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# Marketing Operations Manager at Black Duck Software, Inc.

- **Company:** Black Duck Software, Inc.
- **Location:** US, OR
- **Compensation:** $74k–$110k
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blackduck/jobs/5388554008

## Job description

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Marketing Operations Manager

Drive Marketing Excellence Through Automation, Data, and AI

Position Summary

The Marketing Operations Manager supports high-growth B2B technology marketing programs by building, optimizing, and maintaining the systems and agentic AI technology stack that power revenue-generating campaigns. This role partners with Marketing, Sales, Sales Operations, IT, and Demand Generation to ensure campaign execution, marketing automation, lead flow, and performance measurement are effectively managed across Marketo, Qualified, Salesforce, and other go-to-market technologies.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

- Support the execution of agentic AI- and Marketo-based marketing programs, including email campaigns, nurture programs, webinars, events, newsletters, content marketing, and go-to-market initiatives.
- Build and maintain campaign assets in Marketo and Qualified, including emails, forms, landing pages, templates, nurture streams, and audience segments.
- Perform database maintenance and segmentation activities, including list pulls, uploads, data enrichment, lead assignment updates, and reporting.
- Monitor lead flow from website to Marketo to Salesforce, identify process issues, and recommend improvements to drive accuracy and efficiency.
- Troubleshoot routine data and system issues within marketing operations platforms and escalate more complex issues as needed.
- Document and maintain campaign processes and workflows to support accurate routing, data quality, and campaign execution.
- Partner with Marketing and Sales stakeholders to gather campaign requirements, provide status updates, and support campaign analysis.
- Support the maintenance, testing, and adoption of internal AI-powered tools used for lead classification, data cleansing, and workflow automation.
- Assist with marketing technology stack enhancements, including requirements gathering, testing, documentation, and integration support.
- Prepare recurring reports on campaign effectiveness, email performance, lead engagement, conversion metrics, and other marketing operations KPIs.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Education, Experience, and Skills

- 2-3 years of experience in Marketing Operations.
- Experience supporting B2B demand generation, customer marketing, and sales programs through marketing automation platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Marketo and Salesforce is required.
- Experience with Qualified or similar agentic AI, conversational AI, or SDR platforms is preferred.
- Experience with marketing technology administration, campaign execution, database management, lead management, reporting, and analytics.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues, recommend solutions, and drive improvements.
- Strong project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Customer-focused mindset with the ability to collaborate effectively across Marketing, Sales, Sales Operations, IT, and Demand Generation teams.
- Experience in cybersecurity, software security, SaaS, or technology organizations is preferred.
- Familiarity with GDPR and data privacy best practices is preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Information Systems, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting modern AI-driven go-to-market organizations.
- Knowledge of lead lifecycle management, marketing attribution, and campaign performance optimization.
- Familiarity with marketing analytics, data enrichment, and automated lead qualification tools.

Why Black Duck?

Join a team helping organizations around the world build secure, trusted software. At Black Duck, you'll work with leading marketing technologies, emerging AI capabilities, and a collaborative global team focused on accelerating growth through innovation and operational excellence.

Pay Range $74,000—$110,000 USD

Black Duck is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or military service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Black Duck complies with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination in every jurisdiction where it operates and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

## About Black Duck Software, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Black Duck provides a comprehensive application security testing (AST) platform that helps organizations build secure, high-quality software by identifying and remediating vulnerabilities, license risks, and code quality issues across proprietary, open-source, and AI-generated code.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by private equity firms Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners; spun out from Synopsys in October 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
- **Founded**: 2015 (as the Synopsys Software Integrity Group); became an independent company in October 2024
- **Founders**: Not applicable (formed from Synopsys); key leadership includes CEO Greg Hughes, CPTO Dipto Chakravarty, CISO Dom Glavach, CRO Roman Telerman, CFO Jim Ivers, CMO Sean Forkan, and CHRO & General Counsel Joy Meier

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Application Security Testing (AST), DevSecOps, Software Supply Chain Security
- **Target customers**: B2B; enterprise organizations, development teams, security teams, and DevOps engineers across industries including finance, healthcare, automotive, aerospace, and government
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To enable organizations to build trust in their software by providing True Scale Application Security – the ability to secure code of any size, in any environment, without compromising speed, accuracy, or compliance.”

