VP, Viral Marketing
About the role
The VP, Director of Mobile Marketing will lead the day-to-day marketing operations, go-to-market execution, and subscriber-growth programs supporting Beast Industries' telecommunications and mobile business.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of go-to-market plans for the Beast Industries telecommunications and mobile business.
- Translate approved business, brand, and viral marketing strategies into detailed launch plans, workstreams, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
- Cook up marketing execution for mobile plans, pricing changes, promotional offers, service features, device programs, upgrades, trade-ins, and customer benefits.
- Develop clear customer-facing communications explaining plan value, pricing, switching processes, service features, and member benefits.
- Ensure that all launches are supported by appropriate operational, retail, CRM, customer-service, legal, and partner readiness.
- Develop and execute customer-acquisition programs within the approved mobile marketing strategy.
- Manage conversion initiatives across digital, retail, affiliate, referral, CRM, paid media, and partner channels.
- Partner with analytics and finance teams to monitor acquisition performance and improve conversion efficiency.
- Identify friction within the customer journey and recommend improvements to enrollment, activation, and onboarding.
- Optimize approved campaigns and offers based on performance data and customer behavior.
- Own the operational development of customer onboarding, engagement, retention, renewal, win-back, and referral communications.
- Partner with product and customer-experience teams to improve activation, engagement, and long-term customer value.
- Develop programs that reduce preventable churn and increase plan participation.
- Manage the lifecycle calendar and ensure that communications are coordinated across customer touchpoints.
- Execute approved referral, family-plan, household-expansion, and member-get-member programs.
- Manage incentive structures, customer communications, operational requirements, and campaign timelines.
- Monitor referral participation, household conversion, and related subscriber-growth metrics.
- Recommend optimizations based on program performance without altering the underlying strategic or creative platform.
- Cook up the day-to-day coordination of retail and distribution marketing for the mobile business.
- Develop retail toolkits, merchandising requirements, sales materials, employee communications, and launch-readiness plans.
- Cook up with telecommunications partners and retail teams to ensure accurate execution across participating locations.
- Support seasonal retail events, device launches, promotional periods, and customer-conversion initiatives.
- Monitor retail performance and identify opportunities to improve customer education and conversion.
- Manage the day-to-day mobile marketing workstreams with the designated telecommunications partner.
- Convert approved partnership commitments into detailed marketing calendars, deliverable trackers, approval processes, and launch plans.
- Keep track of contractual marketing obligations, deadlines, dependencies, and partner requirements.
- Prepare materials and reporting for senior partner reviews led by the Head of Viral Marketing and other Beast Industries executives.
- Escalate strategic, commercial, creative, or relationship issues to the Head of Viral Marketing.
- Maintain productive working relationships with partner marketing, retail, product, legal, analytics, and operations teams.
- Operationalize approved creative and viral marketing platforms across mobile customer touchpoints.
- Develop execution briefs for agencies, production partners, media teams, CRM teams, retail teams, and other functional partners.
- Manage asset requirements, production schedules, partner approvals, trafficking, localization, and launch readiness.
- Ensure that all campaign materials align with the approved strategy, creative direction, and Beast Industries brand standards.
- Cook up campaign implementation without assuming ownership of enterprise creative strategy or platform development.
- Establish reporting for subscriber acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, churn, referrals, household growth, CRM engagement, retail performance, and campaign efficiency.
- Partner with analytics and finance teams to develop accurate performance dashboards.
- Provide regular performance updates to the Head of Viral Marketing and relevant business leaders.
- Identify executional improvements and make recommendations grounded in customer and performance data.
- Conduct post-launch reviews and incorporate learnings into future mobile marketing programs.
- Establish disciplined operating rhythms across mobile marketing workstreams.
- Maintain integrated calendars, project plans, decision logs, approval trackers, risk registers, and status reports.
- Clarify ownership, deadlines, dependencies, and escalation paths across internal teams and external partners.
- Identify executional risks early and coordinate solutions with the appropriate functional owners.
- Build repeatable processes that allow the mobile business to manage multiple campaigns, offers, and launches efficiently.
- Build and lead a focused team supporting mobile go-to-market execution, lifecycle marketing, retail coordination, and marketing operations.
- Establish clear roles, responsibilities, goals, and performance expectations.
- Develop team capabilities in telecommunications marketing, subscription growth, CRM, retail execution, and program management.
- Maintain close alignment with the Head of Viral Marketing and operate within the strategic and creative direction established by that office.
Qualifications
- 10–12 years of progressive marketing experience.
- Significant experience in telecommunications, wireless, mobile, subscription services, or an adjacent category.
- Strong background in mobile go-to-market execution, subscriber marketing, lifecycle marketing, CRM, retail marketing, or growth operations.
- Demonstrated experience supporting customer acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and household-growth programs.
- Experience coordinating marketing programs with telecommunications carriers, retailers, distribution partners, or large enterprise organizations.
- Strong understanding of mobile-plan economics, switching behavior, device programs, promotional offers, customer onboarding, and churn.
- Experience managing complex cross-functional initiatives involving product, retail, customer service, analytics, finance, legal, operations, and external partners.
- Strong operational and program-management capabilities.
- Ability to translate approved strategies into detailed, executable plans.
- Experience managing agencies, production partners, CRM teams, media teams, and other external resources.
- Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated comfort working with performance data and marketing analytics.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
- Experience with creator-led brands or entertainment businesses is helpful but not required.
Pay
The target total compensation for this role ranges from $250,000 to $380,000, including a fixed annual salary of $200,000 to $260,000, an annual performance bonus, participation in our employee equity plan, plus comprehensive benefits.
Schedule
Competitive Salary
Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
Company-provided technology package
Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days.