Senior Manager, Marketing Strategy & Operations

The role

You will design and operate the marketing operating system to enable coordination and scale. You will lead complex cross-functional projects, manage marketing operations and budget, and act as a strategic thought partner to the VP of Marketing.

What you will do

• Lead complex cross-functional marketing projects from design to scale
• Support marketing teams with extra capacity or expertise in high priority projects
• Partner with marketing leadership to propose, prioritize, and scope the project portfolio
• Define success metrics and test plans and report results
• Document what works and build playbooks
• Own annual and quarterly planning and OKR discipline
• Analyze marketing performance, trends, and customer insights
• Lead the org through operating change, including transition to AI-enabled ways of working
• Own marketing budget and headcount planning with Finance
• Manage marketing vendor evaluations, procurement, and onboarding of new tools

Required qualifications

• 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
• First-principles thinker
• Proven record leading complex cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Strong program management skills
• Experience working with large marketing budgets
• Experience with hiring, recruiting, and onboarding operations
• Excellent presentation skills
• Experience building exec-level decks
• Experience managing executive operating rhythms, leadership meetings, business reviews, offsites, and planning forums
• Familiarity with common marketing tech stack tools

Nice to have

• Experience with 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, segment

Benefits

• Annual Benefits Stipend

Before you apply

• Must be based in one of the prioritized countries
• Unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K.
• Will systematically check with previous employers about any abuse or misconduct related matters
• May employ in-depth reference checks, criminal background checks, and sanctions screens

About the company

GiveDirectly delivers cash directly to people living in poverty and crisis. The organization uses a quantitative approach to performance measurement and rigorous, independent, experimental evaluation of its impact.