Sr. Director of Brand Marketing

Scottsdale, AZ (On-site)

$120K/yr – $195K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the brand strategy and cross-channel execution for a large nonprofit audience, shaping voice, metrics, and the donor journey while coordinating a wide network of partners to drive top-of-funnel awareness and downstream engagement.

  • Brand governance: steward consistent expression, voice, and health signals across campaigns.
  • Cross-functional orchestration: align attorneys, experts, agencies, media, and partners for integrated campaigns.
  • Strategy to outcomes: develop annual and campaign plans with audience targets, channel rationale, and KPIs linking awareness to acquisition and retention.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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
  • Partner with the channel leads (direct mail, digital, social, web) to advocate for and build campaigns that integrate brand goals with channel execution

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, a related field, or equivalent years of experience in lieu of a Bachelor's degree
  • 10+ years of experience in brand marketing, integrated campaign management, or related fields, with demonstrated responsibility for strategy and execution
  • Experience with brand tracking and marketing analytics, connecting top-of-funnel activity to downstream results, and familiar with how brand investment interacts with direct response, acquisition, and retention funnels
  • Proven ability to strategize, develop, and launch national/large-scale brand campaigns with measurable results in awareness, preference, audience growth, and downstream conversion or engagement
  • Strong foundation in brand strategy (positioning, messaging architecture, segmentation) combined with the ability to work within and champion an established brand vision, plus experience building or scaling new marketing functions/teams
  • Skilled in managing creative teams and crafting excellent, insightful creative briefs, while leading effectively through influence in matrixed/cross-functional settings without direct authority
  • Seasoned in competitive, accountable corporate marketing environments (consumer brands or agency), with a track record of owning significant budgets and outcomes, not just activities

Preferred

Benefits

  • 100% covered medical and dental insurance
  • medical and dependent care reimbursement
  • paid disability
  • long-term care
  • life insurance
  • a 401(k) plan with a 4% company match
  • work-life balance with paid time off and 12 paid holidays each year
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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)
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