Marketing Director

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own revenue-driving marketing campaigns across live events, leading multi-channel plans from concept through execution to boost ticket sales, renewals, and audience loyalty.

  • Leads strategy using CRM data, analytics, and segmentation to optimize performance.
  • Manages campaigns, calendars, budgets, and cross-functional teams.
  • Mentors staff and partners with Creative Director and PR to ensure cohesive messaging.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute marketing strategies that drive ticket sales, package sales, renewals, repeat attendance, and patron loyalty.
  • Lead integrated campaigns for productions, subscriptions/packages, special offers, and audience retention initiatives.
  • Use CRM data, sales reports, audience segmentation, digital analytics, and campaign results to guide strategy and optimize performance.
  • Identify opportunities to increase engagement and purchase frequency among existing ticket buyers, subscribers, lapsed patrons, and high-potential audience segments.
  • Partner with the Creative Director on campaign concepts, creative briefs, and marketing assets that motivate action.
  • Collaborate with the Director of PR/Communications to align campaign messaging, content priorities, media opportunities, and public-facing communications.
  • Oversee marketing activity across email, website, paid digital, direct mail, print, social, search, in-venue, and partner channels.
  • Manage campaign calendars, budgets, timelines, approvals, vendors, and cross-functional workflows.
  • Supervise and support assigned marketing staff, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high-quality execution.
  • Prepare concise reports on campaign performance, sales trends, audience behavior, risks, and opportunities.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of progressively responsible marketing experience, preferably in live events such as arts, entertainment, sports, or hospitality.
  • Demonstrated success developing marketing campaigns that drive measurable sales, retention, attendance, loyalty, or customer engagement.
  • Strong understanding of CRM-driven marketing, audience segmentation, email marketing, paid media, direct mail, website strategy, content planning, and campaign analytics.
  • Proven ability to interpret sales and audience data and translate insights into actionable campaigns.
  • Excellent writing, editing, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage timelines, budgets, approvals, vendors, and competing priorities.
  • Experience supervising staff and working effectively with creative, communications, sales, data, ticketing, and executive colleagues.
  • Commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, and a respectful workplace.
  • Curiosity about opera, music, theater, live performance, or the arts.

Benefits

  • comprehensive benefits package, which may include medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and long-term disability coverage; a 403(b) retirement plan with employer match; cell phone stipend; Employee Assistance Program; subsidized parking or public transit reimbursement; and complimentary and discounted performance tickets.
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LA Opera

Created in 1986 by a team of visionaries, LA Opera has become a leader in artistic innovation, while honoring the great historical legacy of opera.Through the powerful art form of opera, we celebrate the diversity and pioneering spirit of our great city. Hundreds of LAO employees and artists help bring to life world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, pioneering spirit and artistic sensibility unique to Los Angeles. Our productions are experienced by more than 100,000 audience members each year at our home at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown Los Angeles. We reach many more through our community and school programs, “Off Grand” performances in venues across Los Angeles, and On Now digital content.

Founded in 1986
Los Angeles, California, USA
318 employees (143 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$130K/yr – $135K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
43 (14% of company)
Median Tenure
7.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
64.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$21.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
57.2%
Direct
24.9%
Referral
5.1%
Social
6%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~318

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