VP of Marketing, Mapping

USA (Remote)

$170K/yr – $225K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale Outside’s Brand, Growth, and Experiential Marketing function, turning it into a best-in-class team that drives organic growth and strengthens community-led expansion with a structured martech stack and AI-enabled workflows.

  • Lead Brand, Growth, and Experiential Marketing discipline and team
  • Build authentic communities and experiential programs across sport verticals
  • Architect and instrument a product-like martech stack, applying AI to automate growth

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the Brand, Growth, and Experiential Marketing team, transforming an early-stage function into a best-in-class marketing organization.
  • Drive organic growth as the primary engine for the portfolio, layering paid acquisition on top to amplify what is working rather than to compensate for what is not.
  • Position Outside as the brand leader across our core sport verticals — mountain biking, backcountry, trail running, walking, and what comes next.
  • Build experiential programs that create and nurture authentic communities in each of those verticals, showing up where they actually form: dig days, races, group rides, run clubs, and the events that anchor each sport.
  • Own the full subscriber lifecycle for our mapping products: acquisition, activation, retention, and reactivation.
  • Architect the martech stack as a product, with clear system diagrams, defined inputs and outputs, instrumented measurement, and a steady experimentation cadence.
  • Apply AI and agentic coding to compound the team’s output, automate growth workflows, and reduce SaaS spend wherever possible.
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Editorial leaders, bringing informed opinions on the product itself, not just the marketing of it.

Requirements

  • You have led Brand, Growth, or Experiential Marketing at a Director level or above, with deep experience marketing subscription products and a working command of LTV, CAC, retention, and payback economics.
  • You believe durable growth comes from authentic brand and community first, and that paid acquisition amplifies rather than replaces that organic foundation.
  • You are energized by joining a team that needs structure, focus, and standards, and excited to build it into something exceptional.
  • You are a systems thinker who reaches for diagrams, instrumentation, and experiments before reaching for tactics.
  • You are an active adopter of AI and agentic workflows in your own day-to-day work, and you push your team to do the same.
  • You are eager to test and scale emerging marketing channels — new social platforms, agentic consumer destinations like AI assistants and recommendation agents, and whatever comes next — and to fold them into a deliberate marketing portfolio.
  • You operate beyond traditional functional lines and hold informed product opinions.
  • You have a deep, personal affinity for getting outside.

Benefits

  • health care
  • vision
  • dental
  • retirement
  • Flexible Time Away
  • sick leave
  • and more
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Outside Interactive, Inc. is the premier destination for outdoor inspiration, activation, and celebration. Each year, Outside reaches more than 300 million unique users and has more than 100 million registered users across its network of 25 media, service, and utility brands, including Outside, MapMyFitness, Velo, Yoga Journal, Pinkbike, Gaia GPS, Trailforks, athleteReg, and more. Outside’s mission is to get everyone outside, experiencing healthy, connected, and fulfilling lives by creating an experience for both longtime adventurers and those just getting started. Outside’s subscription offering, Outside+, bundles best-in-class storytelling, videos, gear reviews, mapping apps, online courses, discounted event access, and more. Learn more at outsideonline.com/outsideplus

Founded in 2019
Boulder, Colorado, USA
771 employees (236 in marketing)
49% recommend to a friend
49% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.9M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.8%
Direct
46.5%
Referral
3.1%
Social
4.2%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~775

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
184 (24% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$174.3M
Last Raise
$150M
Series B, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2021
    Series B • $150M
  • Dec 2020
    Series A • $5.3M
  • Jun 2020
    Series A • $16.5M

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