Director of Culture Marketing

Austin, TX (Hybrid)

$165K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/Executive

Posted 19 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and guide Bumble's Gen Z cultural strategy, creator ecosystem, and partnerships, driving authentic engagement and cross-functional collaboration across product, marketing, and leadership.

  • Identify trends, creators, and cultural moments to shape dating and socialization campaigns
  • Lead influencer, creator, and talent partnerships to boost cultural relevance
  • Collaborate with product and marketing teams to evolve experiences for younger audiences

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Be Bumble's expert on Gen Z culture—continuously identifying emerging trends, creators, brands, communities, platforms, and cultural moments that shape how young people connect, date, and socialize.
  • Develop and lead Bumble's cultural marketing strategy, ensuring the brand stays culturally relevant and participates authentically in the conversations that matter most to Gen Z.
  • Lead Bumble's celebrity, talent, influencer, and creator strategy, partnering with agencies (including UTA) to identify, negotiate, and manage talent partnerships that strengthen Bumble's cultural relevance.
  • Build and scale Bumble's creator ecosystem, leading our macro and micro creator strategy to drive awareness, engagement, and authentic conversation around dating on Bumble.
  • Partner closely with Social, Brand, PR, Creative, Partnerships, Product Marketing, and Integrated Marketing teams to ensure campaigns, content, partnerships, and owned social channels consistently reflect emerging cultural trends and Gen Z behaviors.
  • Act as the organization's cultural advisor, regularly sharing insights, trend reports, and recommendations with leadership and helping teams identify opportunities to better connect with younger audiences.
  • Partner with Product to bring cultural insights into product strategy, ensuring Bumble's product experiences continue to evolve alongside changing dating behaviors and expectations.

Preferred

  • Working at top culturally relevant brands (e.g., Rhodes)
  • Social media and creator ecosystems
  • Creative agencies
  • Entertainment, media, music, fashion, or lifestyle brands

Benefits

  • Insurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility. Bumble has multiple competitive offerings that will be available to you on the first of the month following date of hire.
  • Unlimited PTO + 1 company-wide week off + Focus Fridays every week
  • Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance
  • 401k with 4% company match if you contribute 6%, 90-day eligibility
  • Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line
  • Maternity and Fertility benefit + 26 week paid parental leave
  • Premium App Access
  • Inclusion at Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.
  • In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
  • AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you’d prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you’d like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly. For further information on how we hold and manage your data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
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Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.

Founded in 2014
Austin, Texas, USA
1.1K employees (152 in marketing)
45% recommend to a friend
43% CEO approval

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11.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.6%
Direct
75.6%
Referral
1.4%
Social
0.2%
Paid
0.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
123 (11% of company)
Median Career Experience
6.5 years
Median Tenure
3.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$788.5M
Last Raise
$475M
Post IPO Debt, 15 days ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $475M
  • Mar 2023
    Post IPO Secondary • $313.5M
  • Sep 2021
    Post IPO Equity

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