Client Marketing Director

Bellrae Marketing is hiring a senior Client Marketing Director to lead strategy, execution, and client partnership for a limited portfolio of accounts.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior marketing leader and primary point of contact for a select portfolio of clients
• Build strong relationships with founders, CEOs, and key client stakeholders
• Develop deep understanding of each client’s business, goals, audience, sales process, pipeline, priorities, challenges, and competitive landscape
• Own the overarching marketing strategy and plan
• Translate business goals into clear marketing priorities and direction for the team
• Lead client meetings with confidence, sound judgment, and a clear point of view
• Review reporting and analytics to identify what matters and determine next actions
• Review client deliverables before presentation or publication, including social media content, emails, blogs, messaging, and campaigns
• Provide clear, actionable feedback to specialists and implementation team members
• Ensure SEO, social media, email, content, paid media, and web efforts align with the client’s larger goals
• Stay ahead of client needs, opportunities, risks, and potential problems
• Maintain visibility into active work and ensure strategy is reflected in execution
• Communicate proactively with clients and the internal team
• Continually assess what the client needs next

Requirements

• “Everything is figureoutable” mindset with a natural focus on finding the path forward
• Strong discernment to distinguish between what a client says and what they actually need
• 10+ years of marketing experience
• Integrated marketing knowledge spanning SEO, social media, email marketing, content, websites, paid media, and analytics
• Understanding of SEO fundamentals and current best practices
• Up-to-date social media awareness, including what drives attention and action
• Exceptional messaging instincts and strong email marketing best-practice knowledge
• Ability to interpret marketing data and translate it into meaningful recommendations
• Confident, effective communicator able to lead a room
• Strong marketing judgment and comfort making decisions
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Fast, confident thinking in day-to-day situations
• Proactive, self-directed, and comfortable taking initiative
• Problem-solving capability without needing a how-to manual
• Genuine care for learning clients’ businesses
• Comfort using project management tools; familiarity with ClickUp, Slack, and Basecamp is preferred

Technologies

• ClickUp
• Slack
• Basecamp

Location and Job Type

• Location: Charlottesville, VA (hybrid)
• Job type: contract

Compensation

• Rate: USD 45 - 50 per hourly

Benefits

• Flexible schedule

Position Structure

• Part-time independent contractor role starting at $45-$50/hour
• Client Marketing Directors are assigned a select portfolio of accounts based on experience, capacity, and account complexity
• Portfolios are intentionally limited to allow deep immersion in clients’ businesses and senior-level marketing leadership
• Support provided by Bellrae specialists and implementation resources across SEO, social media, email marketing, content, paid media, web, and administrative support
• Client meetings are generally recurring and scheduled well in advance
• Outside of scheduled meetings, contractors have flexibility on when and where work is completed, while meeting expectations for responsiveness, deadlines, communication, and quality

What Success Looks Like

• Clients view you as their Marketing Director, not simply a contact at an outside agency
• Clients trust your judgment
• Clients bring you into business conversations and ask for your opinion
• You stay attentive and keep visibility into what’s happening
• Clients feel confident that you and the Bellrae team understand where their business is going and what marketing needs to do to support it