Marketing Operations & AI Transformation Manager

Stripe

WHO WE ARE About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. ABOUT THE TEAM As a Sales Development Manager at Stripe, you will drive Stripe’s future growth engine by leading a team of inbound and/or outbound SDRs. You will be working with the Stripe’s Sales teams to build Stripe’s sales pipeline. As a Sales Development manager, you’ll lead and coach a group of high-performing SDRs, helping them deliver on ambitious targets, as well as roll up your sleeves to work directly with the team. We are looking for a self-starter who has demonstrated success dealing with ambiguity, operating in a high-growth environment, and solving problems with limited oversight. Ideal candidates will have management experience scaling a technology Sales Development team and superior communication skills. We take a data-driven, analytical approach to Sales Development, and are looking for someone who enjoys building – who will actively participate in the development of sales processes, the articulation of Stripe’s value proposition, and the creation of key tools and assets to measure success. Stripe is not a typical company, and this is not a typical sales development function. If you’re hungry, smart, persistent, and a great teammate, we want to hear from you!   WHAT YOU’LL DO RESPONSIBILITIES This role requires a blend of long-range strategic vision and high-leverage execution YOU WILL: * Define and execute the strategic vision for our SMB, Commercial segments as well as Inbound , carrying accountability for delivering pipeline quality and productivity growth * Managing 5 teams and 45 SDR's. Reporting the Head of EMEA.     * Drive long-range planning and business impact, influencing results over the next 6–24 months, while preparing the organization to scale sustainably over 2–3+ years. * Design and evolve organizational structures, developing and mentoring managers who in turn build healthy, high-performing teams, while ensuring succession plans and resources are in place. * Act as a trusted partner to regional segment leadership, consistently bringing market knowledge, insights, and credibility that shape future growth strategies. * Deliver accurate and reliable forecasting, proactively identifying trends, risks, and opportunities while driving cross-functional changes to sustain multi-quarter growth. * Champion operational excellence, ensuring Salesforce hygiene, data integrity, and innovative metrics that optimize business performance and enable scale. * Build and deepen cross-functional partnerships with Marketing, Sales Ops, Enablement, and Product Marketing to design and execute regional campaigns and strategies. * Play an active role in attracting and retaining top talent, while coaching and mentoring managers and SDRs to develop consultative, solution-oriented skills. * Inspire career growth for team members by identifying transformational development opportunities and preparing future leaders for broader impact. * Lead with innovation, curiosity, and discipline, piloting new processes, tools, and playbooks that refine how SDR teams forecast, execute, and deliver business outcomes. WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS: * 5+ years of experience leading high-performance Sales Development, Inside Sales, or lead qualification teams, including managing managers, with a proven record of consistently exceeding targets. * Demonstrated success designing and scaling organizations in high-growth, ambiguous environments, ideally within technology or SaaS. * Strong strategic planning skills, with the ability to shape 6–24 month outcomes while preparing the business for long-term growth. * Exceptional cross-functional influence, with a track record of driving alignment and results across Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations. * Expertise in operational excellence, including Salesforce discipline, data integrity, accurate forecasting, and performance metrics. * A strong analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data to inform decisions, optimize processes, and track impact. * A passion for building AI-enabled processes and cultures, with curiosity to pilot new technologies that enhance SDR productivity and pipeline generation. * Proven ability to hire, coach, and develop managers and SDRs into future leaders, fostering a culture of growth and performance. * Genuine passion for innovation, start-ups, and technology, with a bias toward experimentation and continuous improvement. * Fluency in English; additional European languages strongly preferred.

