Director of Marketing & Advertising

Do you want to be part of a fast growing, entrepreneurial minded business? Do you have a passion for attracting new, and engaging with existing CAVA fanatics? Are you constantly thinking about creative ways to promote your brand? If this is you, we want you to join our team!

CAVA is a fast-growing culinary brand with a portfolio of fast casual restaurants and a packaged goods line dedicated to fresh, Mediterranean inspired, better-for-you cuisine. Born from a full service restaurant collaboration between three first-generation Greek American childhood friends in the Washington, D.C. area, our chef-driven fast casual format has currently more than 45 restaurants with further expansion ahead.

We are looking for a strategic and results driven Director of Marketing & Advertising to join our team and promote CAVA’s quality brand and products. This person will work to support sales goals, operate in an integrated marketing environment, and customize marketing campaigns for individual campaign objectives and outcomes. Our ideal candidate is able to leverage their technical and creative skills to effectively promote CAVA to new and established customers.

You will:

• