Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

The role

The Chief Marketing Officer will own marketing strategy and execution end to end. This leader will build the marketing machine, focusing on pipeline creation, demand generation, and company-level GTM strategy.

What you will do

• Own Knak’s marketing strategy and execution end to end.
• Build and scale a marketing organization to support growth.
• Lead pipeline creation and demand generation with accountability for revenue.
• Develop and experiment with enterprise demand generation across multiple channels.
• Shape company-level go-to-market strategy with Sales, Product, Customer, and product marketing leadership.
• Build Knak’s brand and develop resourceful ways to increase awareness.
• Operate through ambiguity and rapid change by experimenting and making decisions with imperfect information.
• Work across strategic and tactical priorities from company strategy to funnel performance.
• Build and lead a high-performing marketing team.
• Help establish Agentic Marketing Production as a new category.

Required qualifications

• Proven B2B SaaS marketing leader who has helped scale a company through a high-growth stage, ideally from $20M toward $100M+ ARR.
• Deep, hands-on experience building enterprise demand generation across digital, field/events, partners and other channels.
• Clear accountability for pipeline and revenue.
• Ability to move quickly, experiment, and make decisions with imperfect information.
• Ability to operate without everything being predefined.
• Ability to handle company strategy, positioning, and executive communication alongside product details, campaigns, launches and funnel performance.
• Strong talent leader who can recruit A players and make difficult people decisions.
• Strong brand and creative judgment.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Great benefits
• Paid vacation
• Life leave days
• Team lunches
• Off-sites
• Commitment to career growth

Before you apply

• Recruitment process includes AI screening for keywords and minimum qualifications.
• Recruitment process includes video interviews which are transcribed with AI.

About the company

Knak is a mission-driven company that empowers marketers to be creative. It provides a flexible factory for marketing production, helping companies turn ideas into on-brand, high-performing campaigns at scale.