Marketing Director

Marketing Director (VP Sales & Marketing or Head of Sales & Marketing also considered) Northern England | Hybrid A board-level marketing leadership role at a profitable, founder-led UK technology business at a defining commercial moment. About the company A UK-based, AI-led data and technology business serving the public sector. Founder-led, profitable, scaling, and backed by an institutional growth investor. The business has spent several years building a proprietary product set and is now entering a category-defining phase, with its methodology recently adopted as a national standard. The role A hands-on, number-carrying marketing leadership role at board level, reporting directly to the founder CEO and working closely with the Executive Chair. The model is marketing-led, with the sales function operating on a dotted-line basis for pipeline cadence and reporting. You'll own: * Marketing-sourced pipeline against agreed revenue targets * Account-based marketing into a finite, named UK customer base * Sales and marketing alignment, including SLAs, qualification and handover * Customer marketing for retention and upsell across the existing base * Brand and category leadership through the next phase of growth * Marketing operations, attribution and board-level reporting Who we're looking for A B2B SaaS, technology or data marketing leader, currently in a Marketing Director, Head of Demand Generation, Head of Growth or smaller-business CMO role, ready for the step up to a first proper board-level seat. Essential experience: * Personal ownership of marketing-sourced pipeline against revenue targets * Account-based marketing into a finite, named target market, not high-volume lead generation * Built and operated SLAs with sales teams in a peer relationship * Hands-on campaign execution: writing briefs, building dashboards, running campaigns yourself * Marketing operations fluency across CRM, automation, attribution and conversion analytics * Comfort reporting at board and investor standard Desirable: * Public sector or regulated-industry buying experience * Familiarity with framework procurement (G-Cloud, ESPO, YPO, KCS) * Experience designing or operating sales commission plans * Background in a PE or growth-equity backed scale-up environment What you'll get * A board-level role at a profitable, scaling business at a once-in-a-decade commercial moment * Direct working relationship with the founder CEO and a hands-on Executive Chair with multiple successful exits behind them * Genuine ownership and the autonomy to build the marketing function properly * A small, tight team operating with the pace and clarity of a founder-led business * Hybrid working with regular in-person collaboration at the Northern England head office Suited to a candidate based in Northern England within commutable distance of the head office