Product Marketing Operations Lead

Location: San Francisco CA - REMOTE

Duration: 3 months

Description:

We're seeking a Product Marketing Operations Lead to build and scale the operating infrastructure that enables our Product Marketing team to deliver strategic business outcomes. This contract role is ideal for a builder who thrives in ambiguity, creates structure, and drives adoption of processes, tools, and workflows that improve execution across a global organization. They will be working most directly with Product Marketing, but also with Business Operations and Regional Marketing. Success requires someone who can connect strategy to execution, improve visibility and accountability, and leverage AI and automation to increase operational effectiveness.

Location- Remote US

Time zone- Pacific Zone

Job Responsibilities

1. Refine the Product Marketing Operating Model

• Refine, document, and implement GTM planning, prioritization, launch, and reporting processes that improve execution and accountability.
• Develop the business rhythms, frameworks, dashboards, and operating mechanisms that enable scalable team performance.
• Problem-solve for and drive adoption of improved ways of working across Product Marketing, BG and CP, Regional Marketing, and other Global Disciplines.

2. Lead Product Marketing Portfolio and Resource Planning

• Maintain visibility into team priorities, initiatives, milestones, dependencies, and budgets.
• Identify execution risks, resource constraints, and areas requiring attention; lead problem-solving efforts within the cross-functional team.
• Partner with leadership to facilitate more complex prioritization, sequencing, and capacity planning decisions.

3. Drive Cross-Functional Execution

• Partner across Marketing, Product, Sales, Creative, Regional Marketing, and Operations teams to align goals, resources, and execution plans.
• Establish mechanisms to proactively surface opportunities, blockers, dependencies, and decision points.
• Serve as a trusted operational partner for strategic initiatives and marketing priorities.

4. Enable Go-to-Market Excellence

• Help develop and operationalize launch planning frameworks, readiness processes, and governance models.
• Drive successful launch executions by aligning stakeholders, milestones, resources, and timelines.
• Connect global strategy with regional activations and execution needs.

5. Scale Through Systems, AI, and Automation

• Implement tools, dashboards, and workflows that improve planning, visibility, reporting, insights development, and knowledge sharing.
• Leverage AI and automation to reduce operational friction, streamline recurring work, and accelerate decision-making.
• Measure adoption and business impact of new processes and systems.

6. Deliver Measurement and Insights

• Build reporting frameworks that provide visibility into initiative health, launch readiness, business priorities, and progress against goals.
• Support quarterly and annual planning processes.
• Drive continuous improvement by capturing learnings and translating them into operational enhancements.