Marketing Manager

Richmond, VA (On-site)

$100K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

Job Summary

Drive regional dental marketing strategy across 16 practices to accelerate growth and profitability.

  • Own regional strategy and performance across the portfolio.
  • Must-have: 8–10+ years of regional marketing strategy experience.
  • Standout: Influence without direct authority across operations and growth teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the regional marketing strategy across a portfolio of approximately 16 dental practices, ensuring alignment to enterprise growth objectives and market realities.
  • Define strategic priorities, investment focus, and success metrics for individual practices and the region overall.
  • Lead annual and quarterly regional marketing planning, including demand strategy, channel prioritization, and budget allocation recommendations.
  • Use data, analytics, and market insights to identify growth opportunities and diagnose underperformance.
  • Interpret patient acquisition, conversion, and efficiency metrics to guide strategic decisions—not simply report results.
  • Continuously refine regional strategies based on performance trends, test-and-learn outcomes, and changing market conditions.
  • Build trusted, consultative relationships with practice owners and leaders, positioning marketing as a business growth lever.
  • Influence decision-making through insight, perspective, and business acumen without direct authority.
  • Balance portfolio consistency with local market nuance through strategic frameworks and guardrails.
  • Set strategic direction for internal teams, shared services, and external agencies to ensure execution aligns to outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Strategy, or related field
  • 8–10+ years of progressive marketing experience with demonstrated ownership of strategy across markets or regions.
  • Proven ability to lead through influence and advise senior business leaders or operators.
  • Strong analytical orientation with experience translating performance data into strategic insights.
  • Experience guiding agencies and teams at a strategic direction level rather than hands-on execution.
  • Strategic thinking and structured problem-solving
  • Business and financial acumen tied to unit-level performance
  • Insight generation from quantitative and qualitative data
  • Executive-level communication and presence
  • Relationship-driven influence and consultative leadership
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and making prioritization tradeoffs

Preferred

  • Background in multi-location, services, healthcare, or consumer growth businesses strongly preferred.
  • Experience guiding agencies and teams at a strategic direction level rather than hands-on execution.

Benefits

  • In return for providing an excellent employee and patient experience, we offer a great benefits package to include health and dental benefits, 401(k), holiday pay and paid time off.
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Lightwave Dental

3.9 Glassdoor

Lightwave is a dental leadership organization providing world-class business services so dentists and their teams can realize personal, professional and financial goals.Based in Woodbridge, VA, with an alliance of dental practice partners across the Mid-Atlantic, Lightwave provides non-clinical practice management services to help dentists and their teams remove the burdens of insurance negotiations, patient billing, practice marketing, human resources, recruiting and more. Lightwave supports the growth strategies of dentists and their dental teams at every stage of their career: 1) assisting doctors and hygienists in the launch of a career in dentistry; 2) supporting doctors as they lead their dental practice to success; and, 3) working with those looking toward retirement to reward themselves and leave a legacy.What separates Lightwave from other dental support organizations is a passionate people-first culture that values collaboration, patient relationships and practice culture.Interested dentists are encouraged to reach out to the Lightwave executive team. Become a member of an innovative dental alliance and play an ownership role in building the group dentistry solution the industry truly needs.

Founded in 2016
Woodbridge, Virginia, USA
134 employees (5 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
77% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$100K/yr – $120K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$39.1M
Last Raise
$350K
Series Unknown, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Series Unknown • $350K
  • Feb 2025
    Series Unknown • $3.9M
  • Jun 2024
    Series Unknown • $317K

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.7%
Direct
31.9%
Referral
4.9%
Social
13.3%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~134
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Marketing Manager

Lightwave Dental · Richmond, VA · On-site