Senior Manager, Marketing Strategy & Operations

Location: Fully remote; hiring prioritized in Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, and United States. Must be able to travel approximately 2–5 times per year to a country of operation for retreats, meetings, or field visits. hirify.global cannot sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas in the United States or United Kingdom.

Salary: United States base salary $120,750 annually; United Kingdom base salary £77,600 annually; Kenya base salary $83,820 annually. Bonus target: 10%. Annual benefits stipend: $21,393 in the United States, £2,760 in the United Kingdom, and $8,454 in Kenya.

Company

hirify.global delivers cash directly to people living in poverty and crisis, using technology, quantitative performance measurement, and rigorous impact evaluation across 15 countries.

What you will do

• Lead complex cross-functional marketing projects from problem definition through design, launch, testing, iteration, and scaling, with qualitative and quantitative impact measurement.
• Provide hands-on support or ownership for high-priority marketing initiatives across lifecycle marketing, SEO, SMS and push, paid channels, social, content, creators, earned media, thought leadership, events, B2B, B2C, SaaS, digital marketing, and segmentation.
• Own annual and quarterly planning, OKR discipline, operating rhythms, priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Analyze marketing performance, trends, and customer insights; identify growth levers and lead the transition to AI-enabled ways of working.
• Own marketing budget and headcount planning with Finance, including forecasts, integrated resource plans, investment tradeoffs, hiring plans, and vendor evaluations.
• Manage leadership meetings, business reviews, offsites, retreats, and all-hands while advising marketing leadership on strategy, priorities, stakeholder alignment, and execution.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in strategy, chief of staff, management consulting, indie hacking, agency work, marketing or growth, or GTM operations.
• Experience with a broad range of marketing tactics and channels, including lifecycle marketing, SEO, SMS and push, paid channels, social, content and creator marketing, earned media, thought leadership, events, B2B and/or B2C, SaaS marketing, digital marketing, and segmentation.
• First-principles thinking, with the ability to break complex processes into parts, decide what to change, automate with AI, or keep human, and connect work across functions.
• Proven experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, and program management skills.
• Experience managing large marketing budgets, including forecasting, budgeting, headcount planning, and investment tradeoffs.
• Experience with hiring, recruiting, and onboarding operations.
• Excellent presentation skills and experience building executive-level decks.
• Experience managing executive operating rhythms, leadership meetings, business reviews, offsites, and planning forums.
• Familiarity with common marketing technology stack tools.

Nice to have

• Experience as an indie hacker.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with an internationally distributed team spanning more than 20 countries and 69 languages.
• Candid, analytical, non-hierarchical culture with high ownership and early responsibility.
• Competitive, location-based compensation calculated using a third-party salary aggregator and a no-negotiation pay policy.
• Benefits stipend may be used for benefits or taken as additional taxable income.
• Travel to team retreats, meetings, and field visits is expected approximately 2–5 times per year.
• Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations and safeguarding processes, including reference, background, and sanctions checks.

Hiring process

• Applications should demonstrate the candidate’s own writing; candidates are encouraged to mention the role-specific application guidance during the interview.
• Pre-hire screening may include misconduct disclosure checks, references, criminal background checks, and sanctions screening.