Director of Demand Generation

Meeting Tomorrow, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401k with company match

16 PTO days

Profit-sharing bonus

Parental leave

Internet/cell stipends

Company donations to charity

Job summary

Meeting Tomorrow is seeking a Director of Demand Generation to own our inbound revenue and drive rapid growth across paid, organic, and AI-powered search. You’ll report to the COO and partner with Sales and Marketing to accelerate revenue.

This builder role requires strategy ownership, channel leadership, and agentic workflows that compound over time, aiming for measurable revenue improvements and efficient pipeline creation.

Qualifications

• Proven SEO expertise with measurable ranking improvements and technical/content understanding.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents or agentic workflows that automated real processes.
• Clear track record of digital lead growth tied to revenue across channels.
• Strong data fluency; able to own numbers and explain pipeline progression to leadership.
• Experience with paid media platforms (Google Ads, LinkedIn) and marketing automation/CRM systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute the demand generation roadmap aligned to revenue targets and Sales priorities.
• Own SEO strategy and execution with keyword targeting, on-page optimization, and technical SEO.
• Manage paid media across Google and LinkedIn with structure, targeting, and testing.
• Develop Meeting Tomorrow’s presence in AI-powered search through GEO strategies.
• Build and iterate agentic workflows to automate marketing functions and accelerate pipeline.
• Run A/B tests across channels to improve performance.
• Partner with Sales on lead handoff and pipeline review cycles.
• Ensure outbound programs comply with CAN-SPAM, GDPR, and CCPA.

Skills

SEO

AI agent workflows

Paid media (Google Ads, LinkedIn)

Data fluency

Marketing automation / CRM (HubSpot, (

Tools

Google Ads

LinkedIn Ads

HubSpot

Marketo

ActiveCampaign

Job description

Meeting Tomorrow is a 23-year-old company with a growing team of 90 talented, friendly people. We’re headquartered in Chicago, with about 80% of our team working remotely in cities across the country.

We are a full-service event agency with three core divisions: planning, production, and creative. We plan and produce corporate events of every shape and size, partnering with clients that include Fortune 500 companies and leading organizations across a wide array of industries.

We’re known for our exceptional customer experience, our collaborative culture, and our can-do spirit. Our culture has earned us recognition as a Top 20 Inspiring Workplace in North America, as well as the Events Industry Council's Social Impact Award. We offer great benefits, the best coworkers you’ll find anywhere, and the opportunity to work in a dynamic, team-oriented environment. We can’t wait to meet you!

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Director of Demand Generation to own our inbound revenue number and the plan to grow it several times over in the next three years. You’ll drive leads across three channels: paid advertising (Google, LinkedIn), organic search and SEO, and AI-powered search and LLM visibility (GEO). You’ll report to the COO, and partner closely with our Sales and Marketing teams.

This is a builder role. You’ll own the strategy, run the channels, and build the agentic workflows that make the whole machine run more efficiently over time. Your success is measured in revenue, not pipeline or activity.

What You’ll Own

• Pipeline end to end: qualified leads across inbound and outbound channels, from first touch to sales handoff

• Paid advertising: Google Ads and LinkedIn, with full budget accountability and a bias toward what actually converts

• Organic search and SEO: making Meeting Tomorrow’s content and website attractive to Google and ranking for the terms that matter to our buyers

• LLM and GEO: growing Meeting Tomorrow’s presence in AI-powered search and recommendation environments

• Agentic workflows: building and managing the automations that drive campaign efficiency and compress time-to-pipeline

• Demand gen KPIs: CPL, MQL volume and quality, MQL-to-SQL conversion, pipeline contribution, and CAC, with regular visibility to leadership

• Budget decisions: full accountability for how demand gen dollars are allocated, with the COO in the loop

Key Responsibilities

• Build and execute the demand generation roadmap, aligned to revenue targets and Sales priorities

• Own SEO strategy and execution: keyword targeting, on-page optimization, content signals, and technical SEO in partnership with the web team

• Manage paid media across Google and LinkedIn: campaign structure, targeting, creative testing, and budget allocation

• Develop Meeting Tomorrow’s presence in AI-powered search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) through GEO strategies

• Build and iterate on agentic workflows that automate repeatable marketing functions, from lead scoring to outreach sequencing

• Run A/B tests and side‑by‑side comparisons across channels to continuously improve performance

• Partner with Sales on lead handoff, pipeline review cadences, and feedback loops

• Ensure all outbound programs comply with CAN‑SPAM, GDPR, and CCPA

Who You Are

• You’re a builder. You see a gap, you close it. You don’t wait for someone to tell you how.

• You’re entrepreneurial about channels: when something works, you double down. When it doesn’t, you move on and find what does.

• You think in systems and automation. The goal is a demand gen function that compounds over time, not one that depends on you doing everything manually.

• You treat Sales like a partner, not an internal customer. Pipeline is a team sport.

• You can walk into ambiguity, build structure, and make progress without waiting for someone to hand you a playbook.

What You’ve Done

• Proven SEO expertise: you know how to make a website and its content rank. You’ve done it, you can show the results, and you understand the technical and content sides of the discipline.

• Hands‑on experience building AI agents or agentic workflows: not theoretically familiar, not interested in learning. You have built at least one agent that automated something real and you can speak to what it did.

• A clear track record of digital lead growth tied to revenue: you can point to a channel you found or optimized and tell us what it made the business.

• Strong data fluency: you own your numbers, run your own analysis, and can walk leadership through your pipeline story without a deck full of caveats.

• Experience with paid media platforms (Google Ads, LinkedIn) and marketing automation or CRM systems (HubSpot, Marketo, ActiveCampaign, or equivalent).

• Has carried a revenue number, not just a channel number — built a multi‑year revenue model and defended the acquisition budget behind it to a CEO, board, or investor.

The Impact

Within 1 month, you’ll:

• Deeply understand the brand, business, and related goals.

• Run a full audit of existing programs, stack, and agent infrastructure to understand the foundation we are working from.

Within 3 months, you’ll:

• Create first agentic workflow live and tracked against pipeline KPIs

• Create a demand gen roadmap presented to leadership with agent strategy integrated

Within 6 months you’ll:

• Have measurable pipeline impact from agent‑run programs with compounding momentum

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plan options

• Employer paid STD, LTD, Life Insurance, and EAP access

• 401k with employer matching up to 4%

• 16 PTO days (increases with tenure) + 9 paid holidays

• Annual profit‑sharing bonus

• 12 weeks 100% paid parental leave (maternity, paternity, adoption)

• $50 Monthly fitness reimbursement

• Monthly stipends for internet and/or cell

• Company donation(s) to your charities of choice (up to $1,000 annually)

• Regular social events and learning opportunities

$140,000 - $186,001 a year

The above range is the starting salary range for this role. The final starting salary is based on individual experience and how closely it translates to the role. Once in the role, we offer annual merit increases based on performance.

At Meeting Tomorrow, our mission is to foster a culture of respect and affection. We embrace our differences and are committed to having a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer that believes in second chances and strongly encourages BIPOC, women, LGBTQIA, veterans, persons with disabilities, formerly incarcerated and all other individuals to apply.

What makes Meeting Tomorrow’s culture so special is the people, and we look for candidates who are a match for our company’s core values: commitment, kindness and humility. If those words describe you and you see yourself in this posting.