Ford Motor Company

Responsible for consolidating global marketing technology selection and management activities, overseeing marketing operations data capability intake, prioritization and compliance, and driving a long-term technology roadmap.

Marketing Technology and Governance Lead

Association of National Advertisers

Member, MarTech Leadership Council

Smartsheet

Led a large centralized marketing automation team providing global campaign operations, data orchestration, solution design, support and governance. Applied system architecture and technical expertise directly to projects. Mentored team members on effective practices and skill development.

Director, Marketing Automation

Poly

Plantronics + Polycom. Now together as Poly.

Leadership role expanded to manage MarTech stack of over 120 technologies and drive excellence in central webinar/virtual event operations.

Sr. Manager, Marketing Technology and Automation

Sr. Manager, Marketing Automation Operations

Manager, Marketing Automation Operations

Polycom

Promoted from individual contributor to marketing automation team manager at Polycom. After acquisition by Plantronics in July 2018, leadership role was expanded to lead the combined team and build the integrated function.

Sr. Manager, Marketing Automation

Technical and creative lead for marketing automation campaign and platform operations, mentorship of distributed producers, and development of innovations in capabilities and processes.

Senior Marketing Automation Manager

Marketing Automation Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Functional lead for team of email and web editors and designers. Served as interim manager.

Senior E-mail and Web Designer/Marketing Automation Specialist, Customer Channels

Web and E-mail Designer, Enterprise e-Business

Sedlak Design Co.

Print, web, identity/brand and e-marketing design services

Independent Consultant

Universal Technologies, Inc.

Managed design and development team and external resources, delivering small and medium web projects, provided creative direction and technical guidance. Expanded services with business model and operational plan for email marketing services. Led major initiative to re-imagine flagship SaaS product, including new creative direction, technical architecture and business model.

Manager, Design and Development

McCue Design Consultants

Handled print graphic design for direct mail, advertisements, packaging and large format graphics. Led web design and development, adding database-driven technology to agency’s capabilities. Managed extensive packaging portfolio for leading refractories company through two re-brandings.

Web and Graphic Designer, Lead Developer

Thinking back, my career in marketing operations can be blamed mostly on my dad.

Before we owned a home computer, I’d accompany him when he had to go to the office on a Saturday. He wrote code for steel production systems, I played on a Mac nearby. He thought I’d enjoy the paint program since I had a lot of interest in art. I immediately used this new power to publish school news and sports in “The 6th Grade Post” newsletter for my classmates.

He spared no detail about how things worked, whether discussing a piece of machinery or a basic process of life. He always explained WHY something was. I was fascinated. He gave me old appliances and vacuums to take apart. I discovered how parts connected and worked together. The gears, belts and wheels told a story of design and engineering for a purpose.

Now with a family PC, we bonded over hardware and software. A good friend, a quintessential “computer nerd”, gave me my first glimpse into the online universe. I dialed in daily to local BBS’s and a university with real internet access, blocking the family phone line for hours.

I discovered Netscape when I got to college and I was hooked. There were no classes for web design, so I taught myself HTML the old-fashioned way—viewing web page source code and writing my own markup in Notepad. I learned the basics of JavaScript and one summer my dad taught me to program in C++. I learned how to be efficient in coding and to write for future flexibility and ease of maintenance.

Uninspired by the available courses of study, I elected to design my curriculum, borrowing classes from many disciplines. I turned web design into a career, which led to email marketing, which evolved into marketing automation and technology.

So here I am, still blending creativity and technical work. Here I am, still seeing all of the metaphorical gears behind a system. Here I am, still figuring out how to efficiently connect components to achieve a goal. Here I am, still trying to make work easier, scalable and maintainable. Here I am, taking what I’ve learned and sharing it with others through mentorship, community involvement and conference talks. Here I am, still learning.

Despite no artistic interest himself, my dad never dissuaded me from the arts. He knew computers and code and saw a chance to connect those dots. I realize now that he was very creative in how he approached coding and systems and I've found my own satisfaction in the concept.

He’s never said so, but I suspect he didn’t actually need all of those Saturdays at the office.

AJ Sedlak

Every year, this report spotlights where organizations need to improve, as well as where things are on track. If you’re a senior leader with marketing operations under you, read this and hear what your teams probably aren’t telling you—before it’s too late.

When it comes to Community and Marketing Ops, I'm your huckleberry. Community-led founder and CEO of MarketingOps.com and MO Pros® -- where 20K+ Marketing Operations Professionals engage and learn weekly.

The 2025 State of the MO Pro Report tells:

52% of organizations offer no formal training for their Marketing Ops teams.

33% see no defined career path for Ops professionals.

And yet... 92% believe AI will completely reshape how Ops gets done.

Let that sink in for a second.

We’re betting the future of GTM on AI but not investing in the people who’ll actually run it.

We’ll spend six figures on tools, then skip the five-grand budget that could teach someone how to use them strategically.

That’s how you end up with automation without adoption.

AI without accountability.

And dashboards that look impressive but don’t move the business an inch forward.

I believe somewhere along the way, we started treating “enablement” as a nice-to-have, instead of the engine that makes innovation sustainable.

We built tool stacks faster than we built talent stacks.

And in the process, we’ve created Ops teams that are over-burdened (with tech) and under-developed.

If we want real maturity, we need to shift how we invest:

→ Budget for Brains: Training isn’t an expense; it’s compounding ROI. Make it a line item, not an afterthought.
→ Shadow the Strategy Room: Let Ops sit in on OKR, budget, and GTM planning. Exposure creates fluency.
→ Narrative > Noise: Stop measuring activity and start storytelling. Translate data into decisions that matter.

