Senior Director, Product Marketing Strategy & Operations

The Product Marketing organization is looking for a hardworking, forward-thinking, and business-savvy leader to run marketing operations and strategy for a large organization that touches all facets of Salesforce marketing. If you love working with passionate marketers, making data-informed decisions, working with budgets, ruthlessly prioritizing, building processes that work for users, and breaking down silos, this role is for you.

This role is key aligning and driving collaboration across product marketing and will work hand-in-hand with the EVP, Product Marketing leader and leadership team. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, self-driven, and is comfortable diving into business details to drive initiatives forward with little guidance.

Here's some of what you'll be responsible for:

Product Marketing Strategy
* Partner with the EVP, Product Marketing to strategically look at how to optimize and better run the business, identify and solve critical business issues, and tackle new challenges for the business as they arise
* Guide and manage our V2MOM annual planning structure and progress towards goals
* Quarterly and annual planning: guiding the project, budget, and staffing planning
* Drive strategic initiatives, identify critical business issues, and lead cross-functional teams to resolve them
* Attend functional team meetings across the organization for alignment
Operational Excellence
* Budget management: oversight, prioritization, and guidance around allocation of the program's budget for all teams within this organization
* Change management: planning programs to shift processes and behavior, rallying other leaders on this team to support and inspire innovative ways to work
* Define cadences and forums for business reviews of KPIs and major initiatives across the business
* Create presentations on the state of the business and reporting of metrics for executive reviews
* Partner with financial planning partners to managing the budget, allocation and ensure compliance.
Communication, Collaboration, and Culture
* Leadership alignment: facilitating the conversations required to gain agreement among leaders within this team and with leaders outside this team
* Develop cadences for business communications to ensure everyone is aligned and connected to priorities
* Review employee survey scores and partner with Employee Success to develop programs to address feedback
* Partner with Diversity, Equality & Inclusivity workgroups to amplify and drive engagement
* Organize and share resources to help new employees understand company best practices and culture.

Required Skills & Experience

8+ years of marketing operations experience
Hands-on ability to create succinct, data-informed executive presentations.
Experience managing multi-million dollar budgets and running a marketing planning process
Ability to influence deliver results in global, matrixed environments comprised of internal and external stakeholders
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in multiple channels: Slack, email, 1:1, large group settings, and others.
3+ years of leadership experience with proven ability to build creative, collaborative teams; develop people; and link performance to overall business objectives
Dynamic, confident personality with the ability to strategically craft and drive project execution with limited guidance amidst multiple shifting priorities and goals.
Creative thinker that can generate innovative marketing ideas, work collaboratively, and lead a cross-functional team of stakeholders to drive execution.
Ability to embrace change as the role evolves

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Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.

Salesforce welcomes all.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $192,800 to $294,100.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $210,400 to $320,800.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.