Job Details
Head of Growth Engineering and Operations
2025-07-10 Verkada San Mateo,CAOverview
As the Head of Growth Systems, Engineering, and Operations, you will report to the CMO to build the core systems that are a key part of our go-to-market operation. These are high scale, mission-critical systems and include a combination of homegrown systems and third-party software across marketing and sales stacks including Marketo and Salesforce. We take systems very seriously and are looking for a leader to take our amazing systems team to the next level.
Responsibilities
- Scale revenue and efficiency along the multiple demand generation teams through automation, enrichment, improvement of funnels and building new software tools.
- We have an amazing team of software engineers, growth engineers, marketing operations managers and data scientists. Continue to build the team to the same high-quality standards.
- Own all of the growth systems, including Marketo, core databases, data visualization tools, and dashboards.
- Own integrations of marketing, sales and product databases and sources of truth
- Own evaluation, negotiations, and implementation of the marketing technology stack
- Own the growth systems roadmap by prioritizing projects and architecting solution
Qualifications
- 4-year degree from a top university
- At least 10 years of eng, data, marketing operations or similar experience
- You have a history of recruiting and managing high-caliber engineering talent, ideally with teams of 10 or more
- You have a strong engineering background (must have been an engineer at one point), probably in systems, databases, or related areas
- You're crafty/hacky and have a very strong first principles mentality
- You're a good communicator, both written and verbal
- An example project your team would tackle might be scaling a database from 10m to 100m rows. What are all the ways we might do that, and the tradeoffs involved with each approach given the limitations of 3rd party software such as API limits, deduping issues, debates on which database becomes the source of truth and which field value should be prioritized in the case of such deduping and so on.
Nice to Have
- If you've worked with Marketo, Salesforce, and related middleware, in the past, that's very useful, but not strictly required.
US Employee Benefits
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Fertility Stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Annual Pay Range
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
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