MARKETING LEADER
Christopher Hession
I build teams, go-to-market strategies, and marketing systems for technology companies.
Operative · Dropbox · Autodesk
San Francisco Bay Area
Recent thinking on AI, marketing, media, and growth.
SELECTED WRITING
I’ve spent my career building the teams, systems, and go-to-market capabilities that turn strategy into execution.
ABOUT
I’m a marketing and product marketing leader with 20+ years of experience building teams, launching products, and leading go-to-market strategy across enterprise software, SaaS, media, and AI.
More recently, I’ve focused on how AI can improve the way marketing organizations research, create, collaborate, and execute.
A career built across software, SaaS, media, and marketing transformation.



Operative
Vice President, Global Marketing
2024 – 2026
Vice President, Product Marketing
2021 – 2024
Dropbox
Head of Enterprise Product Marketing
2020 – 2021
Autodesk
Group Manager, Head of Product Marketing
2010 – 2019
Senior Product Marketing Manager
2006 – 2010
Operative is the advertising backbone for many of the world’s largest media companies. Our AI-centric SaaS platform powers the planning, selling, and execution of advertising across broadcast, digital, and streaming. Using our tools, media leaders unify workflows, optimize yield, and thrive in a complicated cross-platform world.
I led Operative's global marketing organization, overseeing product marketing, demand generation, communications, brand, events, analyst relations, and executive thought leadership. My focus is helping media companies navigate the convergence of advertising, streaming, data, and AI while driving growth across Operative's advertising technology platform.
Led enterprise go-to-market initiatives for Dropbox Business as the company expanded from a consumer productivity brand into an enterprise collaboration platform.
Drove global go-to-market strategy & execution for AutoCAD software and helped guide major product, customer, and business-model transformations across one of the world’s best-known software portfolios.

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