Head of Marketing Operations

About the role

The Head of Marketing Operations will lead a critical team to help power Stripe's growth. They will set the direction of marketing operations, solve time-sensitive and complex operational and systems challenges, and develop managers and individual contributors.

Responsibilities

• Drive excellence in the operations and systems that support inbound and outbound sales, digital marketing channels, and in-person events
• Partner with Demand Generation Systems to build, buy, improve, and support the technology for digital marketing campaigns, in-person events, and sales development
• Avoid inaccurately routing and progressing leads to match sales coverage decisions, demand marketing strategies, and agreed upon timelines
• Generate and maintain sufficient account coverage and quality of sales contacts and marketing database subscribers for sales and marketing outreach
• Produce digital marketing campaigns with velocity and at the highest quality
• Serve as the senior marketing operations voice in cross-functional workstreams with Sales Development, Sales Operations, Revenue, and Regional Marketing teams
• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing marketing operations team
• Set strategic direction, objectives, and key results for the Marketing Operations organization, aligned to broader marketing and Stripe-wide objectives and key results

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in B2B marketing or revenue operations and working directly on an enterprise marketing technology stack (Marketing Automation Platform, CRM, sales engagement, company and contact data, etc.)
• 5+ years of direct people management experience, including managing managers and building teams of 10+ people; experience managing distributed and global teams
• 3+ years of working in a global B2B company with hundreds of marketers and sales development representatives
• Demonstrated ability to design and scale operations organizations, including structuring teams and managing through ambiguity
• Experience leading programs across multiple functional areas simultaneously
• Track record of driving measurable improvements in B2B marketing operations
• Strong cross-functional influence and ability to drive alignment at senior levels across Sales Development, Sales Operations, Revenue, and Regional Marketing
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to use data to diagnose operational problems, set targets, and evaluate program outcomes
• Ability to build working prototypes and demos with AI to solve marketing operations challenges
• Prior responsibility for launching AI solutions to sales development or marketing teams