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If you’ve been reading the forecasts for 2026, or scanning the latest Taligence reports, you already know the score. The “growth at all costs” era isn’t just over; the clean-up’s been underway for a while, and everyone’s running on caffeine, adderall and contingency plans.

This week, one trend is crystal clear: the market is leaning hard into Operators. The roles on offer are about rigour, results, and people who know their way around a spreadsheet. The Trade Desk wants a statistician who can win a data war. Armada’s hunting a CMO who can hold their own with engineers on an oil rig. Even Tate’s Bake Shop is after someone who can juggle handcrafted charm with supply chain precision.

What ties them together? Proof. Whether you're steering a P&L or turning a museum into a money-maker, the brief is the same: if you can’t measure it, you can’t lead it.

Before we get into the roles, let’s zoom out. There are 35,835 marketing jobs currently live in the U.S., flat year-over-year (-0.3%), but up a solid 11.6% from the year-end dip just two weeks ago. Senior-level roles (Director and up) are at 4,720, which is a 10.6% recovery in just 14 days and an 8.5% increase year-over-year. As we noted in our year-end report, demand for experienced, hands-on leaders is holding strong.

We’re also seeing signs of acceleration: companies like Uber, Walmart, even Amazon are all listing new marketing opportunities. AI firms are especially active right now, snapping up talent across functions. If you’ve got contacts in those circles, now’s a good time to reconnect - there may be more happening under the surface than meets the eye.

Salary-wise, nearly 55% of marketing jobs now include pay details. The median across all posting levels is $87,506, while senior roles average $155,002. CMO listings are averaging $250K, and cities like San Francisco, LA, and Boston are offering some of the strongest packages.

Median Salary by Seniority of Jobs

Median Salary of Senior Marketing Roles in Top Hiring Cities

Right, on to the jobs.

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The Trade Desk is currently fighting a two-front war against gravity and the giants. Their stock collapsed nearly 68% in 2025 as growth slowed and investors got spooked by the rise of Amazon's ad business and AI-driven efficiency at Meta and Google. They are positioning themselves as the last bastion of the Open Internet, arguing that premium inventory drives 40% higher purchase intent than the cheap reach found in the walled gardens.

With a base salary ceiling of $718k, this shows how high the stakes are; it is a mandate to arm the rebellion with better math. TTD needs a heavyweight operator to validate their premium narrative, because, without rigorous proof, that price tag is a hard sell to a CFO looking at a spreadsheet full of cheap social impressions.

The real job here is to act as the ‘Truth Architect for the Fortune 100’. You are being hired to institutionalize TTD’s marketing science program, moving beyond basic attribution into the heavy artillery of Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), incrementality testing, and causal inference. This role includes leading the Solutions Consulting team to build custom algorithms and workflows on top of TTD’s APIs, effectively turning the platform into a weapon for big clients. You are the bridge between the black box of programmatic algorithms and the boardroom, tasked with convincing Heads of Measurement and Chief Analytics Officers that the TTD platform drives superior, measurable business growth.

If Taligence had this recruiting mandate, we wouldn’t be looking at standard ad-ops leaders. We would be headhunting the ‘Math Men and Women’ from the very Walled Gardens TTD is fighting…senior Marketing Science leaders from Amazon DSP, Meta’s Marketing Sciences, or Google Ads who are tired of grading their own homework. We’d also target Chief Data Officers from major holding companies like GroupM or Publicis who understand the agency-client pressure cooker and can translate complex measurement into defensible commercials in human language. A contrarian pick would be talent from Haus - it’s not an ad platform giant, but a measurement product biz leaning hard into causal MMM as a modern answer to attribution decay.

To win this interview, you will need to speak the language of Business Impact over Media Metrics - and if you’re not from SaaS, expect questions about how you will influence engineering roadmaps. Use their own recent research against them in the best way possible: tell them you can build the measurement framework that proves cheap reach is a liability.

Pitch a vision where you translate complex measurements into actionable strategies that defend the premium pricing model against Amazon's encroachment. Walk in ready to quantify value and defend premium inventory with mathematical precision and executive presence… that’s how you get the keys to this castle. If this role stays unfilled, it will be hard to justify piling into $TTD.

