Senior Marketing Manager

Vista, CA (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the growth and leadership rhythm for a data-driven marketing engine, balancing strategy, people leadership, and cross-functional execution to drive new customer acquisition, retention, and brand momentum.

  • Lead a multi-discipline marketing team and external partners to scale demand, brand, and product storytelling across paid, organic, social, email, and search channels.
  • Own the marketing analytics cadence by building dashboards, testing frameworks, and ROI-driven plans that translate data into action.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Be a key voice on the Plum Paper Leadership Team in developing business strategies that are customer-, market-, and data-driven and which bring clear competitive advantages. Play a key role in annual planning.
  • Manage and grow a strong team of marketers, designers, and agencies — fostering a culture of accountability, creativity, and continuous improvement
  • Collaborate and communicate the marketing agenda to the broader organization.
  • Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and develop team members' skills and careers
  • Build scalable processes, workflows, and tools that help the team work efficiently as the business grows
  • Build and effectively manage the department budget
  • Establish marketing business objectives and KPIs including new customer acquisition, customer retention, competitive advantages, new product/service needs, channel and partnerships, brand visibility and engagement and promotions.
  • Develop, execute and communicate an effective integrated digital marketing strategy spanning paid social, organic social, email, SEO/SEM/AEO, and emerging channels and marketplaces
  • Own the social media roadmap across Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Meta, Reddit, and other relevant platforms — setting strategy, tone, and content cadence
  • Lead campaign planning and execution from brief through post-mortem, ensuring every effort is measurable and tied to business goals

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in marketing with at least 2 years in a people management role
  • University or college degree, MBA an advantage
  • Proven track record leading digital and social media strategy for a small-to-medium e-commerce brand
  • Deep fluency in performance marketing metrics, analytics platforms, and e-commerce KPIs
  • Demonstrated experience leading or closely collaborating with a creative/design team
  • Strong command of paid and organic social channels — particularly Meta, TikTok, and Reddit
  • Experience building and interpreting dashboards and using data to drive meaningful business decisions
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to align cross-functional teams
  • A genuine growth mindset: curious, experimentative, agile, and energized by possibility
  • Leadership: Ability to inspire, delegate tasks, and build cohesive teams.

Preferred

  • Experience with personalized or custom product e-commerce
  • Familiarity with email platforms such as Klaviyo
  • Background in content marketing or brand storytelling
  • Experience working with influencer or affiliate programs

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term & Long Term Disability programs
  • Company paid Life Insurance
  • Wellness Incentives
  • Excellent 401K Retirement Program with very generous company match
  • Generous product allowance
  • Hybrid schedule and flexible work environment
  • 12 Company Paid Holidays, Paid Vacation and Paid Sick Time
Plum Paper logo

Plum Paper

Plum Paper is a stationery company based in San Diego, CA. While starting out making simple note cards and wedding invitations, it wasn't long before our line of planners and notebooks became our most popular and favorite product. It has been so exciting to see the joy these planners can bring to people. Never did we think that creating these personalized products would receive such a positive response, and we love to hear the continuous exciting feedback from our customers.Each of our products are handmade from start to finish right here in our San Diego office. We put our heart and hard work into each one of our products, and are proud to share these items with you. We hope that they not only help you stay organized throughout the year, but also keep you smiling with pretty patterns and colors.

Founded in 2014
USA
15 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
165.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.2%
Direct
56.6%
Referral
4.8%
Social
4.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~15

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (13% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1