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Director of Demand Generation

OTA Insight

OTA Insight

Sales & Business Development
Denver, CO, USA
Posted on Jul 10, 2024

At Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight), we’re on a mission to reimagine commercial strategy for the hospitality industry. Our commercial platform simplifies data, transforming complexity into confidence with actionable market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools that maximize revenue.

We successfully raised 80 million in series of B funding, we welcomed four companies to our organization and want to grow over 100 million in ARR in 2024. With more than 560 teammates illuminating the way, representing 34 nationalities living in 35 different countries of which 175 in Belgium alone, we are a fun, collaborative and committed team that works hard to achieve amazing results. Ready to take off and join this rocketship in revolutionizing the hospitality sector? 🚀

We are expanding and are looking for a full-time Demand Generation Director. This individual will ideally be based out of our Denver, Colorado or Dallas, Texas offices, though remote candidates may be considered depending on experience. This role reports to our CMO.

What you will do:
As the Director of Demand Generation, you will lead a team of marketers focused on email marketing, paid media, and field marketing. This is a leadership role with responsibility for hiring, managing, and developing a team of high-performing demand generation marketers. We embrace player-coaches and pride ourselves on hiring people who can roll up their sleeves and get stuff done! You will have a direct impact on our company’s growth through the creation of demand generation programs and the execution of cross-functional lead-management processes.

Where you will have impact:

  • Strategy Development: Developing an optimal mix of full-funnel campaign strategies, campaign frameworks for various audience segments, and driving a process to ensure on-going campaign performance improvements
  • Strategy Execution: Executing initiatives to drive lead generation, such as email marketing, paid media/SEM, webinars, and events
  • Performance Management: Building bottoms-up targets for each function within Demand Generation and then monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on performance metrics to understand the effectiveness of each campaign. Own program, channel, and campaign-level reporting to assess what's working (and what's not) and why. This is a highly analytical role.
  • Lead Management: Managing and optimizing the lead scoring, routing, and nurturing processes to ensure we have an efficient funnel across the marketing and sales ecosystem
  • Sales Team Alignment: Collaborating with the sales team to ensure leads are effectively nurtured and handed off, and that feedback from sales is used to refine future demand generation strategies.
  • Budget Management: Overseeing the demand generation budget, making sure that resources are allocated effectively to achieve maximum ROI.
  • Conversion Optimization: Testing and optimizing landing pages and lead generation forms to improve conversion rates. Conduct A/B tests across channels and on our web properties to maintain an always-learning model.
  • Work with internal stakeholders and external agencies to execute creative and effective paid digital campaigns
  • Event Marketing: Manage our field & event marketing resources to execute in-person events that amplify event experiences and drive leads into the funnel
  • Marketing Operations: Partner with marketing operations to ensure proper design of our martech infrastructure including lead scoring, routing, and nurturing activities

About our team:

Lighthouse Marketing is a global team of creative thinkers who blend the art and science of marketing to amplify the brand, drive revenue, and deliver great marketing experiences. We work across time-zones, we focus on the metrics that matter, and we push each other to continually raise the bar. We embrace a customer-first approach to marketing and continually look for points of friction in the funnel that marketing can help to solve. We are on the lookout for new growth levers, we encourage experimentation, and we embrace a culture of learning and growth.

Who you are:

  • Data-driven operator with success building demand generation plans across multiple channels, geos, and market segments while delivering against aggressive growth targets
  • Strong leader with attention to detail and commitment to operational excellence in execution of programs
  • Natural communicator who knows how to modify your communications, whether talking to an IC on your team or an executive
  • Analytical thinker with skills to uncover insights that you incorporate into your team’s initiative roadmap
  • Deep marketing channel expertise spanning paid media, webinars, field events, with knowledge of how to use these leads to drive pipeline
  • A love for marketing funnel analytics and ROI measurement with a high level of comfort in hands-on performance analysis
  • Expertise in Hubspot/Marketo, Salesforce, and Google Analytics is required (as a user, not just a manager)
  • Experience managing paid media (SEM / social / display)
  • Experience managing email marketing (lifecycle, nurtures, automation)
  • Experience managing field marketing (events, webinars, conferences)
  • Ability to develop and execute full-funnel marketing strategies that encompass both online and offline tactics
  • Strong track record of collaborating with Sales and Marketing teams to align strategy with demand gen and pipeline goals
  • Proven experience building and scaling demand generation functions for high growth, global B2B SaaS companies
  • 12+ years of total work experience
  • 7+ years of digital demand gen / growth marketing experience
  • Ability to travel up to 5% - 10%

What’s in it for you?

  • A flexible working environment where you can work from home or at one of our seven offices around the world
  • Unlimited PTO, allowing you to take time off as you see fit
  • Two annual Wellbeing Days, on top of your personal holidays, when we take some time away from our computers with the entire company
  • Workshops and development plans that help our team realize their full career potential
  • The opportunity to shape the products that more than 85,000 users rely on worldwide
  • The chance to grow and evolve the data culture at a fast-growing scale-up
  • A compensation program that values your work and which we will proactively keep competitive
  • 401k matching up to 4%
  • The option of three health insurance plans from Blue Cross Blue Shield that will suit your personal needs
  • We know not everyone relaxes the same way; therefore, we’ve opted to support your general wellbeing by subsidizing up to 80% of your monthly ClassPass subscription

Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. Our commitment to equality is not just a policy; it's part of our culture.

If you share our passion for innovation and teamwork, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of the hospitality industry. At Lighthouse, our guiding light is to be an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply.

We value the unique perspective and talents that you bring, and we're excited to see how your light can shine within our team. We can't wait to meet you and explore how we can grow and succeed together, illuminating the path towards a brighter future for the industry.