Strategy, Planning and Operations Manager

Cypress HCM; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 83,000 - 117,000; Part time

Job summary

Cypress HCM is seeking a Strategy, Planning and Operations Manager for a contract role (remote, PST/MST). The role focuses on supporting marketing planning, operations, and reporting via AI-powered dashboards, data inputs, and executive summaries.

The position coordinates with cross‑functional teams across time zones to drive platform rollout and cadence across the Americas. Responsibilities include maintaining data connections in Workfront Planning, producing AI-enhanced dashboards, validating

Qualifications

• 5+ years in marketing operations or planning roles.
• Experience using AI tools to build dashboards and reports.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to synthesize inputs into executive-level narratives.

Responsibilities

• Maintain planning data and AI-powered dashboards.
• Produce executive-facing planning summaries.
• Support rollout across regional teams across time zones.
• Audit and maintain template library.
• Track Jira tickets and translate status into summaries.
• Build AI-assisted workflows and dashboards.
• Evaluate AI outputs with human judgment.

Skills

AI tools proficiency

Stakeholder coordination

Project management

Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel)

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Workfront Planning

Jira

Teams

Slack

Job description

• Strategy, Planning and Operations Manager
• Location: Remote PST or MST
• Duration: 09/28/2026 - 04/08/2027 (Contract)
• Team: GMI MGMT

Job Overview

• Support marketing planning, operations, and reporting by maintaining planning data and AI-powered dashboards, synthesizing executive-facing summaries, and enabling platform rollout and operational cadence across cross‑functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Gather and maintain data connections and inputs within an internal planning and budgeting platform (Workfront Planning), partnering with finance analysts, marketing strategists, and other cross‑functional partners (including consumer and B2B teams).
• Validate data quality and troubleshoot data entry or calculation issues within the platform as they arise.
• Produce and maintain AI-powered dashboards that support planning and reporting.
• Support production of an executive-facing planning summary — synthesizing and validating outputs and owning the final deliverable.
• Support the platform's rollout to regional teams, working across time zones to guide transitions and support the Americas transition.
• Maintain the integrity of organization messaging workspace, including approving new users and troubleshooting issues.
• Create and share a weekly leadership update summarizing product and customer marketing news.
• Support recurring ops and communications items including operational cadence, informal team learning sessions, internal knowledge‑sharing sites, and refreshing recurring presentation materials.
• Audit template library for internal marketing tool: remove outdated email and paid media templates, verify functionality, and rename to align with naming conventions.
• Track submitted Jira tickets and partner with engineering to monitor progress, translating status updates into clear, marketer-friendly summaries.
• Leverage AI tools to build and maintain working deliverables (dashboards, reports, planning artifacts) rather than only using AI for one‑off writing or summarization tasks.
• Demonstrate experience building or maintaining AI‑powered reporting tools or dashboards.
• Evaluate AI‑generated outputs critically, apply human judgment, and translate results into decision‑ready insights.
• Pick up existing AI‑assisted workflows or in‑progress tool builds and continue them independently.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a marketing organization including planning, marketing operations, marketing program/project management, or a related field.
• Proven experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude) to build and maintain working deliverables (dashboards, reports, or planning artifacts).
• Strong organizational and project management skills, including timeline tracking and stakeholder coordination.
• Ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear narratives and recommendations for different audiences, including executives.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel) and collaboration tools such as Teams and Slack.
• Bachelors Degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience with work management platforms such as Workfront/Workfront Planning (or comparable planning/PPM tools such as Jira).
• Experience with OKR tracking tools (e.g., WorkBoard).
• Experience working with cross‑functional and/or global teams across multiple time zones.

Compensation

• Pay Rate: $70.42/hour

Requisition ID: #37493666