Executive Marketing Senior Manager

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The Senior Manager, Executive Marketing (CIO Focus) will own Salesforce’s executive-level marketing plan including thought leadership, content strategy and content development for the CIO persona. This role is responsible for shaping how Salesforce shows up with enterprise CIOs—establishing credibility, trust, and architectural relevance as organizations make once-in-a-decade decisions around agentic platforms.

This leader will help define the CIO narrative, develop a single source of truth for CIO messaging, and translate that point of view into high-impact content and integrated journeys across media, digital, events, and executive engagement. The role partners closely with Executive Events, Product Marketing, Sales, Media, and Digital teams to ensure consistent, technically credible, and outcome-driven messaging across every CIO touchpoint.

This is a highly strategic, exec-facing role focused on narrative development, content quality, and market influence.

• Own the end-to-end CIO messaging and positioning strategy, aligned to Salesforce’s Agentic Enterprise narrative and grounded in security, governance, trust, and architectural integrity.
• Develop and maintain the CIO Messaging & Positioning Document (MDP) as a living single source of truth (SSOT), synthesizing inputs from Product Marketing, Salesforce CXOs, CAB insights, customer proof points, and market research.
• Define persona-specific outcomes, value propositions, and executive-level “recipes” that connect multiple Salesforce clouds into cohesive business outcomes for CIOs.

• Lead the strategy and development of CIO-focused thought leadership content across formats and channels, including:
• Executive white papers and research reports
• Media and partner content series
• Executive video and virtual engagement formats
• Social and digital CIO content streams
• CIO landing pages and owned web experiences
• Ensure all content is technically credible, customer-led, and outcome-oriented, prioritizing proof over vendor claims.
• Partner with key cross-functional teams to align existing executive content and programs to the CIO narrative, identifying gaps and extending or adapting content where needed.

• Partner with Media, Comms, and Executive Events teams to shape CIO thought leadership for third-party stages and media environments, ensuring Salesforce shows up where CIOs already engage.
• Guide the development of integrated digital and media content that extends reach beyond one-time moments and supports sustained market presence.
• Contribute to recommendations on media partnerships and content investments based on CIO engagement, reach, and business impact.

• Define the CIO integrated journey, sequencing content, media, events, and sales engagement to support executive decision-making over time.
• Partner closely with Executive Events and Sales to ensure content, messaging, and follow-up actions are aligned across touchpoints, with clear ownership and handoffs.
• Help templatize learnings from the CIO journey to inform future CXO persona strategies.

• Partner with Marketing Ops and Analytics to define input and outcome KPIs for CIO…