Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning & Deployment – Drive annual planning with CMO, leadership team, and key stakeholders in alignment with company strategic priorities, marketing focus, and financial guidelines.
• Build a world-class marketing team by defining our marketing priorities, evaluating gaps, and assessing the skills required.
• Evaluate innovative technologies and add-on applications to improve and optimize marketing team performance. 
• Chief of Staff/Exec Comms – Support CMO on internal and external communications, PowerPoint presentations for Board members, company All-hands, quarterly Marketing Alerts to sales, partners, and executive leadership teams.
• Drive the agenda for global marketing team meetings and marketing leadership meetings.
• Budget Planning & Management – Develop a marketing budget portfolio aligning to key priorities and fiscal year revenue targets.
• Manage marketing budget planning process and act as the Marketing liaison with Finance to ensure all activities are within budget, with approved POs and invoiced accordingly. 
• Performance Management & Reporting – Implement regular reporting of global marketing activities for CMO and the leadership team. Measure all marketing performance against fiscal business goals.
• Ownership of weekly and monthly marketing reporting and quarterly marketing QBR process.
• Leadership and Process Excellence – Based on the strategy, manage, and develop the marketing execution process and work closely with marketing leads including Brand, Marketing Operations, Demand Generation/Digital, Field/Events Marketing, Content, Social Media, Public Relations, Analyst Relations, Internal Communications and Customer Marketing and key partner functions.
• Provide clear-cut communication for projects, deadlines, and all marketing operational aspects. 
• Marketing Liaison with Cross-Functional Stakeholders: Drive cross-functional alignment on key initiatives with Finance, Sales Operations, Product Teams, Customer Marketing, HR, IT, Legal and Office of the CEO.
• Establish close collaboration with sales operations.
• Analyze marketing and sales data to develop insights and make recommendations on areas for optimization.

Experience / Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in strategy, planning and operations, consulting or marketing operations
• Experience working in high tech space preferred
• Strong strategic planning and communication skills
• Outstanding analytical, project management, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment and embracing flex between strategic thinking and hands-on execution
• Experience working in/with marketing functions including Brand, Marketing Ops, Demand Generation/Digital, Field/Events Marketing, Content, Social Media, Public Relations, Analyst Relations, Internal Communications, Customer Marketing and Product Marketing.
• Track record of experience developing and maintaining highly collaborative cross-functional relationships. Leader by example as well as a team player to enable success as One Team
• Understanding in sales force productivity, GTM strategies, and channel strategies to accelerate the lead gen execution process 
• Ability to roll-up the sleeves and get the work done
• Travel domestically and potentially international travel to India as needed (but not more than 1x times per year)
• MBA preferred