Palo Alto Marketing Business Operations Program Manager 

United States, California 

974533968

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Your Career

This role requires working regularly with tools, templates, and systems that support our planning, budgeting and business operations processes. This role is pivotal to the success of the organization, is collaborative in nature, and will continue to flex and grow as the organization matures.

Your Impact

• Drive business rhythm rigor
  • Provide planning support - quarterly business reviews, planning sessions, launch governance and other key marketing initiatives
  • Run logistics for critical, recurrent marketing leadership meetings & reports - agenda definition, participants list confirmation, time/date schedule updates, presentation setup, meeting notes and action items, weekly reports, among other activities
• Promote efficiency and remove friction through process optimization and automation
  • Drive efficiencies initiatives such as our supplier optimization program
  • Lead with operational excellence and process improvement - demonstrate your experience to help build a best in class business operations framework
  • Identify and structure systems to solve marketing program issues by working with stakeholders across the organization, managing communications, overseeing milestones and timelines, and leading cross-functional groups to synthesize feedback and deliver on objectives
  • Become a trusted subject matter expert on how internal systems work - Lead, prioritize and respond to requests from the marketing team
  • Architect, accelerate progress, and complete projects aligned to key marketing initiatives, including defining project scope and schedule, managing risks and issues, and holding teams accountable for their commitments
• Ensure compliance across the marketing organization
  • Oversee a variety of license and access requests across marketing
  • Promote launch visibility & govern process
  • Manage company merchandise store
  • Amplify company and marketing policies and requirements and hold teams accountable
  • Partner with Finance, the People team and other key stakeholders to run recurrent internal programs like our marketing contingent workforce, our onboarding program, internship program and marketing recognition programs

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, comms or technical field or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years in marketing and/or business operations where you enjoy finding ways to improve the business and how we operate as a team
• Experience in both agile and traditional project management principles and practices - Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies preferred
• Strong analytical, planning and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands - Comfortable with ambiguity
• Creative approach to problem solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the “big picture” view
• Proven track record in automation
• A self-starter who is confident leading multiple projects at the same time that require both strategic end-to-end thinking as well as high-speed tactical execution
• Deadline-driven, organized, and able to adapt to the rapid business and organizational demands that result from a high-growth environment
• Comfort and experience with executive interaction
• Strong EQ - effective interpersonal skills to build working relationships and accomplish work goals - Strong ability to help people feel valued, appreciated and included in discussions
• Excellent listening skills
• Experience with digital communication tools & project management tools preferred (e.g. intranet platforms, Google Workspace, Asana)

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $100000 - $163000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.