Because the companies that win won’t be the ones with the most tech, they’ll be the ones with the most capable operators behind it.

A Question for you all…

If you could fund one team-wide course this year, would you pick AI automation or data storytelling?

Your answer probably says a lot about what kind of organization you’re building.

PS: You can download the full report from MarketingOps website

#MarketingOps #RevOps #Leadership #AI #ProfessionalDevelopment #StateOfTheMOPro2025

Justin Norris

360Learning

360Learning is the learning platform that combines collaborative tools with the power of an LMS. We empower L&D teams to drive culture and growth through Collaborative Learning.

Sr. Director, Marketing and BDR Operations

Director of Marketing and BDR Operations

RevOps FM

I'm the creator and host of RevOps FM - a weekly Masterclass on revenue operations and go-to-market strategy. 

It's my way of thinking out loud about my work and sharing knowledge at scale.

Podcast Creator and Host

Perkuto

As Sr. Director of Solutions Architecture, I lead the architect team within our marketing operations practice at Perkuto and manage a team of seven. My role is to provide leadership and develop innovative solutions and marketing operations best practices.

Clients look to our team to solve their toughest marketing and sales operations challenges. We deliver results using rigorous business and process analysis, a relentless focus on the underlying business goals, and a rare depth of expertise configuring marketing systems.

Sr. Director, Solutions Architecture

Director of Solutions Architecture

As a Solutions Architect, I lead delivery teams in creating end-to-end marketing operations solutions for clients using Marketo and Salesforce and other best-in-class marketing tools.

Marketo Solutions Architect

As a Senior Consultant, I advise on and create end-to-end solutions for clients using Marketo and Salesforce and other best-in-class marketing tools.

Senior Marketo Consultant

ClearFit

I joined ClearFit as the third employee and the first marketing hire, tasked with growing the marketing function, generating demand, and building out the funnel. Our efforts generated thousands of new customers for ClearFit's hiring solution. I wore many hats during this time, and also helped overhaul the product UI, and hire the initial sales/customer success team, implement Marketo and Salesforce, and much more. 

I quickly discovered my love and talent for creating automated marketing, sales, and service systems and began to focus my energies exclusively on marketing automation and CRM. Using these tools we were able to more effectively nurture our prospects, identify our best leads, and effectively scale to thousands of customers - AND increase customer satisfaction - without massive increases in customer service headcount. This contributed to ClearFit experiencing triple digit % increase in customers and revenue during my tenure.

Director of CRM

CGA-Canada (Certified General Accountants Association of Canada)

I worked within the Professional Services team, which is responsible for providing online training and development opportunities to CGAs and other business professionals. 

My responsibilities included:

MARKETING STRATEGY: I managed the marketing function -- from developing the overall marketing strategy in line with organizational objectives down to the hands-on tactical implementation of campaigns.  
- Conduct market research, surveys, and gather customer insights
- Contribute to product strategy and optimize the product mix 
- Build integrated marketing communications programs across online and offline channels
- Manage, monitor, and grow CGA-Canada's professional development brand

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: I led the webcast and video course product lines, developing the overall product strategy and providing guidance on topics, presenters, and curriculum.

Marketing Strategist & Product Developer

Director, Marketing Ops @ 360Learning | Host @ RevOps FM Podcast | Thinking out loud about GTM + operations

I'm a seasoned marketing operations leader with 15+ years experience building high-performing teams.
Through this experience, I've learned what it takes to build marketing ops strategies, systems, and processes that will scale.

MY EXPERTISE:
• GTM operations strategy and roadmaps
• Designing, building, and optimizing Martech stacks
• Designing structure and processes for global remote teams 
• Data strategy and governance
• Analytics, reporting, KPIs
• Lead routing, management, SLAs, and follow-up
• Multi-channel lead nurturing and ABM
• Lead lifecycle and scoring
• Campaign operations
• Communication and change management

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
• Establish and lead a global ops function supporting marketing / BDR teams across 4 markets (Germany, France, UK, US).
• Provide coaching, training, and leadership to an expert consulting team (~40 people) on marketing operations best practices, with direct responsibility for a team of seven.
• Develop the solutions architecture function and lead the SA team at a marketing technology consulting firm. 

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE:
• Marketo: 4x Marketo Champion and Marketo Certified Solutions Architect (MCSA)
• Salesforce: seasoned Salesforce administrator, architect-level skillset
• Hubspot Certified
• iPaaS / Enterprise Automation: Workato Gold Partner and 2x conference speaker
• Attribution and Analytics: Bizible (Bizible All Star '17, Pipeline Marketing Award '17), Marketo, Looker, PowerBI • Data management: Ringlead, Clearbit, Cognism, etc.
• Lead routing: Lean Data, Distribution Engine

Director of Marketing Operations

Email snafus are the classic "m'oops" scenario: broken/wrong links, image placeholders, "hello {firstname}}", "test subject line", no unsubscribe option, missing address...if you are in MOPS you've seen it all and have scars to prove it. 

This is why MOPS pros have extensive pre-flight QA checklists. 

Also: this work is super boring and no one wants to do it. 

This is a great example of what I call an "adaptive" AI use case: not deterministic enough for code, but not creative enough that it truly requires human input. 

An LLM can do this work, present it's report, and a human can sign off. 

This is what Ahmed Datoo and Alysha 🌟 Khan have built and it's free. I tested it the other day and it was very cool. 

Just send your email to a test address, get a report back. No integration required. 

I think this is a no-brainer and I don't see why I wouldn't do it for every email I send. 

Check it out: https://lnkd.in/gBzTimjf

AI + Automation Architect | Marketing Ops Leader @ 360Learning | Editor @ aibuilders.blog

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