Associate Director, Brand Marketing

Texas A&M • College Station, TX

2d • $90,000

About The Position

The Division of Marketing & Communications tells the story of Texas A&M and promotes and protects the Texas A&M brand. We achieve our goals through: Messaging, Branding, and Brand Oversight. For more information, please visit us at https://marcomm.tamu.edu/ What We Want The Associate Director of Brand Marketing advances Texas A&M’s reputation by managing the university’s brand platform and overseeing the execution of the national paid initiative. This role contributes to paid strategy in partnership with brand leadership while managing the full initiative lifecycle—including communicating strategy to stakeholders, coordinating asset creation and delivery, maintaining timelines, and reporting progress. The position manages the agency of record and vendor relationships, orchestrates campaigns, and ensures all work aligns with the university’s brand platform. This role also develops reporting frameworks, tracks resource usage and brand engagement, and provides insights that guide evidence-based decision-making for paid channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications, Business or related field.
• Eight years of related experience in brand strategy, marketing leadership, or strategic communications.
• Proven leadership and team management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop brand strategy at organizational scale
• Strong ability to build and maintain partner, community, and leadership relationships.
• Expertise in messaging, storytelling, integrated marketing, and campaign planning.
• Knowledge of digital marketing, reputation strategy, and performance reporting.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and relationship building skills.

Nice To Haves

• Ten years of experience in brand strategy, marketing leadership, or strategic communications.
• Experience supervising teams, agencies and large-scale marketing initiatives.
• Leadership experience in higher education, large public institutions or national consumer brand.
• Experience with developing, launching and evolving brand platforms.
• Experience with leading integrated marketing or national reputation campaigns.
• Experience overseeing paid media, brand governance, content strategy, and creative development.
• Ability to influence across complex organizations.
• Passion for and deep understanding of Texas A&M’s mission, values, and culture.

Responsibilities

• Paid Initiative Management & Strategy Integration: Manage the full scope of the paid initiative, ensuring coordination from strategy to execution. Contribute to strategic direction alongside brand leadership while managing communication of strategy to stakeholders. Oversee asset creation and delivery; ensure brand alignment and readiness for media deployment. Manage timelines, workflows, and dependencies across internal and external teams. Provide consistent progress reporting to leadership. Areas of paid campaigns include but are not limited to brand awareness, enrollment, national reputation, rankings, cultural moments, and brand platform messages.
• Brand Governance: Serve as a key steward of the brand platform, ensuring it is understood and applied across assigned projects and brand management team. Be an expert in the brand platform for the university and be able to provide feedback and direction on all brand assets. Support integration of the brand platform into campaigns, storytelling, and university efforts. Manage creation and distribution of platform assets, templates, and guidance.
• Team Management & Development: Mentor and coach up skill set of brand management team. Strengthen strategic rigor, integrated execution, and brand program measurement. Foster a collaborative and performance-driven culture that emphasizes creativity, accountability, and innovation. Maintain playbooks and elevate brand practice across the team.
• Agency & Vendor Management: Manage relationships with the agency of record and additional paid partners. Oversee scopes, deliverables, timelines, and performance expectations. Guide agency work across media implementation, and reporting. Evaluate performance and recommend improvements.
• Measurement, Analytics & Reporting: Create reporting frameworks to track paid initiative progress, brand platform engagement, and resource utilization. Gather, analyze, and share insights that support evidence-based decision-making. Produce summaries, reports and presentations for leadership.
• Campaign Development & Execution: Translate stories, research, and institutional priorities into paid activation opportunities. Support brand campaign efforts to make sure the university reaches its goal of national reputation. Ensure assets and executions align with the brand platform and campaign objectives.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with campus colleagues to identify opportunities to amplify major initiatives.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life and AD&D, flexible spending accounts , and long-term disability insurance with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums
• 12-15 days of annual paid holidays
• Up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month
• Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
• Health and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time
• Professional Development: All employees have access to free LinkedIn Learning training, webinars, and limited financial support to attend conferences, workshops, and more
• Educational release time and tuition assistance for completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee
• Living Well, a program at Texas A&M that has been built by employees, for employees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees