sick days
  • Generous healthcare packages & mental health benefits
  • 401K plus matching & equity grants for all new Smartlies
  • Wellness benefit & learning reimbursement opportunities
  • Volunteer time off days & company donation matching opportunities
  • And so much more…
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Smartly

3.3 Glassdoor

Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers. We are the only company managing creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $5B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best. Join our global team to transform ad experiences for brands and their consumers.

Founded in 2013
Helsinki, Southwest Finland, FIN
954 employees (121 in marketing)
51% recommend to a friend
44% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$195K/yr – $275K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
64 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$22.8M
Last Raise
$20M
Series Unknown, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2019
    Series Unknown
  • Sep 2017
    Secondary Market • $20M
  • Apr 2015
    Series A • $2.8M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
149.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$33K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.9%
Direct
42.3%
Referral
8%
Social
2.5%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~954

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VP, Marketing Strategy & Operational Excellence

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