Director of Digital Marketing

Director of Digital Marketing

Type of work: Digital Agency / Luxury Travel & Hospitality Marketing

Location: Denver, CO

Work type: Hybrid

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Full time, salaried position.

About Us:

AZDS Interactive Group is the world’s leading digital agency for the luxury hospitality industry, offering innovative marketing and technology solutions to top-tier luxury travel brands that improve their branded guest experience and deliver measurable conversion increases in room nights and revenue. We pride ourselves on our cutting-edge digital expertise and portfolio of world-renowned clients - from Montage Hotels & Resorts to The Ritz London to Aspen Skiing Company to 500+ other luxury properties across 6 continents - but also on our forward-looking, entrepreneurial culture & atmosphere.

We are seeking a dynamic Director of Digital Marketing to join our team and lead strategic brand and business recommendations for our clients, direct our team members and vendors who build and execute marketing campaign, content and website update deliverables, analyze and optimize business results to deliver higher return on marketing plans, and build deep, trusted relationships with the leaders of our portfolio of world-class clients to achieve their revenue targets.

Role Description:

A Director of Digital Marketing at AZDS is an experienced digital marketing leader that is able to create, optimize and measure digital performance marketing campaigns for major international brands.

Our ideal candidate has experience building Paid Media campaigns across multiple digital channels, creating audience-centric CRM strategies, is familiar with making updates in WordPress and/or other website Content Management Systems, and has led 360-degree digital marketing campaign planning, optimization and reporting to deliver measurable results. This candidate should be fully comfortable getting into ad and website CMS platforms and completely understand the ins and outs of digital marketing technology.

From a leadership perspective, our ideal candidate can synthesize and translate data and insights from multiple sources into actionable strategic recommendations via effective business storytelling techniques, brings a consistently positive, can-do attitude and service-oriented mindset, can effectively manage several projects at once with high levels of leadership agility, and thrives in a dynamic, innovative, results-oriented atmosphere.

Above all, your job will be to provide strategic partnership to our five-star clients in the same way they accommodate their guests, the world’s most discerning elite luxury travelers, and work side by side with them to accomplish their brand and business objectives.

Working in one of the industry’s premier agencies, your role will be multi-faceted, ever evolving, and requires high levels of leadership in communication, emotional intelligence, a strong business-driving, yet servant leader mindset, with extensive digital expertise.

Key Role Responsibilities:

Lead Clients in strategic recommendations to deliver their digital revenue, visitation and conversion targets.

Deep understanding of digital marketing planning, campaign creation, website development, content tactics and other elements of 360-degree digital performance marketing.

Proficiency in digital advertising channels such as Google Ads, SEM, Display, Social Media, Metasearch, SEO, Email, Web Content, Website Feature Development and other digital channels.

Continually monitor performance and translate digital performance metrics into synthesized, actionable courses of action.

Develop budgets and roadmaps to deliver growth targets and present recommendations to Clients

Create and present strategic marketing plans with recommended go-to-market channels.

Direct creative, messaging, and copywriting deliverables with strong adherence to clients’ brand voices and lexicons.

Lead performance meetings, prepare proposals, presentations, and other client communications and correspondence.

Lead and evolve multiple client relationships, including regular communication to measure and ensure satisfaction and success, across a variety of service verticals and projects.

Manage to project timelines and deadlines, constantly and proactively setting expectations with stakeholders.

Essential Experience & Leadership Qualities:

Prior Director / Senior Manager leadership position, preferably in a Digital Performance Marketing role.

Strong knowledge and experience in digital paid advertising, with prior hands-on experience across multiple go-to-market channels.

Strong knowledge and experience in WordPress and/or other website CMS systems.

Strong knowledge and experience in SEO, CRM and digital content strategy.

Ability to lead and influence upwards and laterally.

5+ years proven experience in effective business storytelling, with highly-effective presentation skills with executive-level leaders.

A model in leadership agility.

Strong multitasking ability, while maintaining exceptional organization.

Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.

Ability to effectively manage multiple client relationships.

Driven to set and exceed ambitious targets.

Able to creatively design innovative solutions for complex problems.

Proactively gets out front of stakeholders, clients and the industry.

Impeccable organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.

Ability to adapt quickly in fast-paced environment, learn new programs and take initiative to develop new processes.

Compensation and Benefits:

Competitive salary based on experience.

Hybrid work opportunity with 50% of work days able to be worked remotely.

Bonus opportunity.

401(k) - 4% employer match (without vesting schedule and no compensation maximum).

Health insurance (company pays 100% of monthly employee premium).

Dental insurance (company pays 100% of monthly employee premium).

Vision insurance (company pays 100% of monthly employee premium).

Life insurance (company pays 100% of monthly employee premium).

Generous paid time off policy.

Paid time off for all major holidays, as well as the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

The estimated salary range for this role is $80-110k, depending on experience, with an additional annual bonus opportunity.

How to Apply:

Please submit your resume and cover letter.

About AZDS:

AZDS is the global leader in providing digital marketing, technology and booking engine partner services to luxury hospitality brands. Our expertise is in creating full-funnel digital conversion-focused experiences for an elite group of discerning partners that not only bring their brand to life in exceptional new ways, but drive increased bookings and revenue. We create immersive 360-degree digital ecosystems that optimize every step along the guest journey for High Net Worth and Uber-HNW travelers. From go-to-market efforts to website development to booking engine integrations, AZDS offers a premier full-service partnership approach across all our clients’ owned channels that makes their jobs easier, drives increased revenue, and provides full-funnel guest analytics across a fully integrated digital experience. A significant differentiator is that we lead the industry in custom integrations. We are certified partners with Sabre Hospitality’s SynXis booking engine, and have the ability to pull their APIs throughout a client’s entire website to create seamlessly integrated, fully-shoppable experiences that drive conversion, culminating with our industry-leading booking engine product, RevRaise. We have 500+ clients across 6 continents, including iconic luxury hospitality brands such as Montage Hotels & Resorts, The Oetker Collection, The Ritz London, The Breakers Palm Beach, Shutters on the Beach, and Sereno Hotels, among many others. While our highest measure of success is driving increased client bookings, we have also won significant industry awards, including W3 Best in Class awards, The Internet Marketing Association Website of the Year, and Pixel Awards for our attention to user experience and design. Our ability to see trended guest behaviors across all of our platforms (20 million guests & $1.7B annually) gives us the ability to provide benchmarking and aggregated data, insights and strategic advice to our partners to optimize performance. We pride ourselves on our laser focus with an elite group of clients, our proven results in driving conversion, our first-class responsive service, and our ability to innovate and drive results as true extensions of our clients’ teams.

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