Brand Manager - Industry Thought Leadership
At a glance
Manager-level Brand Marketing role at Kcura. Illinois · full-time · $118,000–$178,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build thought leadership campaigns across content, events, PR, social, influencer work and digital channels, keeping deliverables on schedule
- Review campaign results and share takeaways with stakeholders to guide future work
- Refresh positioning and messaging using industry shifts, audience research, data and qualitative feedback
- Maintain messaging, editorial direction and supporting assets with subject experts and creative, content, communications and digital teams
- Lead a senior specialist’s priorities, feedback and development while applying the brand consistently across materials
What you bring
- At least five years in marketing, including three or more years in brand management or strategy
- People-management experience that includes coaching and supporting performance growth
- A record of leading thought leadership programs and multi-channel campaigns, with results and responsibility for budgets, schedules and resources
- Strong writing, storytelling, communication and project-organizing skills across concurrent work
Who this fits
You’ll suit a hands-on manager role that combines brand execution with leadership of one direct report. The work spans integrated thought leadership programs and coordination across internal teams and external contributors. This is a hybrid position.
From the employer
Posting Type
Hybrid
Job Overview
Are you an experienced marketing expert with a passion for building great brands people love? If so, let’s talk!We’re looking for a brand manager to help champion and grow Relativity’s strategic thought leadership. Reporting into the brand team within Marketing, this role will play a key part in translating industry-focused brand strategy into consistent, high-impact execution across content, campaigns, communications, events, and experiences.
This is a manager-level role with one direct report, responsible for both hands-on brand and people leadership. You’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams to shape how our customers, partners, team members, and the broader legal data intelligence industry understand emerging issues, ideas, and opportunities through a strong, cohesive brand.
Job Description and Requirements
Your role in action
- Plans and implements integrated thought leadership campaigns and programs focused on awareness and adoption, including creative direction, content development, events, PR, social, influencer marketing, and digital channel activation, ensuring timely completion of all deliverables.
- Analyzes campaign and program impact and shares insights with stakeholders.
- Helps evolve positioning and messaging in response to market dynamics, industry trends, and audience insights, using data and qualitative feedback to inform decisions and improvements.
- Owns and maintains messaging, editorial guidance, and supporting assets in partnership with subject matter experts (authors) as well as creative, content, communications, and digital teams. Ensures scalable, consistent application of the brand voice, story, and point of view across all assets.
- Activates distinct cohorts of program contributors and industry experts and manages day-to-day relationships.
- Manages a senior specialist, setting clear priorities, providing feedback, and supporting career growth.
- Considers the role of AI in supporting the consistency, efficiency, and accuracy of content and related brand elements everywhere they’re applied.
Your skills
- 5 – 10+ years of marketing experience with 3+ years of brand management or strategy experience within an advertising or branding agency, consulting firm, or client-side—preferably in B2B or SaaS environments.
- Prior people management experience, including coaching and performance development.
- Experience leading the implementation of thought leadership programs and communicating these to internal and external teams to drive consistency and strengthen brand equity.
- Experience creating and implementing multi-channel thought leadership campaigns and programs with a proven track record of results and managing budgets, timelines, and resources to deliver high-quality work efficiently.
- Clear, confident communicator with exceptional writing and storytelling skills.
- Outstanding organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at once.
Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.
This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.
The expected salary range for this role is between following values:
$118,000 and $178,000The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.
Required Skills:
Advertising, Brand Management, Brand Strategy, Budget Management, Business Development, Digital Marketing, Marketing Communications (MarCom), Marketing Management, Public Relations (PR), Sales Management