Marketing, Brand Strategy & Communication Director
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate. Include section only when posting has real specific content. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the job description.
Key sections:
- Pay: "The anticipated hiring range for this position is $100,000 to $120,000. Hiring offers will be determined based on the final candidate’s qualifications and experience. The recruiter can share more information about what the anticipated hiring salary would be based upon your specific qualifications during the selection process."
Thus we have Pay section with that content.
- Benefits: "The CIA offers a substantial benefits package that includes medical coverage available at no cost to qualifying employees, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, short and long term disability insurance, retirement savings plan with high employer contributions, a generous paid time off program, and more! As the benefits package at the CIA results in a significant value above the base hiring salary for this position, we encourage you to apply so that our recruiters can share more information with you about the benefits of working for the CIA."
Thus Benefits section.
- About the role / Position Summary: The paragraph after "Position Summary". Could be "About the role". We'll use
About the role
and include that paragraph(s). The Position Summary includes multiple sentences.
- Responsibilities: The "Essential Responsibilities" section with subheadings: Strategy & Revenue Accountability, Brand, Partnerships & Sponsorships, Guest Experience & Market Positioning, Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Management. Each has bullet-like paragraphs. We can treat each as list items under Responsibilities.
- Requirements: Education and Experience sections. Education: "REQUIRED QUALIFCATIONS Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field." Experience: "Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive marketing experience, including brand marketing, public relations, digital/social, and paid media, with demonstrated revenue or commercial accountability.Experience building and managing brand partnerships, sponsorships, or co-branded marketing programs.Track record of managing paid media budgets and reporting on return on investment/commercial performance to senior leadership."
We can combine as Requirements.
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications: "MBA or other master’s degree preferred.Previous experience managing and developing a marketing team.Experience in multiple areas of hospitality, food/beverage, lifestyle, tourism, destination, experiential, entertainment and hotel marketing strongly preferred.Agency-side experience in addition to client-side preferred.Experience with omni-channel brand marketing and business to business (corporate/group/meetings) marketing.Familiarity with the Napa Valley market and its visitor economy stakeholders."
We can put under Qualifications.
- Skills: "Required Skills" list: bullet points.
- Working Conditions: maybe Schedule? The posting includes "WORKING CONDITIONS Regular work requires use of a computer, many times in excess of eight (8) hours per day.Able to work a flexible schedule, including nights and weekends, as required by business needs (events, peak season).Ability to travel domestically on an occasional basis as business needs require."
We could put Schedule section for flexible schedule, nights/weekends, occasional travel. Or we could incorporate into a "Working Conditions" but spec only allows headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can put schedule info under Schedule heading.
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Now ensure we don't repeat job title. Not include boilerplate.
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About the role
The Director of Marketing, Brand Strategy and Communication is the senior commercial marketing leader for the Culinary Institute of America's (CIA) California businesses, with primary accountability for CIA at Copia and supporting scope for CIA at Greystone. The Director is responsible to elevate marketing from a campaign-execution function to a revenue-driving discipline. The Director owns the marketing profit & loss (P&L) mindset by setting strategy, allocating paid media investment, and being held accountable for the demand and revenue outcomes those investments produce across Special Events (weddings/meetings), Retail, Public Events, Food Enthusiast programming, Copia's Grove restaurant, Greystone’s Gatehouse restaurant, Greystone’s Café, and additional lines of business. The Director also leads brand partnership and sponsorship strategy (e.g., lifestyle and consumer brand collaborations) and represents Copia's brand voice and visitor experience strategy across the Napa Valley and broader Northern California market. The Director is responsible for setting the marketing agenda for CIA's most visible West Coast commercial asset, coordinating with the broader Marketing & Communications organization, and is a key advisor to Copia and Consumer Businesses leadership on positioning Copia as a premier culinary destination brand in a competitive Napa Valley hospitality and wine-country market.
Responsibilities
- Strategy & Revenue Accountability Own the marketing and brand strategy for Copia (and supporting strategy for Greystone), translating Consumer Businesses' commercial priorities into an annual marketing plan with clear demand-generation and revenue targets. Set and manage the paid media investment plan (search engine marketing, paid social, online travel agency / partner platforms such as TheKnot / WeddingWire and OpenTable). Accountable for return on investment, cost-per-acquisition, and conversion across ticketed events, Food Enthusiast classes, Special Events bookings, and restaurant covers. Build and present a marketing dashboard tying campaign activity to revenue and attendance outcomes for Copia leadership, Consumer Businesses, and Extended Leadership Team as needed. Identify and prioritize the highest-margin businesses (per Consumer Businesses' margin targets) for marketing investment, ensuring spend follows commercial priority.
