Director, Demand Generation
Location
Colorado + 3 moreAll locations: Colorado | North Carolina | Texas | Virginia
Posted
45 days ago
Salary
$165K - $180K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Demand Generation
Second Front Systems
• Own quarterly and annual sales-qualified pipeline targets with clear accountability for revenue contribution, efficiency, and ROI. • Build and execute an integrated demand generation strategy spanning digital, lifecycle, events, partnerships, ABM, and sales-led programs. • Lead the full-funnel demand engine, ensuring stronger alignment from awareness through pipeline acceleration and expansion. • Drive paid and digital demand strategy across channels including LinkedIn, Google, retargeting, and emerging platforms. • Own event-driven demand strategy, maximizing pipeline impact before, during, and after strategic activations including tradeshows, ecosystem events, partner activations, and flagship moments. • Build and scale SEO, AEO, and content-driven inbound demand programs that improve discoverability, authority, and qualified pipeline. • Own web strategy, landing page optimization, and conversion rate improvements to strengthen funnel performance. • Lead a disciplined growth experimentation approach across channels to improve conversion, efficiency, and pipeline velocity. • Identify, test, and validate new demand channels through controlled pilots and data-driven analysis. • Support account-based and sales-led programs that accelerate enterprise deal cycles and improve expansion opportunities. • Apply AI-enabled workflows to improve campaign execution, audience targeting, personalization, reporting efficiency, and decision-making. • Develop clear attribution models that connect multi-channel activity directly to pipeline and revenue impact. • Build repeatable systems, playbooks, and processes that scale with the business. • Partner cross-functionally with Sales, RevOps, PMM, and Partnerships to align marketing programs with GTM priorities. • Own and manage agency relationships across paid media, SEO, web, and digital programs, holding partners accountable to execution quality, experimentation rigor, and business outcomes. • Over time, help shape and lead future demand-focused resources, including agency partners and potential direct reports.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in B2B SaaS demand generation, growth marketing, or integrated revenue marketing.
- Proven track record of generating measurable sales-qualified pipeline and revenue impact, not just lead volume.
- Experience owning full-funnel demand strategy across digital, lifecycle, events, and integrated campaigns.
- Strong hands-on experience with paid media strategy, demand systems, and agency management.
- Deep understanding of SEO, AEO, CRO, website performance, and inbound demand strategy.
- Experience managing agencies and external vendors with strong performance expectations.
- Ability to think strategically while staying close enough to execution to pressure-test programs and improve outcomes.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience tying activity back to pipeline, attribution, and revenue performance.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving startup or scale-up environments.
- Excellent cross-functional leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.
- High standards for execution quality, experimentation, and measurable business impact.
- Proficiency with modern marketing technology and AI-enabled workflows.
- A passion for our mission to strengthen national security.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage
- 401(k) + 3% company contribution
- Equity incentive plan
- Tech + office supplies stipend
- Annual professional development stipend
- Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off
- Parental leave
- Referral Bonus
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