Chief of Staff (Marketing)

Responsibilities

• Marketing Operations: Work alongside the company CM&GO in a collaborative way to elevate the operations and performance of the team through budget, workforce and strategic operations plans within the company;
• Strategic Planning: develop strategy and planning cycles, delegating different points of view to help the marketing leadership and product marketing teams plan with the best possible business context;
• Executive Reporting & Analysis: Create and manage MBR, QBR and Semi-Annual Business Reviews with the operations, product, marketing and business development teams; 
• Go-to-Market Measurement: Manage the Go-to-Market tracking and reporting process for key initiatives and solution launches around the world in collaboration with our integrated and product marketing teams;
• Counsel to Team and Leadership: You will act as trusted counsel to senior marketing leaders and company stakeholders, product, business development, finance, and operations teams to provide analysis on operations and represent marketing leadership in various capacities/meetings;
• Reporting Metrics: Manage our dashboard reporting and tracking of progress and performance across our different marketing functions - experiential, integrated (digital, social, acquisition), product, regional, design, public relations;
• Collaborate: Cross divisional collaboration and coordination with product, finance, technology, operations, business development, customer service and legal department stakeholders to solve challenges, create opportunities and manage process flows and internal communications;
• Problem Resolution: Frame problems and propose structures/models that help people better understand opportunities and trade-offs;
• Project Management: Partner across the organization relevant to your project/role with key stakeholders, ecosystem partners and customers;
• Marketing Support: Ownership of relationships development, supporting teams to complete associated deliverables, and working collaboratively to prepare presentations;
• Meeting Owner: Lead successful meetings for the marketing leadership and Xsolla executive stakeholders by formulating agendas, guide and facilitate key meetings, bring together notes and action items, and provide excellent follow-up in our Atlassian System (Jira, Atlas, Confluence);
• Workforce Planning: Create workforce planning and team operational organizational recommendations as part of annual planning, budget allocations and hiring of needed key roles;
• Learning and Education: Will continuously be learning and educating the team on trends, opportunities, tools and services to help us continue to service our partners and stakeholders effectively;
• Internal Representation: Act as the internal face of the global marketing team in the absence of the CM&GO.

Qualifications & Skills

• 8+ years of marketing, operations, commercial roles within the gaming and/or fintech businesses;
• Proven track record of operational excellence with teams of 50+;
• Extensive experience using and operating in the Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Atlas), Google Analytics, social media platforms, public relations tools and tracking;
• Experience using augmented reality (AI) tools to create operational efficiencies; 
• Highly organized, make sure nothing falls through the cracks;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills;
• Ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels (including executive leadership team, peers, managers and junior staff) from different cultures and backgrounds from around the world;
• Embody the attitude needed to support an agile working environment (including respect, collaboration, improvement and learning cycles, pride in ownership, focus on delivering value and continuous improvement);
• Possess broad strategic business knowledge;
• Excellent financial and operational modeling skills;
• Comfortable navigating in a growing and changing organization, identifying and engaging with teams and individuals;
• Ability to see where improvements can be made and problem solving;
• Confidence and competence to take responsibility to make decisions and the self-restraint to know when decisions are not immediately needed;
• Enjoy working with data and fluent in a variety of analytical tools;
• Expertise in leading complex projects across teams and organizations;
• Highest level of ability to manage confidential information;
• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally - up to 10%.