Brand Manager

USA (On-site)

$97K/yr - $104K/yr (Est.)Mid LevelTemporary

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the brand narrative and creative execution across messaging, assets, and governance, aligning brand strategy with product proof points, competitive insights, and stakeholder reporting, while enabling bilingual Spanish localization.

  • Brand & Creative Development: Align messaging, brand design, and creative briefs with strategy, agencies, and internal teams.
  • Governance & Artifacts: Create and maintain messaging frameworks, brand guidelines, and approved claims across activations.
  • Bilingual Localization & Stakeholder Communication: Enable English-Spanish localization and report campaign plans/results to executives with clear recommendations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand Messaging & Creative Development: Work with creative agencies and internal teams to optimize and streamline creative messaging and brand design, reflecting a deep understanding of our brand positioning and overarching strategy.
  • Creative Excellence & Performance: Craft compelling creative that drives business results, including comprehensive brief development, hands-on creative management, and detailed creative reviews.
  • Brand Artifact Creation & Management: Support the development, refinement, and dissemination of core brand artifacts, including messaging frameworks, brand guidelines, and other essential brand documentation.
  • Audience & Product Alignment: Maintain a keen awareness of product proof points relevant to our target audiences, providing recommendations on their optimal placement across various creative elements.
  • Creative Optimization & Data Analysis: Collaborate closely with internal teams and agency partners to continuously optimize creative performance. Track messaging placements and relevant data to inform future creative decisions and optimizations.
  • Market & Competitor Analysis: Monitor competitor messaging and industry trends to innovate and ensure our brand stays at the forefront of marketing approaches.
  • New Product Brand Support: Support the development of positioning and messaging for new products (including naming and key reasons-to-believe), rigorously defended by data and insights in partnership with the consumer insights team.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Compile and present campaign plans and results to executives as needed, clearly articulating brand performance and strategic recommendations.
  • Brand Strategy Support: Provide support to broader brand strategy projects and initiatives as directed.

Requirements

  • Strong background in written communications
  • Passion for brand excellence
  • Deep understanding of marketing & media
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Mad

MAD works in forward looking environments, developing futuristic architecture based on contemporary interpretation of the eastern spirit of nature. All of MAD's projects - from residential complexes, the workplace to museums and cultural centers - desire to protect the sense of community and orientation toward nature, offering people the freedom to develop their own experience.

Founded in 2004
Santa Monica, California, USA
335 employees (169 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
35.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
57.6%
Direct
30.7%
Referral
7.5%
Social
3%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~335

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
15 (4% of company)