Marketing Operations Manager, Strategy

Asana Asana · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Marketing

This role is for a Marketing Operations Manager focused on strategy and optimizing the customer journey using technology and data-driven insights. The primary responsibility is to manage regional inbound funnel performance, identify growth opportunities, and align cross-functional teams. While the company mentions leveraging AI tools, the core function of this role is marketing operations and strategy, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Ownership of the regional Inbound pipeline and conversion rate targets, providing critical performance reporting and forecasting for US Marketing, Sales, and GMs.
  2. Proactively identify and implement regional growth opportunities through deep-dive analysis of funnel friction points and conversion blockers
  3. Act as the primary liaison between global marketing initiatives and the US field, creating alignment on regional changes and program managing their implementation.
  4. Host inbound reporting councils and contribute data-driven insights to other regular regional reporting rhythms.
  5. Partner with Marketing Analytics, Data Science and Finance to drive regional marketing planning, ensuring alignment with annual and program-level target setting.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of Marketing Operations or GTM Strategy experience in B2B SaaS
  • expertise in both data analysis and strategy
  • Proven track record of building relationships with cross-functional leadership (Sales, Marketing, Finance, Data Science and Analytics) to drive consensus and change
  • Strong analytical and presentation skills
  • ability to synthesize complex data into executive insights to inform regional planning
  • Hands-on experience with marketing and sales funnel reporting
  • knowledge of Salesforce, Databricks and Tableau, or similar tools

Nice to have

  • Proactive about leveraging AI tools to accelerate insights and team productivity
  • Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.

What the JD emphasized

  • Ownership of the regional Inbound pipeline and conversion rate targets
  • Proactively identify and implement regional growth opportunities
  • deep-dive analysis of funnel friction points and conversion blockers
  • Partner with Marketing Analytics, Data Science and Finance
  • drive regional marketing planning
  • recommendations for channel mix optimizations
  • recommend changes to regional lead scoring, routing, and funnel processes
  • triage and prioritization of regional reporting requirements
  • manage the communication and change management for new targets, models, or dashboards