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 experience in marketing operations or similar roles, preferably in tech
  • Proficient in building tools, automations, or dashboards
  • Strong analytical skills to convert chaotic data into reliable insights
  • Experience in managing vendors and navigating legal contracts
  • Highly organized and skilled at fostering trust among team members
  • Exceptional communication skills suited for briefings and process documentation
  • Experience as a collaborative partner to senior executives in dynamic environments
  • Adaptable to ambiguity with a focus on scalable solutions

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the marketing and communications tool stack for the team
  • Develop and ensure reliability of internal tools like dashboards and calendars
  • Facilitate the team’s operating rhythm including launch and campaign schedules
  • Oversee relationships with agencies, contractors, and vendors throughout the lifecycle
  • Streamline contracts and procurement processes to prevent delays
  • Serve as a connective resource, ensuring team alignment and early identification of dependencies
  • Act as a strategic partner to leadership, providing insights and solutions while navigating challenges
  • Introduce effective processes without hindering team agility

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, growing technology environment
  • Collaborative team culture that values input and feedback
  • Exposure to high-level strategic discussions and leadership dynamics
  • Ability to influence key operational decisions and outcomes
  • Access to innovative tools and technologies in marketing operations
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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