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Marketing Leadership

Marketing leaders at AI companies own the end-to-end function that translates cutting-edge AI capabilities into compelling market narratives and revenue growth. They build teams and establish operating systems to execute strategy across demand generation, product positioning, brand, and regional go-to-market motions—whether managing global portfolios, scaling regional operations, or launching new product categories. Their impact spans from establishing what makes their AI defensibly different in crowded markets, to architecting sales enablement for complex enterprise deals, to sequencing market investment where signal is strongest. These roles sit at the intersection of product vision, sales strategy, and customer insight, partnering closely with executives across GTM, product, and leadership to ensure marketing delivers both cultural moments and measurable pipeline.

$ titles --canonical
Chief Marketing OfficerVP of MarketingVP MarketingHead of MarketingMarketing DirectorMarketing Director EMEADirector of MarketingHead of Web MarketingHead of Web
Open Jobs23
Companies Hiring16
$ expectations --role marketing-leadership

Measured across 23 of 23 open postings.

30%
expect AI in the role's own work
13% state it as a requirement
39%
work directly with customers
83%
manage people
Director
most common level
61% of open postings
BY LEVEL

This role is advertised at one level, so a single figure for the role would describe none of them. Experience and pay are the midpoints for each level on its own.

LevelShareMedian yearsMedian pay
Director61%(14)10—

A dash means too few postings stated it to report a midpoint. Most companies do not publish a salary band, so pay is indicative rather than a market rate. 3 levels with fewer than 10 open postings are not shown.

WHAT THEY ASK FOR, VERBATIM

“Genuine energy for creatives, design, and the frontier of AI, with excitement to help define a new category”

Figma · Director, Marketing - Figma Weave (New York, United States)

“High fluency with AI tools across the PMM workflow (research, insight synthesis, messaging, competitive intelligence, enablement, and content)”

Gong · Vice President, Product Marketing

“You build and deploy agents. You've automated real parts of your own PMM work with them”

Synthesia · Head of Product Marketing

“Put AI to work inside the function, using it to automate and accelerate web production, QA, localization, testing, and routine optimization”

Databricks · Director, Web Marketing
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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

$ skills --core

Go-to-market strategy

87%

Demand generation programs

70%

Marketing and GTM measurement and attribution

48%

Content strategy and editorial planning

35%

Product positioning and messaging

35%

Account-based marketing

26%

Field and regional marketing

26%

Campaign creative direction

22%

Event program management

22%

Market and competitive intelligence

22%

Sales enablement

22%

Brand strategy and identity

13%

Partner and channel ecosystem development

13%

Product strategy & roadmapping

13%

Partner and co-marketing programs

9%

Revenue analytics and reporting

9%

Technical narrative translation

9%

Web experience optimization

9%

Forecasting and pipeline management

9%

GTM systems and CRM operations

9%

Manager and leadership development

9%
$ skills --emerging

Category creation and zero-to-one GTM

17%

AI capability positioning

9%

AI-native product design

9%

AI search and answer optimization

9%

Hands-on AI tool fluency

9%
$ skills --soft

Technical team leadership and mentoring

56%

Cross-functional collaboration

52%

Executive communication and storytelling

17%

Executive data storytelling

9%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

$ tech --platform
Salesforcelow
$ tech --concept
Marketing automationmoderate
A/B testinglow
AI agentslow
Generative AIlow
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Open Jobs

23 open Marketing Leadership jobs across 16 companies.

xAI1w
Director of Global Growth Marketing and Sales Enablement
New York, NY·Marketing
Neural Concept1w
Chief Marketing Officer
New York Metropolitan Area (Jersey City)·Marketing
Cohere2w
Senior Director, Integrated Marketing
Toronto·Marketing
Cognition3w
Head of EMEA Marketing
London·Marketing
Figma1mo
Director, Marketing - Figma Weave (New York, United States)
New York, NY·Marketing
Gong1mo
Vice President, Product Marketing
Austin | Chicago | New York City | Salt Lake City | San Francisco·Marketing
Synthesia1mo
Head of Product Marketing
London·Marketing
Cursor1mo
Head of Americas Field Marketing
San Francisco·Marketing
Cognition1mo
Head of LATAM Marketing
Sao Paulo·Marketing
Gong1mo
Sr. Director of Web Strategy & Experience
San Francisco·Marketing
OpenAI1mo
Consumer Marketing Lead, Korea
Seoul, South Korea·Marketing
Anthropic1mo
Field Marketing Manager, APAC
Singapore·Marketing
Databricks1mo
Director, Web Marketing
United States·Marketing
EliseAI2mo
VP of Growth
New York City·Marketing
MongoDB2mo
VP, AI Marketing Strategy
Palo Alto; San Francisco·Marketing
Cursor2mo
Head of APJ Field Marketing
Singapore·Marketing
Reflection2mo
Head of Marketing
New York, NY·Marketing
OpenAI2mo
B2B Marketing Lead, India
Mumbai, India·Marketing
Notion2mo
Demand & Campaigns Lead, EMEA
Dublin, Ireland·Marketing
OpenAI4mo
Head of Ads Enterprise Marketing
San Francisco·Marketing