Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is building a world-class marketing team focused on transforming the marketing process. The Sr Manager, Marketing Operations will oversee the strategic planning process and enhance workflows using Airtable and automation tools.
Responsibilities
- Design, manage, and continuously improve marketing's quarterly planning process to ensure it remains a reliable, scalable engine for prioritization
- Drive cross-functional alignment on priorities, project dependencies, success metrics and key milestones across various business units
- Build and maintain resourcing capacity plans across the marketing org, collaborating with department leads to validate planning assumptions over time
- Spot risks early, lead straightforward conversations on trade-offs, and outline solutions before resource constraints block progress
- Own the Airtable platform end-to-end, including workspace design, governance, user adoption, and data integrity
- Streamline our program intake process, onboarding and utilizing Airtable's native automations and built-in AI features to quickly organize requests
- Uphold a high bar for program intake ensuring all requests are submitted with the specificity, context, and details necessary for the org to execute with confidence
- Identify opportunities to replace repetitive tracking tasks with automated status workflows, helping the team save time and reduce manual coordination
- Lead planning meetings with clear goals, building trusted relationships and communicating project updates clearly to both peer teams and leadership
- Regularly update and improve our project templates, scoping tools, and tracking methodologies to increase planning accuracy
Skills
- 7+ years of marketing operations, program management, or operational planning experience (in-house or agency)
- A proven track record of taking complex processes and turning them into clear, highly organized, and repeatable workflows
- Deep experience with modern project management databases (specifically Airtable) and a solid understanding of creative production or digital asset workflows
- Experience verifying, refining, and checking the accuracy of automated project summaries or data updates rather than relying entirely on manual data entry
- An open, experimental mindset with a willingness to try new productivity and AI tools to work smarter and increase your daily operational impact
- Solid analytical skills, with the ability to define, track, and use operational metrics to find and fix process bottlenecks
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with an ability to keep cross-functional teams aligned without direct authority
- Strong financial acumen and experience managing budgets or operational costs
- Grounded, steady, and composed under pressure; comfortable navigating ambiguity and shifts in business priorities
- Advanced experience administering Airtable at an enterprise scale (including scripting, advanced interfaces, or API integrations)
- A strong interest in the evolving digital media, entertainment, and technology spaces
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