Director of Brand Marketing

New York, USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive brand marketing and partnerships for a founder-led DTC fragrance brand across strategy, campaigns, and creator programs.

  • Must-have: 5–8 years in brand marketing with meaningful in-house DTC experience.
  • Standout: Strong luxury aesthetic sense and ability to maintain on-brand visual and copy quality.
  • Standout: Proficiency with Klaviyo, Shopify, and affiliate platforms.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Partnership: Collaborate directly with the Founder to brainstorm and build out 360° marketing strategies and partnerships/collaborations.
  • Campaign Roll-Out: Manage the master marketing calendar to ensure a cohesive and timely channel-specific roll-out (Email, SMS, PR, Affiliate, Social, Paid) for launches and evergreen campaigns.
  • Agency Leadership: Serve as the primary lead for our external agencies. You provide the briefs, strategic guardrails, copy, and visual assets, and hold them accountable to performance KPIs. This includes acting as the creative and strategic check on our Email & SMS agency, pushing for better flows, segmentation, and A/B testing to grow Customer Lifetime Value (LTV).
  • Creative Strategy: Partner with our Art Director to translate marketing goals into visual assets that work across every digital channel.
  • Affiliate & Creators: Oversee influencer gifting and affiliate strategy. Build and lead a new paid UGC creator program and manage high-level influencer relationships that drive both brand equity and revenue.
  • Experiential: Partner with agencies and internal teams to create best-in-class IRL brand experiences and events, amplified online through influencer support and social content.
  • Community Building: Lead strategy and execution for community-driven initiatives that turn customers into advocates.
  • Brand Integrity: Serve as the final gatekeeper for brand consistency across every piece of content before it ships.
  • Budget Oversight: Work alongside the Founder to plan and manage the brand marketing budget, ensuring efficient spend across all channels and high ROI across gifting, paid UGC, and content production.
  • Founder Leverage: Identify opportunities to integrate Founder into the brand strategy and storytelling.
  • Meaningful Reporting: Track and report on the KPIs that actually move the needle: Email/SMS performance, Affiliate revenue, and campaign-specific growth.

Requirements

  • 5–8 years in brand marketing with meaningful time in-house at a DTC or founder-led brand. Agency-only and corporate-only backgrounds will not be considered.
  • A Strategic Thinker: You identify gaps and come to the Founder with solutions and a finger on the pulse of the luxury/DTC space.
  • High-End Taste: You have an instinctive "luxury" lens. You know when a caption or a photo is off-brand and you fix it before it ships.
  • Relentlessly Organized: You build systems so things don't slip through the cracks. You manage up and take pride in "owning" the outcome.
  • Executor Mindset: You're driven by seeing things through to the end—not just planning them.
  • Socially Savvy: You're tapped into trends on Tiktok and Instagram, and know what (and who) are the movers and shakers putting brands on the map.
  • Tech-Fluent: Highly proficient in Klaviyo, Shopify, and affiliate platforms. You also actively use AI tools to amplify your output without losing the brand's human, aspirational voice.
  • In It for the Long Haul: You want to build and grow alongside the company for years to come.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + medical, vision, and dental
  • Flexible Remote Work (NYC preferred)
  • Retirement benefits after 6 months of employment
  • Paid vacation, holidays, and a "quiet period" between Christmas and New Year’s
  • Monthly professional development coaching
  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Training & Development
  • Work From Home
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Hotel Lobby Candle

Hotel Lobby Candle is a home fragrance company with scents inspired by 5-star luxury destinations around the world.

Founded in 2020
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
4 employees (2 in marketing)

Recent Ads

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
39.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$6.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.1%
Direct
36.9%
Referral
1.6%
Paid
3.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (25% of company)