Golden State Cider - Marketing Brand Manager

California City, CA (Remote)

$95K/yr – $125K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own brand and marketing operations for a craft cider business, balancing DTC, branding, and compliance while scaling the team and coordinating with sales, product, and operations.

  • Lead brand strategy, department growth, and budget management across traditional and digital channels.
  • Build DTC programs, taproom promotions, product launches, and training to ensure consistent brand messaging.
  • Partner with sales, product development, and compliance to align campaigns with alcohol regulations and licensing needs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manages the Marketing Department Staff
  • Manages the department budget and incorporates cost-saving ideas.
  • Collaborate with leadership to uncover insights and strategies to develop and implement marketing and branding strategies for new and existing products.
  • Understand key marketing performance metrics and tracking tools to provide market research, forecasts, competitive analyses, campaign results, and consumer trends to translate results into actionable insights for the organization
  • Lead marketing communications through digital marketing, social media, mobile marketing, and CRM to build brand awareness, reach new consumers, and increase order frequency.
  • Leverage customer insights, competitive analysis, and market trend data to meet changing market and competitive conditions.
  • Work with the Sales team in designing strategies for supporting sales efforts via traditional and digital marketing programs.
  • Keep the brand’s product offerings relevant by continuously reviewing ingredients, product formulations and trends in collaboration with the product development team.
  • Identify, develop and implement process improvements within the marketing function and build and grow the marketing team to support business growth.
  • Direct to Consumer (DTC):

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree: MBA preferred
  • Experience in Cider, Beer and Spirits preferred
  • A minimum of five (5) years related marketing experience
  • Outstanding leadership qualities with the ability to motivate others
  • A track record of proven and effective marketing strategies developing brands for small businesses with a grass roots mentality
  • Public Relations experience with existing relationships
  • Capable of understanding and interpreting syndicated market data and internal sales data in ways that turn that data into actionable marketing strategies
  • Highly developed communication skills set including strong analytical skills, a hands-on approach, roll up one’s sleeves and be a self-starter

Preferred

  • MBA preferred
  • Public Relations experience with existing relationships
  • Experience in Cider, Beer and Spirits preferred
  • A track record of proven and effective marketing strategies developing brands for small businesses with a grass roots mentality

Benefits

  • Health Care Coverage
  • Medical Insurance: 90% of the employee premium and 50% of dependent premiums covered
  • Dental & Vision Insurance: 100% of the employee premium and 50% of dependent premiums covered
  • Monthly Wellness Allowance
  • $100 monthly reimbursement to support physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing, including gym memberships, fitness classes, yoga, strength training, or passes to Regional, State, or National Parks
  • Paid Time Off
  • 10 days of PTO annually, accrued from your start date
  • Company Holidays
  • 11 paid holidays each year
  • Cider & Beer Allotments
  • Monthly product perks to enjoy our craft beverages
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Eligibility begins after 90 days
  • 100% match on the first 3%, and 50% match on the next 3% after one year of employment
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Golden State Cider

CALIFORNIA QUALITYWe started our cidery in 2012 on a small organic apple farm in Northern California and sold the golden liquid exclusively at Bay Area Farmer’s Markets for the first couple of years. Soon, cider making became a full-time obsession and Golden State Cider was born from the same ethos that we started with: great cider starts with quality fruit. That’s why we let the fruit speak for itself – the cider making process starts and finishes with West Coast grown fruits from OR, WA, and/or CA.We're driven by quality in all aspects of the cider making process and are fascinated by the range of flavors and profiles that the apple can produce.

Founded in 2012
Healdsburg, California, USA
21 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
10.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.6%
Direct
46.7%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17.3%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~21

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (19% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1