Business Operations Manager, Marketing and Communications

Perplexity AI

• $110K — $130K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-7 years in marketing operations or business operations, ideally in a fast-growing tech company.
  • Hands-on experience building tools, automations, or dashboards, with familiarity in AI tools.
  • Strong analytical skills to convert messy inputs into reliable metrics for leadership.
  • Proven experience in managing relationships with agencies, contractors, and vendors.
  • Highly organized and relational, fostering trust and open communication with team members.
  • Clear communicator able to engage with executives and create actionable documentation.
  • Experience partnering closely with senior executives, maneuvering through ambiguity.

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the marketing and communications tool stack, from evaluation to retirement.
  • Build and maintain reliable internal tools: calendars, dashboards, and automation systems.
  • Establish and run the team's operational rhythms, ensuring smooth planning and execution.
  • Manage agency and vendor relationships throughout selection, onboarding, and performance evaluation.
  • Facilitate contract and procurement processes to prevent delays with Legal and Finance.
  • Act as the connective tissue within the team, spotting dependencies and maintaining alignment.
  • Serve as a thought partner to leadership, keeping them informed and proposing timely solutions.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment promoting fast-paced decision making.
  • Opportunity to influence and build essential operating systems from the ground up.
  • Engagement in high-impact projects with a dynamic and busy team.
  • Access to tools that streamline workflows and enhance team productivity.
  • Chance to work closely with senior leadership on strategic initiatives.
Full Job Description
We're hiring a Business Operations Manager to build and run the operating system underneath, so an incredibly busy team can move fast and stay in lockstep.

That means keeping the wheels turning: the tool stack, agencies and vendors, budgets, contracts, and the dashboards leadership relies on. It also means building what doesn't exist yet, and making sure everyone knows what's happening and nothing gets dropped. Half builder, half connective tissue. If you like turning ideas into things people use every day, this role is for you.

What you'll do
  • Own the marketing and comms tool stack: evaluate, procure, onboard, provision access, train the team, and retire what we've outgrown
  • Build and maintain internal tools such as calendars, intake forms, dashboards, trackers, and automations, and keep them reliable as more people depend on them
  • Run the team's operating rhythm: priorities, launch and campaign calendars, planning cycles, and the cross-functional handoffs that carry work from idea to launch without dropped threads
  • Manage agencies, contractors, and vendors from selection and onboarding through scopes, invoices, renewals, and performance
  • Keep contracts and procurement moving with Legal and Finance so agreements never become the bottleneck
  • Be the connective tissue across the team: know who's working on what, spot dependencies early, and keep people aligned without adding meetings
  • Act as a thought partner and triage point to leadership: keep them informed, spot problems early, know when to escalate, propose solutions, and see them through
  • Add rigor without slowing anyone down, knowing the difference between process that helps and process that's overhead

What you bring
  • 4-7 years in marketing operations, business operations, or a similar systems-and-process role, ideally in a fast-growing technology company
  • You build things. You've stood up tools, automations, or dashboards yourself, and AI tools are already part of how you work
  • Strong analytical instincts, able to turn messy inputs into numbers leadership can trust
  • Experience managing agency, contractor, or vendor relationships and working with Legal and Finance on contracts and procurement
  • Exceptionally organized and genuinely relational. People like working with you, tell you things early, and trust you with what's really going on
  • A clear, direct communicator who can brief an executive, run a cross-functional meeting, and write a process doc people actually follow
  • Demonstrated experience working closely with and as a trusted partner to senior executives
  • Comfortable in ambiguity and thinks in scale, building things that hold up when the team, budget, or number of launches doubles
  • No specific tool stack required. You've operated marketing or comms systems in a high-growth environment and can pick ours up fast

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