- Brand, Partnerships & Sponsorships Lead brand partnership and sponsorship strategy for Copia, identifying, pitching, and managing relationships with lifestyle, wine, and consumer brands (building on the model established with partners like Williams Sonoma). Define Copia's brand positioning in the Napa Valley culinary and wine-country landscape, ensuring consistency across guest-facing touchpoints (Restaurant, Food Enthusiast, Special Events, retail, wayfinding). Cultivate and manage Public Relations agency relationships and press/media relationships (local, regional, national) to build Copia's reputation as a destination brand. Build and maintain relationships with Napa Valley visitor bureaus, the City of Napa, Oxbow Market, Chambers of Commerce, and hospitality/concierge networks to extend Copia's reach and community standing. Coordinate with Content Studio (the CIA’s integrated in-house content and production studio) on video and photography.
- Guest Experience & Market Positioning Develop end-to-end guest communications strategy (wayfinding, onsite upsell/cross-sell, audience-specific messaging) spanning visitors, conference attendees, restaurant patrons, and Food Enthusiast program attendees. Track Napa Valley wine-country and culinary tourism trends and competitive activity, advising Copia and Consumer Businesses leadership on positioning opportunities and threats. Represent Copia's brand and marketing strategy in cross-campus and institutional planning conversations as needed.
- Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Management Lead and mentor the marketing team (Marketing Coordinator), setting goals, providing coaching, and building a scalable team structure as Copia's commercial footprint grows. Partner with the Senior Director of Food & Beverage Event Sales & Experience and Copia department leads (Special Events sales, Food Enthusiast team, restaurants, retail) to build and manage a unified marketing calendar across all Copia businesses. Direct the Newsletter, Creative Services, and Web teams via clear creative briefs, ensuring on-brand, on-strategy execution of collateral (print, digital, social, web, signage). Own organic social media strategy in partnership with the Social Media Community and Content Manager, setting growth and engagement goals tied to commercial outcomes. Support marketing needs for Greystone's Special Events and Restaurants/Bakery/Marketplace, prioritizing per Consumer Businesses' California F&B strategy. Establish local resources for design and graphic, printing, signage, etc. to support the needs of Copia and Greystone. Any and all other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Education Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
- Experience Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive marketing experience, including brand marketing, public relations, digital/social, and paid media, with demonstrated revenue or commercial accountability. Experience building and managing brand partnerships, sponsorships, or co-branded marketing programs. Track record of managing paid media budgets and reporting on return on investment/commercial performance to senior leadership.
Qualifications
- MBA or other master’s degree preferred.
- Previous experience managing and developing a marketing team.
- Experience in multiple areas of hospitality, food/beverage, lifestyle, tourism, destination, experiential, entertainment and hotel marketing strongly preferred.
- Agency-side experience in addition to client-side preferred.
- Experience with omni-channel brand marketing and business to business (corporate/group/meetings) marketing.
- Familiarity with the Napa Valley market and its visitor economy stakeholders.
Skills
- Demonstrated ability to build and execute marketing strategy with direct, measurable financial impact — comfortable owning revenue and return on investment targets, not just activity metrics.
- Strong brand strategy and positioning expertise; ability to set and protect brand standards across a matrixed, multi-stakeholder organization.
- Skilled negotiator and relationship-builder for brand partnerships, sponsorships, and community/tourism-board relationships.
- Deep knowledge of the digital media landscape, paid media platforms, and performance optimization.
- Ability to operate at a strategic level while remaining hands-on when needed.
- Excellent executive communication and presentation skills; able to report results to senior.
- Strong organizational and project management skills across multiple concurrent priorities and locations.
- High level of discretion with confidential and competitively sensitive information.
Benefits
- Medical coverage available at no cost to qualifying employees
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short and long term disability insurance
- Retirement savings plan with high employer contributions
- Generous paid time off program
- And more!
