Director of Growth & Brand Activation

USA (Remote)

$145K/yr – $165K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and steer paid media strategy and performance while leading brand activation, creative operations, and the lifecycle/measurement loop, with collaboration across Brand, Partnerships, and data-driven decision making.

  • Own the budget and agency relationships for paid media
  • Lead cross-functional teams to align creative and lifecycle initiatives
  • Orchestrate measurement, attribution, and incrementality debates

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Paid media strategy and performance. Set the strategic direction for our digital media investment: channel roles, spend allocation, and the evidence bar (including our media mix modeling) that decisions get defended against. Your Performance Marketing Manager owns the budget and the agency relationship day-to-day; you set the strategy they execute against and hold the line when short-term efficiency pressure threatens to starve the top of funnel.
  • Brand activation. Partner with our Brand Director on the strategy for how we build awareness and engagement outside of paid media — PR, influencer, and organic social — then define how that strategy comes to life by channel, working closely with our Sr Partnerships Manager to get it there.
  • Creative as a company-wide engine. Your team serves brand, DTC and eCommerce. That means running a creative operation that can absorb demand from three directions and still ship on time: clear intake, honest prioritization, a realistic view of capacity, and agency partners scaled to fill the gaps.
  • The creative-performance loop. Make sure what you learn from media actually changes what you make next — and that the read comes back from every channel, including the ones you don't buy yourself.
  • Lifecycle and retention. Partner on subscriber acquisition, onboarding, retention and win-back. In DTC, the second order is where the business is made.
  • Measurement. Own the reporting rhythm: what's working, what isn't, what we're changing. Bring a clear point of view on incrementality and attribution — and be honest when the data is ambiguous.
  • Team leadership. Develop three managers into stronger operators and hold our agency partners to a high bar. Make them better, not just busier.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in growth or performance marketing at an omni-channel business – not DTC-only.
  • Deep, hands-on paid media experience – you've owned a budget, managed agencies, and you can tell when you're being managed rather than served
  • Real fluency in creative and content as performance drivers. You know what makes an ad work, you can brief it, and you can tell a creative team why something didn't
  • Experience running creative for more than one internal customer. You've built intake and prioritization that people actually follow, and you're comfortable saying “not this month” to a peer
  • A track record of working with brand rather than around it. You've taken someone else's brand platform and made it perform without sanding off what made it distinctive
  • Lifecycle and retention experience — email, SMS, subscription mechanics
  • People leadership experience. You've managed managers or senior individual contributors and made them better
  • Comfort with data. You can build the model, question the attribution, and explain the tradeoff to a non-marketer
  • Plugged in. You know what's happening in creator economics, in retail media, in AI-assisted content production — and you can separate the signal from the hype
  • Bias to ship. You'd rather test something imperfect this month than perfect something for next quarter

Preferred

  • Amazon or retail media experience — you don't need to buy it here, but knowing what performs on those platforms means our eCommerce team gets sharper assets
  • pet, food, CPG or wellness experience
  • working across both DTC and retail.

Benefits

  • Time off: We offer a highly competitive time off schedule, including flexible vacation and additional sick time, in addition to a generous company-paid holiday schedule.
  • Benefits: Various health insurance plans with generous employer contributions to premiums. We also offer vision, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, accident, critical illness, an employee assistance program, and an FSA/HSA.
  • Financial wellness : Enjoy perks like a company 401K with an employer match.
  • Mission Driven : Employees can take up to 40 hours of volunteer time a year, and we offer donation matching to non-profit organizations of your choosing.
  • Pet Friendly: Pet-friendly offices, discounts on pet insurance, and of course, free pet food!
  • Collaborative Team: We offer a fun, team-oriented work environment where you feel like you are making a difference every day.
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The Honest Kitchen Inc

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The Honest Kitchen was founded by Lucy Postins in 2002 with a mission to help as many pets as possible get on the road to good health, through good food. We produce a full line of human grade complete and balanced foods for dogs and cats including dry, dehydrated, and wet foods; as well as treats, toppers, hydration boosters and a best-selling digestive supplement. The Honest Kitchen was the first-ever human grade pet food, meaning our finished product meets human food production standards (unlike conventional pet food, which is feed grade). Each Honest Kitchen product is made with uncompromising quality & safety standards by a company of pet lovers.

Founded in 2002
San Diego, California, USA
105 employees (7 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

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$145K/yr – $165K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
5 (5% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$150M
Last Raise
$150M
Series Unknown

Funding History

  • Apr 2022
    Series Unknown • $150M
  • Sep 2011
    Private Equity

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
340K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$85.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.2%
Direct
46.1%
Referral
2.5%
Social
4.9%
Paid
11.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~105

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