Chief Marketing Officer

As an Accelerator, A11 connects Europe's most ambitious startups, scaleups, corporates and mid-sized companies with top talent who want to generate real impact.

Our partner is an established provider of financial and controlling software for the Mittelstand: 350+ employees, 100,000+ users, a new management team and a leading European software investor behind it. A company with substance: successful, profitable and stable for 45 years. And that is precisely where the opportunity lies. With the investor's value creation plan, the next growth phase begins - the ambition: to significantly accelerate growth, with marketing as one of the central levers.

Marketing here becomes a genuine growth engine, and that is exactly what the management wants: as Chief Marketing Officer (m/w/d) you will receive full freedom of action, an appropriate budget and the mandate to change things, while leading a team of around 10 colleagues through the transformation and, together with Sales, SDR, RevOps, Product and Customer Experience, professionalising a data-driven marketing operating model.

You will report to the Chief Revenue Officer (part of the management board), who is responsible for the entire go-to-market area from marketing through sales to customer success and drives the growth mandate with full conviction, and you will be measured on pipeline, conversion and new ARR rather than reach.

• A data-driven marketing operating model with full funnel transparency
• A demand generation system and a tech-enabled nurture cycle that measurably feed the new-customer pipeline
• Sharpening the ICP, segmentation and messaging, together with Sales
• The close integration of Marketing, Product and Sales into a seamless go-to-market system
• Leading and developing the team through the change
• Overall responsibility for marketing including product marketing, brand and PR, with a clear priority on funnel and pipeline

• Several years of marketing leadership experience in B2B SaaS, software or adjacent tech-enabled B2B
• Proven ownership of demand generation, funnel and pipeline
• Experience building or restructuring a marketing function during a growth phase
• Strong with numbers: attribution, CAC and new ARR are part of your everyday work
• Builder mindset, resilience and pace: you move quickly from analysis to impact and bring the organisation with you
• Team player with clear communication, including laterally at eye level with Sales and SDR
• Negotiation-proof German and English
• Bonus: PE-backed environment, affinity for AI, finance/ERP knowledge

You work in a hybrid model and are at the headquarters in Bielefeld 1-2 days per week.

• Genuine room to shape: transformation mandate, full freedom of action and budget, direct line to the management board
• PE-backed growth: a clear growth plan, the investor's best practices and LTI participation
• A multiply award-winning, stable and profitable employer

A11 is committed to fair and equal opportunities in recruiting, for applicants, candidates and employees alike. We value people with all their diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and look forward to your application.