Director, Marketing & Communications

About FOY

FOY is redefining employee engagement and workplace experiences through innovative solutions that help organizations create happier, more connected, and productive workplaces. We are seeking a dynamic Brand Manager to strengthen FOY’s brand presence, drive impactful marketing initiatives, and ensure consistent brand communication across all touchpoints.

Role Overview

The Brand Manager will be responsible for developing and executing brand strategies that enhance awareness, engagement, and business growth. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong marketing expertise, creative vision, and the ability to manage multiple campaigns and stakeholders effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute brand strategies aligned with business objectives and growth plans.
• Ensure consistent brand positioning, messaging, and visual identity across all marketing channels.
• Plan and manage integrated marketing campaigns to drive brand awareness and engagement.
• Collaborate with content, design, social media, and performance marketing teams to deliver cohesive brand initiatives.
• Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and consumer insights studies to identify growth opportunities.
• Manage brand communication across digital, offline, PR, events, and partnership channels.
• Oversee the creation of marketing collateral, presentations, case studies, and brand assets.
• Monitor and analyze campaign performance, brand metrics, and customer feedback to optimize strategies.
• Coordinate product launches, events, and promotional activities from a branding perspective.
• Build and maintain relationships with external agencies, vendors, and strategic partners.
• Ensure all brand communications reflect the company’s values, vision, and market positioning.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Communications, or a related field.
• 4–7 years of experience in brand management, marketing, communications, or related functions.
• Strong understanding of brand strategy, consumer behavior, and marketing principles.
• Experience in managing multi-channel marketing campaigns.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret market and campaign data.
• Experience working with creative teams, agencies, and cross-functional departments.
• Proficiency in marketing tools, analytics platforms, and project management software.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in startups, SaaS, Consumer Tech, or B2B technology sectors.
• Knowledge of digital marketing, content marketing, and performance marketing.
• Experience managing employer branding and corporate communications initiatives.
• Familiarity with PR, influencer marketing, and event marketing.

Key Attributes

• Strategic and creative thinker.
• Strong ownership and execution mindset.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Results-driven with a strong focus on brand growth and business impact.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape and scale a growing brand.
• Collaborative and innovation-driven work culture.
• Exposure to high-impact marketing and business initiatives.

Significant opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.

JOB DETAILS:

- Job Title: Director – Brand Marketing

- Industry: Media and entertainment Industry

- Experience: 8-12 years

- Working Days: 5

- Job Location: Noida

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Required Skills: Brand Strategy & Positioning Ownership, Cultural & Creative Judgment, Earned Media, PR & Social Brand Voice, Integrated Brand Campaign Leadership, Cross-Functional Brand Governance

Criteria:

• 8+ years of experience in Brand Marketing, Brand Strategy, Creative Strategy, or Brand Leadership is Must.
• Experience working on or scaling meaningful consumer brands (media/entertainment preferred)
• Must have owned brand meaning, not just executed campaigns
• Must have launched or scaled a brand platform, not only shows or campaigns
• Prior ownership of earned media, social brand voice, and PR
• Fluent Hindi is mandatory
• Exposure to regional cultural contexts is a strong advantage
• OTT experience is a plus

Description

Role Overview (Non-Negotiable)

This role is the custodian of company’s brand meaning, voice, and long-term equity. The Director – Brand Marketing owns the master brand and its child brands, ensuring company scales nationally while preserving cultural depth, authenticity, and emotional consistency.

You own brand meaning, not just marketing output.

What You Own

• Brand positioning, narrative, and long-term brand truth
• Brand tone, voice, and cultural posture
• Earned media, social brand voice, and PR narratives
• Final authority on how company shows up across all channels
• What the brand amplifies—and what it consciously avoids

Key Responsibilities

Brand Strategy & Positioning

• Define and evolve company’s core positioning as the platform for India’s regional cultures
• Own master brand architecture across regions, IPs, and markets
• Protect the “red thread” connecting cultures without dilution or tokenism
• Act as final brand gatekeeper across product, content, marketing, partnerships, and PR

Earned Media & Brand Voice

• Own brand social handles, PR, and cultural conversations
• Act as Editor-in-Chief of company’s public voice
• Ensure social presence feels cultural, not promotional
• Exercise judgment on public engagement vs. silence

Integrated Brand Campaigns

• Lead brand strategy for flagship launches, regional expansion, and national moments
• Ensure every campaign has a strong idea, emotional depth, and scalability
• Align brand equity with performance marketing without short-term erosion

Creative Direction & Governance

• Set creative standards for visual identity, copy, and storytelling
• Ensure respectful, non-stereotypical representation of regional cultures
• Build brand guardrails that protect meaning without limiting creativity

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Work closely with Content, Performance, Product, and CRM teams
• Act as the brand conscience—calling out dilution or short-termism when needed

This Role Is NOT For

• Social media managers or execution-only marketers
• Brand marketers without commercial accountability
• Candidates who see brand and performance as opposing forces
• Candidates dependent on large teams or budgets to create impact

8+ years of experience in Brand Marketing, Brand Strategy, Creative Strategy, or Brand Leadership is Must.

