Director, Marketing Strategy and Operations

Morning Consult•New York, NY

6d•Remote

About The Position

Morning Consult is seeking a Director, Marketing Strategy and Operations to lead the marketing organization's most critical cross-functional initiatives from inception to completion. This role requires a blend of strategic planning and hands-on execution, tackling ambiguous problems that span multiple functions. The Director will be accountable for defining problems, building plans, driving decisions, and ensuring initiatives achieve their intended outcomes. This is not a traditional product marketing, growth, or operations role, but rather a flexible position that adapts to the business's evolving needs, potentially involving rebuilding lead flow processes, launching new AI capabilities, or evolving the content function.

Requirements

8+ years of experience spanning product marketing, growth, or business/marketing operations and strategy, ideally including time at a high-growth SaaS, data, or technology company.
A track record of owning large-scale, cross-functional transformation projects from ambiguity through execution.
Comfortable operating without a fixed functional lane — genuinely energized by moving between strategy, analytics, and hands-on execution as priorities shift.
A systems thinker who can diagnose broken or informal processes and redesign them to scale.
Strong judgment operating with significant autonomy; exercises wide latitude in determining the right approach to critical, undefined assignments.
Experience operating as a close, trusted partner to a senior leader on strategic initiatives.
Experience building or running planning cycles, operating cadences, or scorecards for a leadership team, and comfort acting as a proxy for senior leadership in certain settings.
Strong analytical fluency and comfort getting into the data to inform recommendations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to flex between detailed execution and clear, executive-level narrative.
Genuine curiosity about applying AI to marketing and operations, with an interest in evaluating and rolling out new tools and agentic capabilities.

Nice To Haves

Depth in B2B product marketing, data or licensing go-to-market, or enterprise growth is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Own the marketing organization's highest-priority cross-functional initiatives, scoped with the Chief Growth Officer and executed by you.
Own communication and reporting of overall growth function performance to executive, cross-functional, and team function leaders.
Own large-scale transformation projects end-to-end, from problem definition through implementation and adoption.
Structure undefined, messy problems into clear plans, workstreams, timelines, and owners — and drive them to completion.
Translate Marketing leadership's strategic priorities into concrete operating plans, targets, and scorecards, and own tracking progress against them over time.
Build and run the operating rhythm for the marketing organization — planning cycles, leadership reviews, and decision forums.
Lead Marketing's role in company-level strategic efforts, including go-to-market for new AI and agentic product capabilities, analytics investment, and contribution to enterprise and AI-partner pitches.
Partner with functional leads to evaluate and strengthen the team's capabilities and areas for improvement.
Build the materials and narratives for executive- and leadership-level conversations.
Serve as a trusted thought partner to marketing leadership on prioritization, resourcing, and organizational design decisions.
Build trust and alignment across stakeholders in Sales, Product, RevOps, and Finance.
Move fluidly between strategy and hands-on execution.