Senior Marketing Technology Manager Ontario

Upwork Inc.’s (Nasdaq: UPWK) family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. This portfolio includes the Upwork Marketplace, which connects businesses with on-demand access to highly skilled talent across the globe, and Lifted, which provides a purpose-built solution for enterprise organizations to source, contract, manage, and pay talent across the full spectrum of contingent work.

From Fortune 100 enterprises to entrepreneurs, businesses rely on Upwork Inc. to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, the Upwork family of companies enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and transform their work forces for the age of AI and beyond.

Since its founding, Upwork Inc. has facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work. Learn more about the Upwork Marketplace at  and follow us on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, and X; and learn more about Lifted at Go-Lifted and follow on Linked In.

As Senior Marketing Technology Manager, you will shape the systems that power performance marketing across Paid Acquisition, Paid Social, and SEO. You will own the technical foundation behind tagging, tracking, signal quality, and platform integrations, while helping evolve our broader Mar Tech ecosystem across customer data, consent, and automation. This role is built for a marketing technologist who moves fluidly from problem definition to implementation to measurement, and who can turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable, governed workflows that improve speed, accuracy, and business impact.

Reporting to the Head of Marketing Technology, you will operate as a senior individual contributor with broad influence across marketing, engineering, data, legal, and privacy.

• Own Google Tag Manager end-to-end across tagging, tracking, and pixel deployment, improving signal quality, match rates, and data reliability for Paid Acquisition, Paid Social, and SEO programs.
• Lead complex Mar Tech initiatives across tracking architecture, customer data platform integrations, consent signal orchestration, and platform onboarding, driving durable solutions that improve speed to market and campaign performance.
• Build and operationalize AI-enabled workflows that automate segmentation, campaign support, personalization, and marketing operations, with clear logic, measurable outputs, and appropriate human oversight.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools, agent frameworks, and integration patterns, including model orchestration approaches such as MCP, and recommend scalable solutions based on business value, technical feasibility, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Data, Legal, and Privacy to embed consent, governance, and compliance requirements into tagging, data collection, and AI-assisted marketing workflows.
• Create leverage for surrounding teams by translating business needs into technical requirements, resolving operational blockers, and establishing clear processes such as office hours, intake, and prioritization that make marketing teams measurably faster.
• Author and maintain Privacy Impact Assessments and data-flow documentation for marketing data, clearly articulating where data originates, transfer mechanisms, the processing purpose, and the regulatory basis and gating controls that apply, in partnership with Legal and Privacy.

• Deep expertise in marketing technology implementation across Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, pixel strategy, server-side tagging, and advanced data layer design, paired with strong judgment on how to improve measurement quality across paid and organic channels.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives as a senior individual contributor, balancing strategic thinking with hands‑on execution across Mar Tech, analytics, data pipelines, and stakeholder alignment.
• Strong technical fluency in SQL, analytics tooling, and data troubleshooting, with experience partnering closely with engineers and data teams to diagnose issues and build reliable, scalable solutions.
• Author and maintain Privacy Impact Assessments and data-flow documentation for marketing data, clearly articulating where data originates, the transfer mechanism used, the processing purpose, and the regulatory basis and gating controls that apply, in partnership with Legal and Privacy.
• Adaptive use of AI in technical workflows, including designing prompts, testing outputs, and integrating AI tools or agents into marketing operations to improve speed, accuracy, and execution quality while maintaining human review and…