LearnUpon

Work Mode: Hybrid 3+ days per week in our Dublin office Department: Marketing   ABOUT THE COMPANY LearnUpon partners with over 1,600 organisations globally to unlock the potential of employees, customers & members through learning that’s easy, scalable and focused on results. CreateUpon is our brand-new, AI-first, cutting-edge solution that fundamentally changes how companies build instructional content. To help us scale this new venture and hit our growth targets, we are looking for a scrappy, entrepreneurial Growth Marketer to own the funnel from the ground up, fueling our product and sales led motions.   ABOUT THE TEAM The LearnUpon Marketing Team, specifically our Demand Generation and Growth engine functions as a strategic catalyst for scaling our global reach and driving revenue growth. We are a fast-moving, data-driven group responsible for capturing market interest, optimizing full-funnel conversion, and introducing groundbreaking innovations like CreateUpon to the world. By combining advanced marketing automation, cutting-edge AI workflows, and collaborative cross-functional execution, we build the predictable growth loops that fuel LearnUpon's most ambitious customer acquisition and market expansion goals.   ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY This isn't a traditional corporate marketing execution role. You will essentially be the founding marketer for CreateUpon, operating with a high degree of autonomy in a startup-like environment but with the security and resources of a bigger business. Reporting to LearnUpon’s Senior Manager, Demand Generation, you’ll get to work with the LearnUpon marketing team, leveraging their experience and resources to support you in your role. You won’t need to manage Paid Media for CreateUpon, but you’ll get to work with the team that does. You’ll have many sources of knowledge and support across the founding team, product, engineering, finance, sales and more.   You are someone who lives and breathes modern marketing workflows, deeply understands Product-Led Growth (PLG), and uses AI tools daily to scale yourself and your impact. You will focus intensely on organic & agentic loops, funnel conversion, SEO, and community building to drive self-serve adoption.   In addition, you’ll be responsible for: * PLG Funnel & Web Conversion Optimization: Own the trial-to-pay user journey. You will audit, fix, and optimize our onboarding tracking, web systems, and conversion touchpoints to turn sign-ups into active, paying users. * Influencer & Community Management: Own CreateUpon audience research, partnering with L&D influencers and managing community presence on LinkedIn and Reddit. Social listening and engagement for CreateUpon. * Growth Experimentation: Rapidly deploy, measure, and iterate on growth experiments across the organic funnel, using data to double down on what works. * PLG-to-SLG Handoff Strategy: Design and manage the lead scoring and qualification logic that identifies high-intent product usage signals. Work with Revenue Operations & Marketing Operations to build automated triggers that route these product-qualified leads (PQLs) to the Sales team for a high-touch SLG follow-up. * Lifecycle Growth Engine (Learn-Try-Buy-Renew): Build and automate cross-lifecycle nurture tracks. Beyond initial onboarding, focus on driving long-term retention and expansion by mapping content and triggers to each stage of the Learn-Try-Buy-Renew journey, ensuring users consistently find value at every touchpoint. * Organic Content & SEO/AEO/GEO Strategy: Execute a highly targeted topic cluster strategy. You will lead content creation surrounding high-intent keywords, build competitor comparison/alternative landing pages, and leverage the experts in the business to develop onsite and offsite organic content. * Influencer & Community Management: Own CreateUpon audience research, partnering with L&D influencers and managing community presence on LinkedIn and Reddit. Social listening and engagement for CreateUpon. * Event Management: Execute the CreateUpon presence at LearnUpon events, deliver CreateUpon dedicated in-person, virtual and demo day events.   SKILLS & EXPERIENCE  Must-Haves             * PLG Expertise: Proven experience optimizing a self-serve, product-led growth SaaS funnel. You know how to look at drop-off data and fix it. * Signals-Based Growth Marketing: Proven experience using product usage data to drive marketing outcomes. Proficient in setting up event-based triggers (e.g., using HubSpot or similar stacks) where specific in-product actions automatically initiate nurture sequences or sales alerts.Startup Experience: You thrive in ambiguity. You’ve worked in early-stage startups or fast-moving incubation teams and are comfortable building the playbook while playing the game. * Organic Growth Toolkit: Strong execution skills in SEO, content distribution, and organic community growth. * Entrepreneurial Mindset: You are an execution-focused doer who takes radical ownership of numbers and outcomes. * AI-Native Marketer: You don’t just use AI to write copy; it is fundamentally integrated into how you research, automate tasks, build workflows, and scale your output. * SAAS Measurement: Familiar with reporting across the full funnel including GA4, Hubspot, Salesforce, & BI Tools.    Nice-to-Haves * Experience in the LMS or Learning Tech industry. * Experience building agents that do low level tasks for you autonomously * Familiarity with prompt engineering and evaluating generative AI tools for enterprise use. * A relevant qualification (Degree or equivalent) in Marketing, Business, Analytics, AI or a related field. *If you don’t tick every box but believe this role is a mutually good fit, please don’t hesitate to apply. We’d love to hear from you.   WHY JOIN LEARNUPON? From comprehensive rewards and generous time off to meaningful investment in your growth and development, LearnUpon gives you the support, trust, and opportunity to do the most impactful work of your career. Learn more here.    HIRING PROCESS * Qualified applicants may be invited to an initial screening call with a member of our TA Team. * Successful candidates will be invited to a series of practical interviews. * Finally, candidates will have an interview with a member of our C-Suite Team. * Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team.   Note: At LearnUpon, we utilise AI to enhance the speed and quality of our screening and assessment practices, but our hiring decisions are always human.    If you need any accommodations during the hiring process, please reach out to us at peopleops@learnupon.com.   LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.   Check out our Careers site and Instagram to learn more about working at LearnUpon.   By submitting your application, you agree to LearnUpon's Privacy Policy.

