Chief of Staff - Marketing
$140,000–$275,000 year
Remote · Chicago, Illinois, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Chief of Staff to the Chief Marketing Officer overseeing a 300+-person global marketing organization. Design and own the operating system enabling MongoDB's marketing function to scale with speed, alignment, and discipline; represent the CMO across the org; resolve cross-functional friction without escalation. Responsibilities include designing and running the marketing operating cadence (Leadership Team meetings, QBRs, offsites, board prep, executive readouts), managing workback planning and risk, and driving cross-functional alignment across Marketing, Sales, Product, Engineering, Customer, and Finance. Proactively surface risk, track budgets/headcount/governance, draft board materials and leadership updates, and partner with senior stakeholders to deliver high-priority cross-functional initiatives using AI-native approaches and scalable processes. This is a senior operator role centered on how a world-class marketing organization runs and scales, with a focus on governance, strategy translation, and executive communications.
Required Qualifications
- 8-12 years across top-tier management consulting and/or senior operating roles inside high-growth B2B SaaS companies
- Proven experience as Chief of Staff, Head of Marketing /Business/Sales Operations, or senior strategy and operations leader at a $1B+ revenue technology company
- Demonstrated ability to operate at the executive level — you have been in executive staff meetings and cross-functional forums
- Exceptional written communicator — board-ready output with crisp narratives and the ability to translate complex strategy into simple messages
- AI-native operator — you use AI fluently across drafting, synthesis, and analysis
- Strong systems thinker — you see how the pieces fit together and design for scale
- Low ego, high judgment — you do not need credit, you are focused on moving the org forward
- High EQ — you are capable of reading the room, anticipating friction, and can broker alignment before issues escalate
- Discretion at the executive level — Operate as the trusted confidant of the CMO
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