Director of Marketing & Media

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$150K/yr – $180K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Lead and manage a cross‑functional marketing team across social, content, and revenue channels, aligning strategy with the founder’s voice while driving growth, partnerships, and platform revenue.

  • Own revenue P&L across affiliate programs
  • Set paid amplification strategy across Meta, Pinterest, and TikTok
  • Drive Substack subscriber growth

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage a team of 3–5 across social media, content, and creative functions
  • Directly manage the Social Media Manager, collaborating on social strategy and providing direction, feedback, and oversight on execution
  • Work with the E-Commerce Director to ensure alignment across e-commerce, newsletter, social, and sales channels
  • Set overall marketing priorities and ensure the team is aligned and accountable to a unified strategy, including holistic campaign strategy across e-commerce, newsletter, social, and sales
  • Maintain a master marketing calendar across all channels, campaigns, and studio initiatives, coordinating e-commerce, newsletter, social, and sales touchpoints to ensure integrated execution
  • Serve as the primary point of coordination between marketing, partnerships, PR, design, and business development
  • Define the studio's overarching content pillars, brand voice, and editorial standards across all channels
  • Lead long-form content, Substack arcs, and campaign messaging in Kelly's voice
  • Develop scripts and outlines for YouTube and video content
  • Review and approve content across channels before publication, ensuring quality and brand alignment

Requirements

  • 8–10 years of experience in marketing, media, editorial, or brand strategy, ideally in luxury, design, fashion, or lifestyle
  • Proven experience managing a team and owning a marketing function end-to-end
  • Exceptional writing and editing skills with the ability to work closely in a founder's voice
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort owning a revenue number
  • Deep familiarity with Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Substack
  • Experience with affiliate platforms such as ShopMy and paid social strategy
  • Strong AI literacy and hands-on experience with AI tools for content, optimization, and workflow
  • Experience in luxury, design, or founder-led brand environments strongly preferred

Preferred

  • The ideal candidate has deep experience in luxury, design, or founder-led brand environments, is an exceptional writer and editor, and brings both strategic vision and commercial instincts to the work.
  • Experience in luxury, design, or founder-led brand environments strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Health Insurance – employer-supported medical coverage
  • 401(k) with Employer Contributions
  • Paid Time Off – accrued based on tenure
  • 3x Summer Fridays
  • Parking Benefits – complimentary on-site parking
  • Studio Wellness Programming – Yoga, Pilates, and HIIT
  • In-Studio Amenities – stocked kitchen
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Kelly Wearstler

THE STUDIO The Kelly Wearstler studio consists of a multidisciplinary team of designers and architects dedicated to the highest levels of detail and creative expression. We believe that history and modernity, imagination and discipline, refinement and anomalies can and should coexist. Inspiration is found within the resulting tension, the singular integration of experiences. A creative cross-pollination in the studio inherently informs our architecture and interiors projects and furniture, lighting, textiles, home décor and product designs of every scale. THE BRAND Kelly Wearstler’s design is driven by a deep passion to articulate a unique story and formidable point of view. From interior design and architecture to creative direction and brand direction, Kelly Wearstler builds a singular, synchronized experience built on an alchemy of design. Founded in 1995 as an interior design studio, the Los Angeles-based company has evolved into an interdisciplinary global lifestyle brand that is leading the contemporary design conversation with experiential residential, hospitality, commercial, and retail destinations and an expansive portfolio of home product designs and brand collaborations. ABOUT KELLY Wearstler received her academic training in interior, architectural and graphic design, and established her eponymous studio in Los Angeles in 1995. Notable projects by the studio are Santa Monica Proper Hotel, Austin Proper Hotel, San Francisco Proper Hotel, Four Seasons Anguilla, BG Restaurant at Bergdorf Goodman, Westfield Century City, and custom residences for high-profile private clients. Wearstler has an abundance of accolades such as Elle Décor’s A-List, Architectural Digest’s 2021 Hall of Fame and AD100, AD France AD100, AD Spain Top International Designer, Wallpaper Magazine Top 20 Designers, Time Magazine The Design 100. Wearstler is the first interior designer to teach a MasterClass and is a board member for Desert X.

Founded in 1995
West Hollywood, California, USA
81 employees (46 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$150K/yr – $180K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (9% of company)
Median Tenure
8.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
74.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.9%
Direct
40.9%
Referral
7.6%
Social
7.2%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~81

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Director of Marketing & Media

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