Director, Brand Marketing

Job Description

The Director of Brand Marketing works with the rest of the Brand Marketing team (and cross functionally across all of Vox Media) to develop, tell, and sell stories about Vox Media's portfolio of editorial brands to advertisers.

WHO WE ARE

Brand Marketing is the Marketing Team for every brand at Vox Media. We develop stories and we evangelize these stories to sales and the marketplace. Our goal is to create materials and narratives about Vox Media's portfolio of brands that help drive revenue and results.

Vox Media's Revenue organization handles advertising and marketing partnerships with brands and agencies, as well as lines of business in consumer revenue and commerce across the organization.

Vox Media is the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

The role of the Director, Brand Marketing is to partner with the General Managers and Network Developers for Vox Media brands to develop and market editorially driven packages. A key-member of internal cross-teamwork and external client meetings, the Director of Brand Marketing focuses on creating stories about Vox Media brands that win the interest and confidence of advertisers. This individual develops revenue-generating programs based on editorial insight, marketplace knowledge, and strong command of audience and advertiser data.

The position manages one direct report, is aligned to a portion of the Vox Media brands, including SB Nation, Vox Media's sports title, and reports directly to the Sr. Director of Brand Marketing. Both leadership and collaboration are at the core of this role as this individual will work closely with editorial network development, creative strategy, sales leadership, integrated marketing, media, audio, and insights.

This individual should be both strategic and creative, be adept at visual storytelling, intellectually curious, a digital native, a team player, a creative writer, interested in sports or experienced in sports marketing, and a passionate fan of our brands.

WHO YOU ARE
• Own the strategic and creative development, marketing, and packaging for big editorially driven ideas
• Multi Vox Media Brand Specific Focus
• Collaborate with internal teams to build right-size packages
• Contributes to client and agency call meetings
• Flexible, confident, collaborative leader of small-but-mighty team
• 8+ years of relevant experience, sports marketing experience a bonus
• A presentation wizard. Strong Google Slides and Photoshop skills a plus
• Excellent communication skills and a meticulous eye for detail
• Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to handle multiple projects prioritize work assignments, meet deadlines and work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as design aesthetic
• Big thinking is anchored in cultural and marketplace insights

If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We've hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.

WHERE YOU'LL WORK

This job is located in New York and we require employees in office 3 days per week.

PAY TRANSPARENCY

The salary range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.

Pay Range

$135,000 — $150,000 USD

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1kkyv-3-145-109-150-42 in your application.