Senior Marketing Manager: GTM (Hybrid)

<h3><strong><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://pages.8thlight.com/hubfs/Juan/New%20Careers%20Banner.svg" alt="" width="100%"></strong></h3> <h1>Senior Marketing Manager, Go-To-Market</h1> <p><strong>Location</strong>: Chicago, IL | <strong>Hybrid</strong> (1-2 days per week in office)</p> <p><strong>Reports to:</strong> Managing Director</p> <hr> <h2><strong>Who We Are</strong></h2> <p>At 8th Light, we bring life to the best ideas.</p> <p>Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions consultancy that partners with organizations from early-stage startups to the world's largest companies. We take on hard software challenges and turn them into durable results. We build agentic products, the platforms they run on, and the engineering and design at every layer.</p> <p>Our commitment to quality means we deliver solutions we’re truly proud of, while our curiosity sparks innovation and breakthrough thinking. 8th Lights thrive in an environment that champions continuous education, fueling our growth through mentorship and hands-on work. We foster an open, collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients.</p> <p>If this kind of work and our kind of people energize you, you’ve found the right place.</p> <h2><strong>Who You Are</strong></h2> <p>You’re a hands-on marketer who makes things happen. You’ve spent your career close to the work, turning strategy into a steady cadence of content, events, and outreach that actually ships. You’re energized by a clear market position and the discipline of carrying it anywhere a buyer might meet us.</p> <p>You understand that in a market flooded with AI-generated noise, senior buyers are moved by credible expert voices, real stories, and warm relationships. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role. You'll own the full marketing function solo, not manage a team, so you're as comfortable in the weeds of a newsletter as you are setting the measurement strategy. You’d rather help technologists publish sharp, field-anchored points of view on a reliable rhythm than blast a generic email to a list and you have the ability to shape an expert's thinking without being the expert yourself.</p> <p>You own the system, not just the project, and you hold yourself accountable to the results. Over your 6-8 years of experience, you've brought:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Proven ownership of marketing measurement and analytics: you’ve instrumented a marketing stack, stood up always-on reporting, and led with numbers instead of waiting for someone else to produce them</li> <li>Fluency with SEO