
Senior Manager, Brand Strategy
ButcherBox
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Greater Boston • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $135,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Help develop and operationalize a campaign-led brand approach that balances brand building and performance outcomes
- Partner with Growth and channel teams to bring brand strategy to life across Meta, Google, influencers, CRM, and other key channels
- Support expansion into awareness and consideration marketing while ensuring alignment with existing acquisition and lifecycle efforts
- Help connect brand storytelling to measurable business impact
- Help translate high-level brand vision into clear strategic priorities that guide campaign planning and channel execution across digital and retail touchpoints
- Help prioritize where and when to lean into brand-led versus performance-led approaches based on business goals, audience context, and channel dynamics
- Recommend strategic priorities and narrative focus areas that guide campaign planning and channel execution
- Partner with Growth and Analytics to monitor performance signals and identify opportunities to strengthen brand impact over time
- Drive an overall campaign approach that spans multiple channels, while partnering with channel managers to tailor execution by platform
- Ensure campaigns feel cohesive across paid, owned, lifecycle, and retail touchpoints
- Bring strong channel context into planning—understanding how platforms work and how brand shows up within their constraints
- Help distinguish between moments that require a unifying campaign approach and those better served by strong always-on execution
- Lead the development of strategic and campaign briefs that align business objectives, brand strategy, and channel context
- Partner closely with Growth, CRM, and Creative to ensure briefs are clear and actionable, and set teams up for success
- Maintain consistency across briefs while allowing for channel-specific nuance
- Socialize and align briefs with key partners early to ensure clarity, shared understanding, and strong downstream execution
- Define and evolve the organic social strategy to align with brand positioning, campaign priorities, and audience growth objectives
- Provide strategic direction and guidance to the Organic Social lead to ensure content themes and messaging reflect brand and business priorities
- Ensure organic social integrates seamlessly with campaign initiatives, performance marketing efforts, and CRM programming
- Identify opportunities for organic social to support awareness, cultural relevance, and consideration moments
- Act as a trusted thought partner and collaborator with Growth and CRM teams
- Work closely with Product, Merchandising, Social, Retail, Partnerships, Mission, and Creative to ensure alignment and consistency
- Help align teams around shared narratives, priorities, and goals without owning channel execution directly
- Navigate competing priorities and perspectives to help teams align around shared brand and business objectives
- Bring strong brand instincts to help surface what’s most compelling and differentiated about the brand
- Pull through and amplify the existing brand vision across campaigns, channels, and key moments
- Ensure brand positioning, value propositions, and core narratives are clearly defined and consistently understood across teams
- Drive adoption of brand fundamentals by embedding them into briefs, planning processes, and cross-functional workflows
- Define and apply brand guardrails for partnerships to ensure alignment with brand values and long-term equity
- Provide strategic context and inputs for creative briefs
- Partner with Creative to ensure ideas are grounded in clear campaign strategy and channel realities
- Help pressure-test concepts for both brand impact and performance viability
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience across brand strategy, brand marketing, or integrated marketing roles
- Hands-on experience working at the intersection of brand and performance marketing
- Strong partnership experience with Growth, CRM, and paid channel teams
- Experience in DTC and/or omnichannel environments
- Strong understanding of modern marketing channels (Meta, Google, influencers, lifecycle, etc.)
- Ability to think in campaigns, not just channels
- Performance-literate and comfortable working with data, testing, and iteration
- Clear, confident communicator and collaborator
- Strong brand instincts with a pragmatic, execution-oriented mindset
- Comfortable pulling strategy through ambiguity rather than creating from scratch
Benefits
- Health: medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, an employer-funded HSA, and short & long-term disability benefits
- Financial: 401(k) with generous employer match
- Annual bonus based on company performance
- Time off: unlimited paid time off policy, 20 weeks parental leave, an executive team that encourages a good work/life balance
- Personal growth: Annual Learning & Development stipend, and access to a range of personal and professional coaching solutions through BetterUp
- Food: a free Custom Classic ButcherBox each month and weekly lunch reimbursement
- Others: reimbursement for wellness activities, an exceptional EAP, fertility benefits, life insurance and more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
brand strategybrand marketingintegrated marketingperformance marketingcampaign planningdata analysistestingiterationorganic social strategynarrative development
Soft Skills
clear communicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingpragmatic mindsetexecution-orientedpartnership buildingnavigating ambiguityalignment facilitationcreative directionbrand instincts