Director of Media - Merrell

Rockford, MI (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end media strategy for an outdoor-focused brand, balancing brand and performance to grow ROAS and awareness across channels and markets.

  • Must-have: 8+ years in media leadership and integrated marketing with strong channel breadth.
  • Standout: Proven ability to lead an integrated media team, manage agencies, and apply modern measurement methods.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the holistic media strategy across full funnel, balancing performance efficiency with brand-building impact.
  • Define annual and quarterly media investment frameworks, including budget allocation across channels, funnel stages, and markets.
  • Lead channel mix optimization, ensuring the right balance between lower-funnel conversion and upper-funnel demand generation.
  • Establish a clear media role for brand vs. performance, aligned to business goals and growth horizons.
  • Partner with Brand leadership to ensure media amplifies platform storytelling (not just distributes assets).
  • Oversee performance channels including paid search, paid social, affiliates, display, and emerging platforms.
  • Drive ROAS, CAC efficiency, and revenue growth, while ensuring spend is incremental and not over-optimized.
  • Lead testing and optimization roadmap across audiences, creative, landing experiences, and platforms.
  • Identify and scale new growth levers across digital acquisition channels.
  • Lead strategy and execution of upper-funnel and brand media investments (video, partnerships, sponsorships, cultural platforms, etc.).
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Merrell

At Merrell, we believe in sharing the simple power of being outside with everyone. No matter who you are, where you came from, who you love or how you move — Everyone should be welcome in the outdoors and wherever life takes us. We strive to inspire everyone because, together, we can help protect the trail we love. Our goal is to provide innovative, thoughtfully designed, rigorously- tested footwear and apparel products that over-deliver on quality, comfort, versatility, and look good too. We believe if we do these things right, we can enable anybody on the planet to pick up Merrell gear and feel adventurous, empowered, confident, and ready to enjoy the simple power of being outside. Merrell is a division of Wolverine Worldwide, one of the world’s leading marketers and licensors of branded casual, active lifestyle, work, outdoor sport, athletic, children's and uniform footwear and apparel.

Founded in 1981
Rockford, Michigan, USA
515 employees (81 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$343.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37%
Direct
52.3%
Referral
5.4%
Social
2.4%
Paid
2.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~515

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
60 (12% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
4 years

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