[Remote] Marketing Chief of Staff

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company, focused on building cutting-edge foundation AI models. They are seeking a Marketing Chief of Staff to drive operational efficiency within the marketing organization, ensuring that priorities are met and that the VP of Brand can focus on leadership rather than firefighting.ResponsibilitiesRun the marketing org's planning cadence: annual and quarterly planning, goal-setting, and the weekly and monthly business reviews. Hold the calendarDrive budget and headcount planning against the slate, working from Marketing Ops' tracking and reporting, and keep both honest as priorities shift mid-quarter. You own the trade-off conversations; Marketing Ops owns the numbers underneath themMake the reviews worth holding. Drive the prep, the follow-through, and the decisions that should come out of themTurn the VP of Brand's priorities into plans the team can execute, then hold the line on those priorities when new fires startKeep major programs from colliding or stalling across brand, editorial, design, product marketing, demand gen, and integrated marketing. A lot of this is seeing the crash coming and preventing itBe the person teams come to when it isn't clear who owns a decisionRepresent marketing in cross-functional planning with sales, product, and finance, so the org's commitments are realistic and its dependencies are visible. When marketing promises something to another team, you make sure the promise was sane and gets keptBuild the materials leadership relies on: board updates, all-hands content, exec readouts. Make them clear and honest, not decorativeGive the VP of Brand back time and attention by carrying the work that doesn't need to land on their deskLead the things that don't fit neatly on any one team's plate: a reorg, a new agency relationship, a flagship event, an org-wide planning week. Own them end to endSkills10+ years of operating experience, with real time inside a marketing org in a Chief of Staff, business operations, or senior program-operations seatA practitioner's understanding of demand generation and account-based marketing in a B2B contextComfort with marketing and pipeline metrics and with running a budgetA track record of bringing order to a fast, complex org without grinding it to a haltClear writing, straight talk, and the presence to hold a room of senior people to a planChief of Staff or business operations at a high-growth B2B software or AI companyA marketing ops or RevOps leader who wants an org-level operating seat rather than a systems seatStrategy or management consulting followed by an in-house operating roleA demand-gen or integrated-marketing operator who has moved into an org-level operating seatBenefitsCohere is remote-friendly.For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.Company OverviewCohere develops enterprise artificial intelligence software and provides language models, retrieval tools, and workplace platforms. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://cohere.com.