Global Head of Marketing Technology

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**About the role and team**:
The marketing technology team (martech) is playing a crucial role in enabling the scale and sophistication of our marketing efforts as we grow budgets, expand markets, channels and users. The group is on a mission to build a world class marketing tech stack to deliver the right tools, insights and actions to accelerate growth, profitability and improve retention. The martech team supports the enablement of an increasing number of channels/strategies including organic, social, performance, lifecycle, brand & international marketing.

As the Global Head of Marketing Technology, you’ll lead the vision, strategy and alignment across multiple specialties including product, data, engineering & operations to deliver a suite of tools and solutions to empower the marketing organization.

In this role, we’re looking for a strategic leader who can take on ambiguous problems, bring definition and clarity into how to organize a diverse team to deliver exponential impact. You need to have exceptional written, visual and verbal communication skills, the ability to manage complex stakeholder environments and a passion for rallying people around a single unified plan.

**What you'll do**:
The Global Head of Marketing Technology will lead and grow a cross-functional organization to deliver a world class suite of products and solutions that build step changes to the business, including improvements in acquisition through driving optimization and efficiency, improving our ability to influence user retention and drive revenue growth and expansion.

You’ll partner with key marketing leads across brand marketing, lifecycle, performance marketing, organic, product marketing and more, to develop and implement a unified martech strategy, both by “building and buying” the infrastructure and technology required to support our scale.

**You will do this by**:
Partner with marketing leadership to support our business priorities and deliver an impactful martech strategy
-Identifying strengths and gaps and bring chaos to clarity to align team goals to support fast-changing business priorities, able to deliver flexibly and with the long-term in mind
-Communicating across business and technical leadership to build trust, champion the team’s work & secure resources and funding
-Taking a product centric approach, and reducing manual effort across the marketing org by investing in automation and implementing and building products that support widespread use-cases across the team
-Surface new opportunities to marketing leadership that could be driving impact, including market insights, strategic audience opportunities, and budget optimisation
-Driving the roadmap of projects across the martech team to deliver impact, and owning the technology roadmap of tools and services as part of our marketing technology stack
-Be an inspiring leader in innovation and the future state of martech to plan for external and internal environmental changes and policies
-Be a T-shaped technologist with the ability to connect dots across Canva

**What we're looking for**:
12+ years of marketing technology experience building in-house teams at a global scale
-A track record of leading globally distributed, highly-effective, engaged organizations of multiple layers across product, engineering, data, & operations, specialties.
-Experience leading and scaling organization capabilities in a hyper-growth marketing team that is growing rapidly (2-5x) in both team size and spend annually.
-Deep proficiency in building platforms to support marketing automation, optimization, personalisation & measurement to support 1B+ spend and global user growth
-Highly numeric with exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate highly complex information in clear and simple language.
-Ability to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way.

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