Regional Director, Paid Digital Marketing

USA (Remote)

$86K/yr - $109K/yr (Est.)Senior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Lead the strategy and execution of direct marketing partnerships with Ticketmaster and guide paid media across Hard Rock Live properties, driving campaign planning, tracking, optimization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the direct marketing partnership with Ticketmaster, guiding budget allocation, strategy, and execution of entertainment-focused digital campaigns
  • Implement Ticketmaster marketing assets across designated Hard Rock Live venues — including digital and social campaigns, email marketing, and Live Analytics — to maximize ticket sales opportunities
  • Implement and troubleshoot proper tracking mechanisms across owned and operated channels for Hard Rock Live campaigns, contributing to campaign attribution and artist-specific tracking
  • Provide strategic management of paid digital and social campaigns across platforms including Google, Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other trade desks
  • Serve as the strategic partner and central resource for marketing and media buying leads across HRI properties and divisions, providing insight, strategy, and recommendations
  • Direct media buying and creative agencies through efficient workflows, feedback loops, and ongoing project management
  • Partner with the Hard Rock brand partnerships team to maximize digital and social deliverables associated with ongoing sponsorships
  • Create a consistent organic-to-paid workflow that strengthens paid social amplification, audience development, and creative learnings across the broader paid digital ecosystem
  • Partner with the Director of Ticketing & Entertainment Analytics and the Vice President of Entertainment to identify trends, patterns, and optimization opportunities
  • Bridge Hard Rock analytics and agency teams to drive 1P data activation, including proper UTM architecture, audience layering, and suppression lists

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on paid digital media experience, with direct campaign management across paid social and paid search, including Meta and Google Ads (SA360 a plus); experience with Ticketmaster platforms and tools (e.g., Live Analytics, TM1, Archtics) strongly preferred
  • Experience in event-based entertainment campaigns, including artist-level attribution, ROAS efficiency, and ticket sales optimization
  • Demonstrated experience managing campaigns at scale across multiple properties
  • Strong understanding of audience targeting, bid strategy, funnel-stage creative, and conversion optimization
  • Experience working within or alongside a media agency; comfort navigating agency/client dynamics and holding agency partners accountable
  • Proven ability to partner with senior cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., analytics, entertainment, and property marketing leadership) and tailor strategy and reporting to their needs
  • Curiosity and demonstrated interest in emerging marketing technologies, including AI applications in campaign strategy, audience targeting, creative, or analytics
  • Proficiency with campaign reporting and data visualization, and ability to pull insights from platform dashboards and translate them into clear recommendations
  • Excellent communication skills; able to present performance data to non-technical stakeholders (property marketing leads)
  • Working knowledge of paid search and paid social platforms and tools, including Google Ads, SA360, Campaign Manager, Meta Business Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, YouTube, DV360, programmatic display buying, Tealium, and Adobe Analytics

Benefits

  • We offer a comprehensive benefits package that allows our team members stay healthy, plan for their future and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Benefits may vary with employment status. To see our fill list of Team Member Benefits please visit our career site: www.gotoworkhappy.com/benefits
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Hard Rock International

Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies with venues in over 70 countries spanning 265 locations that include owned/licensed or managed Rock Shops®, Live Performance Venues and Cafes. HRI also launched a joint venture named Hard Rock Digital in 2020, an online sportsbook, retail sportsbook and internet gaming platform. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world’s largest and most valuable collection of authentic music memorabilia at more than 86,000 pieces, which are displayed at its locations around the globe. Hard Rock Hotels has been honored with Outstanding Guest Satisfaction and above for four consecutive years among Upper Upscale Hotels in J.D. Power’s North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study and in 2022, the iconic brand was ranked as the number one brand for the second year in a row. HRI is the first privately-owned gaming company designated U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal for the second year. Hard Rock was also honored as one of Forbes’ Best Employers for Women, Diversity and New Grads and a Top Large Employer in the Travel & Leisure, Gaming, and Entertainment Industry. In 2021, Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos received first place ranking in the Casino Gaming Executive Satisfaction Survey conducted by Bristol Associates Inc. and Spectrum Gaming Group for six of the last seven years. We are committed to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion. DE&I aims to address the needs of all team members – including Native Americans, women, LGBTQ+ community, people of color (BIPOC), people with disabilities and military veterans. Diversity: is the celebration of differences and leveraging those difference to produce stellar results. Equity: is a process of seeking fairness through deliberate and intentional actions. Inclusion: is when everyone has the freedom and comfort to express their thoughts, ideas, and opinions in a safe, trusting, and open environment.

Founded in 1971
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
5.1K employees (375 in marketing)

Salaries

SalaryGuide estimate

$86K/yr – $109K/yr

Modelled from 22 comparable roles.

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$368K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
51.3%
Direct
37.7%
Referral
8.8%
Social
1%
Paid
1.2%

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Regional Director, Paid Digital Marketing

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