Manager, Marketing Operations

You are a thoughtful marketing operations leader who enjoys building scalable systems, developing high-performing teams, and turning complex marketing needs into clear, efficient execution. You’re energized by working at the intersection of campaign operations, marketing technology, data, automation, and cross-functional collaboration. You enjoy solving ambiguous problems, improving how teams work, and helping marketers deliver accurate, measurable campaigns that support business growth.

At Yelp, our mission is to connect people with great local businesses. Marketing Operations plays an important role in bringing that mission to life by enabling lifecycle and revenue-driving marketing campaigns that are reliable, data-driven, and scalable. In this role, you’ll lead a team responsible for campaign enablement, marketing automation, QA, troubleshooting, Mar Tech operations, deliverability, and web operations. You’ll partner closely with Lifecycle Marketing, Marketing Technology, Product, Engineering, Analytics, Creative, and other cross-functional teams to ensure our marketing systems, workflows, and digital experiences support strong execution and measurable impact.

We’re looking for an experienced people leader with hands‑on marketing automation expertise and strong operational judgment. You should be comfortable managing team planning over a three‑month‑plus horizon, prioritizing work based on business impact, coaching team members through complex operational and technical challenges, and coordinating work across partner teams. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

• Lead and develop a Marketing Operations team responsible for campaign enablement, marketing automation, QA, deliverability, troubleshooting, Mar Tech operations, workflow improvement, and select marketing web operations work.
• Manage planning, prioritization, and execution across a three‑month‑plus horizon, ensuring the team’s campaign and operational backlog is clearly tied to business priorities, lifecycle goals, stakeholder needs, and measurable outcomes.
• Oversee end‑to‑end campaign operations, including intake, scoping, sprint planning, requirements gathering, timeline management, QA readiness, launch coordination, post‑launch issue resolution, and performance feedback loops.
• Partner with Marketing Technology, Product, Engineering, Analytics, Lifecycle Marketing, Creative, and Campaign Operations to maintain scalable, reliable, and AI‑enabled Mar Tech infrastructure, including requirements for automation, personalization, audience segmentation, data flows, integrations, reporting, and operational workflows.
• Own platform health, deliverability, and issue resolution processes by staying ahead of changes in marketing platforms, privacy policies, device operating systems, AI‑driven filtering, and broader industry best practices; lead root cause analysis and coordinate rapid resolution of platform, campaign, data, deliverability, or tracking issues.
• Support marketing web operations as a part of the role, including coordination of landing page updates, CMS workflows, deployment readiness, tagging and tracking implementation, accessibility considerations, performance monitoring, launch QA, and troubleshooting for marketing‑owned digital surfaces.
• Drive continuous improvement through AI, automation, experimentation, and scalable workflows, identifying opportunities to reduce manual work, improve campaign quality, strengthen analytics, and increase team productivity while maintaining accuracy, compliance, and operational control.

• You have several years of experience in marketing operations, revenue operations, marketing…