About the Role
Lead brand functions including activations, partnerships, community, content, and communications to scale the business across digital and retail channels.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve brand strategy and positioning across digital, retail, and emerging channels.
- Oversee traditional brand management functions: product and competitive positioning, new product development, messaging hierarchy and brand standards.
- Partner with founders and SVP of Marketing to translate business objectives into an annual brand plan.
- Own brand guidelines (voice, visual identity, tone) and ensure fidelity across all touchpoints.
- Scout whitespace in culture, category, and community to maintain brand distinctiveness.
- Manage and develop a team of marketers, inspiring smart bets and innovative tactics.
- Set clear, measurable goals for every brand program and define KPIs and dashboards.
- Partner with Data and Growth teams to build attribution frameworks.
- Conduct structured post-mortems on major activations and create an improving playbook.
- Own the brand budget across activations, partnerships, and content, optimizing for ROI.
- Drive innovation, quality, and consistency across brand activations and content assets.
- Build and manage a roster of best-in-class creative, production, and experiential vendors and agencies.
- Oversee brand presence at key retail moments, ensuring flawless execution.
- Own brand communications strategy and calendar, ensuring a unified brand voice.
- Partner with Comms/PR on proactive storytelling and reactive response strategies.
- Lead integrated, full-funnel campaigns across DTC and retail.
- Build strategic partnerships to extend brand reach and credibility.
Requirements
- Deep experience with CPG brand activation strategy.
- Expertise in retail-focused marketing for emergent brands.
- Operational experience building integrated brand marketing strategies.
- Passion for connecting brand activation and business performance.
- Clear and compelling communication and leadership skills.
- Brand and product messaging expertise.
- Track record of thriving in a fast-moving, test-and-learn environment.
- 8+ years of experience with a focus on CPG, emerging brands, and omnichannel marketing strategy.
- Bold, creative thinking that can live across an omnichannel ecosystem.
- Strong project management and leadership skills, including experience building and managing a team.
- Demonstrated ability to build momentum at retail and translate it into measurable sell-through.
- A strong roster of vendors and creative partners.
- Track record of connecting brand investment to hard business outcomes (CAC, LTV, retail velocity).
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth, founder-led environment.
- Genuine passion for health, wellness, and performance categories is a plus.
Skills
- CPG brand activation strategy
- Retail-focused marketing
- Integrated brand marketing strategies
- Brand activation
- Business performance
- Communication
- Leadership
- Brand and product messaging
- Omnichannel marketing strategy
- Project management
- Team building
- Retail momentum building
- Vendor and creative partner management
- Brand investment to business outcomes connection
- Health, wellness, and performance categories
Location
- NYC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation including salary, bonus, and equity
Benefits
- Health, Dental and Vision benefits fully covered by the company.
- 401k Participation
About the Company
- Create makes the best creatine on earth, and we think everyone should be taking it.
- Founded three years ago in a NYC apartment kitchen, we've grown from two founders obsessed with a chalky tub of monohydrate into a team singularly focused on turning creatine into an everyday staple of a healthier life.
- We do one thing — creatine — and we obsess over every detail of it: quality, taste, format, and the entire customer experience.
- We're growing fast across digital and retail, and we're looking for people who want to build something focused, well-crafted, and genuinely useful.
