Chief Marketing/Operations Officer (CMO/COO)

Who We Are:
Golden Hippo is an employee-owned, vertically-integrated, highly profitable direct-to-consumer marketer of health, beauty, and pet care brands that collectively generate $1 billion of revenue annually. Our employees are passionate about our mission to create best-in-class products across broadly appealing categories — to help people live their healthiest, happiest lives.

Our A-players are results-driven creative thinkers who like to move fast, get the job done, and have fun doing it. If you love to roll up your sleeves, take on exciting new challenges every day, and drive massive growth, we want to hear from you!

Why Golden Hippo:
Here at Golden Hippo, we work to develop best-in-class products, revolutionary marketing campaigns, and glowing customer experiences. We pride ourselves on our award-winning culture and incredibly diverse workforce. We intentionally strive to cultivate, create, and celebrate a rich, vibrant and inclusive culture of belonging where our employees feel respected and empowered. We also offer:

• Award-winning culture… Winner of Comparably’s Award for Best Company in Los Angeles 2021, Best Teams – Marketing 2021, Best Company – Leadership 2020, and more! Click here to view more.
• Competitive salary & bonus opportunities
• Flexible, remote work arrangements available for most positions
• Highly valuable employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• Employer-paid benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, parental leave, and more)
• Generous matching 401K plan
• UNLIMITED room for growth and results-based pay increases
• Highly interactive, challenging work with a talented, diverse, passionate team
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities such as manager and employee development classes, Tuition Assistance Program, book club, film club, webinars, mentorship program, Hippo Talks, and much more
• Casual, “no dress code” atmosphere
• In-office gym & fitness classes, fully-stocked kitchen, plus regular yoga, meditation breaks, happy hours, and events

The role:

Golden Hippo is currently looking for a Chief Marketing (CMO)/Chief Operations Officer (COO) who will be responsible for who being a commercially minded leader that gets results and can drive continued profitable and next level of growth for our company. Reporting to the CEO, the CMO/COO will chart the future strategic direction of the company. The CMO/COO will be entrepreneurial, data driven and resourceful and keenly focused on seeking new go-to-market growth opportunities, while continuing and improving the existing business model of innovation, employee empowerment and a culture of engagement.

What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like:

• Serve as the executive leader responsible for driving significant organic growth and profitability for the company on a consistent basis.
• Drive success in new markets, categories, platforms and channels such as, retention and loyalty, international and retail.
• Act as a visionary and entrepreneurial leader, ensuring the strategic plan is effectively executed by developing clear, tactical goals and objectives that guarantee success.
• Plan and prioritize strategic sales and marketing initiatives for the company and manage the day-to-day activities that align to meeting the strategic priorities.
• Inspire confidence among employees, peers, owners, the board of directors, and external parties that the company is being managed effectively, ethically, and profitably.
• Evaluate existing company sales and marketing competencies and organizational performance; identify new and innovative approaches to provide, expand or improve product and brand viability across the business to gain market share and improve profitability.
• Recruit, select and retain a highly qualified team. Ensure the team is motivated, encouraged, productive and engaged to be their best and take smart risks, fostering a culture of innovation.
• Guide direct reports in their professional development and building accountability.
• Create a working environment where productivity can be sustained and improved and where innovation and personal growth are encouraged and realized. Ensure people are in place to drive business results.
• Actively build, support, and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders. Advise senior leadership regarding evolving business prospects, issues, market trends and opportunities for better positioning in the market.
• Continue to build upon our diverse workforce, in attraction, development, engagement and retention.

The Best Candidates Will Have:

• Bachelor’s degree is required; with an advanced degree in a related discipline, such as an MBA or in Marketing considered a plus.
• 10 or more years of senior leadership experience within e-commerce or digital marketing space
  overseeing marketing, operations, strategy, sales and growth-oriented initiatives.
• Demonstrated success and experience in B2C.
• Results driven executive with a demonstrated track record of delivering profitable revenue growth, comfortable with achieving exponential growth over an accelerated time frame.
• Commercial mind-set; capable of driving business transformation initiatives designed to improve growth and expansion opportunities.
• Charismatic, enthusiastic, and accountable leader with an innovative approach and desire to win.
• Established reputation for thinking strategically at an enterprise level and executing effectively to drive results in complex environments.
• Resourceful, organized, problem solver capable of driving successful outcomes across multiple lines of business.
• A track record of strong followership.
• Proven track record of building and leading high- performing teams with an open leadership style;
  actively seeks out and supports collaborative thinking.
• Ability to thrive in a results-driven work environment with high expectations serving as a role model for strong work ethic and team-orientation.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Golden Hippo strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, for applicants in Los Angeles, California, and consistent with applicable laws in other areas.

Hiring Practices
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Golden Hippo recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Golden Hippo may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

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