We believe communication belongs to everyone. We exist to democratize phone service. TextNow is evolving the way the world connects and that's because we're made up of people with curious minds who bring an optimistic, yet critical lens into the work we do. We're the largest provider of free phone service in the nation. And we're just getting started.
Join us in our mission to break down barriers to communication and free the flow of conversation for people everywhere.
As we continue building a modern brand engine designed to drive awareness, cultural relevance, and long term growth, we are seeking a Head of Brand Marketing to lead and evolve TextNow’s presence across paid, earned, and owned channels.
This is a pivotal leadership role at an inflection point in our growth. You will define how TextNow shows up in culture, scale awareness responsibly, and build a brand that drives sustained long term impact, not just short term conversion.
Reporting to the Head of Marketing, you will have functional ownership of brand positioning, integrated brand campaigns, awareness strategy, and brand media planning.
You will directly manage a Social Media Specialist and Communications Manager and operate as a hands on player coach. You will set the strategy while actively shaping briefs, guiding creative development, partnering on media decisions, managing agencies, and driving measurable business results.
Your mandate is clear. Build a culturally relevant, strategically disciplined brand engine that increases awareness, strengthens legitimacy and trust, and supports long term growth across consumer and B2B audiences.
What You Will Do:
Own and evolve TextNow’s brand positioning and messaging architecture, ensuring clarity and consistency across all touchpoints
Champion our cultural platform rooted in autonomy, dignity, flexibility, and challenger brand energy
Serve as primary steward of TextNow’s brand narrative, partnering closely with the VP, Marketing on long term direction and differentiation
Ensure execution aligns to messaging pillars and elevates the brand beyond legacy framing
Partner with Product Marketing to align brand storytelling with roadmap and go to market sequencing
Lead cross channel execution of brand campaigns with disciplined message sequencing and clear phase gates
Define brand media channel strategy and investment approach
Drive integrated planning across paid, earned, and owned channels, ensuring each plays a defined role in awareness, legitimacy, comprehension, and usage
Partner closely with Creative to translate strategy into a distinctive and cohesive look, feel, and voice
Ensure campaign briefs are strategically rigorous and aligned to brand objectives
Show up meaningfully in the spaces where our audience already lives, works, and creates
Identify cultural moments, partnerships, creators, and archetypes that reinforce brand positioning
Ensure cultural participation is credible, confident, and additive
Own day to day management of creative, media, PR, influencer, and production partners
Evaluate agency performance and evolve roster as needed
Drive strong briefs, clear deliverables, disciplined execution, and accountability for measurable results
Establish a strong operating partnership with Creative Services to ensure strategy and execution are developed in lockstep
Partner with Lifecycle Marketing to ensure brand messaging carries through onboarding, habit formation, and retention
Align with Product and Product Marketing on roadmap storytelling and feature sequencing
Partner with Performance Marketing to align brand investment with acquisition efficiency and long term CAC improvement
Work closely with Analytics to define measurement frameworks and success metrics
Support Direct Sales by strengthening TextNow’s B2B brand presence through thought leadership, PR, and high impact industry events
Operationalize a brand measurement framework across health, behavior, and efficiency metrics
Define KPIs across awareness, trust, legitimacy, comprehension, usage lift, referral velocity, and CAC efficiency
Drive measurable improvements in brand awareness, trust, and cultural relevance over time
Lead post launch analysis and ongoing optimization of messaging, channel mix, and creative
Ensure brand investment is evaluated on long term growth impact, not solely short term attribution
Own brand budget across media, production, partnerships, and agencies
Develop annual awareness strategy and investment roadmap
Scale what works while maintaining creative and strategic discipline
8 to 12 plus years of progressive experience in brand or integrated marketing, with meaningful ownership of brand investment and business impact
Proven leader who has built or scaled brand platforms in challenger, high growth, or culturally relevant categories
Demonstrated experience leading large scale brand campaigns across paid, earned, and owned channels
Strong understanding of media strategy, channel role architecture, and full funnel integration
Track record managing creative, media, PR, and influencer agencies with discipline and accountability
Strategic thinker who understands how brand drives long term growth, CAC efficiency, and business performance
Culturally fluent and capable of embedding brands authentically within relevant communities
Strong cross functional operator who can align Brand, Performance, Lifecycle, Product Marketing, and Analytics around shared outcomes
Experience in telecom, consumer technology, app first, or subscription businesses preferred
Comfortable operating with executive visibility in a fast scaling environment
Deliver measurable improvements in brand trust, legitimacy, and comprehension
Increase organic lift, referral velocity, and long term CAC efficiency
Establish strong cross functional alignment across Brand, Performance, Lifecycle, and Product Marketing
Build a culturally relevant and differentiated brand presence that resonates deeply with our target audience
Create disciplined measurement and optimization processes that demonstrate brand impact on long term growth