Director, Consumer Engagement
BYOMA · Manhattan, NY · 4 wk ago
On-siteMarketingFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Lead BYOMA's Consumer Engagement strategy across Social Media, Influencer & Creator, Community, Events, Partnerships, and Advocacy.
- Develop integrated Consumer Engagement plans that support innovation launches, hero campaigns, retailer priorities, and annual business objectives.
- Ensure all consumer engagement initiatives align with Global and North America business priorities.
- Identify new opportunities to strengthen awareness, engagement, advocacy, loyalty, and consumer acquisition.
- Establish annual engagement priorities, KPIs, and performance objectives across all channels.
Community & Cultural Relevance
- Build and scale BYOMA's community-first marketing approach.
- Identify emerging consumer trends, cultural moments, platforms, and partnership opportunities.
- Develop programs that strengthen consumer advocacy, participation, and long-term loyalty.
- Ensure BYOMA remains culturally relevant and consistently connected to its consumer community.
- Identify opportunities for BYOMA to show up in meaningful and impactful ways across culture, beauty, wellness, and lifestyle spaces.
- Partner with the broader Marketing and Sales organization to ensure community insights and cultural trends inform future planning and activation.
Social Media Leadership
- Lead BYOMA's social media strategy, priorities, and performance in partnership with Global teams, ensuring social supports broader brand, consumer engagement, and commercial objectives.
- Partner closely with the Social Media Manager and Global stakeholders to shape content direction, identify opportunities, and ensure social storytelling remains culturally relevant, community-driven, and aligned with key business priorities.
- Ensure social media is fully integrated across influencer, creator, community, event, and advocacy initiatives, creating a connected consumer experience across touchpoints.
- Champion innovation across emerging platforms, content formats, social behaviors, and digital trends.
- Bring deep expertise in TikTok and creator-led content, with a strong understanding of how social platforms drive awareness, engagement, community building, and conversion.
- Identify opportunities to leverage social commerce and emerging platform capabilities, including TikTok Shop, to drive consumer acquisition and business growth.
- Monitor performance, consumer engagement trends, and platform evolution, using insights to inform future strategy and optimization.
Influencer & Creator Strategy
- Lead Influencer & Creator strategy across awareness, advocacy, launches, and commercial initiatives.
- Build scalable creator ecosystems and ambassador programs that strengthen brand affinity, advocacy, and community participation.
- Oversee creator partnerships, talent relationships, and agency management.
- Partner closely with Global Communications teams to ensure strong alignment across influencer programs, creator partnerships, launches, and key brand moments.
- Identify opportunities to drive both cultural relevance and measurable business performance through creator partnerships.
- Ensure creator activity is integrated across social media, events, retailer activations, launches, and community initiatives.
Events & Community Activation
- Oversee consumer events, creator experiences, retailer activations, partnerships, and community programs.
- Develop experiential strategies that strengthen consumer connection, advocacy, and brand affinity.
- Partner closely with Global Communications teams on event strategy, talent engagement, media moments, and key brand activations to ensure a consistent and integrated consumer experience.
- Ensure all events and activations generate meaningful engagement, content creation, advocacy, and business impact.
- Identify opportunities to expand BYOMA's presence through partnerships, cultural moments, and community initiatives.
Team Leadership
- Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing Consumer Engagement organization, including Social Media, Influencer & Creator, and Events & Community teams.
- Coach and develop managers and emerging talent, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, creativity, and continuous growth.
- Create an inclusive, entrepreneurial, and consumer-obsessed team culture that encourages innovation, agility, and bold thinking.
- Build scalable processes, ways of working, and cross-functional partnerships that enable the team to operate efficiently and effectively as the business continues to grow.
- Champion a test-and-learn mindset, encouraging experimentation, performance optimization, and continuous improvement across all consumer touchpoints.
- Identify and develop future talent, building organizational capability and succession plans that support long-term growth.
Measurement & Performance
- Establish KPIs and reporting frameworks across social media, influencer, creator, community, experiential, and advocacy initiatives.
- Analyze performance data and consumer insights to optimize strategies and investment.
- Track engagement, community growth, creator performance, earned impact, and business contribution.
- Partner closely with Brand Strategy & Go-To-Market to connect engagement activity to broader business objectives and performance outcomes.
- Identify and develop opportunities to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and impact.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience leading integrated consumer engagement programs across social media, influencer & creator marketing, community building, experiential marketing, and brand advocacy.
- Beauty, skincare, wellness, lifestyle, or consumer brand experience strongly preferred.
- Experience leading integrated consumer engagement strategies that deliver both brand and commercial results.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams, including people managers.
- Experience building and scaling consumer engagement functions within high-growth brands.
Skills
- Deep understanding of social media, creator ecosystems, community building, and consumer behavior.
- Strong expertise across Instagram, TikTok, creator-led marketing, and emerging social platforms.
- Understanding of social commerce and TikTok Shop strongly preferred.
- Strong leadership and team development capabilities.
- Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong strategic thinking and planning capabilities.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience translating performance data into actionable recommendations.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
- Experience managing agency partners and external stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experience working on high-growth brands that have successfully scaled.
- Understands how community-first and culturally relevant brands drive awareness, engagement, advocacy, and commercial impact.
- Combines creative thinking with strong business instincts.
- Comfortable operating in entrepreneurial and fast-moving environments.
- Passionate about building communities, shaping culture, and creating meaningful consumer connections.
- Proven ability to translate consumer engagement strategies into measurable brand and business impact.