Job Description
Join the Pacsun Community:
Co-created in Los Angeles, Pacsun inspires the next generation of youth, building community at the intersection of fashion, music, art and sport. Pacsun is a leading lifestyle brand offering an exclusive collection of the most relevant brands and styles such as adidas, Brandy Melville, Essentials Fear of God, our own brands, and many more.
Our Pacsun community believes in and understands the importance of using our voice, platform, and resources to inspire and bring about positive development. Through our PacCares program, we are committed to our responsibility in using our platform to drive change and take action on the issues important to our community. Join the Pacsun Community.
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About the Job:
The Director, Growth Marketing is responsible for the development and management of the company’s digital growth marketing strategy. This role is responsible for managing the in-house paid media team and leading key activities, including but not limited to paid search, paid social, affiliate, display, marketplace advertising, SEO, and custom activations. This person will collaborate with cross functional teams including CRM, Brand Marketing, Merchandising, Buying, Planning, Legal and IT. Primary focus is to drive customer acquisition and retention, build revenue profitably online, manage a strict budget and continually improve return on ad spend.
A day in the life, what you’ll be doing:
- Develops and executes paid marketing strategy across all digital media channels from concept to launch. Leads internal paid media team, handling tactical execution of media allocation and optimization.
- Leads and manages all aspects of digital media, including SEO/SEM, affiliate, display re-targeting and acquisition, paid social and custom activations with media partners and platforms.
- Manages and develops digital media team; sets and maintains clear, specific, measurable, actionable, reasonable and time-related goals for functional group and individual team members.
- Partners with cross functional leaders to optimize digital marketing effectiveness and support cross channel sales, including Merchandising/Buying, Planning, Brand Marketing, Creative, and other functions.
- Identifies and launches new digital marketing initiatives to better acquire and retain customers
- Develops digital marketing roadmap including existing channel optimization and development of new, aligning with approved budget and key merchandising and marketing moments.
- Develops and maintains relationships with key platform partners including, but not limited to, Google/YouTube, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and Snapchat.
- Builds and maintains digital media budget aligned with overall business objectives and reports on actual, budgeted and forecasted projections in both spend, demand and return on ad spend on regular weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis
- Provides reporting on effectiveness of all digital media channels including but not limited to qualitative and quantitative channel performance holistically and down to the campaign/publisher level, channel impacts to customer acquisition costs and customer lifetime value and associated benchmarks to measure competitive advantages.
- Maintains and leverages analytics systems in collaboration with cross functional partners including sophisticated attribution modeling to gain better insights into effectiveness of digital marketing.
- Leads effort for landing page optimization, personalization and other forms of a/b and multivariate tests associated with digital media focused on improving click through and conversion rates.
- Evaluates all associated digital marketing partners, vendors and publishers for effectiveness and contribution to business and digital marketing efforts.
What it takes to Join:
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred, ideally in Marketing, Business, or Retail
- 5-7 years’ experience in digital marketing and marketing analytics
- 5+ years within a retail environment; Apparel and Omni channel experience a plus
- Must be financially savvy and skilled in reporting on all KPIs, marketing performance, user behavior, shopping flows, channels, marketing tests and uncovering insights which provide a better understanding our customer in order to improve traffic, conversion and financial results.
- Must be hands-on, analytical, and highly collaborative leader capable of delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective internal and external relationships, and influence change
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong business, data analysis and interpretation skills
- Excellent collaboration skills; experience managing digital marketing in a highly-matrixed, multi-channel retailer a strong plus
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Self-starter able to solve medium to complex problems
Developing the Community/ Leadership Qualities:
- Operate with the highest level of conduct, integrity, and confidentiality; setting the example for leaders and associates.
- Develop and nurture strong cross functional partnerships; driving business results and inspiring a culture of transparency, collaboration, and accountability.
- Serve as a Pacsun advocate in the industry and marketplace.
- Recruit, identify, develop, and retain talent that delivers performance excellence.
- As a manager, serve as a leader of company culture, norms, and conduct.
- Ability to balance a strong management presence with a high level of approachability, encouraging and eliciting associate feedback and interaction.
Salary Range : $157,411 - $181,384
Pac Perks:
- Dog friendly office environment
- On-site Cafe
- On-site Gym
- $1,000 referral incentive program
- Generous associate discount of 30-50% off merchandise online and in-stores
- Competitive long term and short-term incentive program
- Immediate 100% vested 401K contributions and employer match
- Calm Premium access for all employees
- Employee perks throughout the year
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that are required by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to talk or hear. The associate is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; as well as reach with hands and arms.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- Ability to work in open environment with fluctuating temperatures and standard lighting.
- Ability to work on computer and mobile phone for multiple hours; with frequent interruptions.
- Required to travel in elevator or stairwells to attend meetings and engage with associates on multiple floors throughout building.
- Hotel, Airplane, and Car Travel may be required.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position. As a National Retailer, occasional evening and/or weekend work may be required during periods of high volume. This role operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment.
Other Considerations:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the associate for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the role.
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work, Immediate start, Afternoon shift,