Vice President, Growth Marketing & Strategy

Greenwood Village, CO (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive15+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end commercial growth agenda across parks, hotels, and trains, leading strategy, planning, analytics, and AI-enabled initiatives to convert insights into bookings and profitability.

  • Lead growth strategies and demand programs
  • Partner across sales, marketing, revenue management, and properties
  • Drive analytics, reporting, and AI-driven optimization

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Commercial Growth & Demand Generation
  • - Lead growth strategies that improve demand capture, capacity utilization, direct booking contribution, and revenue performance across parks, hotels, and train properties.
  • - Partner with sales, revenue management, marketing, and property leadership to identify need periods, shoulder-season opportunities, soft booking windows, and under-leveraged guest segments.
  • - Align marketing investment with pricing, packaging, yield opportunities, and sales priorities to ensure campaigns are connected to measurable commercial outcomes.
  • - Develop targeted demand programs across transient, group, midweek, seasonal, and high-value audience opportunities.
  • Strategy, Planning & Market Intelligence
  • - Serve as a strategic partner to the CCO in developing commercial growth roadmaps for parks, hotels, and train properties.
  • - Use market analysis, competitive intelligence, scenario planning, and performance trends to identify risks and opportunities before they affect results.
  • - Evaluate revenue levers, partnership opportunities, channel strategies, and technology investments that support profitable growth.
  • - Translate insights into clear executive recommendations and practical activation plans.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in hotel commercial strategy, growth marketing, digital marketing, revenue management partnership, sales strategy, and enterprise revenue leadership.
  • Relevant experience in hospitality, lodging, resorts, parks, leisure, travel, or destination-based commercial organizations preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across direct, matrixed, and cross-functional teams in a complex enterprise environment.
  • Strong financial and analytical capability across forecasting, budgeting, scenario modeling, booking pace, market segmentation, channel performance, occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, and profitability.
  • Deep expertise in performance marketing, CRM, digital acquisition, attribution, audience development, and distribution strategy.
  • Executive presence, strategic judgment, operational discipline, and the ability to translate complex information into clear decisions and actions.
  • Experience applying AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve marketing performance, customer insight, productivity, and commercial decision-making.
  • Preferred familiarity with AI search, generative engine optimization, conversational search behavior, travel discovery platforms, or related digital discovery tools.
  • Candidate Profile - The ideal candidate is a commercially minded marketing executive who combines strategic vision with analytical rigor, operational discipline, and a strong bias for action.
  • This leader will be comfortable working across brands, properties, agencies, and enterprise functions to turn market insight and performance data into practical growth initiatives.

Benefits

  • For full-time employees, Xanterra offers a comprehensive benefits package including: Medical, Dental & Vision; HSA & FSA; Life & Disability; Accident, Hospital & Critical Illness; Pet Insurance; PTO and paid Holidays; 401(k) with Company Match; Employee Assistance Plan; Education Assistance; RTD-Denver transit pass for in-office employees, and Employee Discounts & Travel Deals.
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Xanterra Travel Collection

Xanterra Travel Collection is the largest operator of lodges, restaurants, and other concessions at national and state parks in the United States. Xanterra Travel Collection is a global diversified travel & hospitality company. Our operations span the country - from the lush wilderness and mountains of Glacier National Park to the magical desert of Death Valley. Whether you are looking for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, a vacation steeped in historic character, or a luxurious spa getaway, you can find it all at Xanterra Travel Collection. Our properties combine dramatic settings and landmark buildings with exceptional service to deliver extraordinary experiences.We look forward to welcoming you to the magical places we are fortunate to call home.

Founded in 1900
Englewood, Colorado, USA
1.9K employees (65 in marketing)

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
36 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
6.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
32.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$229
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.8%
Direct
41.3%
Referral
23.4%
Social
3.1%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.9K
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Vice President, Growth Marketing & Strategy

Xanterra Travel Collection · Greenwood Village, CO · On-site