## Products & Services
- **Black Duck Polaris Platform**: Cloud-native SaaS platform that unifies SAST, SCA, and DAST into a single, integrated solution for enterprise-wide application security testing and policy enforcement.
- **Black Duck SCA (Software Composition Analysis)**: Identifies vulnerabilities, license risks, and compliance issues in open-source and third-party components; generates SBOMs; includes AI Model Risk Insights.
- **Coverity Static Analysis (SAST)**: Scans proprietary source code for security vulnerabilities and quality defects, with AI-powered remediation suggestions via Black Duck Assist.
- **Seeker Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)**: Combines runtime analysis with automated testing to detect vulnerabilities in running applications.
- **Black Duck Signal**: Agentic AI solution that autonomously detects and remediates vulnerabilities in business-critical applications, including AI-generated code.
- **Code Sight IDE Plug-in**: Provides real-time security feedback within developers’ IDEs (VS Code, JetBrains, etc.) to catch issues before code is committed.
- **Black Duck Hub (on-premises)**: On-premises deployment option for customers with strict data residency or regulatory requirements.
- **Hybrid deployment**: Full flexibility to run scans in cloud, on-premises, or across mixed environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private equity-backed)
- **Key Metric**: Over 4,000 organizations worldwide trust Black Duck; recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing for eight consecutive years (2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clearlake Capital Group, Francisco Partners (majority owners); technology partners include GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and major cloud providers.
- **Growth Signals**: Spun out as an independent company in October 2024 to focus exclusively on application security; launched Black Duck Signal (agentic AI AppSec); expanding SaaS platform with unified SAST+SCA+DAST; hiring across sales and engineering roles (remote positions available).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Comprehensive portfolio**: Only vendor offering SAST, SCA, DAST, IAST, and agentic AI in a single unified platform (Polaris).
- **20+ years of human-verified intelligence**: Proprietary KnowledgeBase™ with curated vulnerability data and context, powering high-precision detection with low false positives.
- **Flexible deployment**: Supports cloud (SaaS), on-premises, and hybrid models – customers choose without compromising capabilities.
- **Developer-first approach**: Integrates directly into CI/CD pipelines and IDEs, enabling developers to find and fix issues within their workflow.
- **AI-native security**: Built to secure AI-generated code (e.g., from GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) with specialized detection and remediation capabilities.
- **Regulatory expertise**: Supports compliance with ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, EU Cyber Resilience Act, US Executive Order 14028, and industry-specific standards (automotive ISO/SAE 21434, aerospace, defense).

## Strategic Focus
- **Securing AI-generated code**: Developing and enhancing agentic AI tools (Signal) to address the unique risks of AI-assisted development.
- **Expanding SaaS adoption**: Driving migration to the Polaris cloud platform for scalability, continuous updates, and reduced overhead.
- **Deepening compliance automation**: Building automated policy enforcement and audit-ready reporting for evolving regulations (e.g., EU Cyber Resilience Act, US supply chain security mandates).
- **Growing market share**: Targeting new enterprise customers through a hunter sales model and competitive displacement of legacy AST vendors.
- **Customer success and innovation**: Investing in AI-powered developer assistants (Black Duck Assist) and contextual intelligence (ContextAI™) to reduce mean-time-to-remediate.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Work on critical security infrastructure that protects software used by thousands of organizations worldwide.
- **Remote-friendly culture**: Open roles (e.g., Lead Enterprise Account Executive in Canada) explicitly support remote work; the company values flexibility and results.
- **Values**: “We Scale Up” (ambition and growth), “We Lead with Integrity” (honesty and transparency), “We Put Customers First” (empathy and value delivery), and “We Are Bold” (challenge convention, take smart risks).
- **Engineering culture**: Developer-first mindset; teams build tools that developers love to use. Focus on innovation in AI, cloud-native architecture, and security research.
- **Career growth**: Independent company with PE backing offers agility and resources; opportunity to shape the future of a market-leading security platform.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company emphasizes professional development, a collaborative environment, and the chance to work on cutting-edge security challenges.

## Sources
1. [Black Duck About Us](https://www.blackduck.com/company.html)
2. [Black Duck Main Site](https://www.blackduck.com/)
3. [Black Duck Careers](https://www.blackduck.com/company/careers.html)
4. [Black Duck Leadership](https://www.blackduck.com/company/leadership.html)
5. [Greenhouse Job Posting (Lead Enterprise Account Executive Canada)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blackduck/jobs/5226170008)

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