Elastic · 20 hours ago
Chief of Staff (Marketing Strategy and Planning)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$128K/yr - $203K/yrElastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data at scale. The Chief of Staff will support the VP of Global Growth and Experiences Marketing by driving planning, operational excellence, and data-driven decision-making across the organization, ensuring alignment to high-impact initiatives.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
Act as a strategic thought partner and extension of the VP, supporting decision-making, prioritization, and communication
Help frames key questions, assess trade-offs, and prepare recommendations and materials for leadership discussions, QBRs, and executive forums
Represent the VP’s perspective in cross-functional meetings and working sessions, ensuring alignment, follow-through, and momentum
Build, lead, and continuously improve the operating cadence for the organization, including planning cycles, business reviews, and performance tracking
Help translate company-level priorities into clear, actionable plans for regional, partner, industry, ABM and advocacy marketing teams
Identify friction, gaps, and inefficiencies in how teams operate and drive improvements to increase focus and execution velocity
Partner with marketing, sales, finance, and operations to support annual planning, quarterly prioritization, and ongoing trade-off decisions
Own and drive high-impact, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through execution, ensuring accountability and measurable outcomes
Support growth planning by synthesizing inputs across regions, partners, and functions into a coherent point of view
Forecast, measure, analyze, and report on the impact of regional and partner marketing on pipeline, revenue, and conversion performance
Lead analyses to diagnose performance issues, find opportunities, and inform strategic and operational decisions
Build executive-ready dashboards, scorecards, and narratives that enable faster, better decision-making
Serve as the connective tissue between regional marketing, partner marketing, analytics, marketing operations, finance, and sales
Drive alignment through clear communication, shared metrics, and data-backed recommendations
Ensure initiatives remain aligned to agreed priorities and that dependencies and risks are surfaced early
Qualification
Required
You are located in North America
Experience working at a B2B SaaS company
Proven experience in marketing, sales, strategy, analytics, operations, or related roles, with demonstrated success owning sophisticated cross-functional initiatives
Strong business and analytical competence, with a deep understanding of marketing's role within a broader go-to-market strategy
Hands-on experience with business analytics, including financial planning, funnel analysis, marketing measurement, and performance reporting
Consistent track record of influencing without authority, navigating ambiguity, and driving transparency in fast-paced environments
Outstanding communicator that can synthesize complexity, frame decisions, and clearly articulate recommendations to senior leader
Benefits
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Founded in 2012
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$162MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesIndex VenturesBenchmark
2018-10-04IPO
2018-05-03Secondary Market
2016-07-01Series D· $58M
Leadership Team
Ashutosh Kulkarni
CEO
Shay Banon
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
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