Senior Manager, Marketing Strategy & Operations
Job description
The Marketing Strategy and Operations Senior Manager is a strategic right-hand implementer to the VP of Marketing, designing and operating the marketing operating system across content, media, social, paid, ambassadors, web, campaigns, and automation. The role splits time between special marketing projects, marketing operations, and Chief of Staff-style support to the VP.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Kenya, United States, United Kingdom
- Pay
- USD 120,750 / year
What you'll do
- 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
- Define success metrics and test plans up front, and report results candidly, including what didn't work
- Document what works, build playbooks, and hand off to a permanent owner or team
- Own annual and quarterly planning and OKR discipline, translating strategic intent into priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes
- Analyze marketing performance, trends, and customer insights to identify growth levers
- Lead the org through operating change, including the transition to AI-enabled ways of working
- Own marketing budget and headcount planning with Finance, building integrated resource plans and tradeoff recommendation
- Partner with People Team on headcount planning and scaling hiring plans
- Manage key marketing vendor evaluations, procurement, and onboarding of new tools
- Manage the leadership operating rhythm: staff meetings, business reviews, offsites, extended leadership meetings, all-hands, off-site retreats
- Act as a strategic thought partner and advisor to marketing leadership on key decisions, priorities, and emerging opportunities; provide high candor feedback to executive leadership
- Support leadership in navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, team management, and driving execution
What we're looking for
- 5–7 years in strategy, chief of staff, management consulting, indie hacker, agency, or marketing/growth or GTM operations
- 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
- 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
- Experience managing executive operating rhythms, leadership meetings, business reviews, offsites, and planning forums
- Familiarity with common marketing tech stack tools
Your team
Marketing
Marketing ecosystem spanning content, media, social, paid, ambassadors, web, campaigns, and automation
Benefits
- Bonus target: 10%
- Annual Benefits Stipend (amount varies by location)
- The benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income
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About GiveDirectly
Give people money and trust them to decide what they need
GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty and crisis across 15 countries since 2011. The organization is known for extensive integration of technology into field processes, a quantitative approach to performance measurement, and rigorous, independent, experimental evaluation of its impact, with multiple Randomized Control Trials completed and others in progress.
Mission
To fight poverty by delivering cash directly to people living in poverty and crisis, and to make cash the benchmark for aid
Key facts
- 2011
- International development / cash transfer aid
- Delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people across 15 countries
- Team spans 20+ countries and 69 languages
- Expects to hit $1B in revenue in 2026 with significant growth forecast for 2027
- Building a new technology stack and operating model designed for a roughly 10x change in scale
- One of Time100's Most Influential Companies of 2026
- Work covered by The Economist, NPR, TED, and The Washington Post
- Member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme
What they value
- Recipients first
- Team next
- Be proactively candid
- Create positive energy
- Think rigorously; act quickly
- Know yourself and grow
- Accept reality. Propose solutions
- Be productively ambitious