Senior Manager, Marketing Strategy & Operations

• The role is scoped so you will spend 40% of your time on special marketing projects flexing to the areas that require resources and expertise.
• Another 40% will be spent on marketing ops or building the system the team runs on (ways of working, OKR setting, weekly staff meeting, coordination with other teams, retros, etc).
• Finally, 20% of your time will be spent on Chief of Staff-style work supporting the VP in thinking about marketing strategy, and articulating that vision and progress to the broader organization.
• VP of Marketing
• Must be able to travel ~2–5 times per year to one of our countries of operation for team retreats, meetings, field visits.
• Responsibilities
• Marketing special projects and strategic initiatives 40%
• Lead complex cross-functional marketing projects from problem definition through design, launch, test, iteration, and scale while measuring qual and quant impact
• Support marketing teams who need extra capacity or expertise in high priority projects by offering hands-on flex support or ownership of defined sub-problem areas
• Partner with marketing leadership to propose, prioritize, and scope the project portfolio

Qualifications & Experience:

• 5–7 years in strategy, chief of staff, management consulting, indie hacker, agency, or marketing/growth or GTM operations
• Experience with a wide range of tactics and channels (you don’t need them all): lifecycle marketing, SEO, SMS and push, paid channels, social, content, and creator, earned media, thought leadership, events, B2B and/or B2C, SaaS marketing, digital marketing, segmentation
• Experience working with large marketing budgets: including forecasts, budgeting, headcount planning, investment tradeoffs
• Experience with hiring, recruiting, and onboarding operations
• Excellent presentation skills; experience building exec-level decks

Skills & Competencies:

• Requirements
• A first-principles thinker who can break a complex process into parts, decide what to change, automate with AI, or keep human, and connect the dots across functions
• Proven record leading complex cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong program management skills
• Detail oriented, if you are reading the third to last bullet, congrats :) as a bonus here are a few tips. 1) don’t use AI in your writing for the application – really, it’s painfully obvious 95% of the time and I want to hire you not Claude 2) mention you saw this bullet in our interview :)