Marketing Director

The People Brand

Sourced from The People Brand's careers site · Posting last seen November 2, 2026

$150k–$200k Santa Barbara, CA remote Full time 7+ years exp Posted November 2, 2026
Job description

2Modern is a curated online destination for modern furniture, lighting, and decor, carrying about 300 of the best design brands. We serve design-minded consumers and a fast-growing trade program of interior designers, architects, and hospitality clients. We're a small, remote team that cares a lot about taste, craft, and doing fewer things really well.

The role

We're looking for a Marketing Director to run our marketing engine across both sides of the business: design-minded consumers and our trade program, which is our biggest growth priority. You'll own performance across paid, email and SMS, and on-site, and make sure every dollar earns its keep. You'll also bring creative and channel thinking together, because on today's platforms the creative is the targeting.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll set strategy, lead a small team and partners, and still be close enough to the numbers and the work to know what's really happening. Your first priorities are profitable performance marketing, building a clear, well-run team, and growing trade.

What you'll do

  • Own performance marketing. Set budgets and allocation across Google, Meta, affiliates, and other paid channels, with gross profit after variable costs as the measure of success.
  • Build marketing for our trade program. B2B is a strategic focus. Use our channels, content, and lifecycle programs to attract and retain high-value interior designers, architects, and hospitality clients, and partner with our B2B sales team.
  • Own the marketing budget and vendors. Manage the full marketing budget, plus vendor and partner contracts and renewals.
  • Bring creative and performance together. Build campaigns where creative testing drives results, and work with our creative team to brief, test, and learn.
  • Lead email, SMS, and lifecycle for both consumer and trade audiences, treating email as a performance channel as well as a content channel.
  • Own promotions with merchandising, within agreed margin guardrails.
  • Oversee organic social and reviews, including Instagram, Pinterest, and Trustpilot.
  • Run affiliates end to end, from partner performance to editorial and publisher relationships.
  • Build trusted measurement with finance and our data team, across channels and customer types.
  • Own go-to-market and the marketing calendar. Turn quarterly brand and trend direction from our Chief Brand Officer into a clear plan for launches, campaigns, and seasonal moments, and lead it from planning through execution with merchandising, creative, and our trade team.
  • Lead and shape the team. Manage and develop email and SMS, creative, copy, and agency partners, and shape the team as we grow, including whether and when to add roles.

What success looks like in year one

  • Profitable growth across our marketing channels
  • A stronger trade program, with marketing as a real driver of new trade relationships
  • Trusted measurement that the whole business uses to make decisions
  • A team that's clear on priorities and growing in its roles

What you bring

  • 7+ years in e-commerce marketing, with at least 3 years leading performance marketing and managing budgets.
  • Hands-on experience with Google Ads, Meta, and affiliates, and a track record of growing profitably, not just growing revenue.
  • Experience marketing to B2B or trade audiences (designers, architects, hospitality, or other professional buyers), or a clear point of view on how to build it.
  • A strong partnership with finance. You've owned a marketing P&L or budget, worked with finance on forecasting and contribution margin, and made spend decisions based on profitability.
  • Real understanding of how creative drives performance today. You can brief, structure, and read creative tests.
  • A strong eye for design and brand. You can tell a great product story from an average one.
  • Comfort with data, including GA4 and BigQuery or similar tools.
  • Experience managing and developing a small team and outside partners.
  • Bonus: experience in home, furniture, or design-led retail; email and SMS on Klaviyo; organic social on Instagram and Pinterest.
  • A builder's mindset. You like bringing structure to a lean team, and you're happy to roll up your sleeves.

Compensation (from employer):
150000–200000 USD per year

Skills

  • e-commerce marketing
  • performance marketing
  • budget management
  • Google Ads
  • Meta
  • affiliate marketing
  • profitable growth
  • B2B marketing
  • trade audiences
  • marketing P&L
  • forecasting
  • contribution margin
  • profitability
  • creative testing
  • design
  • brand
  • GA4
  • BigQuery
  • data analysis
  • team management
  • partner management
  • home retail
  • furniture
  • design-led retail
  • Klaviyo
  • email marketing
  • SMS marketing
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • builder's mindset
  • Lifecycle marketing
  • Trade marketing
About this role

Summary

Lead marketing strategy, performance channels, trade growth, budgets, measurement, and team development for an online design retailer.

Job title

Marketing Director

Experience

7+ years

Industry

retail

Location

Santa Barbara, CA · Remote

Salary

$150k–$200k

Listed in the job description

Management role

Yes

Posting history
  1. Nov 2, 2026 First posted
  2. Nov 2, 2026 Live now

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