Senior Director of Marketing

Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG)

$125K — $150K *
Hospitality & Recreation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 7+ years of progressive marketing experience, including senior leadership roles
  • Proven track record in a ticket-sales-driven environment, especially in sports/entertainment
  • Experience with budget ownership, planning, and reporting
  • Background in setting marketing strategy and executing it
  • Cross-functional leadership skills, particularly with ticket sales/revenue teams
  • Strong communication and executive presentation skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage the enterprise-wide marketing strategy across all USL Dallas entities
  • Transform the CMO's vision into an actionable strategic plan and lead its execution
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to the CMO, providing insights on performance and trends
  • Build and mentor a high-performing marketing team, fostering collaboration and clear goals
  • Own budget planning, forecasting, and management for the marketing function
  • Drive ticket sales strategies in collaboration with sales and revenue teams
  • Ensure brand consistency while allowing individual brand identities to flourish

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage options
  • Paid time off, paid holidays, and 2 floating holidays
  • Company paid basic life insurance, with optional voluntary life insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings account options
  • Access to wellness offerings
Full Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Director of Marketing is a corporate-level leadership role responsible for setting and executing the marketing strategy across the full USL Dallas organization including Atlético Dallas (men's professional team), Dallas Trinity FC (women's professional team), Atlético Dallas Youth, our Academy program and our restaurant/retail properties (The Den at Expo Park). This role owns marketing budget planning and management, builds and leads a high-performing marketing team, and reports directly to the Chief Marketing Officer. The ideal candidate has built their career in ticket-sales-driven businesses, specifically professional or collegiate sports and brings a track record of translating strategy into measurable revenue results.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy & Leadership
• Develop and own the enterprise-wide marketing strategy across all entities under the USL Dallas umbrella, ensuring alignment with organizational and revenue goals.
• Translate the CMO's vision into an actionable strategic plan, then lead execution from concept through measurable results.
• Serve as a key strategic advisor to the CMO, providing regular reporting and insight on marketing performance, market trends, and growth opportunities.
• Build, mentor, and manage a marketing team, setting clear goals and fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture.

Budget & Revenue
• Own budget planning, forecasting, and management for the marketing function across all entities.
• Drive strategies that directly support ticket sales as the organization's primary revenue driver, in close partnership with ticket sales and revenue teams.
• Track and report on marketing ROI, campaign performance, and revenue impact against budget.

Brand & Multi-Entity Oversight
• Provide marketing oversight and strategic guidance across Atlético Dallas, Dallas Trinity FC, Atlético Dallas Youth, the Academy program and restaurant/retail properties (The Den at Expo Park).
• Ensure brand consistency and coordinated go-to-market execution across all entities, while allowing each brand its own identity within the family of clubs.
• Partner cross-functionally with ticket sales, community relations, communications/PR, digital, content and creative teams to deliver integrated campaigns.
• Represent the marketing function in organizational plan.
• Planning for major milestones, including the 2027 inaugural season at the Cotton Bowl.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Minimum 7+ years of progressive marketing experience, including multiple years in a senior leadership role managing a marketing team.
• Proven track record in a ticket-sales-driven business - specifically professional, collegiate, or major sports/entertainment - with a resume that clearly demonstrates this experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning a marketing budget, including planning, forecasting, and reporting on spend against results.
• Demonstrated experience both setting marketing strategy and personally leading its execution - this is a strategic and hands-on role.
• Strong track record of cross-functional leadership, particularly partnering with ticket sales/revenue teams.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills, with experience reporting to senior leadership.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience marketing multiple brands or business units under one organizational umbrella.
• Experience with a club, franchise, or program in a launch, rebrand, or new-market phase.
• Familiarity with soccer/football and the North American soccer landscape (USL, MLS, or similar).
• Experience with marketing and CRM platforms relevant to ticketing and fan data (e.g., Klaviyo, HubSpot, ticketing platforms).

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Salary Range: Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.
Benefits:
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage options
• Paid time off, paid holidays, 2 floating holidays
• Company paid basic life insurance, voluntary life insurance
• Flexible spending & health savings account options, and wellness offerings
Full-time benefits package to be discussed during the interview process.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter for consideration. Please include examples from your career that speak directly to ticket-sales-driven marketing results in a sports or comparable environment.

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