Senior Manager Digital Marketing

Golden, CO (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 17 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end digital marketing program for KONG, leading paid media, strategy, content alignment, reporting, partnerships, and team development across paid, owned, and social channels.

  • Oversee paid media across Meta, TikTok, Google, YouTube, and emerging platforms
  • Own reporting and optimization to drive business outcomes

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage and optimize KONG paid media campaigns across Meta, TikTok, Google, YouTube, and emerging platforms, tracking performance against true business outcomes
  • Develop and execute a full-funnel digital marketing strategy connecting awareness, consideration, and conversion across paid, owned, and social channels
  • Oversee organic social content strategy in partnership with the Social Media Content Coordinator, ensuring social content is aligned with campaign priorities and brand voice
  • Partner with the paid media agency to ensure campaign performance, reporting accuracy, and brand alignment across all digital efforts
  • Stay current on digital marketing trends and emerging tools, bringing relevant insights and recommendations to the team proactively
  • Oversee the KONG email marketing program including campaign development, automation flows, segmentation, and performance tracking in partnership with the Marketing Manager
  • Guide the growth and optimization of SMS and direct mail efforts, ensuring messaging is timely, relevant, and brand-aligned
  • Build and refine consumer lifecycle strategies that drive acquisition, retention, and loyalty across direct-to-consumer and other channels
  • Support the development of KONG marketing partnership programs, identifying co-branded and affiliate opportunities that extend brand reach and drive growth
  • Partner with the Social Media Content Coordinator to amplify partnership and campaign activations across social channels

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field required
  • 4 to 6 years of progressive digital marketing experience, including at least 2 years in a management or team leadership role
  • Demonstrated experience managing paid social and digital campaigns across Meta, TikTok, Google, and other major platforms
  • Experience in consumer products, CPG, or pet industry environment strongly preferred
  • Strong strategic and analytical thinking with the ability to connect digital marketing performance to real business outcomes
  • Deep knowledge of paid social, SEM, email marketing, SMS, and social media management across a full-funnel digital ecosystem
  • Familiarity with Klaviyo, HubSpot, Meta Business Suite, Google Analytics, and TikTok Ads Manager
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present strategy and performance clearly to senior leadership
  • Strong people leadership skills with a track record of developing marketing talent and building high-performing teams
  • Highly organized with strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple campaigns and priorities simultaneously

Preferred

  • Experience in consumer products, CPG, or pet industry environment strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance with low-cost premiums
  • Access to voluntary benefits
  • Employer paid short-term/long term disability and life insurance
  • 401k with employer matching
  • 12 Paid Holidays
  • Personal Leave Accrual
  • Pet Insurance, Tuition reimbursement, dog toys, and more!
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KONG Company

KONG has been the gold standard for dog toys since 1976. Dogs and their owners choose the original KONG and all of our other favorite toys because they’re fun. KONG toys are the best of the best in quality, originality, variety, safety, and value. Give a dog a KONG. They’ll be the first to show you: it’s not just a toy, it’s a KONG.

Founded in 1976
USA
205 employees

Salaries

Web Marketing median pay in the United States

$98K/yr

Most pay falls between $73K and $135K. Based on 279 salaries.

See all KONG Company salaries

Marketing Team

Median Tenure
3.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
167.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.4%
Direct
37.1%
Referral
6.3%
Social
3.3%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~205
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Senior Manager Digital Marketing

KONG Company · Golden, CO · On-site