Pay
The anticipated hiring range for this position is $100,000 to $120,000. Hiring offers will be determined based on the final candidate’s qualifications and experience. The recruiter can share more information about what the anticipated hiring salary would be based upon your
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate. Include section only when posting has real specific content. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the job description. Key sections: - Pay: "The anticipated hiring range for this position is $100,000 to $120,000. Hiring offers will be determined based on the final candidate’s qualifications and experience. The recruiter can share more information about what the anticipated hiring salary would be based upon your specific qualifications during the selection process." Thus we have Pay section with that content. - Benefits: "The CIA offers a substantial benefits package that includes medical coverage available at no cost to qualifying employees, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, short and long term disability insurance, retirement savings plan with high employer contributions, a generous paid time off program, and more! As the benefits package at the CIA results in a significant value above the base hiring salary for this position, we encourage you to apply so that our recruiters can share more information with you about the benefits of working for the CIA." Thus Benefits section. - About the role / Position Summary: The paragraph after "Position Summary". Could be "About the role". We'll use
About the role
and include that paragraph(s). The Position Summary includes multiple sentences. - Responsibilities: The "Essential Responsibilities" section with subheadings: Strategy & Revenue Accountability, Brand, Partnerships & Sponsorships, Guest Experience & Market Positioning, Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Management. Each has bullet-like paragraphs. We can treat each as list items under Responsibilities. - Requirements: Education and Experience sections. Education: "REQUIRED QUALIFCATIONS Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field." Experience: "Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive marketing experience, including brand marketing, public relations, digital/social, and paid media, with demonstrated revenue or commercial accountability.Experience building and managing brand partnerships, sponsorships, or co-branded marketing programs.Track record of managing paid media budgets and reporting on return on investment/commercial performance to senior leadership." We can combine as Requirements. - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications: "MBA or other master’s degree preferred.Previous experience managing and developing a marketing team.Experience in multiple areas of hospitality, food/beverage, lifestyle, tourism, destination, experiential, entertainment and hotel marketing strongly preferred.Agency-side experience in addition to client-side preferred.Experience with omni-channel brand marketing and business to business (corporate/group/meetings) marketing.Familiarity with the Napa Valley market and its visitor economy stakeholders." We can put under Qualifications. - Skills: "Required Skills" list: bullet points. - Working Conditions: maybe Schedule? The posting includes "WORKING CONDITIONS Regular work requires use of a computer, many times in excess of eight (8) hours per day.Able to work a flexible schedule, including nights and weekends, as required by business needs (events, peak season).Ability to travel domestically on an occasional basis as business needs require." We could put Schedule section for flexible schedule, nights/weekends, occasional travel. Or we could incorporate into a "Working Conditions" but spec only allows headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can put schedule info under Schedule heading. Thus we need sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Check each has substantive content. Now format: Usefor each heading. Then content: For prose use
. For lists use
- . For responsibilities subheadings maybe we can embed as
- with bold? But spec says use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can treat each responsibility bullet as
- . The subheadings inside responsibilities could be part of the li text. Similarly for skills list. For requirements: Education and Experience could be separate
- items. For qualifications: Preferred qualifications list as
- . For benefits: list of benefits as
- .
For Pay: just prose
. For Schedule: prose
about flexible schedule, nights/weekends, occasional travel. Now ensure we don't repeat job title. Not include boilerplate. Let's craft. HTML fragment:
About the role
The Director of Marketing, Brand Strategy and Communication is the senior commercial marketing leader for the Culinary Institute of America's (CIA) California businesses, with primary accountability for CIA at Copia and supporting scope for CIA at Greystone. The Director is responsible to elevate marketing from a campaign-execution function to a revenue-driving discipline. The Director owns the marketing profit & loss (P&L) mindset by setting strategy, allocating paid media investment, and being held accountable for the demand and revenue outcomes those investments produce across Special Events (weddings/meetings), Retail, Public Events, Food Enthusiast programming, Copia's Grove restaurant, Greystone’s Gatehouse restaurant, Greystone’s Café, and additional lines of business. The Director also leads brand partnership and sponsorship strategy (e.g., lifestyle and consumer brand collaborations) and represents Copia's brand voice and visitor experience strategy across the Napa Valley and broader Northern California market. The Director is responsible for setting the marketing agenda for CIA's most visible West Coast commercial asset, coordinating with the broader Marketing & Communications organization, and is a key advisor to Copia and Consumer Businesses leadership on positioning Copia as a premier culinary destination brand in a competitive Napa Valley hospitality and wine-country market.
