Senior Brand and Naming Manager, Brand Studio

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$171K/yr – $254K/yrSenior Level9+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Defines and drives the naming strategy across the company, guiding processes, timelines, and coordination with legal and localization. Produces executive-ready deliverables and leads training to spread naming excellence. Manages multiple naming requests and collaborates with strategy, creative teams, and external agencies. Requires seasoned marketing leadership with cross-functional project experience and brand architecture/naming systems, plus preferred experience in consulting, technology branding, and storytelling.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Guide the naming process for individual names and naming systems across the company, including developing naming strategies and criteria, generating names, leading shortlisting, helping teams understand process and timelines, and coordinating with related functions like legal and localization.
  • Create and present clear, executive-ready deliverables that express a strategy, articulate a rationale, and showcase the “so what” in context of visual and verbal exhibits; all wrapped in great storytelling.
  • Create and lead compelling work sessions and training sessions to spread naming intelligence and excellence across our product area partner teams.
  • Manage multiple naming requests and partner with teams across our organization, guiding them through the naming process.
  • Collaborate closely with our strategy and creative teams and external agencies to develop powerful strategies, briefs, and deliverables.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 9 years of experience in marketing working across one or more marketing fields (i.e. growth, product marketing, brand marketing, social).
  • Experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  • Experience with brand architecture and naming systems.

Preferred

  • Experience in consulting and working with behavioural marketing data.
  • Experience with marketing and sales operations, financial analytics, or other related investigative experience.
  • Experience naming in the technology sector.
  • Experience with brand management and brand strategy.
  • Ability to be thoughtful as it relates to global and regional differences.
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills across contexts (e.g., decks, documents, live presentations).
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325K employees (114,305 in marketing)

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83.9B
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$59.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
6.3%
Direct
87.6%
Referral
5.1%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~325.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
100,288 (31% of company)
Median Career Experience
21 years
Median Tenure
7.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
25

Funding

Total Funding
$26.1M
Last Raise
$25M
Series Unknown, 27 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 1999
    Series Unknown • $25M
  • Nov 1998
    Angel • $1M
  • Aug 1998
    Pre Seed • $100K

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