Brand Director

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

$129K/yr – $223K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 23 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own the US brand strategy, advise senior leaders on positioning, and drive cross-functional execution of integrated campaigns while ensuring brand consistency and governance.

  • Own and evolve the US brand strategy aligned with enterprise standards
  • Advise senior leaders on brand positioning and narrative
  • Drive cross-functional alignment for brand initiatives and measure performance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the US brand strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, business objectives, and long-term brand health
  • Act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders on brand positioning and narrative
  • Lead the development and execution of integrated brand campaigns, providing direction to internal teams, agencies, and partners without formal authority
  • Ensure brand consistency across all channels, platforms, and customer touchpoints while serving as a brand steward and ambassador of brand values, voice, and identity
  • Partner with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to drive alignment and effective execution of brand initiatives across the organization
  • Define, track, and interpret brand performance metrics and KPIs, translating insights into actionable, data-driven recommendations
  • Collaborate with marketing research teams to conduct market and competitive analysis that informs brand strategy, opportunities, and growth areas

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or a related field
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in brand strategy, marketing, or agency environments
  • Demonstrated experience operating at a senior individual contributor level, influencing outcomes across functions
  • Strong experience developing and presenting strategic recommendations to senior leaders
  • Proven ability to manage complex initiatives with multiple stakeholders

Preferred

  • Strategic thinking & Brand acumen
  • Influencing without authority
  • Data‑driven decision making
  • Executive communication & storytelling
  • Collaboration & stakeholder partnership
  • Creative judgment & problem solving

Benefits

  • Manulife/John Hancock offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in the U.S. includes up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.
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Manulife

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Manulife is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We have more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents serving ~34 million customers worldwide, and over $1.3 trillion in assets under management and administration.Visit www.Manulife.com to find out more.For Manulife terms of use, please visit http://bit.ly/SM_Terms

Toronto, Ontario, CAN
33K employees (1,008 in marketing)
76% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.6M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
18.2%
Direct
59.1%
Referral
18.6%
Social
3.3%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~33.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
775 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$3.3B
Last Raise
$1B
Post IPO Debt, 3 months ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1B
  • Jun 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $363.5M
  • Mar 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $1.2B

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