Marketing Director, K2 & Line Skis

Bellevue, WA (On-site)

$100K/yr – $120K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expOther

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end outdoor brand marketing across K2 and Line Skis, leading multi-year strategy, brand storytelling, integrated campaigns, and budget stewardship, while aligning product launches, partnerships, and performance analytics.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and oversee multi-year, annual, and opportunistic marketing strategies, plans, and budgets for K2 and Line Skis, ensuring alignment with brand GM goals and financial targets
  • Define and own brand identity, positioning, and storytelling in-market, ensuring consistent messaging and alignment with global marketing standards
  • Plan and execute integrated marketing campaigns (digital, partnerships, events, athlete/ambassador activations) to drive demand and engagement
  • Define athlete/ambassador marketing strategy
  • Analyze and oversee analysis of channel and market performance; use data-driven insights to optimize campaigns and inform strategy for K2 and Line Skis
  • Ensure Design departments goals are aligned with the direction of the brands targeted consumers and provide guidance throughout the creative development
  • Build and achieve annual marketing budget and maximize the return on spends.
  • Guide performance reporting, attribution modeling, and funnel optimization
  • Partner with product, sales, and GM to align on launches, calendar, and go-to-market initiatives
  • Build strong relationships with external agencies and partners to maximize campaign impact

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business or related field
  • 10+ years of progressive marketing experience in consumer goods, sports, or outdoor industries
  • Demonstrated excellence with integrated marketing and omnichannel strategies (including strong digital expertise)
  • Experience managing teams across multiple brands and/or diverse geographic regions
  • Strong analytical skills and ROI-driven decision-making
  • Ability to lead creative ideation and execution, both internally and with external partners/agencies
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills
  • Passion for outdoor sports and lifestyle

Preferred

  • International market experience
  • Prior experience working in outdoor sports industry
  • Prior experience in a similar role
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Elevate Outdoor Collective

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Elevate Outdoor Collective is an alliance of iconic outdoor and winter sports brands with a specialized focus on skiing, snowboarding, backcountry avalanche gear, and snowshoeing. With each unique brand maintaining its own individual points of view and driving independent innovation, the Collective is fueled with the strength of world-class development facilities and engineers, global distribution channels and committed outdoor lifestyle enthusiasts and experts. Our brands include K2 Skis, K2 Snowboarding, Marker, Dalbello, Völkl, RIDE Snowboards, LINE Skis, Backcountry Access, Atlas Snow Shoe Co., Tubbs Snowshoes, Madshus and K2 Skates. With an international portfolio of world-renowned brands recognized as trailblazers in innovation, performance and, most importantly, fun times by active lifestyle enthusiasts across the globe, Elevate Outdoor Collective will continue its mission to progress the culture of each and every outdoor endeavor it represents. As “One Team” backed by world-class development facilities and product engineers, incredibly talented athletes and ambassadors and a top-notch crew of employees who live and breathe the outdoor active lifestyle, Elevate Outdoor Collective is eager to take things to the next level.Elevate Outdoor Collective isn't interested in just raising the bar. We're reinventing it, built from our solid foundation to become the largest and leading company in the industry. Our focus is very clear: Reaching higher elevations in the winter and outdoor sports space through consumer-centric innovation. Our goal: To elevate everyone's experience and heartbeat around the world. Want to be part of our team? We'd love to have you! Check out our open job listings at https://tinyurl.com/ELEVATEOutdoorCollective

Founded in 1962
Bellevue, Washington, USA
420 employees (77 in marketing)
22% recommend to a friend
37% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
18.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.9%
Direct
43.4%
Referral
8%
Social
7.7%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~396

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
59 (14% of company)