Datadog

Datadog’s EMEA GTM Strategy & Operations team is responsible for both strategic planning and day‑to‑day operational excellence across the region. The team uncovers, analyzes, and prioritizes improvement opportunities that drive incremental revenue and operational efficiency. We build business cases for EMEA investment, optimize resources during annual planning, and collaborate closely with global teams to enhance systems, tools, programs, and processes. We also lead the execution of global initiatives within EMEA and share best practices across regions to accelerate global scale. As part of the EMEA GTM Strategy & Operations team, you’ll work with sales leaders and global partners to improve how we plan, execute, and automate core GTM processes across the region. You’ll be AI‑native in how you work, using modern AI tools to get to insight faster, diagnose root causes, and free your time for driving change and partnering with the business. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture – the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work‑life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do * Build strong relationships with local, regional, and global cross‑functional stakeholders to enhance GTM strategy and operations for EMEA, sharing learnings and best practices across markets. * Localize and execute global GTM policies and sales programs (for example: pipeline generation programs, product plays, territory deep dives), ensuring they are adapted effectively to EMEA market realities. * Act as a primary point of contact for a defined set of sales leaders on strategic and operational questions (e.g. account coverage, rules of engagement, data led operating cadence, QBR inputs etc..). * Orchestrate and support the rhythm of business, including data preparation and standardization for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), forecast/LQSR cadences, and annual planning cycles. * Partner with systems, data, and central operations teams to simplify and automate recurring work (for example: standard QBR/LQSR kits, self‑serve lists and dashboards, queue and SLA reporting), using AI‑enabled workflows where it meaningfully reduces manual effort. * Produce analyses, reports, and recommendations on sales performance, coverage, pipeline, and program effectiveness, leveraging AI tools to explore data faster, spot patterns, and get to root causes so you can focus more time on driving action with stakeholders. * Manage cross‑functional projects from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, clear timelines, and well‑defined success metrics. * Document processes, definitions, and best practices so that outputs are scalable, repeatable, and easy for sales leaders and partner teams to adopt. Who You Are * 2–4+ years of experience in GTM Strategy & Operations, management consulting, banking, analytics, or a similar analytical field, ideally within SaaS or high‑growth B2B technology. * Experience working with go‑to‑market teams (e.g. Sales, CS, Marketing) and comfort acting as a trusted advisor to commercial leadership. * Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into clear insights and practical recommendations that improve business performance. * Comfort using modern AI tools as part of your day‑to‑day workflow (for example, to accelerate analysis, draft and refine narratives, or prototype simple automations), and curiosity to experiment with new capabilities. * Familiarity with Salesforce and BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Metabase, or similar); experience with SQL or a willingness to learn on the job. * High attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders in a fast‑moving environment. * Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shifting between big‑picture strategic thinking and hands‑on execution. * Effective verbal and written communicator who can build alignment and influence cross‑functional partners.   #LI-NG2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Datadog:  Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. 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