Sr Manager, Marketing Operations

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

Yahoo is building a world-class marketing team to build momentum, re-establishing our unique place in people’s everyday lives and culture. The Marketing Operations team is at the center of that effort, committed to transforming the marketing process to drive predictable outcomes through structured planning, rigorous execution, and scalable systems. We are a steady, solutions-oriented team that acts with a clear bias for action.

About the Role

The Sr Manager, Marketing Operations will play an integral role by owning our quarterly and ad hoc strategic planning process end-to-end. This is an advanced individual contributor role that serves as the primary administrator and strategic owner of Airtable, our enterprise program management platform.

The ideal candidate is a trusted, cross-functional partner who can anticipate project risks, resolve team bottlenecks, and guide the organization through fast-paced changes. In this role, you will also help modernize our workflows, adopting practical automations and database AI capabilities to keep our operations running smoothly and efficiently.

What You'll Do

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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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The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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The compensation for this position ranges from $110,625.00 - $230,625.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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