Integrated Marketing Manager, Culinary

USA (Remote)

$110K/yr – $115K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

culinary marketing ownership that ties class performance and culinary trends to trial, retention, and cross-sell, with cross-functional orchestration across Creative, Social, PR, and Ops.

  • Own the end-to-end culinary marketing strategy, trend intelligence, and integrated briefs for launches and partnerships.
  • Translate trends into content angles, product storytelling, and cross-channel campaigns to drive across-brand impact.
  • Partner with Culinary Operations, Merchandising, Creative, and Channel teams to align messaging and timing across touchpoints.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop integrated marketing strategies for culinary programs, cooking classes, and culinary-led experiences aligned with enterprise and GTM priorities.
  • Translate customer behavior, class performance data, and culinary trends into focused strategies that drive trial, repeat attendance, and class-to-hardgoods cross-sell.
  • Serve as Sur La Table's internal culinary authority — track food trends, ingredient moments, chef culture, and culinary media to inform integrated marketing strategy across all categories.
  • Identify relevant culinary trends (seasonal ingredients, cooking techniques, food movements, dining culture) and translate them into marketing opportunities: content angles, product storytelling, social hooks, partnerships, and campaign themes.
  • Develop and own integrated briefs for Culinary initiatives — including class launches, seasonal programs, chef and creator partnerships, and culinary-led brand moments — translating program insights and trend intelligence into clear, actionable direction for creative and channel teams.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Creative, Social, PR, Site & Digital, Email & SMS, Store Ops, Culinary Operations, and Culinary Programming to align messaging, timing, and execution across touchpoints.
  • Support quarterly and seasonal GTM planning with a Culinary lens, prioritizing initiatives based on customer impact, brand equity, and commercial opportunity.
  • Track performance of Culinary marketing initiatives in partnership with Marketing Ops and Analytics, using insights to optimize future planning, messaging strategy, and class experience design.

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of experience in integrated marketing, brand marketing, or go-to-market roles within a consumer, food, culinary, hospitality, or omnichannel organization.
  • Genuine culinary fluency required — a deep personal and professional understanding of food, cooking, culinary culture, and the food media landscape. This is not a role where culinary interest can be learned on the job.
  • Demonstrated experience developing customer-led, insight-driven marketing strategies that connect brand storytelling to commercial outcomes.
  • Proven ability to track and translate food and culinary trends into actionable marketing strategy across content, partnerships, product storytelling, and campaign themes.
  • Strong experience translating complex program or category needs into clear integrated briefs that guide creative and channel execution.
  • Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with Culinary, Store Operations, Merchandising, Creative, and Channel teams in a matrixed environment.
  • Solid understanding of omnichannel marketing — digital, social, email, in-store — and how channels work together to drive customer engagement.
  • Experience supporting seasonal or quarterly GTM planning and prioritization processes.
  • Strong strategic thinking, communication, and storytelling skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared point of view.
  • Analytical, AI-first mindset with experience using performance insights to inform optimization and future planning.

Preferred

  • Background in food media, culinary brands, experiential programming, or specialty retail.

Benefits

  • Competitive Benefits (US): Paid time off policies, 401(k) match, medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies, and employee discounts across our portfolio of brands.
  • Competitive Benefits (Canada): Paid time off policies, RRSP match, medical, dental, and vision coverage, a variety of supplemental benefit options, and employee discounts across our portfolio of brands.
CSC Generation logo

CSC Generation

We are CSC Generation. We acquire and transform retailers into high performing, digital first consumer-centric businesses. As of May 2023, we have nine brands that are part of the CSC family. We expect to keep growing and adding more companies to our portfolio. Often, our retailers have a strong brand recognition and customer following but have run into financial difficulties. Our mission is to transform them into high performing, digital first, consumer centric businesses. We stand out from the rest of the retail industry with our strong marketing intelligence, supply chain and distribution channels, outstanding customer support and experience in brick-and-mortar stores, online and catalog sales.

Founded in 2016
Chicago, IL, US
262 employees (20 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.5%
Direct
44.1%
Referral
7.5%
Social
7.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~298

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Series E, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2024
    Series E
  • Oct 2021
    Series D
  • Jan 2019
    Series Unknown

Recent News