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Join Blackbird Labs as the Director of Marketing to lead brand strategy and execution across all channels, driving consumer growth and enhancing the restaurant experience.
About Blackbird: Blackbird Labs is a loyalty and payments platform establishing meaningful connections between the world’s best restaurants and their customers. Served up in 2022 by Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, Blackbird offers a fully customizable loyalty programming platform for restaurants and a consumer app designed to make every guest feel like a bonafide VIP no matter where they dine. Backed by Union Square Ventures, a16z, Amex Ventures, Variant Fund, and other forward-thinking investors, Blackbird is out to revolutionize the restaurant industry.
About Our Team: At Blackbird, our values guide everything we do and our talent principles define the key traits we seek in our employees. We have passion for our product – committed to our mission and instinctively think like and go the extra mile for our customers. We are elite performers – striving for excellence, going above and beyond to achieve exceptional results, and learning quickly with horsepower, drive, and grit. We make others better – taking initiative to elevate others, giving and receiving feedback, and championing a culture of growth. We hold one another accountable to living out our talent principles as we march together to achieving our mission.
What You'll Do
#### Brand
- Own the Blackbird brand voice and identity across all consumer channels
- Develop campaigns that feel culturally credible: copy, visual, experiential
- Build Blackbird's presence in the cities and dining communities where it matters most
- Partner with the Restaurants team to make sure brand work serves both sides of the network
#### PR & Communications
- Own Blackbird's external narrative — press, media relationships, and executive visibility for Ben and the team
- Build and run a proactive PR strategy that keeps Blackbird part of the conversation in dining, tech, and culture press
- Manage relationships with PR agencies, freelance writers, and media contacts
- Prepare messaging and talking points for press moments, partnership announcements, and, when needed, crisis response
- Partner with Partnerships and Restaurants teams on co-branded press moments and launch announcements
#### Consumer Growth
- Drive diner acquisition across paid, owned, and earned channels
- Set and hit growth targets for app downloads, new user activation, and retention
- Build a performance marketing capability that doesn't sacrifice brand to do it
- Work closely with product on onboarding, in-app messaging, and lifecycle
#### Team & Operations
- Lead and develop a small in-house team
- Manage agency and contractor relationships
- Own the marketing budget and report on what's working
- Generate reporting and make data-driven decisions to set up strategy
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of marketing experience, with meaningful time in consumer-facing roles
- 5+ years of leadership experience, with a builder's mindset
- Proven ability to build brands people actually care about, not just awareness but affinity
- Strong storytelling and communications instincts, including experience building or running a PR / earned-media strategy
- Strong performance marketing chops; you know how to drive acquisition at scale
- Experience at a high-growth startup; you know how to operate with limited resources and high expectations
- A writer's sensibility; you can tell when copy is wrong and make it right
- Passion for restaurants, food culture, and hospitality