Senior Director of Marketing

Austin, TX (Remote)

$121K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale Casago’s national brand and its consistent application, while stewarding the franchise marketing fund, driving demand for homeowners and guests, enabling the franchise network with templates and AI tools, and building a data-driven, AI-first marketing organization.

  • Brand strategy, governance, and performance metrics
  • Franchise fund oversight and ROI storytelling
  • Two-audience demand generation and network enablement

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the Casago brand: Set national brand strategy and positioning, and grow awareness among the two audiences that matter most, homeowners who could trust us with their property, and guests who could book a stay. Make “national brand, local heart” something people feel, not just a tagline.
  • Govern brand standards: Build and maintain the Casago brand system identity, voice, visual standards and ensure it’s applied consistently across every franchise market. Equip local operators to use the brand well, and hold the line where it counts.
  • Steward the franchise marketing fund: Own strategy, budgeting, allocation, and transparent reporting for the official franchise marketing fund. Deploy pooled dollars where they drive the most network-wide impact, demonstrate ROI clearly to franchisees, and partner with the franchisee community (e.g., a marketing advisory council) to keep trust high and spend accountable.
  • Drive homeowner awareness and supply: Partner with the owner growth team to enable brand-level demand generation that builds homeowner awareness and feeds qualified owner leads into franchisee pipelines, growing homes under management across the network.
  • Help drive guest demand and direct bookings: Work with the Vacasa.com and Casago.com teams to help build the performance engine – assist in paid, SEO, lifecycle/CRM, and content strategy that grows profitable guest demand and direct-bookings.
  • Partner on the digital storefront: Work extensively with the Vacasa.com / Casago.com website team on SEO, content, conversion, and a coherent digital strategy across both domains.
  • Enable the franchise network: Partner cross-functionally with Franchise Operations and Franchise Success Managers to deliver turnkey local marketing playbooks, templates, co-op programs, and AI-powered tools so a great operator can market like a national brand on day one.
  • Build AI-first systems: Treat AI and automation as core infrastructure, not a side project. Stand up a lean martech and content stack that lets a small team operate at national scale.
  • Own the numbers: Tie marketing to growth brand health and awareness, CAC, ROAS, owner LTV, booking conversion, and marketing-fund ROI. Build the dashboards and the discipline behind them.
  • Lead and grow the team: Hire, develop, and lead a high-leverage marketing team and the agency and vendor partners around it.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in marketing with 5+ years leading teams, and a track record of owning both brand and performance/demand generation at scale.
  • Experience in a multi-location, franchise, marketplace, hospitality, travel, or real estate environment ideally marketing to two audiences at once (supply and demand).
  • Hands-on experience managing a franchise marketing fund, co-op ad fund, or pooled marketing budget with the transparency and franchisee buy-in those require. (Strongly preferred.)
  • Both real brand-building instincts and deep performance fluency in paid media, SEO, lifecycle, attribution. You’re equally comfortable in the creative review and the spreadsheet.
  • Proven cross-functional leadership: you can align operations, franchise-facing teams, and web/product partners without relying on direct authority.
  • Demonstrated adoption of AI and automation to do more with less
  • Sound financial stewardship and comfort owning a meaningful budget you’re accountable for.
  • A bias for action, low ego, and genuine curiosity. You’re direct, you cut the fluff, and you’d rather ship and learn than polish forever.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, lean environment where you’ll build the plane while flying it.

Preferred

  • Hands-on experience managing a franchise marketing fund, co-op ad fund, or pooled marketing budget with the transparency and franchisee buy-in those require. (Strongly preferred.)
  • Bonus: vacation rental / PropTech experience, franchise development exposure, or PR/communications chops.

Benefits

  • Health/dental/vision insurance based on hours worked
  • Employer Sponsored & Voluntary Supplemental Benefits based on hours worked
  • 401K retirement savings plan with immediate 100% company match on the first 4% you contribute
  • Health & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts based on hours worked
  • Paid Flex Time Off / Vacation & Sick Time
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Employee Discounts
  • Please visit our careers page to review our full benefits offerings
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Casago

With more than 22 years of experience, Casago has become internationally recognized as a leader within the vacation and short-term rental industry in 60+ destinations across the U.S., Mexico, and the Caribbean with over 5,000 properties under management. Casago’s franchise model is re-imagining the future of short term rentals for local operators, by providing them with the tools to grow their business with the support, software, systems and purchasing power of a national organization. By joining our franchise model, you have the freedom to run your own business within a community of like-minded professionals, while leveraging the economies of scale and buying power to increase profitability and reduce your operating costs. Our core team has owned, developed, opened and managed thousands of vacation rentals, including homes, villas, mega-estate properties and condo resorts. We currently employ 350 people who provide many specialty services that are unique to our company. Our executives know what owners and travelers want and need. Our team knows the short term rental and resort business inside-out.Steve Schwab, founder & CEO, has over 22 years of experience serving in the vacation rental industry. His vision has created a blueprint for world-class customer service. His work has been exemplified in exclusive resorts and estates in 13 cities in two countries. Steve is also a pioneer in performance driven industry software. Steve was co-founder of Streamline Vacation Rental Software, which has allowed him to create many industry-first technologies that continue to change the market. He is a former Army Ranger, pilot, intelligence analyst, software developer and author. His creative work has been featured in numerous publications and television appearances.

Founded in 1996
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
171 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
29.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$76
Traffic Source Mix
Search
55.7%
Direct
35.5%
Referral
5.3%
Social
2.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~171

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
5 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
2.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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