D-Wave Systems

VP Integrated Marketing [591]

D-Wave Systems$225K — $300K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of B2B marketing experience in enterprise tech, AI, or complex industries
  • Significant leadership experience in demand generation and integrated marketing
  • Proven success in building programs that generate qualified pipelines and revenue growth
  • Experience with account-based marketing for enterprise accounts
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise buyer journeys and long sales cycles
  • Deep familiarity with CRM, marketing automation, and analytics tools
  • Ability to use data to inform marketing strategies and investments
  • Experience in leading high-performing teams in high-growth environments

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute integrated marketing plans aligned with revenue goals
  • Build a high-performing marketing organization incorporating various marketing disciplines
  • Translate company priorities into actionable marketing plans and budgets
  • Oversee demand generation initiatives aligned with sales and market needs
  • Partner with Sales to ensure marketing investments align with commercial opportunities
  • Establish a closed-loop system for marketing operations and sales feedback
  • Guide digital marketing strategies for improved audience engagement
  • Lead the evolution of marketing technology and data infrastructure
  • Conduct integrated marketing impact assessments for data-driven decision-making
  • Manage the marketing budget and agency resources effectively
  • Empower and develop team members for execution and accountability
  • Promote collaboration across various departments for alignment on commercial objectives

Benefits

  • Company ownership and equity opportunities
  • Competitive pay structure
  • Meaningful benefits supporting employee needs
  • Culture that emphasizes passion for mission and vision
  • Diverse work environment fostering innovation and growth opportunities
Full Job Description
About the role

D-Wave is seeking a Vice President of Integrated Marketing to lead our global demand generation, account-based marketing, events, digital marketing, website, search engine optimization (SEO), and AI discovery-including generative engine optimization (GEO) and large language model optimization (LLMO)-and marketing operations.

This leader will be responsible for connecting demand generation, ABM, digital, events, website, customer proof, marketing operations, and Sales/BDR feedback into one integrated commercial marketing engine - ensuring D-Wave's marketing activities are aligned to shared audiences, priorities, metrics, and business outcomes.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Marketing, this leader will build and execute integrated programs that engage buyers, generate and accelerate qualified pipeline, expand strategic customer relationships, and contribute measurably to revenue growth. The Vice President will work closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Product Management, Customer Success, Finance, and other teams to translate D-Wave's commercial priorities into coordinated, data-driven marketing programs.

What you'll do

  • Develop and execute integrated commercial marketing plans aligned with D-Wave's revenue goals, target industries, priority accounts, and product offerings
  • Build the operating model that connects demand generation, account-based marketing, digital marketing, website, and marketing operations into a coordinated, high-performing organization
  • Translate company and go-to-market priorities into annual and quarterly marketing plans, budgets, performance targets, and clear areas of accountability
  • Oversee demand generation and account-based marketing programs that generate qualified opportunities, accelerate pipeline, support customer expansion, and contribute to revenue growth
  • Partner with Sales leadership to align marketing investment with priority accounts, industries, territories, commercial opportunities, lead follow-up and pipeline goals
  • Establish a closed-loop operating model that connects campaign engagement, account progression, Sales/BDR feedback, pipeline creation, feedback, and learning
  • Partner with Product Marketing, Communications, Customer Success, and Sales to turn customer outcomes, use cases, technical proof points, and market insights into integrated campaigns, content journeys, sales enablement, and executive thought-leadership platforms
  • Guide digital strategy across paid media, website conversion, SEO, AI discovery and visibility, audience development, retargeting, and campaign optimization
  • Strengthen the end-to-end buyer journey by improving lead capture, scoring, routing, nurturing, qualification, sales handoff, re-engagement, and opportunity acceleration
  • Lead the evolution of D-Wave's marketing technology, data and reporting infrastructure, including marketing automation, CRM integration, intent data, account-based marketing platforms, analytics, attribution, data quality, governance and AI-enabled capabilities
  • Lead monthly integrated marketing impact readouts that connect campaign, website, event, content, ABM, Sales/BDR feedback, and pipeline data into clear decisions about what to scale, optimize, pause, or stop
  • Use performance data, customer insights, and market intelligence to guide investment, improve program effectiveness, and identify opportunities for growth
  • Manage the integrated marketing budget and external agency resources, ensuring investment is aligned with strategic priorities and measurable business outcomes
  • Lead, coach, and develop Directors and Managers across integrated marketing, empowering the team to own execution while establishing clear expectations and accountability
  • Champion strong collaboration across Marketing, Sales, Product, Customer Success, Finance, and revenue operations


About You

  • 12+ years of B2B marketing experience within enterprise technology, SaaS, cloud, AI, quantum computing, or a similarly complex technology industry
  • Significant leadership experience across demand generation, account-based marketing, digital marketing, website and SEO, and marketing operations
  • Proven success building integrated marketing programs that generate qualified pipeline, accelerate opportunities, acquire customers, and contribute to revenue growth
  • Experience developing account-based marketing strategies for strategic enterprise accounts and complex buying committees
  • Strong understanding of enterprise buyer journeys, audience segmentation, lead management, funnel optimization, and long sales cycles
  • Deep experience with CRM, marketing automation, digital marketing platforms, intent data, analytics, attribution, and executive reporting
  • Demonstrated ability to use data and commercial insights to guide marketing strategy, investment, and optimization
  • Experience leading Directors and Managers and developing high-performing teams in a high-growth or matrixed organization
  • Strong record of partnering with Sales and aligning cross-functional teams around shared commercial objectives
  • Outstanding strategic, analytical, communication, organizational leadership, and change management skills
  • Experience commercializing emerging or highly technical enterprise technologies is strongly preferred
  • MBA or equivalent advanced business experience is preferred


Our Compensation Philosophy is Simple but Powerful:

We believe providing D-Wavers with company ownership, competitive pay, and a range of meaningful benefits is the start of creating a culture where people want to give the best they've got - not because they're simply making money, but because they've fallen in love with our vision, mission, values, and team.

During the interview process, your Recruiter will review our total rewards (base, equity, bonus, perks, benefit, culture). The final offer is determined by your proficiencies within this level.

Inclusion:

We celebrate diverse perspectives to drive innovation in our pursuit. Our employees range from distinguished domain experts with decades of experience in their respective fields, to bright and motivated graduates eager to make their mark. Our diverse and innovative team will make you feel appreciated, supported and empower your career growth at D-Wave.

The pay range for this role is:

225,000 - 300,000 USD per year (Remote (United States))

About D-Wave Systems

D-Wave Systems is a quantum computing company that designs and manufactures quantum computers and provides quantum computing services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. D-Wave's quantum computers are used by government, commercial, and academic customers to solve complex problems in fields such as optimization, machine learning, and cybersecurity. The company's flagship product is the D-Wave 2000Q, a 2048-qubit quantum computer. D-Wave has raised over $200 million in funding from investors including Goldman Sachs and Bezos Expeditions.
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