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Fractional Leadership
Fractional CMOB2B SaaSRevenue Marketing

Fractional CMO pour B2B SaaS & Services

Leadership Marketing Senior Sans Charge Full-Time

3.2×
Avg Pipeline Lift
Within 6 months
$8K
Starting Monthly
No recruiter fees
42%
CAC Reduction
Median client result
90
Day Ramp
Full operating rhythm
What Is a Fractional CMO?

A fractional CMO is a senior marketing executive who works with your company part-time or on contract — typically 15–25 hours per week. They own your marketing strategy, manage your team and vendors, and report directly to the CEO or CRO. For B2B SaaS companies between Series A and C, a fractional CMO fills the gap between founder-led marketing and a full-time hire. You get executive-level pipeline strategy at a fraction of the $350K+ total comp a full-time CMO commands.

Où les projets échouent

Founder is still running marketing at Series B Board loses confidence in go-to-market execution and delays the next fundraise.
Marketing team exists but has no strategic direction Spend climbs quarter over quarter with no measurable pipeline attribution.
No documented ICP or positioning framework Sales complains about lead quality; AE close rates drop below 15%.
ABM program got launched but never operationalized Six-figure intent data contracts sit unused while competitors win named accounts.
Marketing and sales run off different dashboards Revenue forecasting breaks down and the CFO can't model unit economics accurately.
The full-time CMO search has dragged on six-plus months Every month without leadership costs $40K–$80K in unrealized pipeline velocity.

Conformité

ICP & Positioning Architecture

We build your ideal customer profile from closed-won data, firmographic signals, and buyer interviews. What comes out is a targeting framework your entire GTM team actually runs from.

Pipeline & Funnel Design

Stage definitions, conversion benchmarks, velocity targets, and SLA agreements between marketing and sales. No more arguing about what counts as an MQL.

Demand Generation Strategy

Channel mix, budget allocation, content strategy, and paid program design — all reverse-engineered from your revenue target. Every dollar gets a pipeline attribution model.

ABM Program Operations

Account selection, intent signal workflows, multi-threaded outreach sequences, and sales coordination playbooks. We build ABM that keeps running after we leave.

Revenue Marketing Operations

HubSpot/Salesforce architecture, lifecycle stage automation, lead scoring models, and executive dashboards. Clean data in, reliable forecasts out.

Team & Vendor Management

We manage your in-house marketers, freelancers, and agency partners. Weekly standups, quarterly OKRs, and accountability structures that scale.

Ce que nous construisons

Weekly Strategy Sessions

A 60-minute working session with your CEO or CRO to align marketing execution to board-level revenue targets.

GTM Audit & 90-Day Plan

A full audit of your marketing stack, team, spend, and pipeline — delivered as a prioritized execution roadmap.

Board-Ready Reporting

Monthly marketing performance decks covering pipeline attribution, CAC trends, and the channel efficiency metrics your investors actually want to see.

Hiring & Org Design

Marketing org chart recommendations, job descriptions, interview scorecards, and onboarding plans for your first or next marketing hires.

Competitive Intelligence

Quarterly competitive landscape analysis covering positioning, pricing signals, content strategy, and share-of-voice benchmarks.

Messaging & Content Strategy

Core narrative framework, homepage copy direction, sales enablement briefs, and an editorial calendar tied directly to pipeline stages.

Notre processus

01

GTM Diagnostic

Deep audit of your current marketing org, tech stack, pipeline data, and competitive position. We interview sales, CS, and product leadership to find the real bottlenecks.
Week 1–2
02

ICP & Strategy Build

We deliver your ICP framework, positioning document, channel strategy, and a 90-day execution plan with clear pipeline targets and budget allocations.
Week 3–4
03

Execution & Team Activation

We start executing the highest-leverage initiatives. That means standing up reporting dashboards, launching priority campaigns, and establishing a weekly operating rhythm with your team.
Week 5–8
04

Optimize & Scale

We analyze first-campaign data, refine targeting, adjust spend allocation, and start building repeatable playbooks. ABM programs and content engines come online.
Month 3–4
05

Transition or Continue

At the 90-day mark, we assess together: continue the fractional engagement, hire a full-time CMO (we help recruit), or hand off to an upgraded internal team with documented SOPs.
Month 4+
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Questions fréquentes

Comment un fractional CMO diffère-t-il d'un consultant marketing ?

Un consultant livre des recommandations. Un fractional CMO possède l'exécution. Il assiste aux réunions de direction, gère votre équipe, tient les prestataires responsables et répond des chiffres du pipeline — pas seulement d'un deck stratégique. Il opère comme votre CMO, simplement à temps partiel auprès de plusieurs clients.

Combien d'heures par semaine un fractional CMO travaille-t-il ?

Typiquement 15–25 heures par semaine selon le niveau d'engagement. Cela couvre les sessions stratégiques, la gestion d'équipe, la supervision des prestataires, les revues de campagnes et la préparation des conseils. La plupart des entreprises B2B SaaS entre $2M–$15M ARR n'ont pas besoin de 40 heures de travail au niveau CMO — elles ont besoin des 20 bonnes heures orientées vers les activités à plus fort effet de levier.

Quand une entreprise B2B SaaS devrait-elle embaucher un fractional CMO ?

Le moment idéal est post-product-market-fit avec $1M–$20M ARR. Vous avez conclu assez de deals pour reconnaître les patterns d'ICP mais vous avez besoin de leadership marketing exécutif pour construire un pipeline reproductible. Si votre fondateur approuve toujours les posts de blog ou que votre équipe marketing fonctionne sans direction stratégique, vous êtes prêt.

Un fractional CMO gérera-t-il notre équipe marketing existante ?

Oui. Gérer vos marketeurs est une partie essentielle du rôle — fixer les OKRs, animer les standups hebdomadaires, conduire des 1:1s et maintenir la qualité d'exécution élevée. La plupart des fractional CMOs gèrent aussi les relations avec les agences et les prestataires indépendants, et peuvent aider à recruter de nouveaux membres d'équipe quand l'organisation doit croître.

Comment mesurez-vous le succès du fractional CMO ?

Pipeline généré, vélocité du pipeline, revenu sourcé par le marketing, période de récupération CAC et taux de conversion lead-to-close. Nous fixons des cibles spécifiques dans le plan 90 jours et reportons les résultats mensuellement. Les métriques de vanité comme les MQLs ne comptent que dans la mesure où elles prédisent les résultats de revenu en aval.

Que se passe-t-il après la fin de l'engagement du fractional CMO ?

Tout reste avec vous : documents stratégiques, SOPs, dashboards, playbooks et recommandations d'organisation. Si vous êtes prêt à embaucher un CDI, nous aidons à rédiger la description de poste, examiner les candidats et intégrer votre nouveau CMO. L'objectif est toujours de rendre le rôle transférable — pas de créer une dépendance.

Fractional CMO from $8,000/mo
Month-to-month after 90-day minimum. No equity required.
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