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Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) jobs: 313 open roles, pay, industries and skills

313 open Chief Marketing Officer jobs (CMO), taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Also listed as Head of Marketing, Chief Brand Officer, Chief Growth Officer. Listings that state pay show a median of $215,000 a year.

The market for Chief Marketing Officer work

Every figure is counted from verified open listings. Pay is what the employer advertises for the job.

Verified open Chief Marketing Officer jobs
313

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Median pay in listings that state it
$215,000

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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State with the most openings
California (73)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Industry hiring the most
Technology & Software (32%)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Listings that are remote
51%

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Listings that ask for an AI skill
20%

Source: NextChapter verified openings, read in full.

What a CMO does

C-suite role in Marketing.

Brand, demand generation, product marketing and the marketing budget, and increasingly the data and tools behind them.

Usually reports to the CEO.

Other ways this role is written

  • CMO
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Head of Marketing
  • Chief Brand Officer
  • Chief Growth Officer

Listings under any of these titles are counted on this page. Assistant, associate, manager and staff titles are not.

Open Chief Marketing Officer jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

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CMO salary

From 67 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars, base pay only.

Lower quarter
$182,000
Median
$215,000
Upper quarter
$247,000

Leadership pay often includes bonus and equity that a listing does not state. Treat these figures as the floor of the conversation, not the whole package.

Best industries for CMO jobs

Employers hiring the most, as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry. Median pay shown where at least 8 listings state it.

Where CMO jobs are

States with the most open listings; median pay where at least 8 listings state it.

Skills CMO jobs ask for

Named in the listings themselves, as a share of 91 Chief Marketing Officer listings that name skills. Leadership listings name fewer skills than individual-contributor ones, so this is a signal, not a checklist.

Most named in CMO listings

  1. 1. demand generation41%
  2. 2. seo36%
  3. 3. go-to-market34%
  4. 4. crm29%
  5. 5. sem22%
  6. 6. salesforce22%
  7. 7. hubspot19%
  8. 8. brand strategy18%
  9. 9. forecasting16%
  10. 10. content strategy12%

Across all Marketing openings

  1. 1. go-to-market5%
  2. 2. project management5%
  3. 3. demand generation4%
  4. 4. crm3%
  5. 5. brand strategy2%
  6. 6. excel2%
  7. 7. logistics2%
  8. 8. salesforce2%
  9. 9. onboarding2%
  10. 10. content strategy2%

AI skills for CMO jobs

Specific AI skills named in the full posting text, such as prompt engineering, AI governance or an AI tool. A general mention of AI does not count.

20% of 86 open Chief Marketing Officer listings ask for a specific AI skill, against 6% of all Marketing openings.

AI skills named most often

  1. 1. AI workflow automation7%
  2. 2. LLM application engineering6%
  3. 3. AI tools in daily work6%
  4. 4. AI evaluation and guardrails2%
  5. 5. AI-enabled analytics2%
  6. 6. Automation platforms (Zapier, n8n, Power Automate)1%

Do AI skills change chief marketing officer pay?

For Marketing roles in general, as of November 2, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for chief marketing officer alone: one title rarely has enough listings on both sides.

Among Marketing listings, those that ask for an AI skill advertise +11.2% (about $16.5k) compared with similar listings that do not, matched on level and industry.

Listings that ask for an AI skill
$172,000
median, from 843 paid listings
Listings that never mention AI
$136,500
median, from 661 paid listings

Advertised pay only: the midpoint of the range an employer posted, on live U.S. postings read from the full text. “Asks for an AI skill” means the posting names a specific AI skill; “no AI” means it never mentions AI. A difference in what is advertised is not a promise of what you would be paid, and it does not show that learning a skill causes a raise.

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Job titles under CMO

The exact titles employers use, with their own job and salary pages.

Employers hiring for CMO roles

  • JRG Partners 23
  • Confidential 15
  • Colliers Engineering & Design 8
  • Career Launch 7
  • Chief Outsiders 6
  • Elise A.I. Technologies 2
  • Command Holdings, a Pequot Company 2
  • Cella 2
  • State Street 2
  • Mariner Finance 2
  • Gusto 2
  • Civic Roundtable 2

CMO questions

What does a CMO do?
Brand, demand generation, product marketing and the marketing budget, and increasingly the data and tools behind them. Usually reports to the CEO.
What does CMO stand for?
CMO stands for Chief Marketing Officer. The same job is also written Head of Marketing, Chief Brand Officer, Chief Growth Officer.
How many CMO jobs are open?
313 verified open Chief Marketing Officer jobs, each checked against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
How much does a CMO make?
Among 67 open Chief Marketing Officer listings that state pay, the median is $215,000 a year, and half of listings fall between $182,000 and $247,000. This is pay the employer advertises for the job, not total compensation such as bonus or equity.
Where are CMO jobs?
California (73), New York (40), Texas (22), Illinois (17) have the most open Chief Marketing Officer listings. About 51% of listings that state a work arrangement are remote.
Which state pays a CMO the most?
Of the states with enough listings that state pay, New York has the highest median at $265,000.
Which industries hire for CMO roles?
Technology & Software (32%), Healthcare & Hospital Systems (15%), Financial Services & Banking (13%), Manufacturing & Industrial (13%), as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry.
What skills do CMO jobs ask for?
The skills named most often in open Chief Marketing Officer listings are demand generation, seo, go-to-market, crm, sem.
Do CMO jobs ask for AI skills?
20% of 86 open Chief Marketing Officer listings read in full name a specific AI skill. The most common is AI workflow automation.

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