Director, Brand Strategy & Go-to-Market

Charlottesville, VA (Remote)

$147K/yr – $160K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the portfolio brand strategy and GTM for the K12 Individual business, guiding storytelling, content, and market activation while building a scalable team and AI-enabled creative processes.

  • Leads brand architecture, positioning, and storytelling
  • Builds and scales content engine and go-to-market plans

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand Strategy & Positioning
  • Own the portfolio brand architecture, positioning framework, messaging architecture, and value propositions across the K12 Individual business.
  • Establish brand standards, messaging frameworks, and creative guidelines that create consistency across customer touchpoints.
  • Leverage customer, market, and competitive insights to strengthen differentiation, drive demand, and link brand investments to measurable business results.
  • Evolve the offer architecture (how programs, experiences, and portfolio brands are structured, connected, and brought to market as a cohesive system), anticipating long-term trends and opportunities that enable future growth.
  • Storytelling, Content & Creative
  • Develop the portfolio storytelling strategy, creating narratives that inspire students, families, educators, and partners.
  • Build and scale a modern content engine spanning editorial, video, social, thought leadership, user-generated content, and search-optimized content.
  • Translate customer insights into compelling stories that strengthen awareness, consideration, trust, and engagement.
  • Increase share of voice, brand authority, and visibility across search, social, and earned media.

Requirements

  • 8–12 years of experience leading brand and go-to-market strategy for consumer businesses.
  • Proven success building and evolving brands in digitally driven B2C environments.
  • Proven success advising and influencing senior executives and driving alignment across a matrixed organization through influence rather than authority, with advanced presentation and storytelling skills.
  • Exceptional storyteller with the ability to translate customer insights into compelling narratives that strengthen brands and drive measurable business results.
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across brand strategy, creative, content, social media, and marketing communications.
  • Demonstrated ability to build teams, scale capabilities, and lead through transformation.
  • Familiarity with brand measurement, web analytics, and social analytics.
  • Hands-on experience integrating and scaling AI tools across creative and content workflows to improve speed, quality, and output.
  • Experience in education, travel, hospitality, consumer services, or other mission-driven consumer brands preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, accident, critical illness, disability insurance, FSA/HSA options with employer HSA contributions, and a generous 401(k) match.
  • Generous paid time off including 11 paid company holidays, 25 PTO days the first year (prorated), 1 paid volunteer day, 4 mental health days, and bereavement
  • Professional development support, including up to $5,250 annually for tuition reimbursement and up to $1,000 for certifications annually
  • Opportunities for paid and discounted travel
  • Flexible work schedule providing on-site, remote, and hybrid office opportunities
  • Encouraged participation in a wide variety of Employee Resource Groups
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness resources, including fitness centers at select locations
  • Paid parental, caregiver, and disability leave
  • Team Member Discount Program
  • Engaging, collaborative, and fun work environment
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WorldStrides

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WorldStrides provides educational travel and experiences to more than 530,000 students a year. Founded in 1967 by a middle school social studies teacher from Chicago, the company has since grown to become a leader in experiential learning for students of all ages throughout their lifetime learning journey. In addition to domestic and international travel and study abroad programs, WorldStrides offerings include performing arts, sports, language immersion, career exploration, and service-learning. Each of these experiences helps students to see beyond the classroom and to see the world – and themselves – in new ways. Our global team is 1,500+ strong, united by a passion for what we do. We work with students, parents, and teachers, and behind the scenes too, to deliver experiences that transform lives. Let's get out there - together!Community Guidelines We are happy to address questions you may have, but in order to foster a vibrant and useful online community, we’ve outlined a few guidelines to be followed when posting on the WorldStrides and affiliated brands' social channels . Any comments that are in violation of the guidelines will be removed, and repeat offenders may be blocked. Comments will be removed if they contain:•Profane, inappropriate, threatening or offensive language;•Violations of copyright or intellectual property rights;•Purposefully untrue or misleading statements;•Comments that are meant to derail or hijack constructive conversations;•Personal information of community members or WorldStrides employees; •Posts that link to potentially harmful sites.

Founded in 1967
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
2.1K employees (107 in marketing)
44% recommend to a friend
47% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$147K/yr – $160K/yr

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Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2017
    Private Equity
  • Jan 1998
    Private Equity

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
300.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$19.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.9%
Direct
49.4%
Referral
6%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.1K

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Director, Brand Strategy & Go-to-Market

WorldStrides · Charlottesville, VA · Remote