Director of Brand Marketing

Tustin, CA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and scale the core branding engine across launches, ambassadors and partnerships, social and community, and earned media, with responsibility for strategy, activation, measurement, and budget decisions.

  • End-to-end brand launches and tentpole campaigns across social, PR, ambassadors, partnerships, and community
  • Build and manage ambassador and partnership programs with measurable financial return
  • Lead social media, community, activations, PR, and brand health metrics

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own Brand Launches & Campaigns: Build and run integrated plans for the brand launch, product launches, and tentpole campaigns, with multiple beats across social, PR, ambassadors, partnerships, and community, built on positioning owned by Product Marketing.
  • Build Brand Ambassador & Partnership Programs: Recruit and manage brand ambassadors across athletes, physicians, scientists, and wellness and healthy-living experts, and develop larger brand partnerships and collaborations that build long-term credibility and reach. Creator and influencer programs measured on financial return are owned by Growth.
  • Build Brand Activations & Experiential: As the brand grows, plan and execute brand activations, events, sweepstakes, and experiential programs that expand the market, from concept through delivery.
  • Lead Social Media & Community: Build and lead the social media and community team, setting channel strategy, content programming, and community standards. Community starts as monitoring and CX support and grows into a full program after launch.
  • Partner with the Creative Studio: Brief the Creative Studio through a shared intake process on campaign and tentpole creative, key art, brand imagery, and video support, and work with them on concepts so every campaign beat has the assets it needs. The Studio owns brand identity and standards. Your team owns what ships on brand channels and when.
  • Work Inside the Claims Line: Partner with medical, regulatory, and legal review so social, PR, ambassador, and partnership content moves through approval on schedule.
  • Own PR & Earned Media: Set PR and earned media strategy, manage the agency relationship, and own the launch press narrative, drawing on messaging from Product Marketing.
  • Own Brand Health Metrics: Define and report brand health metrics, including awareness, share of voice, and sentiment, and connect brand performance to long-term membership value.
  • Own Brand Budgets: Manage PR, ambassador, partnership, and social budgets, and decide where investment builds the most brand value.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • 8+ years in brand marketing for consumer (B2C) brands, with hands-on direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience, including leading teams and agency partners.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree required.
  • Experience in lifestyle-led health & wellness, consumer technology, and subscription or membership backgrounds is strongly preferred.
  • Always-On & Campaigns: Proven track record running always-on brand programs alongside launches and tentpole campaigns, including taking a new brand, sub-brand, or product line to market.
  • Social Media & Community Leadership: Has led social media and community teams and set channel strategy for a consumer brand.
  • PR & Earned Media: Experience leading PR and earned media, in house or through agencies, including launch press.
  • Partnerships & Ambassadors: Experience building ambassador programs across athletes, experts, and credentialed voices, and brand partnerships, including negotiating the terms behind them.
  • Execution First: Plans and delivers. Experience with activations or experiential programs is a plus if the candidate has run them, not only pitched them.
  • Brand Measurement: Comfortable defining and reporting brand health metrics, and making the case for brand investment alongside growth and performance teams.

Preferred

  • Lifestyle-led health & wellness, consumer technology, and subscription or membership backgrounds are strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • 100% covered Medical/Dental/Vision for employee AND spouse + dependents!
  • 401K with 4% employer match (eligible after 90 days of employment) and immediate vesting
  • Generous PTO policy + paid holidays
  • Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Critical Illness Coverage
  • Accident Insurance
  • Healthcare FSA
  • Dependent Care FSA
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Vesync

Founded in 2011, VeSync was established with the goal of enriching the lives of customers across the globe by providing thoughtfully engineered consumer products designed with convenience, simplicity, practicality and value in mind. Today, Etekcity is now an international brand owner, serving a diverse e-commerce customer base in home improvement, consumer electronics, and outdoor equipment. By offering innovative, feature-rich products infused with the latest cutting edge technology and user-friendly designs, we have made tremendous strides in the e-commerce marketplace since our inception. Innovative thinking, thoughtful practicality and technological sophistication have been paramount to our continued success as a leading e-commerce brand in an extensive range of product categories.Our team is composed of bright, ambitious and creative-minded individuals with an unwavering passion for enriching the lives of those around us in new and exciting ways. While we’re an incredibly industrious bunch, we inspire our team members to be as happy and productive as possible by offering ample opportunities for growth, flexible work schedules and a casual, start-up like work environment where work and fun are not mutually exclusive.With multiple international branches and plans to expand our product outreach to physical storefront retail centers, we’re committed to becoming the world’s premier retailer of home goods and outdoor equipment. Building on better living isn’t just our slogan—it’s our promise to our valued team members too. #BuildingonBetterLiving.

Founded in 2011
Tustin, California, USA
242 employees (68 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
421.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32%
Direct
56.7%
Referral
8.1%
Social
1.1%
Paid
1.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~242
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Director of Brand Marketing

Vesync · Tustin, CA · On-site