Global Marketing Ops Leader, AI & Automation

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Presencial; USD 259.000 - 356.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Director of Marketing Operations to lead a global team and define the operational backbone, technology strategy, and cadence for Global Marketing. You will bridge executive vision with scalable execution, driving the Marketing AI North Star Roadmap and co-owning the Joint Marketing–IT Roadmap to modernize enterprise MarTech and data governance.

You will guide automation, data hygiene, and vendor governance while aligning across Sales Ops, Product, Finance,

Formación

• 15+ years in Marketing Operations or related fields.
• Proven AI roadmap operationalization in large enterprises.
• Experience partnering with IT and EA for roadmaps.
• Deep expertise with MarTech stacks (CRM, CDP, BI).
• Strong executive presence and budget ownership.
• Proven ability to lead global, distributed teams.
• Experience with vendor consolidation & governance.
• Experience managing multi-year operational roadmaps.

Responsabilidades

• Define and lead the Marketing AI North Star Roadmap.
• Govern AI production workflows with Legal, InfoSec, Data teams.
• Modernize enterprise MarTech architecture and data governance.
• Co-architect Joint Marketing–IT Roadmap.
• Ensure seamless integrations across marketing tools and product telemetry.
• Establish SLAs and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA).
• Drive multi-year operational blueprint across regions.
• Lead transformations across Sales Ops, Product, Finance, IT, and Marketing.
• Drive change management to maximize tool adoption.
• Track KPIs: pipeline velocity, attribution, MarTech adoption.
• Lead global vendor management.
• Architect lead-to-opportunity lifecycle.
• Automate multi-touch nurture and dynamic segmentation.
• Data enrichment, deduplication, lifecycle management.

Conocimientos

Strategic Marketing Operations

AI roadmap definition

Cross-functional leadership

Executive stakeholder management

Budget planning & headcount modeling

Vendor consolidation

Change management

Data governance & privacy awareness

Herramientas

Salesforce

Marketo/HubSpot

Snowflake

Segment/CDP

BI tooling

Orchestration layers

Descripción del empleo

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Director of Marketing Operations to lead a global team and define the operational backbone, technology strategy, and cadence for Global Marketing. You will bridge executive vision with scalable execution, driving the Marketing AI North Star Roadmap and co-owning the Joint Marketing–IT Roadmap to modernize enterprise MarTech and data governance.

You will guide automation, data hygiene, and vendor governance while aligning across Sales Ops, Product, Finance,