Director, Brand & Local Media

Smyrna, GA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableManager10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive multi-location performance marketing strategy and agency leadership to optimize brand and local media against CPA/CPL targets.

  • Own multi-channel strategy, budget allocation, and testing roadmaps across brand and local media.
  • Must-have: 10+ years in performance or paid media leadership.
  • Standout: Leads senior staff and agency partnerships to deliver measurable optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end performance strategy across brand and local media, ensuring alignment to conversion goals, lead volume, and efficiency metrics (CPL / CPA)
  • Translate commercial objectives into actionable media plans, including budget allocation, channel mix optimization, target CPA guidance, and structured testing roadmaps across audiences, creative, formats, and bidding
  • Deliver weekly performance recommendations to executive leadership, including spend adjustments, scaling opportunities, and key risks with mitigation plans
  • Continuously evaluate tradeoffs between brand and local investment, ensuring decisions reflect total system performance rather than channel-level optimization
  • Leverage platform data and MTA insights to identify performance drivers, inefficiencies, and areas of diminishing return
  • Partner with Analytics to prioritize and operationalize MTA use cases, ensuring insights translate into clear media decisions
  • Validate and challenge performance assumptions, particularly around incrementality across channels (e.g., search vs. social)
  • Ensure data and insights consistently lead to optimization actions, not just reporting outputs
  • Lead brand and preferred local agencies, setting clear expectations for optimization cadence, testing rigor, and reporting quality
  • Facilitate regular agency meetings, including performance reviews and ongoing working sessions to assess results and priorities

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in performance marketing, growth marketing, or paid media leadership roles
  • Proven ownership of multi-channel media performance, including budget allocation and efficiency optimization
  • Strong experience leading and managing agency partners with a focus on accountability and outcomes
  • Deep understanding of paid media channels, including paid search and paid social
  • Experience working with attribution models (MTA or similar) and Marketing Mix Modeling, applying insights to decision making
  • Strong cross-functional leadership skills and ability to influence across teams
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear recommendations
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field

Preferred

  • Experience in franchise, multi-location, or lead-generation businesses strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Full-time team members are eligible for health, dental and vision insurance
  • 401k with company matching up to 3.5% and company provided life insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • 50% tuition reimbursement for up to three children and/or one grandchild at any Primrose School
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Primrose Schools

Primrose SchoolsÂŽ is a national franchise company that provides high-quality early education and care to children and families across America. Our state-of-the-art school environment, exclusive Balanced LearningÂŽ approach and national CogniaÂŽ accreditation have set us apart in the early education and care industry for over 40 years. There are more than 500 Primrose schools nationwide, serving children 6 weeks old through kindergarten and after school. Each school is independently owned and operated by dedicated Franchise Owners who partner with parents to help children build a strong foundation for future learning and life.

Founded in 1982
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
8.1K employees (71 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
135.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$257.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.9%
Direct
43.2%
Referral
6.4%
Social
0.8%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
55 (1% of company)

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