Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of Hot Dish Advertising’s integrated media and performance practice.
• Build scalable systems that connect media, SEO, analytics, CRO, and creative strategy.
• Partner with executive leadership on agency growth, innovation, and market positioning.
• Identify emerging opportunities across media, analytics, attribution, AI, SEO, and consumer behavior.
• Oversee the agency’s reporting and media technology ecosystem.
• Direct cross-channel strategies across paid media, SEO, and analytics.
• Ensure teams align around client business goals, audience insights, and measurable outcomes.
• Facilitate the technology, processes and training to enable teams to translate data and performance insights into actionable strategic recommendations.
• Drive collaboration across disciplines to deliver cohesive, business-focused solutions.
• Lead AI innovation and adoption across the organization to improve efficiency, scalability, and performance while ensuring responsible use and strategic integrity.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading media strategy, performance marketing, integrated demand generation, or growth marketing initiatives.
• 5+ years leading and developing high-performing agency teams.
• Proven success building scalable growth systems that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Deep expertise across: Paid Media; SEO; Analytics; Media Attribution; Brand and Performance Media; B2B and B2C Marketing
• Demonstrated ability to direct and guide cross-functional specialists while maintaining strategic oversight of the work.
• Experience leading strategic client relationships, new business and executive-level presentations.
• Strong operational and organizational leadership skills.
• Franchise marketing and EOS experience preferred.
• Experience leading AI-enabled workflows or innovation initiatives preferred.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and strategic storytelling skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial agency remote environment where collaboration and adaptability are essential.

Preferred

• The Ideal Candidate: Thinks like a business strategist, not a channel manager.
• Leads through vision, accountability, and collaboration.
• Balances strategic leadership with practical operational direction.
• Understands how to connect marketing activity to business growth.
• Builds high-performing teams and scalable systems.
• Pushes innovation while maintaining accountability and excellence.
• Elevates the thinking, quality, and impact of the work across the team.
• Thrives in fast-moving environments where leaders wear multiple hats and stay closely connected to clients and team performance.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.