Senior Brand Manager, GE Holiday Lighting

Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)

$152K/yr – $190K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own GE holiday lighting brand positioning, messaging and consumer benefits hierarchy, and innovation storytelling. Maintain a practical toolkit with approved claims, logo and visual standards, packaging and support language, and guidance for adapting materials by retailer
  • Partner with Legal, Product, Packaging, and GE licensing stakeholders to ensure that trademarks, claims, warranties, and customer-facing content are accurate , approved, and consistent
  • Develop retailer-specific marketing plans for current and future accounts based on each retailer's shopper, category role, promotional model, digital requirements, and seasonal calendar
  • Partner with Sales on sell-in presentations, business reviews, marketing support plans, and account expansion. Build scalable tools such as product stories, point-of-sale concepts, customer education, and launch checklists
  • Set and maintain product detail page and digital shelf standards across retailer websites and marketplaces
  • Create retail media, co-marketing, and seasonal storytelling briefs that connect account objectives , priority products, creative assets, timing, budgets, and expected outcomes. Coordinate execution with internal teams, agencies, and retailer partners
  • Build and manage the annual marketing calendar, approval workflows, status tracking, and asset libraries needed to support a growing retailer base and a complex seasonal business
  • Serve as the primary marketing partner to Consumer Insights, establishing a consistent intake and working rhythm
  • Use a data-driven approach to recommend in-season changes and improve marketing plans
  • Guide direct reports and functional team members by identifying opportunities for growth, leveraging team strengths, and developing members toward organizational effectiveness

Requirements

  • 6-10 years of relevant experience, ideally grounded in consumer packaged goods brand management, with additional experience in shopper , customer, retail, or wholesale marketing. Experience with seasonal décor, home, hardware, lighting, or related categories is a plus
  • Experience managing a brand within a broader portfolio and working within established brand, licensing, legal, or commercial requirements while owning execution from start to finish. Licensed-brand experience is a plus
  • Experience supporting national retail accounts, wholesale channels, retailer websites, marketplaces, or other omnichannel retail partners
  • Strong understanding of line reviews, item setup, packaging, point-of-sale materials, digital shelf content, retail media, promotional calendars, and post-season reporting
  • Ability to write clear creative, content, packaging, retail media, and sales enablement briefs and present recommendations to executives and cross-functional partners
  • Commercial judgment and the ability to connect brand strategy to retailer priorities, account growth, item productivity, sell-through, margin, and long-term brand health
  • Strong project management and operating discipline, with the ability to manage complex calendars, approvals, and cross-functional dependencies in a seasonal business
  • An analytical approach and experience using performance data, consumer insights, competitive research, retailer feedback, and product reviews to improve decisions. Experience with retail media and digital shelf optimization is strongly preferred
  • A resourceful, self-directed working style
  • Comfort moving between strategy and hands-on execution without a large support team

Preferred

  • Licensed-brand experience is a plus
  • Experience with seasonal décor, home, hardware, lighting, or related categories is a plus

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, including a cash-based incentive plan; salary is reviewed yearly and may be adjusted as part of the normal compensation review process
  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, with 100% of monthly premiums covered for team members, and 85%+ employer-paid premiums for other coverage tiers that include dependents
  • Up to $2,000 annual funding toward HSA accounts
  • Medical, transit, dependent care FSA
  • Infertility coverage offered on all medical plans
  • Generous parental leave program and flexible return options
  • Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
  • Company-paid short and long-term disability insurance
  • 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar company match up to $4,000 per calendar year
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other mental health and wellness perks
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Balsam Brands

3.6 Glassdoor

Balsam Brands is a global, eCommerce retailer with roots in holiday and home décor. We strive for excellence in everything we do and present a unique opportunity for those seeking to have a meaningful impact in a people-first company that values relationship building, authenticity, and doing the right thing. We have steadily growing teams in Boise, the Bay Area, Dublin, the Philippines - and most recently, Windsor, Canada!The company's mission is to create joy together. We empower our team and partners to love what they do, provide products and experiences that inspire meaningful moments with family and friends, and give back to our families and communities in impactful ways. When you join Balsam Brands, you'll find a culture of caring people doing challenging work and building a welcoming workplace.

Founded in 2006
Redwood City, California, USA
314 employees (78 in marketing)
70% recommend to a friend
80% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$152K/yr – $190K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($171K) is 16% above the median base salary for Senior Brand Manager roles in the United States ($147K).

Senior Brand Manager median pay in the United States

$147K/yr

Most earn $122K to $160K. Based on 73 salaries, including bonus and equity.

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