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Salary

What does a Marketing Director do?

A marketing director leads a company's marketing function — setting strategy, owning the budget, and managing the managers and specialists who run day-to-day campaigns. It is a senior leadership role above marketing manager that typically reports to a VP of Marketing, CMO, or the founder/CEO.

Across 62 current marketing director openings, the most-requested skills are B2B, SEO, Demand Gen, Product Marketing, Paid Media, and Go-to-Market.

Core responsibilities

Set marketing strategy and the annual plan against revenue and growth targets
Own and allocate the marketing budget across channels and teams
Build and manage a team of marketing managers and specialists
Report marketing's contribution to pipeline and revenue to the executive team
Own positioning, brand, and the go-to-market motion across the funnel

Salary: median listed range $140,000–$170,000 across 15 marketing director openings with published pay. See full marketing director salary data →

Computed from current job descriptions

Marketing Director job requirements

Based on 62 active marketing director 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
Budget ownership	48%	30 of 62
People management	45%	28 of 62
Full-funnel ownership	32%	20 of 62
Pipeline accountability	29%	18 of 62
Marketing systems ownership	27%	17 of 62
Hiring / team-building responsibility	23%	14 of 62
Forecasting responsibility	21%	13 of 62
Revenue accountability	15%	9 of 62
Explicit AI capability	13%	8 of 62
Quantified prior results expected	10%	6 of 62
Builds AI workflows	6%	4 of 62
International / multi-market scope	6%	4 of 62
P&L exposure	3%	2 of 62
AI agent orchestration	2%	1 of 62

2.5/3Strategic ownership

1.8/3Cross-functional leadership

1.9/3Decision authority

1.6/3Executive exposure

1.4/3Commercial accountability

1.1/3Analytical 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	34%	2%
Demand Gen	26%	2%
SEO	19%	0%
Google Analytics	18%	0%
Paid Media	16%	0%
Lead Generation	15%	0%
HubSpot	13%	2%
Product Marketing	11%	3%
Performance Marketing	11%	2%
Marketing Automation	11%	2%

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 Marketing Director roles

Across 62 current semantically classified marketing director roles, 13% explicitly expect meaningful AI capability and 6% give the candidate substantive responsibility for building or orchestrating agentic workflows. This separates ordinary AI-tool usage from workflow building and agent/system ownership.

8explicit AI-requirement roles

4agentic-AI roles

13%AI requirement rate

6%agentic responsibility rate

AI leverage level

Observed level	Jobs	Share
Level 0 — traditional	45	73%
Level 1 — AI user	8	13%
Level 3 — workflow builder	5	8%
Level 4 — agent orchestrator	1	2%
Level 5 — AI systems leader	3	5%

Where employers expect AI to be used

Marketing use case	Share	Observed count
Workflow automation	8%	5 of 62
Content	5%	3 of 62
Analytics / reporting	5%	3 of 62
Creative production	2%	1 of 62
Research / intelligence	2%	1 of 62
CRM / lifecycle	2%	1 of 62
Lead generation / scoring	2%	1 of 62

Listed salary associations

$140,000–$170,000all v2-classified roles · 15 listings

USD salary cohorts only. These are unadjusted associations, not causal AI salary premiums; seniority, geography, employer mix and other factors can explain differences.

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.

62 active jobs matching role: Marketing Director

Open roles

Marketing Director, AMENA region

Inovapharma · Location not listed · Salary not listed · 1 month ago