Senior Marketing Manager [GTM] (Chicago-Hybrid)

8th Light • Chicago, IL

8d • $106,100 - $132,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

8th Light is a technology solutions consultancy founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago. They partner with organizations from early-stage startups to large companies, tackling complex software challenges to deliver durable results. The company focuses on building agentic products, their supporting platforms, and the engineering and design at every layer. 8th Light emphasizes quality, innovation, continuous education, mentorship, and a collaborative, honest culture. They measure success by client outcomes and seek individuals energized by their work and people.

Requirements

• Hands-on marketing experience with a track record of turning strategy into content, events, and outreach.
• Understanding that senior buyers are moved by credible expert voices, real stories, and warm relationships, especially in a market with AI-generated noise.
• Ability to own the full marketing function as an individual contributor, comfortable with both detailed tasks (e.g., newsletters) and strategic measurement.
• Proven ownership of marketing measurement and analytics, including instrumenting a marketing stack, setting up reporting, and leading with data.
• Fluency with SEO, AEO, demand generation, and website/content analytics tooling.
• Experience marketing professional services, consulting, or technical products to senior B2B buyers.
• Track record of building and running an editorial or content engine across owned channels (LinkedIn, newsletter, blog, website).
• Real event execution experience, particularly intimate, executive-level formats.
• Comfort partnering with senior technologists to surface stories and points of view, with editorial judgment to keep them on message.
• Relationship-driven approach, valuing peer referrals and warm introductions.
• Plainspoken writing and editing skills with a low tolerance for jargon.
• Organizational savvy to coordinate sales, client service, and leadership towards shared goals, including influencing without direct authority.
• 6-8 years of experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a small to mid-sized company with close alignment between marketing and hands-on execution.
• Marketing technical services such as software consulting, data, or AI and machine learning.
• Running a thought-leadership or named-voice program with subject-matter experts.
• Fluency with the current AI and agentic landscape, with judgment to assess credibility with senior buyers.
• Marketing operations and analytics tooling, including SEO and AEO.
• Building or customizing AI-assisted workflows for content drafting, asset generation, and performance tracking.

Responsibilities

• Instrumenting and running always-on reporting on leading indicators of marketing engine performance, including content engagement, newsletter growth, website journeys, and event conversion.
• Analyzing data to make investment decisions, identifying areas to concentrate efforts, and pruning unsustainable channels.
• Owning the editorial calendar across owned channels (LinkedIn, newsletter, blog, website) to consistently communicate the company's position on agentic products and platform expertise.
• Building and running the content engine: capturing stories, anecdotes, and field observations, organizing them for easy access, and providing ready-to-use material to sales and client service leaders.
• Elevating a select group of senior technologists to a consistent publishing rhythm, helping them translate field experience into strong points of view, and encouraging broader firm participation.
• Planning and executing small, themed, invite-only executive dinners in hub cities and virtually, and repurposing content from these events for future marketing efforts.
• Supporting outreach and introduction motions by equipping client service leaders and sales directors with content, curated event schedules, and targeting recommendations.

Benefits

• Robust L&D program with unlimited access to books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform.
• Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development.
• Coworking support for the global team.
• Flexible PTO with Floating Holidays.
• 12 weeks of new parent leave for eligible employees.
• Transparent semi-annual promotion panel.
• See our full list of Benefits (http://8thlight.com/benefits).

What This Job Offers

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