Experience working on or scaling meaningful consumer brands (media/entertainment preferred)

Must have owned brand meaning, not just executed campaigns

Must have launched or scaled a brand platform, not only shows or campaigns

Prior ownership of earned media, social brand voice, and PR

Fluent Hindi is mandatory

Exposure to regional cultural contexts is a strong advantage

OTT experience is a plus

Need candidate from these Target Companies ONLY :

Netflix India

Spotify India

Hoichoi

Aha

TVF

Tata Tea

Surf excel

Fevicol

Amul

ITC

Asia Paints

Britania

CRED

Zomato

Dunzo

Swiggy

Meesho

Zepto

IPL Teams - Rajasthan Royals, RCB, CSK LSG, DC

• Define and execute innovation pipeline for the brand – knowing the stage Gate process
• Conceptualizing & launching new products – have past successes in conceptualizing a brand from scratch / repositioning etc.
• Responsible for driving and delivering business results on the brand
• Identify opportunities for the brand to grow which involves forecasting consumer insights and any opportunities and/or threats emerging from the competitive or technology landscape.
• Custodian of data for the portfolio; Analyse & Publish analytics for relevant categories/brand to aid critical brand decision making
• Work with activation and creative agencies on aspects like artwork, adaptations, in-store activations etc.

• Category Management
• Understanding of Marketing Communication Development and Assessment
• Strong Analytical Skills
• Knowledge of Business & Financial Analysis

Duties/Responsibilities:

The person plays a dual role of Public Relation and Influencer Manager.

Public Relations

• Combine creativity, communication, and storytelling to create meaningful public relations campaigns that promote our products/ Founders.
• Pitch stories to top-tier local and national journalists, editors, media outlets, TV, radio, podcasts, niche blogs, and other online outlets.
• Cultivate, strengthen, and maintain media relationships.
• Create media materials such as press releases, talking points, run sheets, and messaging documents.
• Seek and manage business award submissions, interview opportunities, and speaking engagements for Co-Founders.
• Secure, track, and measure results.

Influencer Marketing

• Grow and maintain relationships with influencers to create excitement and mass brand exposure across social media platforms
• Mine the social media platforms for top-tier influencers, celebrities, content creators, and talent that can increase brand reach.
• Manage and update internal influencer database to ensure platform and metrics stay updated.
• Collaborate with internal creative and social marketing teams to drive influencers to create high-quality and engaging content.
• Continually engage with existing influencers and creators via email, DMs, and phone to build strong, long-lasting relationships. Manage day-to-day communications with talent/influencers.
• Manage all influencer requests, place and track product samples requests.
• Oversee gift boxes and other special packaging needs for high-touch influencers.
• Think creatively and add new ideas to pitch for new and exciting influencer programs.

Qualifications/Skills:

• 5+ years experience in public relations, in-house, or agency.
• Course in Mass Communication.
• Strong experience writing news releases, media advisories, feature stories, blogs, and media pitches.
• Existing relationships with top-tier local and national journalists, editors, media outlets, TV, radio, podcasts, niche blogs, and influencers preferred.
• Social media wizard who is well-versed in all platforms (IG, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, TikTok, etc.) and in tune with how the influencer marketing landscape differs across each respective platform.
• Deep expertise in identifying key tastemakers, celebrity endorsers, and influencers.
• A passion for building and cultivating relationships with influencers.

Other Requirements

• Previous experience working with consumer products and fashion brands.
• Passionate about social media trends and pop culture in general.
• Love working in fast-moving, high-growth companies.
• Meticulous organizational skills.
• Self-starter, comfortable with managing multiple priorities at any given time.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Outstanding relationship-building skills

• Identify and sign up with influencers in the digital platforms to increase brand reach through content
• content planning, strategy to improve brand engagement in the social media
• tie-up with brands ( co-branding) for amplifying brand reach and building ROI ( generate leads)
• work closely with the PR agency to monitor and enhance the brand engagement in the print/ digital platforms through paid and organic methods
• Handling AB LinkedIn page to run engaging write up, videos, tech talk, industry snippets to develop and build a business audience in LinkedIn
• Outstanding project management skills
• Strong analytical ability – analyze data, develop insight
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Key Responsibilities

• There are two main responsibilities of the role:
  • to increase the overall top line by increasing the application rate(optimizing the funnel) 
  • ensuring more users are retained post the first consumption cycle. 
• Create and refine effective programs that leverage tenure and customer behaviour data, and include a mix of triggered and targeted campaigns.
• Identify key, measurable metrics for Customer lifecycle programs with a focus to test and scale rapidly.
• Create, implement and optimize daily/weekly/monthly campaigns and user journeys (retention and reactivation - both automated and not automated)
• Generate deep insights about customers that increase their retention, root-cause & predict churn and lead to inventing new ways to delight and retain customers. Will include conducting primary & secondary customer research through surveys and talking directly with customers. 
• Experiment across the whole retention & re-activation funnel constantly looking for maximum impact on DAU (daily active users)
• Brainstorm new ways of segmenting potential customers and means of communication, leading to quick-test pilots with clear measurable outcomes