Looking for a Marketing operations or tech strategy role in the Bay. I have consulting experience, managed teams, marketing technology is my niche (8 years), and I work in operations at Apple where I manage cross functional projects with business and IT all day. Unfortunately, I’m bored. Yes, at Apple. I find their ego mentality leads to little innovation. Our tech stack is frustrating at best and nobody listens to you unless youve been there 10 years. If anyone knows of any openings in their companies, please let me know! It would be great if located in San Francisco or even Oakland. The south bay is...blah. But location open. TC: $190k
Marketing operations is a frustrating field. As business functions go, it's the most tech forward. At the same time, no one will pay you well for tech skills. If you want to learn, switch to product as a PM. Or you could innovate without asking permission. Make them an offer they can't refuse. Absolute worst case you'll get severance with your move.
Glad this question pulled in some marketing folks. What's the major functional subdivision of marketing and avg salary in Bay area, with 10 toe. E.g., (my understanding) 1. Marketing Ops 2. Strategy -tech 3. Strategy -marketing 4. Marketing -analytics 5. Product marketing 6. What else?
Outside the bay I made $140k doing a combination of strategy marketing tech. I’ve been getting hits for Marketing Operations but companies then realize they had no clue what they wanted when they wrote the job description. Lol. It’s actually more “new” then we think inside businesses.
You missed the actual marketing tech teams. For the rest, can you define the scope? The lines seem blurred. Everyone you listed is really doing marketing analytics, except maybe product marketing which is more market research.
If you’re not willing to do a startup then everywhere you go will have a ton of tech debt wrapped up in politics. You might fair better actually working at a martech vendor or getting a job at some VC as a marketing analytics and ops consultant.
Yeah, I’ve been sitting on the fence to start my own startup. I ran my own marketing business for awhile before I went chasing high tech dreams. I worked in martech as a consultant previously. I’m probably missing that and the freedom. Tech debt is crazy! I need to think about the VC idea. That has wings. I had opportunity to get in that space awhile ago but they were paying peanuts out here at the time.
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