Marketing Chief of Staff
The Marketing Chief of Staff will run the marketing organization’s planning cadence, priorities, budget and headcount coordination, executive reporting, and cross-functional accountability. The role requires 10+ years of operating experience, strong B2B demand-generation and account-based-marketing knowledge, and fluency in pipeline and marketing metrics.
About the job
Responsibilities
Operating Rhythm and Planning
- Run annual and quarterly planning, goal-setting, and weekly and monthly business reviews.
- Drive budget and headcount planning against the marketing slate, using Marketing Ops tracking and reporting.
- Lead review preparation, follow-through, and resulting decisions.
Priorities and Cross-Functional Flow
- Turn the VP of Brand's priorities into executable plans and maintain focus as new issues arise.
- Coordinate major programs across brand, editorial, design, product marketing, demand generation, and integrated marketing.
- Resolve unclear decision ownership and prevent programs from colliding or stalling.
Company-Wide Coordination
- Represent marketing in planning with sales, product, and finance.
- Make marketing commitments realistic, dependencies visible, and deliverables accountable.
- Coordinate with procurement and legal when purchases and projects stall.
Leadership Support
- Prepare board updates, all-hands content, and executive readouts.
- Give the VP of Brand more time for high-priority leadership decisions.
Special Projects
- Lead cross-functional initiatives such as reorganizations, agency relationships, flagship events, and organization-wide planning weeks end to end.
Requirements
- 10+ years of operating experience, including substantial time inside a marketing organization in a Chief of Staff, business operations, or senior program-operations role.
- Practitioner-level understanding of B2B demand generation and account-based marketing.
- Ability to work with pipeline metrics, marketing metrics, and budgets.
- Track record of bringing order to a fast, complex organization without slowing it down.
- Clear writing, direct communication, and the presence to hold senior stakeholders accountable to plans.
Preferred Backgrounds
- Chief of Staff or business operations experience at a high-growth B2B software or AI company.
- Marketing Operations or Revenue Operations leadership experience transitioning into an organization-level operating role.
- Strategy or management consulting experience followed by an in-house operating role.
- Demand generation or integrated marketing experience followed by an organization-level operating role.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base compensation is determined by location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience.
- Full-time employees receive a weekly lunch stipend of $75, £75, or the equivalent in local currency.
Skills
B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, Account-Based Marketing, Pipeline Metrics, Marketing Metrics, Budget Planning, Headcount Planning, Business Reviews, Cross-Functional Planning, Program Management, Executive Reporting, Revenue Operations, Marketing Operations
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