About the position
At Convive Brands, we believe that great hospitality starts with great people, and powerful, purpose-driven brands. We're looking for a Director/Senior Director of Marketing to help lead the charge as we grow and elevate our family of restaurant brands. This is a rare opportunity to bring your strategic vision, creative chops, and operational savvy to a high-impact leadership role where your work will shape how thousands of guests experience our hospitality. In this role, you'll serve as both a strategist and a hands-on builder, developing our brand and marketing function from the ground up. You’ll create and execute strategies that drive growth, deepen guest engagement and position Convive for what’s next, whether that’s opening new restaurants, entering new markets, or integrating new brands. You’ll be a trusted partner to our executive team and a key voice in shaping our company’s story. As the most senior leader of the Marketing Department, you’ll be a thoughtful mentor to our marketing function, and will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing team that consistently delivers exceptional work, setting a high bar for quality and creativity, and inspiring others to meet it. Through your leadership, you will create a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and continuous learning, while keeping a strong bias for action and results. We’re looking for someone who believes great ideas are only as powerful as their execution, and who pushes the work, and the team to excellence. Our ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial mindset, sharp instincts, a collaborative spirit, and a deep understanding of what makes brands resonate in today’s competitive food and hospitality landscape.
Responsibilities
- Craft and execute thoughtful, tailored marketing strategies that ladder up into the strategic vision set by the Executive Leadership Team.
- Partner closely with Operations to ensure marketing efforts are grounded in the guest experience and aligned across channels.
- Oversee the evolution and expression of our brand identities across a portfolio of hospitality concepts.
- Ensure brand consistency and emotional resonance across all touchpoints, digital, in-store, social, and beyond.
- Work alongside your team to bring ideas to life from campaigns to content to in-store activations.
- Define smart, measurable KPIs to assess marketing performance.
- Regularly analyze performance data to inform strategy, iterate quickly, and scale what works.
- Lead and mentor a growing Brand & Marketing team, nurturing a culture of collaboration, ownership, and high performance.
- Collaborate with the Executive Leadership Team to align marketing with overall business strategy.
- Help lead the marketing function through periods of growth, acquisition, and transformation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive experience in marketing, brand strategy, or growth roles.
- Proven success leading multi-channel brand and marketing initiatives.
- Hospitality, restaurant, or retail experience.
- Experience building brands in fast-paced, multi-unit or multi-brand environments.
- Strong analytical chops, with a data-informed approach to drive the right decisions.
- Outstanding leadership skills; you know how to rally a team and elevate others.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
- A creative, entrepreneurial spirit with a bias toward action.
- Comfort with ambiguity, change, and cross-functional leadership.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $125,000-$160,000 plus a bonus.
- Opportunity to shape the future of beloved brands.
- Chance to build a best-in-class marketing function.
- Impact on teams, guests, and growth.
