Senior Director, Global Marketing Operations

PubMatic, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental & Vision

Disability & Life

Commuter Benefits

Unlimited DTO

In-office lunches

Job summary

PubMatic is seeking a Senior Director, Global Marketing Operations in New York City to build measurement, planning, and budget discipline that ties marketing efforts to business outcomes. This role reports to the CMO and partners with Finance, Sales, and regional teams to create a unified source of truth for performance.

You will own marketing measurement framework, global planning process, and budget management, delivering dashboards and governance to drive growth and clarity across the

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in marketing operations, marketing finance, or strategy/consulting, with a track record of building measurement and planning discipline inside a B2B organization.
• Demonstrated experience building marketing measurement frameworks that connect marketing activity to pipeline and revenue.
• Strong analytical depth, including genuine comfort with SQL and data visualization tools.
• Salesforce expertise, including data architecture, lead and opportunity objects, and campaign attribution.
• Experience managing a marketing budget process in partnership with Finance, including forecasting, variance reporting, and accrual support.

Responsibilities

• Marketing Measurement Framework: develop and instrument reporting connecting marketing activity to pipeline and revenue.
• Global Marketing Planning Process: establish a consistent process for global and regional plans tied to business outcomes.
• Marketing Budget Management & Optimization: create a unified budget structure with governance and regular variance reporting.
• Rhythm of Marketing: build dashboards and cadence for executive visibility and accountability.

Skills

Marketing analytics

SQL

Salesforce

Budget management

Executive communication

Education

BA/BS

MBA (preferred)

Tools

Looker

Job description

Senior Director, Global Marketing Operations

Department: Marketing

About the Role:

We are building something new. This is a first of its kind role at PubMatic: a Senior Director of Marketing Operations who will build the measurement, planning, and budget discipline thatdemonstratesmarketing impact to the business.

PubMatic is transforming from a sell-side platform into a buyer-connected, artificial intelligence-driven performance advertising platform. That transformation requires marketing toevolve and measureits commercial impact with rigorandinsight.What we are seeking to build is that proof, in a consistent,scalable, and instrumentedway, a consistent global planning process tyingmarketingplans to business outcomes, and a unified view of how the marketing budget is allocated, governed, and performing against results.

This is the function that makes every other marketing investment decision defensible, and the discipline that lets marketingbecome atrue business partner to Finance, Sales, and the executive team.

Reporting directly to the CMO and partnering closely with Finance, Accounting,GTM,Sales Operations, and marketing leaders across every region and Center of Excellence, you willpartner with the teamtostand up the measurement, planning, and budgetsystemsthatenhances our performance-basedmarketingteam.

The role is NYC based.

What You'll Do:

As Senior Director, Marketing Operations, you will own four interconnected accountability areas that together give PubMatic marketing a single, trusted source of truth for performance, planning, andspend.

• Marketing Measurement Framework:partneringwith the Growth Marketing leader, develop and instrument reportingconnecting marketing activity to pipeline and revenue
• Global Marketing Planning Process:partnering with region marketing leadsestablisha consistent process for building global and regionalmarketingplans tied to business outcomes
• Marketing Budget Management: a unified budget structure and governance process run in partnership with Financeand Accounting
• Rhythm ofMarketingReporting: the recurring cadence andautomatedexecutive dashboards that keep marketingperformance to goals measurable and visible

Your Responsibilities:

Marketing Measurement Framework

• Design and implement a marketing measurement framework that connects marketingprogramsto pipeline creation, pipeline progression, and revenuecontribution
• Partner with Growth Marketing, Sales Operations, and IT to ensure Salesforce and Looker data integration supports reliable, auditable attribution reporting
• Establish and champion the discipline that investment follows measurement: every program should carry a defined success metric
• Develop marketing ROI reportingthat marketing leaders trust and use, and stands up to business and executive review

Global Marketing Planning Process

• Partner with region marketing leads to create and implement a consistent global marketing planning process, spanning annual and quarterly cycles, that ties every global and regional plan to a defined business outcome
• Build andmaintaina tiered prioritization framework that governs investment intensitylevels
• Coordinate planning inputs and timelines across North America, EMEA, and APAC marketing leaders, Centers of Excellence, and Product Marketing to produce one coherent global plan
• Ensure plans translate cleanly into budget, headcount, and campaign execution, so strategy, resourcing, and spend are alwaysin sync
• Own the planning calendar and cadence, refreshing plans quarterly against actual performance and evolving business priorities

Marketing Budget Management & Optimization

• Own the marketing budget and reporting process in true partnership with marketing leads, Finance, and Accounting
• Build a unified budget structure that gives full visibility across events, programs, technology, and headcount
• Supporta monthly budget governance cadence covering variance reporting, spend versus plan, and reallocation recommendations grounded in performance data
• Partner with Finance and Accounting on forecasting, accruals, and vendor management so marketing's financials are clean, current, and audit-ready

Rhythm of Marketing

• In partnership with growth marketing, build and run marketing's rhythm of business:lead-to-pipeline-to-revenue reviews, KPI reviews, and dashboard reporting for the CMO andmarketingleadership team
• Create andmaintainthe dashboard that connects marketing investment to pipeline and revenue outcomes in a single, always-current view
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment across Marketing, Finance, Sales Operations, Product, and Business Operations.

Who You Are:

Required

• 12+ years of experience in marketing operations, marketing finance, or strategy/consulting, witha track recordof building measurement and planning discipline inside a B2B organization
• Demonstrated experience building marketing measurement frameworks that connect marketing activity to pipeline and revenue
• Strong analytical depth, including genuine comfort with SQL and data visualization tools
• Salesforceexpertise, including data architecture, lead and opportunity objects, and campaign attribution
• Experiencemanaginga marketing budget process in partnership with Finance, including forecasting, variance reporting, andaccrual support.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to translate data into clear, actionable recommendations for the CMO and leadership team
• BA/BSrequired;MBA or equivalent preferred

Preferred

• Multi-regional B2B marketing operations experience across North America, EMEA, and APAC
• Advanced attribution modeling or machine learning-based measurement experience
• Background in management consulting or corporate strategy
• Ad tech or programmatic advertising credibility

Additional Information

Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the globe have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.

Benefits:

• paid leave programs
• paid holidays
• healthcare
• dental and vision insurance
• disability and life insurance
• commuter benefits
• physical and financial wellness programs
• unlimited DTO in the US (that we actually require you to use!)
• reimbursement for mobile
• fully stocked pantries
• in-office catered lunches 5 days per week.

Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

About PubMatic

PubMatic is one of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.

Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.

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