Responsibilities
- Strategy & Revenue Accountability Own the marketing and brand strategy for Copia (and supporting strategy for Greystone), translating Consumer Businesses' commercial priorities into an annual marketing plan with clear demand-generation and revenue targets. Set and manage the paid media investment plan (search engine marketing, paid social, online travel agency / partner platforms such as TheKnot / WeddingWire and OpenTable). Accountable for return on investment, cost-per-acquisition, and conversion across ticketed events, Food Enthusiast classes, Special Events bookings, and restaurant covers. Build and present a marketing dashboard tying campaign activity to revenue and attendance outcomes for Copia leadership, Consumer Businesses, and Extended Leadership Team as needed. Identify and prioritize the highest-margin businesses (per Consumer Businesses' margin targets) for marketing investment, ensuring spend follows commercial priority.
- Brand, Partnerships & Sponsorships Lead brand partnership and sponsorship strategy for Copia, identifying, pitching, and managing relationships with lifestyle, wine, and consumer brands (building on the model established with partners like Williams Sonoma). Define Copia's brand positioning in the Napa Valley culinary and wine-country landscape, ensuring consistency across guest-facing touchpoints (Restaurant, Food Enthusiast, Special Events, retail, wayfinding). Cultivate and manage Public Relations agency relationships and press/media relationships (local, regional, national) to build Copia's reputation as a destination brand. Build and maintain relationships with Napa Valley visitor bureaus, the City of Napa, Oxbow Market, Chambers of Commerce, and hospitality/concierge networks to extend Copia's reach and community standing. Coordinate with Content Studio (the CIA’s integrated in-house content and production studio) on video and photography.
- Guest Experience & Market Positioning Develop end-to-end guest communications strategy (wayfinding, onsite upsell/cross-sell, audience-specific messaging) spanning visitors, conference attendees, restaurant patrons, and Food Enthusiast program attendees. Track Napa Valley wine-country and culinary tourism trends and competitive activity, advising Copia and Consumer Businesses leadership on positioning opportunities and threats. Represent Copia's brand and marketing strategy in cross-campus and institutional planning conversations as needed.
- Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Management Lead and mentor the marketing team (Marketing Coordinator), setting goals, providing coaching, and building a scalable team structure as Copia's commercial footprint grows. Partner with the Senior Director of Food & Beverage Event Sales & Experience and Copia department leads (Special Events sales, Food Enthusiast team, restaurants, retail) to build and manage a unified marketing calendar across all Copia businesses. Direct the Newsletter, Creative Services, and Web teams via clear creative briefs, ensuring on-brand, on-strategy execution of collateral (print, digital, social, web, signage). Own organic social media strategy in partnership with the Social Media Community and Content Manager, setting growth and engagement goals tied to commercial outcomes. Support marketing needs for Greystone's Special Events and Restaurants/Bakery/Marketplace, prioritizing per Consumer Businesses' California F&B strategy. Establish local resources for design and graphic, printing, signage, etc. to support the needs of Copia and Greystone. Any and all other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Education Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
- Experience Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive marketing experience, including brand marketing, public relations, digital/social, and paid media, with demonstrated revenue or commercial accountability. Experience building and managing brand partnerships, sponsorships, or co-branded marketing programs. Track record of managing paid media budgets and reporting on return on investment/commercial performance to senior leadership.
Qualifications
- MBA or other master’s degree preferred.
- Previous experience managing and developing a marketing team.
- Experience in multiple areas of hospitality, food/beverage, lifestyle, tourism, destination, experiential, entertainment and hotel marketing strongly preferred.
- Agency-side experience in addition to client-side preferred.
- Experience with omni-channel brand marketing and business to business (corporate/group/meetings) marketing.
- Familiarity with the Napa Valley market and its visitor economy stakeholders.
Skills
- Demonstrated ability to build and execute marketing strategy with direct, measurable financial impact — comfortable owning revenue and return on investment targets, not just activity metrics.
- Strong brand strategy and positioning expertise; ability to set and protect brand standards across a matrixed, multi-stakeholder organization.
- Skilled negotiator and relationship-builder for brand partnerships, sponsorships, and community/tourism-board relationships.
- Deep knowledge of the digital media landscape, paid media platforms, and performance optimization.
- Ability to operate at a strategic level while remaining hands-on when needed.
- Excellent executive communication and presentation skills; able to report results to senior.
- Strong organizational and project management skills across multiple concurrent priorities and locations.
- High level of discretion with confidential and competitively sensitive information.
Benefits
- Medical coverage available at no cost to qualifying employees
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short and long term disability insurance
- Retirement savings plan with high employer contributions
- Generous paid time off program
- And more!
Pay
The anticipated hiring range for this position is $100,000 to $120,000. Hiring offers will be determined based on the final candidate’s qualifications and experience. The recruiter can share more information about what the anticipated hiring salary would be based upon your