Armada was born because Dan Wright (ex-CEO DataRobot, COO AppDynamics) realized that terabytes of critical data were stranded on oil rigs and battlefields because the cloud was just too far away. They are dropping ruggedized data centers called Galleons into the wildest corners of the earth, bridging the gap between Starlink connectivity and edge AI so decisions can happen in milliseconds. Make no mistake, this is a rocket ship of growth; headcount has exploded ~126% to 485 employees in the last year, while keeping attrition at a cool ~12%. With a compensation package cracking half a million dollars plus aggressive equity, the intent to scale is certain.

The mandate is explicitly anti-fluff. The JD bluntly states this is not a brand-only or top-of-funnel mandate, relegating brand and communications to a supportive function. With ~34% of the workforce in Engineering and only ~7% in Sales, the center of gravity is heavily technical. You are being hired to translate complex distributed systems and hardware specs into a value proposition that a CIO at a mining giant will sign a check for, balancing that heavy engineering bias with commercial reality.

If Taligence had this search, we would bypass the consumer-tech glitterati entirely. We’d be hunting in the trenches of deep infrastructure and hard tech. We’d look at Product Marketing leaders from Starlink (a natural partner), Anduril (defense tech), or Samsara (industrial IoT): people who understand that the cloud isn't always an option. They are already poaching heavily from Microsoft and Amazon, so big-tech infrastructure alumni are clearly in the strike zone. We might also poach from Cloudflare or HashiCorp, targeting operators who have successfully marketed the invisible plumbing of the internet to technical buyers.

To win this seat, you need to speak Engineer and Industrial (Bill, if you’re reading this, you might be a fit). Geek out on the Galleon hardware and show you understand the physical reality of their customers. Walk in with a razor-sharp vertical strategy: show them exactly how you would position their tech specifically for the energy sector versus the defense sector. Tell them you view Marketing as a revenue function, not a cost center, and proving it with a pipeline velocity model will get you the offer from an engineering grounded leadership team that expects Marketing to earn its keep.

And now, from the hard EDGE of industrial high performance computing, and the cookieless future of the open internet, we move to…cookies of a different sort.

Tate’s Bake Shop is a comeback story wrapped in green foil. Founder Kathleen King started selling cookies at her family’s farmstand in the Hamptons as a kid. She built a bakery, lost her own name in a bad partnership deal, and rebuilt from scratch as Tate's (her dad's nickname). That grit paid off when Mondelez (the Oreo giant) bought the brand for ~$500M in 2018.

You are stepping into the shoes of Jessica Goon, who shepherded the brand for two years before exiting in October 2025 to take a VP Global Brand role at McCormick & Company. Her trajectory proves this role is a legitimate launchpad for marketers who can balance Southampton artisanal with multinational muscle.

The real job here is to act as the co-pilot for the CEO of Tate’s, tasked with driving the next leg of growth. You aren't building from scratch; you're inheriting a team that's already a perfect sweet and salty mix. You’ve got brand builders like Jackie Cooke (ex-Milk Bar, ex-KIND) ensuring the vibe stays artisanal, sitting right next to Mondelez rockstars like Camille Norman and Laura Bernstein who knows how to crush it in the DSD network. Your mandate is to bridge these two worlds: expanding Household Penetration through Food & Mass channels without diluting the craft credential that justifies the premium price tag.

You are the guardian of the green bag, ensuring that as Tate's gets bigger, it doesn't feel corporate.

If Taligence had this mandate, we’d be looking for marketers who can speak both cult brand and category captain. We’d target alumni from Ben & Jerry’s (Unilever), KIND Snacks (Mars), or Annie’s Homegrown (General Mills): people who know how to be the cool kid at the big family reunion. Jessica Goon came from KIND herself, so that specific insurgent brand DNA is clearly the winning formula here. We might also look at leaders from Magnolia Bakery or Milk Bar, who understand how to scale a bakery brand without losing its cult status.

To win this role, you need to show you can respect the hustle. Talk about how you’ll use the farmstand to fame story to deepen emotional connection. Show them you understand the Challenger Brand mindset needed to fight for shelf space against cheaper alternatives. Pitch a strategy that uses the Southampton flagship as an innovation lab for DTC drops. And most importantly, prove you can navigate the Mondelez matrix to get resources without letting the corporate process crush the cookie’s crunch!

