Marketing Strategy, Planning Specialist

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About the role

  • Marketing strategy specialist coordinating budgets, projects, and team culture programs for Elastic’s Search AI platform. Supporting global growth marketing operations, finance tracking, and executive communications.

Responsibilities

  • Help oversee the global growth and experiential marketing budget by tracking spend against plan, reconciling actuals, and flagging variances early
  • Partner with Finance and regional marketing teams on forecasting, accruals, and quarterly budget reviews
  • Help hold marketing teams accountable to finance best practices and standards
  • Monitor compliance, follow up on gaps, and help teams understand and apply financial processes
  • Use finance and planning tools to track budgets, spend, and approvals
  • Build budget summaries and trackers for leadership decision-making
  • Own team culture programs, including planning and running all-hands from agenda through follow-up
  • Create moments that bring a globally distributed team together, gather feedback, and try new approaches
  • Build relationships across the department and connect teams to improve collaboration
  • Coordinate special projects for the group and VP from kickoff through completion
  • Set timelines, assign owners, track dependencies, and follow up
  • Maintain project plans, status updates, and documented next steps
  • Identify risks and gaps, determine escalation paths, and recommend solutions
  • Write tailored emails, updates, and presentations for regional teams and senior leaders
  • Prepare materials for business reviews, QBRs, and leadership meetings
  • Handle confidential business and financial information with discretion
  • Maintain planning calendars, recurring reviews, and process documentation
  • Learn and use finance, planning, and project management tools and suggest process improvements

Requirements

  • Experience in project coordination, program management, marketing operations, finance operations, event or internal communications, or a similar role; internships and early-career experience count
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Solid project management skills
  • Persistence and follow-through
  • Good judgment and escalation skills
  • Discretion with confidential information, including budget, headcount, and strategic planning details
  • Comfort with numbers and budgets
  • Proficiency with spreadsheets such as Excel or Google Sheets
  • Readiness to learn forecasting and variance tracking
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Ability to write crisp emails and build polished presentations
  • Comfort learning new software tools quickly
  • Collaborative and proactive approach
  • Located in Canada

Benefits

  • Elastic stock program eligibility
  • Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
  • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
  • Flexible locations and schedules for many roles
  • Generous number of vacation days each year
  • Matching up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
  • Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects
  • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
  • Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$68,200 - CA$107,900 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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