Director of DTC Marketing

Portland, OR (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive8+ years exp

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end paid media strategy for Pendleton’s DTC retail channel, leading a lean team and coordinating with agency to hit revenue and acquisition goals.

  • Must-have: 8+ years in digital performance marketing with 3+ in leadership and $2M+ budgets across search and social.
  • Standout: Leads cross-functional collaboration with Creative, Brand, Merchandising, and agency partners to ensure on-brand, data-driven campaigns.
  • Standout: Strong data-driven decision-making with attribution, testing, and MMM to optimize ROI.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive the full-funnel paid digital strategy across search, paid social, display, programmatic, affiliate, and emerging channels.
  • Develop annual and quarterly channel plans tied to revenue, new customer acquisition, and retention goals.
  • Own budget allocation, pacing, marketing spend effectiveness, and attribution across all paid channels.
  • Build and maintain reporting infrastructure that gives leadership clear visibility into CAC, LTV, ROAS, blended MER, and channel contribution.
  • Lead incrementality testing and media mix modeling to ensure spend decisions are grounded in real performance signals, not platform-reported attribution.
  • Partner closely with Creative, Brand, and Merchandising teams to define seasonal and weekly campaign strategies, briefing internal and agency teams in the development of creative that reflects our brand voice, visual identity, and merchandising priorities while driving product sell-through.
  • Champion the vision of building lasting, long-term consumer connections that create new demand while consistently meeting consumers across channels to capture demand.
  • Lead and coach a lean internal retail marketing team.
  • Manage the relationship and day-to-day execution strategy with Pendleton’s retail marketing agency of record.
  • Ensure processes, handoffs, and expectations are clearly defined and healthy.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in digital performance marketing, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
  • Direct experience managing sizable media budgets ($2M+) across paid search and paid social.
  • Deep expertise in Meta Ads Manager, Google Ads, and major DSPs.
  • Exceptional communicator with the ability to translate complex performance data into clear, actionable narratives for stakeholders and senior leadership.
  • Analytically rigorous and decisive operator, with strong judgment in ambiguous environments and the ability to interpret data, evaluate trade-offs, and make confident investment decisions.
  • Growth mindset with enthusiasm for continuous learning and process improvement.
  • Proven team builder and people leader, with experience building, scaling, and developing high-performing in-house teams, grounded in clear expectations, accountability, and talent growth.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Communications, or a related field.
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Pendleton Woolen Mills

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Setting the standard for classic American style, Pendleton is recognized worldwide as a symbol of American heritage, authenticity and craftsmanship. There have been six generations of family ownership since 1863 when a young English weaver came to Oregon. The company owns and operates some of America’s oldest woolen mills, constantly updating them with state-of-the-art looms and eco-friendly technology. Inspired by its heritage, Pendleton designs and produces apparel for men and women, blankets, home décor and gifts. Products are offered in catalogs, online and in Pendleton retail and outlet stores nationally. Pendleton designs are also sold by select retailers throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Asia. Learn more at www.pendleton-usa.com

Portland, Oregon, USA
478 employees (74 in marketing)
43% recommend to a friend
61% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
683.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.2%
Direct
58.1%
Referral
5.2%
Social
3.4%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~478

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
38 (8% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$5M
Last Raise
$5M
Series Unknown, 17 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2009
    Series Unknown • $5M

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