First things first: the job title in the header says "Chief Marketing Manager," but the description calls for a "Chief Marketing Officer." That typo tells you everything you need to know. You are walking into a 100-year-old institution where the HR systems probably predate the internet, and your first job is to drag the brand into the 21st century without breaking any of the furniture.

The AMA is a legacy giant in professional training, but they aren't asleep at the wheel; they’ve recently been winning awards for AI-powered role-playing tools and releasing research on the AI skills gap (which is very real). They have the content and the Fortune 500 client list; they just need a leader to package it for a world that consumes learning on TikTok, not just in hotel ballrooms.

This is a General Manager role disguised as a marketing gig. Unlike most CMO jobs where you just own the budget, here you own the P&L for the entire U.S. seminar business. That is a massive lever.

You are on the hook for the profitability of the company's core product. The mandate includes implementing a "scalable infrastructure leveraging AI" for forecasting, which suggests the current forecasting method might involve a dartboard and a Ouija board, or both. Be warned: this is a full-time, onsite role in NYC. They want a visible leader who can walk the floor, not a Zoom nomad.

If Taligence had this hiring mandate, we’d be hunting for EdTech Scalers who understand the difference between selling a course and selling a capability. We’d look at leaders from General Assembly, ExecOnline, or LinkedIn Learning…people who have successfully sold training to the enterprise. We might also tap the B2B marketing leadership at MasterClass or Coursera, targeting those who have pivoted from consumer-only to B2B revenue streams but we’d double click into culture fit.

To win this seat, ignore (forgive?) the cute "Manager" typo and speak to the P&L. Walk in with a plan to revitalize the seminar concept for a hybrid workforce. Reference their recent "Skill Coach" AI product and show how you’d bundle it to drive recurring revenue, moving them away from one-off transaction dependency. Tell them you love the office and believe culture happens in person…that’s clearly the password to the executive washroom here.

You know The Paley Center as that polite, scholarly museum in Midtown where media executives go to sit on panels and archive their pilot episodes. But don’t let the nonprofit status fool you; this role is less "curator of dusty tapes" and more "Chief Revenue Officer in a blazer." The Paley Center is sitting on 160,000 television programs…a literal "national treasure" of content and yet they need a VP to hustle for ticket sales, memberships, and corporate sponsorships like a startup founder staring down a runway deadline.

The mandate is explicit: transform the museum from a nice-to-have cultural archive into a "must-visit cultural destination" that generates "sustainable revenue performance".

This is a turnaround gig disguised as a museum job. The JD obsessively mentions "revenue growth," "financial accountability," and "driving business results" alongside buzzwords like AI and data analytics. They aren't looking for an art historian; they want a "high energy, extremely organized, highly efficient operator" who can use "emerging technologies" to put butts in seats and dollars in the bank. Phew.

You report directly to the CEO, which means you are the first call when ticket sales miss the monthly target. The cultural vibe? "High-energy," "in-person collaboration," and "entrepreneurial," which is polite code for "we run lean, move fast, and you will be in the office five days a week".

If Taligence had this mandate, we’d skip the museum world entirely. We’d be hunting for "commercial beasts" from the live entertainment sector…leaders from Live Nation, Ticketmaster, or AEG who know how to sell tickets at scale. We might even look at the marketing leadership from high-traffic tourist attractions like The Empire State Building Observatory or Top of the Rock, targeting operators who understand the daily grind of filling a venue in Manhattan.

A contrarian pick would be a subscription-growth leader from a media brand like The New York Times or The Atlantic, someone who knows how to monetize an intellectual brand through membership and events.

To win this seat, ignore the cultural institution fluff and speak directly to the P&L. Walk in with a plan to use their "160,000 programs" as a content marketing beast to drive paid attendance. Pitch a data-driven membership strategy that moves beyond "philanthropy" and into "value exchange." Mention your (cough) "deep understanding of AI" and back it up with concrete examples, because the JD mentions it three separate times, signaling a Board-level obsession with modernization. Tell them you view the museum as a product, not a charity, and you might just get the job."

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