Lead the marketing technology team, managing front-end web development and campaign operations to enhance brand presence and improve efficiency in marketing efforts.
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Shield AI is seeking a proven marketing technology leader to build and lead a world-class team that will own the marketing technology stack and marketing automation / campaign operations. This team will work closely with Product Marketing, Digital Marketing, Website, and Brand/Creative to deliver a high quality marketing campaigns at scale. This team will also work with Field Marketing and Business Development to build systems and seamless processes that allow those teams to work together efficiently in a hypergrowth environment. This is an opportunity to build the tech stack from scratch leveraging the power of modern AI tools from the ground up. The ideal candidate is a builder and operator — someone who is just as comfortable with day-to-day operations as they are with building and scaling global teams.
What you'll do:
- Design Shield AI’s Marketing tech stack from the ground up with an emphasis on efficiency and resilience for an inherently complicated and ABM-heavy GTM motion
- Partner closely with BD Operations to integrate systems and process across the Marketing and BD teams
- Operate a highly efficient campaign operations team that partners with the Field Marketing team to execute events ensuring trackability and measurement of all key metrics
- Partner closely with the Strategy and Operations team to set up systems to capture campaign telemetry to assist with all reporting/measurement needs
- Partner closely with the Digital Marketing team to ensure end-to-end trackability and measurement of the digital marketing funnel both upstream and downstream from the website
Required qualifications:
- 10+ years of leadership experience in marketing operations and web front end management. Diverse experience in B2B AND B2C contexts is preferred.
- Proven track record of using AI in appropriate scenarios with measurable impact
- Proven success building and scaling global operational teams
- Experience with Marketo, Salesforce, Hubspot, 6Sense, Wordpress, Java Script, Clay and AI tooling is desirable
- Exceptional leadership grounded in humility, curiosity, kindness, and decisiveness, with a reputation for building trusted, high-performing teams and partnerships.
- Passion for technology that protects freedom and human life.
Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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