Marketing Chief of Staff

Cohere • Toronto, ON

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

Cohere is seeking a Marketing Chief of Staff to ensure the marketing organization operates efficiently and effectively. This role reports to the VP of Brand and collaborates across various marketing functions including brand, editorial, design, product marketing, demand generation, and integrated marketing. The position is hands-on, involving operational tasks such as managing the planning calendar, budget, headcount plan, and weekly business reviews, as well as ensuring smooth cross-functional handoffs. The goal is to enable the VP of Brand and leadership team to focus on strategic leadership rather than day-to-day firefighting. While Marketing Operations manages the MarTech stack and data pipelines, this role focuses on the operating rhythm, meetings, priorities, and decisions within the marketing organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of operating experience, with real time inside a marketing org in a Chief of Staff, business operations, or senior program-operations seat.
• A practitioner's understanding of demand generation and account-based marketing in a B2B context. Ability to discuss pipeline, not just plans.
• Comfort with marketing and pipeline metrics and with running a budget. Ability to build the model and read the dashboard.
• A track record of bringing order to a fast, complex org without grinding it to a halt.
• Clear writing, straight talk, and the presence to hold a room of senior people to a plan.
• Experience in a high-growth B2B software or AI company.
• Experience as a marketing ops or RevOps leader who wants an org-level operating seat rather than a systems seat.
• Experience in strategy or management consulting followed by an in-house operating role.
• Experience as a demand-gen or integrated-marketing operator who has moved into an org-level operating seat.

Responsibilities

• Run the marketing org's planning cadence: annual and quarterly planning, goal-setting, and the weekly and monthly business reviews. Hold the calendar.
• Drive budget and headcount planning against the slate, working from Marketing Ops' tracking and reporting, and keep both honest as priorities shift mid-quarter. Own the trade-off conversations; Marketing Ops owns the numbers underneath them.
• Make the reviews worth holding. Drive the prep, the follow-through, and the decisions that should come out of them.
• Turn the VP of Brand's priorities into plans the team can execute, then hold the line on those priorities when new fires start.
• Keep major programs from colliding or stalling across brand, editorial, design, product marketing, demand gen, and integrated marketing. Prevent crashes and stalls.
• Be the person teams come to when it isn't clear who owns a decision.
• Represent marketing in cross-functional planning with sales, product, and finance, so the org's commitments are realistic and its dependencies are visible. Ensure marketing promises are sane and get kept.
• Chase procurement and legal when purchases and projects stall.
• Build the materials leadership relies on: board updates, all-hands content, exec readouts. Make them clear and honest, not decorative.
• Give the VP of Brand back time and attention by carrying the work that doesn't need to land on their desk.
• Lead special projects that don't fit neatly on any one team's plate: a reorg, a new agency relationship, a flagship event, an org-wide planning week. Own them end to end.

Benefits

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
• Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
• Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.
• Daily lunch program (for those in office).
• Plenty of snacks (for those in office).
• Regular community and social events (for those in office).
• A co-working benefit for those not near an office.
• $500 home office stipend.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed