Marketing Chief of Staff

Role Description

We're hiring a Marketing Chief of Staff to keep Cohere's marketing org moving at full speed without coming apart at the seams. You'll report to the VP of Brand and work across the whole function: brand, editorial, design, product marketing, demand generation, and integrated marketing.

This is not a strategy-only role, and it isn't a glorified project-management seat either. In any given quarter the org is shipping product launches, field events, partner campaigns, and demand programs in parallel, often across regions and time zones. Your job is to make sure the right work wins when everything feels urgent, that plans turn into shipped work, and that the VP of Brand and the leadership team spend their time leading instead of firefighting.

Be clear-eyed about the shape of the work. A lot of it is operational:

• The planning calendar
• The budget
• The headcount plan
• The weekly business reviews
• The cross-functional handoffs that break when nobody owns them

The grind is the job. You should want that part, not tolerate it.

One boundary worth naming up front. Marketing Ops owns the systems: the MarTech stack, attribution, scoring, routing, data pipelines, and the reporting everyone runs on. You'll be the heaviest consumer of that work, not the owner of it.

Your seat is the operating rhythm of the org: meetings, priorities, plans, and the decisions that come out of them.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of operating experience, with real time inside a marketing org in a Chief of Staff, business operations, or senior program-operations seat.
• A practitioner's understanding of demand generation and account-based marketing in a B2B context.
• Comfort with marketing and pipeline metrics and with running a budget.
• A track record of bringing order to a fast, complex org without grinding it to a halt.
• Clear writing, straight talk, and the presence to hold a room of senior people to a plan.

Requirements

• You've run operations inside a fast, high-output B2B marketing org, and you've left it running better than you found it.
• You understand how marketing actually works, at the level of someone who's done it rather than managed it from a distance.
• You're fluent in the numbers: pipeline math, funnel conversion, budget-to-impact.
• You hold strategy and execution in the same hand.
• You write clearly and communicate straight.
• You stay calm when it's messy.

What you'll own

• Operating rhythm and planning
• Priorities and cross-functional flow
• Connective tissue with the rest of the company
• Leadership leverage
• Special projects

How success will be measured

• Planning happens on time and means something.
• Programs ship on cadence without running into each other.
• Leadership gets time back.
• Decisions run on the numbers.
• The org feels coherent.

Backgrounds we'd be excited about

• Chief of Staff or business operations at a high-growth B2B software or AI company.
• A marketing ops or RevOps leader who wants an org-level operating seat rather than a systems seat.
• Strategy or management consulting followed by an in-house operating role.
• A demand-gen or integrated-marketing operator who has moved into an org-level operating seat.

Compensation

• For candidates based in the United States, the Compensation Range is: $155,000 – $240,000 USD
• For candidates based in Canada, the Compensation Range is: $220,000 – $270,000 CAD

How and Where We Work

• Cohere is remote-friendly.
• For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
• For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.

If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply.

We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities.