Brand Marketing Manager

Tin Can

$70K — $95K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-6 years of marketing experience in consumer brand or DTC startup
  • Strong verbal and writing skills for diverse marketing communications
  • Creative thinker with a strong perspective on brand presence
  • Experience in email newsletter creation and engagement
  • Comfort managing relationships with influencers and brand partners
  • Excellent project management skills with a proactive approach
  • Collaborative mindset, focusing on building trust with teams
  • Ownership mentality toward developing brand marketing function
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive initiatives forward
  • Familiarity with tools like Klaviyo or creator commerce platforms is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Own the email newsletter, from content calendar to distribution
  • Manage partnerships and collaborations with aligned brands
  • Research and connect with influencers for brand alignment
  • Coordinate marketing projects and keep initiatives on schedule
  • Develop campaign briefs that synthesize insights and trends
  • Ensure consistent brand standards across all consumer touchpoints
  • Create marketing materials for various internal teams
  • Manage and optimize affiliate program performance
  • Conduct post-campaign reporting and share insights with the team

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic, collaborative environment
  • Chance to shape and build the brand marketing function
  • Flexibility to explore diverse marketing channels
  • Engagement in meaningful collaboration with brand partners
  • Ownership of various touchpoints across marketing efforts
Full Job Description
The Role

We're looking for a Brand Marketing Manager who thrives in the in-between - the person who can zoom out to see the full picture and zoom in to get things done. You'll report to our Head of Brand Strategy & Communications and work closely with teams across the company.

This isn't a role with a narrow lane. At Tin Can, marketing touches everything: the newsletter that lands in a parent's inbox, the brand partnership that introduces us to a new community, the influencer who genuinely loves the product and wants to share it. You'll own a wide range of those touchpoints, and you'll be the connection that keeps them feeling like one cohesive brand.

We're looking for someone who is equally comfortable writing a newsletter, managing a project timeline, and hopping on a call to explore a potential collaboration. If you're someone who gets energy from variety, operates well without a lot of hand-holding, and takes real pride in execution, this role was made for you.

What You'll Do
  • Newsletter ownership. Own Tin Can's email newsletter end-to-end - developing the content calendar, sourcing stories and updates from across the company, writing and editing copy, and managing send cadence.
  • Partnerships & collaborations. Manage incoming partnership inquiries, identify outbound opportunities, and develop relationships with brands and organizations that share our values. You'll know a good fit when you see one and move quickly to explore it.
  • Brand influencer identification & outreach. Research and identify brand-aligned creators and influencers, managing gifting, relationship-building, and coordination with our broader growth marketing influencer program to make sure everything feels like one Tin Can.
  • Project management & campaign coordination. Keep marketing initiatives on track across multiple workstreams, managing timelines, coordinating stakeholders, and making sure things get from brief to launch without dropping balls.
  • Campaign briefs. Develop creative briefs that bring together consumer insights, cultural trends, and cross-functional inputs, giving our creative work a clear strategic foundation before it goes into production.
  • Brand stewardship. Help steward Tin Can's brand standards across every consumer touchpoint - from the newsletter to partner materials to campaign assets - so the experience feels cohesive whether someone encounters us for the first time or the fiftieth.
  • Marketing materials for cross-functional teams. Be the go-to for internal marketing support, creating and organizing materials for programs like Tin Can Communities, retail, and other teams that need brand-aligned assets and messaging.
  • Affiliate program management. Manage and optimize our presence on affiliate and creator commerce platforms (including ShopMy), keeping product listings current, tracking performance, and identifying opportunities to deepen creator relationships.
  • Reporting & tracking. Own post-campaign reporting across your areas of ownership - tracking performance, surfacing learnings, and bringing the "why" back to the team so we're always getting smarter about what's working.

What We're Looking For
  • 4-6 years of marketing experience, ideally at a consumer brand, DTC startup, or agency with consumer clients. You've touched enough of the marketing mix to know what good looks like across channels.
  • Strong verbal and writing skills. Your writing - across everything from email outreach, to partner and campaign briefs, to newsletter copy - is brand-aligned.
  • Creative thinker. You approach problems with creativity and have a strong point of view regarding how we show up in the world.
  • Experience owning or contributing to email newsletters - you understand what makes people actually open and read them.
  • Comfort with influencer and partnership work. You've managed relationships with creators or brand partners and know how to move a conversation forward. You also have a wealth of ideas for how we can engage different audiences.
  • Very strong project management instincts. You're the person who builds the tracker, sets the deadline, and follows up without being asked.
  • A collaborative, low-ego approach. You'll be working across functions constantly, and your ability to build trust inside the company is as important as your marketing skills.
  • Ownership mindset. You're excited about helping to build the future of Tin Can's brand marketing function.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action. At Tin Can, the playbook is still being written, and we need someone who sees that as an opportunity, not a problem.
  • Familiarity with tools like Klaviyo, ShopMy, or similar email and creator commerce platforms is a plus, but we care more about instincts and adaptability than any specific stack.

If you're excited by the idea of owning a wide range of marketing work at a company doing something genuinely meaningful, we'd love to hear from you.

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