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title: VP of Marketing vs Marketing Director
roleA: vp-marketing
roleB: marketing-director
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# VP of Marketing vs Marketing Director

A side-by-side of the two roles based on live data from Growth.Talent.

| | VP of Marketing | Marketing Director |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Open jobs | 5 | 47 |
| Median salary midpoint | $215K | $160K |
| Anchor mid range | $200K-$280K | $130K-$175K |
| Anchor senior range | $240K-$380K | $155K-$220K |
| Primary category | growth-marketing | growth-marketing |
| Remote-friendly | 0/5 | 0/47 |

## VP of Marketing

VP of Marketing is the most common senior marketing title at Series B-C SaaS companies in the US. The role owns brand, demand gen, product marketing, and ABM. Below the CMO at large companies; above the CMO functionally at smaller ones. Best-fit candidates have a track record of taking marketing from $5M to $50M in pipeline, hiring 5-10 marketers, and partnering with sales on revenue ownership. Increasingly the role overlaps with VP of Growth, the line gets blurry below 200 employees.

## Marketing Director

Marketing Director is the senior-IC-becoming-manager title. They own a function (demand gen, content, brand) or a region (NA, EMEA), report to a VP, and manage 2-6 people. Best-fit candidates have 6-10 years experience, prior people management, and at least one channel they can still execute on themselves when the team is short. The title is most common at companies between Series B and IPO where there's enough scale for layered management but the senior team still needs hands-on operators. At pre-Series-B companies the title often replaces VP for cost reasons.

## Browse live jobs

- [/role/vp-marketing](https://www.growthtalent.org/role/vp-marketing)
- [/role/marketing-director](https://www.growthtalent.org/role/marketing-director)

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