Marketing Director

New York City, NY (On-site)

$160K/yr – $180K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Drive brand storytelling, multi-venue marketing leadership, and immersive activations across a premium hospitality portfolio to grow reservations, foot traffic, and media attention.

  • Brand Strategy & Creative Leadership: shape elevated brand identity, voice, and design standards across the group and new openings.
  • Campaigns & Partnerships: orchestrate campaigns, influencer/media partnerships, and experiential activations with brands, hotels, and lifestyle partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead overall marketing strategy across all restaurant and hospitality brands within the group.
  • Develop annual and quarterly marketing plans aligned with company objectives.
  • Build brand positioning strategies for existing venues and new openings.
  • Ensure consistent brand identity, voice, and creative standards across all touchpoints.
  • Identify emerging hospitality, food, design, nightlife, and cultural trends.
  • Oversee all creative output including social media, campaigns, photography, video, graphic design, copywriting, website content, email marketing, and event collateral.
  • Collaborate closely with internal designers, agencies, photographers, videographers, and content creators.
  • Maintain elevated aesthetic and storytelling standards aligned with premium hospitality brands.
  • Lead digital marketing strategies across all platforms; oversee content calendars and social growth strategies.
  • Develop initiatives that drive brand awareness, engagement, UGC, reservations, foot traffic.
  • Analyze performance metrics and optimize campaigns; stay ahead of platform trends.
  • Build and manage influencer, celebrity, media, and strategic partnership relationships.
  • Develop collaborative campaigns with brands, hotels, fashion, wellness, music, and lifestyle partners.
  • Oversee VIP marketing and community-building initiatives; create culturally relevant activations and experiential events.
  • Lead marketing strategy for new restaurant openings and expansion markets; develop launch campaigns, PR strategies, events, and local partnership plans.
  • Execute innovative activations that generate buzz and media attention.
  • Collaborate with operations leadership to drive sales performance.
  • Develop marketing initiatives tied to reservations, guest frequency, seasonal promotions, large party bookings, events, beverage sales, and daypart growth.
  • Monitor campaign ROI and marketing effectiveness.
  • Manage and mentor internal marketing team members and external partners; build scalable marketing systems, workflows, and processes; foster a high-performance, collaborative, and creative culture; assist in recruiting and developing marketing talent.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of marketing experience in hospitality, restaurants, nightlife, hotels, lifestyle brands, or related industries
  • Proven experience managing multi-location or multi-brand marketing initiatives
  • Strong understanding of hospitality culture, guest experience, and luxury/lifestyle branding
  • Deep understanding of social media, digital marketing, influencer strategy, and content creation
  • Exceptional creative instincts and visual taste
  • Strong leadership and communication skills
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments
  • Experience managing agencies, budgets, and marketing calendars
  • Strong analytical and commercial mindset
  • Experience with restaurant marketing platforms and reservation systems preferred

Preferred

  • Hospitality group or lifestyle hospitality experience
  • Experience opening new venues or launching hospitality concepts
  • Existing network across media, influencers, nightlife, hospitality, and creative industries
  • Experience with experiential marketing and partnerships
  • Understanding of luxury consumer behavior and culturally driven marketing

Benefits

  • Dining benefits across group venues
  • Health Insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Dental Insurance
  • Creative and entrepreneurial work environment
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Wish You Were Here Group

Wish You Were Here Group is a hospitality and lifestyle group built on creating unforgettable dining experiences inspired by global travel. The group's multi-concept portfolio is responsible for some of the most beloved restaurants, cafes and bars across the country, which aim to transport guests to other parts of the world. Each property has a unique aesthetic influenced by different cultures and cuisines and delivers delicious food and cocktails alongside exceptional service in thoughtfully designed spaces. Wish You Were Here Group's bars and lounges are currently in destinations including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City and Scottsdale with many more to come.

125 employees (15 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$160K/yr – $180K/yr

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Traffic Signals

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4.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.4%
Direct
44.6%
Referral
5.9%
Social
16.5%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~125
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Marketing Director

Wish You Were Here Group · New York City, NY · On-site