Senior Strategy & Operations Manager

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior strategic marketing leader in San Francisco to partner with the Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy & Insights. The role shapes priorities, crafts executive communications, and steers leadership forums.

You will own the operating rhythm for critical marketing processes while ensuring governance structures drive decisions, trade-offs, and rapid execution. Leverage data to reveal trends, gaps, and growth opportunities for executive teams.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years’ experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or marketing strategy.
• Experience in large, matrixed organizations with cross-functional teams.
• Highly organized with excellent project management and prioritization skills.
• Comfortable managing up, across, and down with strong communication and influence.
• Proficiency with collaboration and planning tools, including Workfront, SharePoint, and Excel.
• Proactive, meticulous, and solutions-focused approach.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and calm to chaos.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy & Insights
• Shape strategic priorities, executive communications, and leadership forums
• Lead the operating rhythm for key marketing processes
• Ensure executive forums and governance structures drive decisions, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate execution
• Monitor market trends, competitive activity, and internal business dynamics to anticipate strategic risks and opportunities
• Manage organizational governance, decision-making frameworks, prioritization processes, and accountability models
• Partner across business units, global teams, and external partners to align with enterprise priorities
• Translate complex data into actionable insights for executive decision‑making
• Identify business trends, performance gaps, and growth opportunities and recommend strategies
• Develop executive presentations, board materials, and leadership communications

Skills

Strategic Marketing

Executive Communication

Project Management

Data Analysis

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Tools

Workfront

SharePoint

Excel

Job description

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy & Insights
• Shape strategic priorities, executive communications, and leadership forums
• Lead the operating rhythm for key marketing processes
• Ensure executive forums and governance structures drive decisions, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate execution
• Monitor market trends, competitive activity, and internal business dynamics to anticipate strategic risks and opportunities
• Manage organizational governance, decision-making frameworks, prioritization processes, and accountability models
• Partner across business units, global teams, and external partners to align with enterprise priorities
• Translate complex data into actionable insights for executive decision‑making
• Identify business trends, performance gaps, and growth opportunities and recommend strategies
• Develop executive presentations, board materials, and leadership communications

Requirements

• 5-7 years’ experience, ideally in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or marketing strategy
• Experience working in large, matrixed organizations with cross-functional teams
• Highly organized with excellent project management and prioritization skills
• Comfortable managing up, across, and down with strong communication and influence
• Proficiency with collaboration and planning tools, including Workfront, SharePoint, and Excel
• Proactive, meticulous, and solutions-focused approach
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and calm to chaos

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in strategic marketing, executive communication, and project management within large, matrixed organizations. Capable of translating complex data into actionable insights and aligning cross-functional teams with enterprise priorities.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Strategic Marketing
• Executive Communication
• Project Management
• Data Analysis
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Hard Skills

• Strategic Consulting
• Investment Banking
• Corporate Strategy
• Marketing Strategy
• Data Translation

Soft Skills

• Highly Organized
• Strong Communication
• Influence
• Proactive Approach
• Solutions-Focused

Industry Keywords

• Market Trends
• Competitive Activity
• Organizational Governance
• Decision-Making Frameworks
• Leadership Communications

Tools & Technologies

• Workfront
• SharePoint
• Excel