Director, Brand Marketing

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $170K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expOther

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive global hero campaigns and cross-market storytelling with agency partnerships and a data-informed, culturally resonant approach.

  • Own the end-to-end hero campaign development across global markets.
  • Must-have: 10+ years of relevant experience and strong retail acumen.
  • Standout: Global launch orchestration with cross-functional partners and influencers.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead global hero campaign development, ensuring creative concepts are on-brand, impactful, and relevant to the target consumer and platforms
  • Cultivate partnerships with industry partners and thought leaders to stay up to date with consumer and trends
  • Translate brand heritage and values into culturally relevant and emotionally resonant storytelling across multiple campaigns
  • Provide clear and detailed briefs to external agencies, outlining campaign objectives, target demographics, and key messaging, while ensuring global brand vision and positioning remain consistent across all campaigns
  • Collaborate with merchandising and local marketing teams to ensure hero product alignment and commercial objectives are met for each campaign
  • Manage the creative process internally to bring the hero campaign to life across all touchpoints including paid and organic social assets, emails, websites, stores and events to ensure an impactful and cohesive hero campaign
  • Orchestrate global campaign launch with a spike and sustain strategy, partnering with all markets as well as NA PR/VIP and Influencers, Digital (Social, Paid Media, Website, Email), Retail/Stores, Licensing, and other external partners for a compelling customer journey
  • Plan and monitor key milestones, guaranteeing the timely delivery of all marketing deliverables
  • Collaborate with market and channel teams to maintain a consistent implementation of the plans
  • Track and analyze campaign performance in-market (including in-depth social listening) to identify learnings and propose improvements

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant working experience; equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
  • Strong retail business acumen
  • Curious nature and in-touch with culture and what shapes it
  • Mix of data-driven analytic experience and gut creative instincts
  • High action orientation and problem solving capabilities
  • Strong negotiating skills, excellent communication and relationship building skills
  • Partnership oriented and familiarity in working in a matrixed internal organization and extensive network of external agencies

Benefits

  • Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance.
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kate spade new york

since our launch in 1993 with six essential handbags, we’ve always stood for optimistic femininity. today we’re a global life and style house filled with handbags, of course. also clothes, shoes, jewelry, home décor, tech accessories and so many other things that you use every day. we value thoughtful details. we think a layer of polished ease looks (and feels) so chic. and to us, modern, sophisticated colors make a personal style statement all their own. it’s these founding principles that define our unique style. we like that our style is synonymous with joy. kate spade new york is part of the tapestry house of brands.

Founded in 1993
New York, New York, USA
4K employees (542 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$171.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.5%
Direct
52%
Referral
4.1%
Social
3%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
235 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
6.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

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