Principal, Consumer Brand Strategy

Austin, TX (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Brand leadership role focused on shaping and evolving Realtor.com’s consumer brand strategy across marketing, product, and creative teams. The role emphasizes integration, research-driven decision making, and campaign excellence, with a track record of steering multi-channel work and driving measurable brand and business outcomes. It requires strong cross-functional influence and the ability to navigate enterprise complexity while delivering consistent, high-impact branding.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and Evolve Consumer Brand Strategy
  • Steward and advance brand positioning, messaging frameworks, and audience segmentation that serve as decision-making criteria across marketing, product, and creative teams
  • Translate business objectives into brand strategy that grows share, preference, and trust—with measurable impact on audience engagement, brand health, and commercial goals.
  • Relentlessly hunt for competitive whitespace and challenger angles
  • Lead Strategic Integration Across Functions
  • Partner with research teams to translate audience insights into actionable brand strategy and managing a testing strategy that keeps a finger on the pulse of sentiment in an actively changing category
  • Develop clear, focused creative briefs with the Consumer Brand Director that leverage relevant insights and messaging to drive impactful campaigns.
  • Collaborate with Creative Directors to ensure brand strategy inspires breakthrough work that drives business results
  • Work with product marketing and design teams to create unified ecosystems across brand and product experiences
  • Champion Strategy Through Complex Organization

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with 15+ years of brand strategy expertise, with a mix of agency and in-house experience across consumer-facing businesses
  • Proven track record developing brand positioning, messaging architecture, and audience segmentation frameworks that drive measurable business outcomes
  • Experience leading brand through growth, transformation, or repositioning in competitive, fast-moving categories
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across complex organizations, including C-level stakeholders
  • Experience managing strategic agency relationships and overseeing campaign development from brief through launch
  • Track record of building collaborative, cross-functional teams that solve complex challenges
  • Portfolio demonstrating strategy that inspired award-winning creative work and drove business results
  • Experience developing integrated campaigns across multiple channels and touchpoints
  • Understanding of how to balance long-term brand building with near-term performance marketing needs
  • Champion for strategy who uses research and frameworks as tools for alignment

Nice to have

    Benefits

    • Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
    • Family forming benefits
    • 13 Paid Holidays
    • Flexible Time Off
    • 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
    • Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
    • Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
    • 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
    • Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
    • Free snacks and refreshments in each office location