Director, Marketing Activation

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$140K/yr – $155K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead regional activation strategy and teams to translate brand priorities into scalable field execution. Build standards, budgets, and calendars while partnering with Brand, Trade Marketing, and Sales to drive ROI and compliant consumer experiences. This role focuses on developing high-performing teams and ensuring consistent, impactful activations across markets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end activation strategy across regions, translating national brand priorities into scalable, compliant field execution frameworks.
  • Roll out activation standards, toolkits, and playbooks to ensure consistency across markets while allowing for local flexibility.
  • Serve as a senior activation thought-partner to Brand, Trade Marketing, and Sales leadership.
  • Lead, coach, and develop Regional Activation Managers and/or Field Execution teams.
  • Set clear expectations, performance goals, and development plans for activation talent.
  • Build a high-performing, collaborative team culture focused on impact, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Oversee execution of regional marketing calendars, events, demos, pop-ups, and in-store activations.
  • Ensure best-in-class merchandising, POS, and experiential execution across all channels and outlets.
  • Act as the ultimate brand steward for field execution, ensuring standards are upheld across all activations.
  • Partner closely with Sales, Brand Marketing, Trade Marketing, Compliance, and Operations to align priorities and execution.
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Curaleaf

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Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to enhance lives by cultivating, sharing and celebrating the power of the plant. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, and Grassroots provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult use markets. Curaleaf International is the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in Europe with a unique supply and distribution network throughout the European market, bringing together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production. Curaleaf is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol CURA and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol CURLF. For more information, please visit https://ir.curaleaf.com.

Founded in 2010
New York, New York, USA
2.8K employees (104 in marketing)
39% recommend to a friend
42% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.8M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.6%
Direct
61.6%
Referral
4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
86 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$1.9B
Last Raise
$500M
Post IPO Debt, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $500M
  • Oct 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $100M
  • Jan 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $67M

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