Updated on June 3, 2025
Rent Responsibly is an education and community-building platform for short-term rental alliances and operators. We help owners, hosts, and managers navigate their local laws, professionalize their hospitality businesses, and rent responsibly.
The Director of Marketing will play a central role in the effectiveness and ultimate success of Rent Responsibly. With a sharp focus on the daily management of all marketing efforts and the tools, processes, and strategies behind them, the Director of Marketing will drive our growth from start-up to thriving business.
The Director of Marketing will report to the COO. This full-time, remote (US-based) position will start in July.
Primary Duties:
- Developing and overseeing all components of campaigns and ongoing marketing activities across brand awareness, product marketing, launches, events, retention, community engagement, content, partner companies, influencers, and social media. You will manage several elements hands-on as well.
- Managing partnerships and sponsorships (post-sale)
- Supporting sales initiatives
- Conducting tests and measuring the outcomes of all activities
- Overseeing two staff members and future marketing teammates
- Coordinating with other departments
Secondary Duties:
- PR campaigns and media engagement efforts
- Research and implementation of AI marketing tools
- Leading or assisting with special projects, including:
- Customer advisory board-style working groups
- Developing ambassador programs
- Sustainability initiatives
- Wellness initiatives
- Pilots
- Surveys and other research
Required Qualifications and Experience:
- You’ve worked 5+ years in marketing or related roles.
- You’re a visionary and a doer. You can create the big picture and execute its components with supreme attention to detail.
- You have proven success in every stage of marketing and PR campaigns and optimization, from research to planning to execution – and you love every stage.
- You’re a skilled project designer and manager. You think two and three steps ahead with strategy and tact. You can take a big desired outcome, break it into the steps needed to achieve it, and build an effective timeline accordingly. You know how to set deadlines and project milestones, and you’re good at keeping people on track.
- You’re comfortable working with startups and small, fast-moving teams who collaborate and shift often.
- You can read tea leaves. You’ve got strong knowledge of data collection methods and analysis (Google Analytics, surveys, etc).
- You have some successful practice with AI, keep up with advancements, and are excited to test and implement best-in-class tools.
- Your written communication and presentation skills are on point. You know how to make things easily understandable and interesting to different audiences. You’re an eagle-eyed proofreader, too.
- You have deep working knowledge of HubSpot or translatable CRM chops.
- You may not have deep graphic design experience, but you’re fluent in the principles of good design, including web design, and have experience working with designers to execute a vision.
- Similarly, you may not have much event planning and management experience, but you know what makes a good event from a marketing perspective and have experience working with event managers.
- You thrive in a self-directed environment. While you seek clarity up front and feedback when needed, you don’t require frequent check-ins or validation to stay motivated and productive.
- You have (or have the ability to create) your ideal remote work setup equally optimized for your productivity and your well-being.
- You don’t shy away from making processes more efficient or creating new processes from scratch when needed.
- You love marking things off your to-do list. Everything completed meets your high standards of quality, but you don’t let perfection get in the way of a deadline.
- You are adept at managing your own time. You can juggle projects and shuffle priorities flexibly. You’re versed in saying “Yes, but” or “No, but” to new requests.
Bonus Points:
- You’ve worked at a startup that has successfully launched and scaled up a product to thousands of clients.
- You have successful experience developing customer advisory boards, customer marketing initiatives, or ambassador programs.
- You have up-to-date experience in WordPress. Even better if you have experience with Divi or similar modular page builders.
- You have deep experience in the short-term and vacation rental industry and have a solid understanding of different stakeholder groups, including STR owners, hosts, property managers, vendors, and platforms.
Benefits:
- Salary commensurate with skills and experience (Estimated range: $85,000-$105,000)
- QSEHRA healthcare premium reimbursements:
- Individual Employees: Up to $6,350/year ($529.16 per month)
- Families: Up to $12,800/year ($1,066.66/month)
- 401K Benefits
- Rent Responsibly will match 100% of contributions you make up to 3% of your compensation.
- If you choose to contribute between 3% and 5% of your compensation, Rent Responsibly will match an additional 50% of the additional 2%.
- Participation in company equity option plan
- 10 paid holidays per year
- 3 paid volunteer days per year
- Unlimited vacation days + first Friday of each month off
- Annual one-time stipend of $1,200 to use towards a round-trip airline ticket
- Office setup budget of $1,500 for a company computer and/or external monitors
- Work from anywhere in the continental US
- Travel to fun destinations and conferences
- Flex Fridays: No internal meetings on Fridays, so you can spend your day getting sh*t done any way you like
- Flex Weeks: Select weeks throughout the year dedicated to tackling the important stuff that doesn’t always make it into a day-to-day schedule, such as deep work projects, professional development, and other tasks that require uninterrupted focus and flexibility
- Professional development, including courses, classes, books, etc.
What It’s Like to Work for Rent Responsibly
Rent Responsibly is a 100% remote team. We collaborate daily through Slack, Zoom, and Google Workspace. We don’t measure our days from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. but through productivity and execution. Our teammates must be self-directed and have (or be able to create) the ideal remote work environment for themselves.
We are a small but nimble and enthusiastic team, so those who are willing to jump in with both feet on team projects, wear multiple hats, and then switch those hats on the fly will be happiest here. We invest in our teammates’ growth, too, including professional development resources and opportunities to take on higher roles as the company grows.
To Apply:
Send an email to our COO at hiring@rentresponsibly.org with your resume attached. Concisely tell us why your experience, skills, and qualities make you a good fit for this role, share what you like most about our mission, and provide links/attachments to three things you have produced that showcase your skills. (Please limit any Canva or other graphic design examples to only one of the three samples.)
Form letters and applications that do not follow this process will be ignored, but all genuine applicants will receive a response.
Rent Responsibly is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We believe in tables where everyone has a seat and a voice. That starts with us.
Rent Responsibly is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Your race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression do not matter to us; only your merit, passion, and kindness do.