Marketing Director

Serenity Mental Health Centers

$120K — $150K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in performance-driven marketing with proven lead volume scaling and CAC/CPA improvements.
  • 3+ years of experience in leading in-house creative teams of 5+ across various digital content formats.
  • Deep knowledge of direct response marketing across multiple channels including paid search and social media.
  • Ability to balance direct response campaigns with brand stewardship for long-term equity.
  • Experience in building marketing testing roadmaps and reporting frameworks for growth predictability.
  • Hands-on experience in launching marketing initiatives for new clinical locations, products, or markets.
  • Preferred experience in luxury or female-focused brand marketing.

Responsibilities

  • Own marketing KPIs across all channels, ensuring leads qualify and convert into appointments.
  • Run direct response campaigns using paid search and social, while maintaining rigorous attribution.
  • Build and maintain a structured testing roadmap to optimize customer acquisition costs and lead volumes.
  • Develop email, SMS, and lifecycle marketing programs that enhance patient retention and engagement.
  • Oversee SEO and organic content strategies to reduce acquisition costs and establish online authority in psychiatry.
  • Lead an in-house creative team to produce high-velocity content aligned with brand standards.
  • Create marketing playbooks for new clinic launches to streamline entry into new markets.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead a multi-state marketing strategy in a growing organization.
  • Collaborative environment with a talented creative team.
  • Focus on both performance marketing and brand building, ensuring comprehensive career development.
  • Access to advanced marketing technologies and insights for data-driven decision making.
Full Job Description
We9re hiring a results-driven marketing leader to own the full performance funnel from impression to admitted patient, lead an in-house creative team of 5+ (total of 12 on team), and build the marketing engine that powers Serenity9s continued multi-state expansion.

What You9ll Do

Performance Marketing & Patient Retention
  • Own marketing KPI9s across all channels including acquisition cost (CAC/CPA), cost per lead (CPL), and lifetime value (LTV) while collaborating with the Director of Contact Center to ensure leads are qualified and result in a booked appointment.
  • Run direct response campaigns across paid search, paid social (Meta, TikTok, YouTube), programmatic/display/CTV, and local/geo media (radio, OOH, direct mail) with rigorous channel-level attribution.
  • Build and maintain the testing roadmap including creative, audience, offer, and landing page experiments that systematically lowers CAC while scaling lead volume.
  • Build email, SMS, and lifecycle programs that improve LTV, reactivate dormant patients, and increase share-of-care across Serenity9s service lines.
  • Own SEO and organic content as a long-term acquisition cost reduction lever while leveraging AI to become the go to authority online for psychiatry related content.

Brand & Creative Leadership
  • Lead a mid-sized, in-house creative team of 5+ operating as a high-velocity content engine for paid, organic, and lifecycle while adhering to brand standards.
  • Steward the Serenity brand across every touchpoint, ensuring direct response work reinforces, not erodes, long-term brand equity and patient trust.
  • Establish creative briefs, review cadences, and production workflows that turn the team into a competitive advantage rather than a bottleneck.

Market Expansion & Playbooks
  • Develop repeatable marketing playbooks for new clinic launches including pre-launch awareness, local SEO, geo-targeted paid, and referral-source coordination that shorten our ramp in every new market.
  • Partner with the Director of Business Development to ensure marketing materials, messaging, and automations strengthen relationships and educate referral sources.

Requirements
  • 8+ years in performance-driven marketing with a proven track record of scaling lead volume while improving CAC/CPA, CPL, and LTV in a multi-channel, multi-market environment.
  • 3+ years leading and developing in-house creative teams of 5+ across design, video, copy, and motion graphics in a high-velocity production environment.
  • Deep direct response fluency across paid search, paid social, programmatic, lifecycle, and local/geo media, with the analytical rigor to defend every channel investment.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance direct response performance with brand stewardship, building campaigns that drive immediate conversion without compromising long-term brand equity.
  • Proven systems mindset with experience building testing roadmaps, attribution infrastructure, and reporting dashboards that turn marketing into a predictable growth engine.
  • Hands-on launch experience with a history of standing up marketing playbooks for new locations, products, or markets and shortening ramp time for new locations.
  • Ideal background as a Director or VP of Marketing, Head of Growth, or Head of Performance Marketing at a multi-location services business, DTC brand, or growth-stage company. Luxury and/or female focused brand experience is preferred.

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