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What does a Head Of Marketing do?

A head of marketing owns the entire marketing function for a company or business unit — strategy, budget, team, and results. The title is common at startups and scale-ups, where it is often the most senior marketing role and reports directly to the founder or CEO. In larger organisations it sits alongside or just below a VP of Marketing or CMO.

Across 59 current head of marketing openings, the most-requested skills are B2B, Go-to-Market, SEO, Demand Gen, Paid Media, and Performance Marketing.

Core responsibilities

Own marketing strategy and the number marketing is accountable for
Hire, structure, and lead the marketing team
Set and manage the full marketing budget
Own demand generation, brand, product marketing, and the funnel end to end
Report directly to the founder, CEO, or executive team on growth

Salary: median listed range $150,000–$220,000 across 9 head of marketing openings with published pay. See full head of marketing salary data →

Computed from current job descriptions

Head Of Marketing job requirements

Based on 59 active head of marketing job descriptions that have been semantically classified. These are observed employer requirements, not a generic career-guide checklist.

Requirement	Share of classified jobs	Observed count
People management	56%	33 of 59
Budget ownership	44%	26 of 59
Full-funnel ownership	32%	19 of 59
Hiring / team-building responsibility	27%	16 of 59
International / multi-market scope	27%	16 of 59
Marketing systems ownership	24%	14 of 59
Pipeline accountability	17%	10 of 59
Explicit AI capability	17%	10 of 59
Forecasting responsibility	14%	8 of 59
Builds AI workflows	8%	5 of 59
Quantified prior results expected	7%	4 of 59
AI agent orchestration	5%	3 of 59
P&L exposure	5%	3 of 59
Revenue accountability	0%	0 of 59

2.5/3Strategic ownership

1.7/3Cross-functional leadership

1.9/3Decision authority

1.7/3Executive exposure

1.5/3Commercial accountability

1.2/3Analytical depth

1.3/3Systems / martech scope

1.6/3Change leadership

1.8/3Stakeholder complexity

Scope scores run from 0 (mostly execution / within-team work) to 3 (broad strategic or company-wide ownership).

Skills employers explicitly require

Skill / tool	Required	Preferred
B2B	29%	2%
Performance Marketing	17%	0%
Paid Media	17%	0%
SEO	14%	0%
Google Analytics	12%	2%
Growth Marketing	12%	0%
Meta Ads	10%	2%
Product Marketing	10%	0%
Demand Gen	10%	0%
Marketing Automation	8%	3%

Methodology: candidate requirements are extracted from the original job description, stored as typed semantic features, and aggregated deterministically. Binary requirements count only high-confidence explicit-positive classifications; skill rows distinguish required from preferred mentions. Percentages use the semantically classified active-job sample for this role.

AI career intelligence · semantic job-description analysis

How AI agents are changing Head Of Marketing roles

Across 59 current semantically classified head of marketing roles, 17% explicitly expect meaningful AI capability and 10% give the candidate substantive responsibility for building or orchestrating agentic workflows. This separates ordinary AI-tool usage from workflow building and agent/system ownership.

10explicit AI-requirement roles

6agentic-AI roles

17%AI requirement rate

10%agentic responsibility rate

AI leverage level

Observed level	Jobs	Share
Level 0 — traditional	41	69%
Level 1 — AI user	6	10%
Level 2 — workflow operator	3	5%
Level 3 — workflow builder	4	7%
Level 4 — agent orchestrator	4	7%
Level 5 — AI systems leader	1	2%

Where employers expect AI to be used

Marketing use case	Share	Observed count
Workflow automation	14%	8 of 59
Content	5%	3 of 59
Experimentation / optimization	5%	3 of 59
SEO / organic search	3%	2 of 59
Personalization	3%	2 of 59
Lead generation / scoring	3%	2 of 59
Research / intelligence	2%	1 of 59
Analytics / reporting	2%	1 of 59
CRM / lifecycle	2%	1 of 59

Jev makes bounded semantic judgments from each original job description. The site stores those features once; cohorting, percentages, joins and salary calculations are deterministic Rust/SQLite. Agentic responsibility means building/configuring agent workflows or more advanced orchestration — not simply using ChatGPT.

59 active jobs matching role: Head Of Marketing