Director of Brand Marketing Operations

Santa Monica, CA (Hybrid)

$225K/yr – $250K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years exp

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop Marketing Manager Collective, Marketing Manager Proper, Social Media Managers, and Creative Director
  • Provide clear vision, strategic direction, and coaching that enables each team member to excel
  • Set ambitious goals and hold team accountable for delivering excellent results
  • Invest in professional development through regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth opportunities
  • Build collaborative, results-driven culture where people feel valued and challenged
  • Recruit and retain top talent aligned with company culture
  • Lead by example with strong work ethic, creativity, and collaborative spirit
  • Coordinate all marketing activities from initial brief through final delivery, keeping stakeholders aligned

Requirements

  • 7-10+ years in marketing with progressive leadership responsibility; must have at least 3-5 years successfully leading and developing teams
  • Demonstrated track record as a dynamic people leader with strong team engagement, development outcomes, and retention
  • Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder marketing projects from concept through execution
  • Track record working closely with creative teams, coordinating design and content production workflows
  • Experience in luxury hospitality, lifestyle brands, or premium consumer sectors strongly preferred
  • Background managing integrated campaigns across digital, social, content, and traditional channels
  • Expert-level proficiency with project management tools (Asana, Monday.com, Airtable, Smartsheet, or similar)
  • Strong working knowledge of digital marketing channels and tactics

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Meaningful development programs
  • Wellbeing
  • Growth opportunities
  • Sense of belonging
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Proper Hospitality

Proper Hospitality designs, brands, and operates high-end lifestyle hospitality experiences under the Proper, Hotel June and The Collective brands. Each property is a distinct reflection of the vibrant community surrounding it, yet shares a common belief in uncommon luxury, convenience of location, and world-class amenities provided by locally vetted innovators in food and beverage, technology, art, music, fashion and wellness. Led by the visionaries behind The Kor Group, the company currently manages Proper branded hotels in Santa Monica, Downtown L.A., San Francisco and Austin, The Shelborne by Proper in Miami, the Hotel June in West Los Angeles and Malibu; and The Collective, a curation of design-driven independent hotels including Avalon Hotels in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, the Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs, The Culver Hotel in Culver City, the Montauk Yacht Club in Montauk, NY. Look to see the brands expand into new markets such as Dallas, Miami, Palm Springs and more. Santa Monica Properhttps://www.properhotel.com/santa-monica/ Downtown L.A. Properhttps://www.properhotel.com/downtown-la/ Austin Properhttps://www.properhotel.com/austin/ San Francisco Properhttps://www.properhotel.com/san-francisco/ Hotel June West LAhttps://www.thehoteljune.com/west-los-angeles/ Hotel June Malibuhttps://www.thehoteljune.com/malibu/ Ingleside Estatehttps://inglesideestate.com/Avalon Palm Springshttps://www.avalon-hotel.com/palm-springs/ Avalon Beverly Hillshttps://www.avalon-hotel.com/beverly-hills/ The Culver Hotel https://www.culverhotel.com/ Montauk Yacht Clubhttps://montaukyachtclub.com/The Shelbornehttps://www.properhotel.com/shelborne/Proper Givinghttps://www.properhotel.com/proper-giving/

Founded in 2014
Santa Monica, California, USA
448 employees (27 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
155.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$31.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.3%
Direct
35.8%
Referral
9.5%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~448

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (4% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$333.4K
Last Raise
$333.4K
Series Unknown, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2024
    Series Unknown • $333.4K

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