Chief Marketing Officer

2 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Flywheel Digital Full time
About Flywheel 
Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions accelerate growth across all major digital marketplaces for the world's leading brands. We give clients access to near real-time performance measurement and improve sales, share, and profit. With teams across the Americas, Europe and APAC, we offer a career with real impact, endless growth opportunities and the support you need to be the best you can be.

The Opportunity 

Flywheel is seeking a visionary CMO to architect and drive our global marketing strategy, amplifying Flywheel's brand, market presence, and demand generation engine. As a pivotal member of the executive team, you will deliver integrated go-to-market strategies, fuel revenue growth, and position Flywheel as the digital commerce partner of choice for the world's top brands. 

What You'll Do 

  • Set the strategy and oversee the execution for all of Flywheel's Marketing functions, including: 
    • Brand Marketing: Flywheel's voice and content engine, owning thought leadership and all GTM collateral (video, blog, podcast, newsletter, guides, sales assets).  
    • PR & Communications: Amplifying Flywheel's achievements, innovations, and successes (in service of our clients as the focus) across a clearly defined external communications ecosystem:   
    • Design Marketing: Translates Flywheel's strategy into clear, compelling, and consistent visual brand architecture and experience across every touchpoint. 
    • Demand Generation: Drive audience awareness and arm our sales team to generate pipelines by translating thought leadership into sellable talk tracks of our products and services.   
    • Event Marketing: Focused presence at key industry movements, showcasing our thought leadership, highlighting the breakthrough results we deliver, and leveraging our greatest asset, our people, to generate qualified demand, deepen customer engagement, and differentiate Flywheel in an increasingly competitive global market. 
    • Product Marketing: Ensure clear positioning, launch excellence and sustained market impact of Flywheel product launches.  Lead product market fit, pricing and go to market. 
    • Partnership Marketing: Accelerate marketplace growth, drive product adoption and deepen strategic relationships with retailer, platform and industry partners 
  • Partner with Commercial leadership to ensure marketing programs drive pipeline, retention, and expansion targets - this role is truly accountable to the growth agenda of the business 
  • Evolve Flywheel's brand narrative, ensuring consistency and differentiation in all internal and external communications. Serve as the executive sponsor for major product launches, events, and thought leadership initiatives. 
  • Peer-level leader to influence the product roadmap in partnership with Flywheel's Product Development leadership 
  • Elevate Flywheel's brand across all regions (North America, EMEA, APAC) and solution lines both directly and through a license model. 
  • Partner with Revenue Operations and Marketing Operations to evolve our strategic measurement frameworks used to acquire, track and manage client conversion data across funnel stages. 
  • Lead AI-enabled lead generation efforts within the business, creating synthetic audience outreach and agentic systems that scale. 
  • Champion a data-driven marketing culture. Oversee market research, customer insights, and competitive intelligence to inform product strategy, positioning, segmentation, and campaign optimization. 
  • Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing, globally distributed marketing organization. Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning. 

Who You Are 

  • A true strategic leader that can see around the corner and pioneer the future in a rapidly evolving industry 
  • B2B Marketing experience with at least 5 years in a senior or executive marketing leadership role (VP/SVP/C-level) within SaaS, digital commerce, or enterprise technology. 
  • Demonstrated success leading global marketing teams and programs, with a focus on North America and EMEA. 
  • Proven track record of evolving and elevating company brands in competitive, fast-growth markets. 
  • Highly skilled at partnering with Sales, Product, and Customer Success to drive integrated, client-focused strategies. 
  • Expertise in product marketing, solution launches, and sales enablement for complex, multi-product SaaS portfolios. 
  • Strong analytical skills; comfortable with marketing analytics, pipeline forecasting, and performance measurement. 
  • AI-fluent, with an AI-first mentality to problem solving 
  • Passion for building, mentoring, and scaling world-class, diverse teams. 
  • Exceptional communication skills and ability to influence at all levels of the organization. Able to represent Flywheel externally and build trusted relationships with clients, partners, and stakeholders. 

Working at Flywheel
We are proud to offer all Flywheelers a competitive rewards package and unparalleled career growth opportunities and a supportive, fun and engaging culture.
  • We have office hubs across the globe where team members can go to feel productive, inspired, and connected to others - team members go into Hub Offices 3x a week
  • Flexible vacation time
  • Great learning and development opportunities
  • Benefits that help you live your best life
  • Parental leave and benefits
  • Volunteering opportunities
  • If you're looking to connect with teammates on a topic of inclusion and identity, chances are there's an ERG for that.
  • So you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check
  • Learn more about us here: Life at Flywheel

The Interview Process:
Every role starts the same, an introductory call with someone from our Talent Acquisition team. We will be looking for company and values-fit as well as your professional experience; there may be some technical role-specific questions during this call.
 
Every role is different after the initial call, but you can expect to meet several people from the team 1:1 and there might be further skill assessments in the form of a Take Home Assignment/Case Study Presentation or Pair Programming/Live Coding exercise depending on the role. In your initial call, we will walk you through exactly what to expect the process to be.
Inclusive Workforce

Flywheel Commerce Network's goal is to create a culture where all individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable in bringing their authentic selves to work. We want all people to feel included and empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Flywheel Commerce Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. All applicants will receive fair consideration for employment. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

If you have any accessibility requirements that would make you more comfortable during the application and interview process, please let us know at so that we can support you.

For more information about what data we collect and how we use it, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
 
We leverage AI technology to streamline our hiring workflow, though all candidate decisions are made by our Talent Acquisition Team

IMPORTANT ALERT: Please beware of fraudulent job communications from individuals falsely claiming to be from Flywheel. We've identified fraudulent activity through social media and messaging services purporting to be from Flywheel requesting payments for job- and recruitment-related expenses. Flywheel never asks candidates for personal information such as bank account data or tax IDs nor payments via social media or chat-based applications. Report suspected fraud to local authorities immediately. To learn more, click here.

Please note, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party Recruitment Firms. 

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