Head of Brand

UK (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the brand and organic narrative with an emphasis on authority, education, and trust, turning content into a scalable engine across social, YouTube, and search while building the team, systems, and measurement to prove impact.

  • Brand and authority: shape messaging, guidelines, and expert voices to create credibility at every touchpoint.
  • Content engine: define pillars, rhythm, and long form assets for organic, video, and educational content that compounds over time.
  • Cross-functional alignment: ensure coherence with paid media, funnels, Shopify, product, and support to improve brand-driven outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand strategy and messaging: Define how Ancient Remedies sounds, looks, and explains itself, and builds trust across every customer touchpoint.
  • Organic social: Build a high-quality organic presence across key platforms, starting with the channels that matter most.
  • Authority building: Help us find, position, and develop credible experts and authority figures who can strengthen the brand.
  • Content strategy: Create the content pillars, creative direction, and operating rhythm for organic social, YouTube, educational content, and trust-building assets.
  • YouTube and long-form authority: Build toward a serious educational content engine that can compound over time.
  • SEO and reputation: Help shape the content and search presence that customers see when they look us up.
  • Cross-functional consistency: Work with paid media, funnels, email, Shopify, product, customer support, TikTok Shop, Amazon, and compliance so the company feels coherent everywhere.
  • Brand guidelines and standards: Create the internal source of truth for messaging, visual direction, tone, claims, expert usage, and content quality.
  • Team building: Hire, manage, or coordinate strategists, editors, designers, creators, agencies, and operators as the function grows.
  • Measurement: Track the impact of brand and organic through output quality, reach, engagement, branded search, organic traffic, organic revenue assist, customer trust signals, and improved conversion support.

Requirements

  • Experience building or meaningfully growing a brand, organic content engine, or authority-led media presence.
  • Understanding that brand is trust, clarity, authority, consistency, taste, and repetition, and ability to make a company feel real, credible without slowing down DR.
  • Strong instincts for content across Instagram, YouTube, email, landing pages, and product pages.
  • Comfortable in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with ability to audit existing assets, identify gaps, and implement improvements quickly.
  • Experience in DTC, e-commerce, health/wellness, publishing, education, supplements, or another trust-heavy category.
  • Understanding the difference between direct response and brand and how to make them work together.
  • Excellent taste in organic social, YouTube, educational content, and authority-led brands.
  • Ability to build systems, not just give opinions.
  • Experience managing creative people and maintaining a high bar.
  • Ability to turn customer problems, product benefits, founder beliefs, and expert knowledge into compelling content.
  • Care about natural health, self-empowerment, and helping people take more control over their lives.
  • Ability to move fast, take responsibility, and have work visibly change the trajectory of a company.

Preferred

  • Experience scaling a brand in DTC/e-commerce or health/wellness/trust-heavy categories.
  • Experience building or growing an authority-led media presence.
  • Strong instincts for content and ability to turn customer problems and product benefits into compelling content.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary - Benchmark to market rate with regular reviews as we grow.
  • Performance bonuses - Your results are recognized and rewarded. We celebrate people who move the needle.
  • Fully remote - Work from wherever you do your best thinking. No commute, no compromise.
  • Flexible hours - Async-friendly and autonomy-driven. We care about output, not when you’re online.
  • 22 days PTO - 22 days paid holiday plus 4 paid sick days — no questions asked.
  • WFH equipment budget - One-time budget to get your home office set up with the IT equipment you need from day one.
  • Learning budget - Annual allowance for courses, books, and anything that helps you grow.
  • Real ownership - At 100+ people, your work has a direct impact. No bureaucracy, no waiting for permission.
  • A team that cares - Genuinely warm, highly productive people who show up for each other as much as for the work.
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Ancient Remedies

We're a cutting edge publishing company that has sold books to hundreds of thousands of people all around the world.

15 employees (3 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
7.2%
Direct
11.7%
Referral
1.5%
Social
43.8%
Paid
30.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~15

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (13% of company)