Head of Marketing

Frome, Bath and North East Somerset, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Shape and scale a premium consumer brand by turning customer insight into bold positioning, launches, and partnerships, with end-to-end ownership from strategy through execution across global markets.

  • Brand strategy and editorial leadership across channels, ensuring consistent voice and impact.
  • Go‑to‑market and launch planning with cross-functional, founder-aligned execution.
  • Global growth through partnerships, market expansion, and clear investment prioritization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own brand positioning across channels and markets – what we stand for, who we’re for, and where we choose not to play.
  • Leverage customer insight, market understanding and emerging category trends to help shape customer experience, NPD, positioning, messaging and launch strategy across priority segments and markets.
  • Bring structure, rhythm and clarity to a fast-moving, founder-led environment.
  • Lead marketing planning across launches, campaigns and always-on activity, aligning multiple stakeholders and moving parts.
  • Work closely with the founder and wider marketing team to lock down ideas, concepts and timelines well ahead of launch, with clear internal comms through to go-live.
  • Develop customer-centric and insights-led go-to-market strategies for new products, working closely with the wider team to bring launches to life.
  • Lead cross-functional execution to deliver launches with operational excellence.
  • Define and prioritise marketing investment across global markets – with a clear focus on the UK and US while unlocking growth across a diverse international customer base.
  • Identify and shape strategic partnerships, collaborations and brand opportunities that expand reach, strengthen positioning and connect Tom’s Studio with new audiences.
  • Own the editorial bar across email, social and campaign comms – ensuring everything lands strategically and feels unmistakably Tom’s Studio.

Requirements

  • An experienced marketer, having led multi-disciplinary teams spanning brand strategy, comms, CRM, social content, insights, creative, and go-to-market execution
  • Experienced building and scaling premium consumer brands, ideally within a DTC or founder-led environment
  • A strategic thinker who leads with positioning before tactics
  • Commercially sharp and comfortable with numbers, margin and trade-offs
  • A strong writer with great editorial judgement, and an instinct for great storytelling
  • Experienced working closely with founders or principal creatives
  • Someone who genuinely enjoys leading people and bringing the best out of a team
  • Calm, organised and able to hold many threads at once
  • Comfortable pushing back constructively to protect good work

Preferred

  • Background in the creative, lifestyle or design space
  • Experiencing scaling a consumer brand in multiple markets
  • Experience leading a rebrand or major brand evolution
  • Agency strategist or planner experience earlier in career
  • Retail marketing experience
  • You love items - Product, and the creative lifestyle space we operate in
  • Building plans early, with structure, and giving good ideas room to breathe
  • Working with creative people and helping their work land
  • Brands with a clear point of view
  • Making, designing, writing, drawing – or at least the people who do
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Tom's Studio

From the first pen I handmade for my wife to the pens I now design and/or make for customers around the world. I put the same care and attention into each and every pen. We're on a mission to empower folks to pursue their goals, personal wellbeing and creativity. Whilst eliminating the need for single use pens from our planet.

Founded in 2016
Frome, England, GBR
18 employees (8 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
185.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$106
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.2%
Direct
42.5%
Referral
4.3%
Social
6.5%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~18

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (6% of company)