Senior Marketing Operations Specialist

Motive; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Pharmacy benefits

Optical benefits

Dental care

Paid time off

Short/Long-term disability

Life insurance

401k contribution

Job summary

Motive seeks a Senior Marketing Operations Specialist to manage Motive's MarTech stack and data flows, partnering with IT, product, and data teams to enable rapid growth.

You’ll drive data governance, cross-platform signals, and scalable workflows while collaborating with marketing, sales, and enterprise systems to optimize campaigns and customer journeys.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ hands-on experience administering a marketing tech stack and databases.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce and Marketo; certification is a plus.
• 1+ year of professional use of AI platforms (Claude, Gemini, Glean, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving, analytical mindset.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Administer the MarTech stack day-to-day, including configurations and builds.
• Build workflows automating marketing ops processes and data-flow monitoring.
• Implement data governance, compliance and quality measures.
• Set up cross-platform signals and in-product messaging for journeys.
• Support marketing stakeholders on MarTech usage and best practices.

Skills

Marketing stack administration

Salesforce

Marketo

AI platforms

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Salesforce

Marketo

Clay

Pendo

Outreach

6sense

Snowflake

Job description

Who we are

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers - from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses - across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role

The Marketing Operations team is responsible for building the tools and capabilities that enable us to scale our marketing practice. This includes all we do with marketing systems, marketing services, data quality, sales alignment and more. The team provides strategic and tactical support to key projects at Motive that make it possible for us to grow. We collaborate closely with teams across the company - like enterprise systems, sales, product marketing, engineering and more.

As Senior Marketing Operations Specialist, you will be responsible for administering Motive's MarTech stack and systems to support our rapid growth. As subject-matter expert on marketing systems and data flow configuration and capabilities, you will work with IT, enterprise systems, product, and data teams to support key marketing processes and strategic initiatives. We're looking for someone who is ready to hone their expertise in MarTech applications, and collaborate across marketing teams.

What You'll Do

• Administer the MarTech stack day-to-day, including technical configurations and builds, testing new functionalities, troubleshooting, and supporting continuous optimization
• Build agentic workflows automating and scaling marketing ops processes, such as marketing-sales handoffs and key data flow monitoring
• Implement data governance, compliance and quality measures informed by business requirements
• Set up cross-platform signals and in-product messaging to drive prospect and customer journeys
• Support and enable marketing team stakeholders on MarTech stack utilization, MCP capabilities, and best practices

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering a marketing technical stack and database.
• Past hands-on expertise administering and building in Motive's main GTM stack: Salesforce and Marketo (certification is a plus); as well as Clay, Pendo, Outreach, 6sense, Snowflake, or similar tools.
• 1+ years of hands-on professional use of AI platforms such as Claude, Gemini, Glean etc.
• Excellent problem solving skills and analytical mindset
• Strong communication and cross-functional stakeholder collaboration skills
• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited university

Pay Transparency

Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units.

Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. Motive uses three geographic zones to determine pay range. For this role, the compensation ranges are:

• San Francisco, California - $82,000—$114,000 USD
• US metropolitan areas: New York City Area and Seattle, WA - $72,000—$99,000 USD
• Other locations in the United States - $72,000—$99,000 USD

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