Sr. Director of Brand Marketing

Phoenix, AZ (Unknown)

$120K/yr – $195K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years exp

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own brand and top-of-funnel growth for a national nonprofit law firm, turning mission into campaigns that raise awareness and move audiences toward action.

  • Brand strategy: translate identity into integrated campaigns and establish consistent voice across channels.
  • Cross-functional leadership: align attorneys, creators, agencies, and channels while measuring brand health and downstream impact.

Job Description

- Brand Strategy & Campaign Development Translate ADF's established brand identity and organizational vision into integrated marketing campaigns that reach and move our target audience - Coordinate with complex and broad internal and external audiences – attorneys, subject-matter experts, in-house and external creative and production teams, in-house and external media resources, agencies, and partners – to ensure strategic and tactical alignment and excellence of execution - Develop annual and campaign-level brand plans with clear audience targets, messaging strategy, channel mix rationale, and measurable outcomes - Serve as the internal authority on brand expression — ensuring that work across channels reflects a consistent, compelling, and mission-aligned voice - Work in close partnership with the VP Marketing and in alignment with the Chief of Enterprise Strategy to steward the brand vision and operate effectively within its parameters - Audience Growth & Top-of-Funnel Performance Own ADF's top-of-funnel marketing objective: meaningfully expanding awareness and preference within our core audience - Define and track brand health metrics — including awareness, recall, sentiment, share of voice, and audience engagement — that demonstrate progress toward saturation of the SOM - Ensure brand campaigns are architected to feed results into acquisition and general file efforts, creating a coherent, connected donor journey - Identify opportunities to expand brand presence through issue-based campaigns, earned media amplification, content strategy, and partnership marketing - Cross-Functional Leadership Partner with the channel leads (direct mail, digital, social, web) to advocate for and build campaigns that integrate brand goals with channel execution - Build the cross-functional relationships and collaborative rhythms needed to lead without direct authority — earning trust through strategic credibility and executional follow-through - Work with the acquisitions and general file leads to ensure brand efforts upstream are aligned with and supportive of their downstream conversion and retention objectives - Collaborate with communications, legal program, and development teams as needed to ensure brand consistency across organizational touch points - Measurement & Accountability Establish clear KPIs for brand performance that connect top-of-funnel activity to organizational outcomes - Build a culture of testing, learning, and iteration — treating brand campaigns as measurable investments, not unmeasurable overhead - Report regularly to senior leadership on brand performance, audience growth, and the strategic health of ADF's marketing pipeline
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Alliance Defending Freedom

Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith. ADF was launched in 1994 by a large group of Christian ministry leaders with one mission in mind: to keep the doors open for the Gospel by advocating for religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family. For information on careers and current open positions at ADF, please visit ADFlegal.org/careers.

Founded in 1994
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
371 employees (56 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
163.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$30.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.1%
Direct
54.4%
Referral
4.2%
Social
3.7%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~371

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
47 (13% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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