Director, Marketing Strategy and Operations

The Role

Morning Consult is hiring a Director, Marketing Strategy and Operations to own the marketing organization's highest-priority cross-functional initiatives end to end — from problem definition through implementation, adoption, and the outcome each one was meant to produce. This role requires structuring real ambiguity and moving fluidly between strategic planning and hands-on execution.

Ownership works as follows: You define the problem, build the plan, convene the cross-functional group, drive the decisions, and are measured on whether it shipped and moved the number it was supposed to move. Marketing leadership may be involved in the first meeting, but after that, it's yours.

This is not a conventional product marketing, growth, or operations role. You'll flex across the function to support what the business needs most in a given quarter. Responsibilities may include:

• Rebuilding how inbound leads flow from marketing to sales.
• Helping take new AI and agentic product capabilities to market.
• Translating strategic priorities into concrete plans and scorecards.
• Working through how the team's content function should evolve.

What You'll Be Working On

• Own the marketing organization's highest-priority cross-functional initiatives, scoped with the Chief Growth Officer.
• Own communication and reporting of overall growth function performance to executive, cross-functional, and team function leaders.
• Own large-scale transformation projects end-to-end, from problem definition through implementation and adoption.
• Structure undefined, messy problems into clear plans, workstreams, timelines, and owners, and drive them to completion.
• Translate Marketing leadership's strategic priorities into concrete operating plans, targets, and scorecards, and own tracking progress against them.
• Build and run the operating rhythm for the marketing organization, including planning cycles, leadership reviews, and decision forums.
• Lead Marketing's role in company-level strategic efforts, including the go-to-market for new AI and agentic product capabilities, analytics investment, and Marketing's contribution to enterprise and AI-partner pitches.
• Partner with functional leads to evaluate and strengthen team capabilities and areas for improvement.
• Build materials and narratives for executive- and leadership-level conversations.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to marketing leadership on prioritization, resourcing, and organizational design decisions.
• Build trust and alignment across stakeholders in Sales, Product, RevOps, and Finance.
• Move fluidly between strategy and hands-on execution.

About You and What You've Done

• At least 8+ years of experience spanning product marketing, growth, or business/marketing operations and strategy, ideally at a high-growth SaaS, data, or technology company.
• A track record of owning large-scale, cross-functional transformation projects from ambiguity through execution.
• Comfortable operating without a fixed functional lane, energized by moving between strategy, analytics, and hands-on execution.
• A systems thinker who can diagnose and redesign broken or informal processes to scale.
• Strong judgment with significant autonomy; exercises wide latitude in determining the right approach to critical, undefined assignments.
• Experience operating as a close, trusted partner to a senior leader on strategic initiatives.
• Experience building or running planning cycles, operating cadences, or scorecards for a leadership team.
• Strong analytical fluency and comfort getting into the data to inform recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to flex between detailed execution and executive-level narrative.
• Genuine curiosity about applying AI to marketing and operations, with an interest in evaluating and rolling out new tools and agentic capabilities.
• Depth in B2B product marketing, data or licensing go-to-market, or enterprise growth is a strong plus.

Note: This list is a guide, not a checklist. Underrepresented/marginalized groups are encouraged to apply even if they don’t meet every qualification.