About the Role
Lutron is seeking a Senior Marketing Manager of Brand Engagement & A&D Partnerships to lead high-impact campaigns and engagement strategies that elevate brand affinity and drive growth in residential product specifications. This role combines creative concepting, audience insight, and industry relationship-building to influence demand across the customer journey through creative campaigns, thought leadership, experiential activations, and strategic brand collaborations.
Responsibilities
- Develop integrated marketing campaigns to drive awareness, engagement, and action with high-value audiences across the residential A&D ecosystem.
- Collaborate with the internal Communications team on creative campaign strategy and deliverables.
- Identify and pursue market opportunities for co-branding, partnerships, or sponsorships with third-party brands aligned with Lutron values and luxury positioning.
- Develop budget recommendations for partnership and engagement opportunities, balancing brand value, expected outcomes, strategic priorities, and resources.
- Evaluate partnership proposals and activation opportunities, providing clear recommendations to leadership.
- Work with the paid media lead to amplify brand engagement efforts across digital, print, and social channels.
- Spearhead influencer campaigns and thought leadership opportunities aligned with brand values and audience interests.
- Coordinate the execution of events and brand activations in partnership with internal teams and agency support.
- Evaluate campaign performance and engagement metrics, delivering insights and recommendations for future brand efforts.
- Gather and synthesize qualitative insights from the A&D community and luxury homeowners to inform campaign strategy, messaging, and content development.
- Identify unmet needs, preferences, and opportunities to better position the brand among A&D specifiers and homeowners.
- Collaborate with UX, product, and sales teams to identify and address friction points during product discovery, education, and specification.
- Serve as an internal voice of the residential A&D audience, gathering insights, feedback, and unmet needs.
- Build relationships with design industry media, tastemakers, and principal-level influencers to drive joint marketing initiatives, events, and earned media opportunities.
- Identify high-impact sponsorships, collaborations, and industry moments that align with the brand.
- Negotiate with partner organizations, influencers, agencies, and industry representatives to develop mutually valuable partnerships.
- Work with A&D industry influencers and agency partners to develop product tradeout agreements and content collaborations.
- Represent Lutron in partner conversations, ensuring commitments, deliverables, financial terms, and engagement expectations are clearly defined and managed.
- Coordinate with internal ambassadors and subject-matter-experts to represent the brand at key events and contribute to editorial and content opportunities.
Requirements
- Comfortable with creative strategy; able to conceive of novel brand experiences and partnership opportunities and connect them to audience passion points and business outcomes.
- Experience managing marketing, partnership, sponsorship, or event budgets, including making financial recommendations and evaluating tradeoffs.
- Ability to negotiate partnership terms with external organizations, agencies, influencers, or industry partners while maintaining strong relationships and brand alignment.
- Demonstrated ability to connect brand campaigns and creative activations to measurable business outcomes through data-driven analysis and performance measurement.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to align internal stakeholders and external partners around shared goals, roles, and measures of success.
- Proficiency in MS Suite and familiarity with various web, email, and social media platforms and associated analytics tools (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Google Analytics, etc.).
- Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.
- Authorized to work in the U.S. and will not require Lutron to sponsor for any work visa.
Experience Level
- 10+ years of relevant work experience in Marketing and related fields.
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree required; preferably in Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $165,000- $205,000 per year
Benefits
- 401k match
- health, dental, and life insurance
- paid vacation (amount based on tenure with the company)
- flexible spending accounts
- tuition reimbursement programs
About the Company
- Lutron Electronics’ position as the worldwide leader in innovative lighting control and shading solutions has enabled consistent, annual growth.
- Our company has cultivated a reputation of unsurpassed quality, a broad range of technologies and product offerings, and a strong commitment to servicing our worldwide customers.
- This has allowed the company to invest in developing new technologies and services, expand our technical capabilities and global presence, and to find and retain the best talent.
- Build your career with Lutron where you will enjoy competitive compensation and benefits while exploring many options for continued growth and education.
- Make a difference every day in our dynamic, people-centric, technology-driven organization.
- For more information, view our website at www.lutron.com.
Equal Opportunity
- Lutron Electronics is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action – Employer.
- We welcome qualified, motivated applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
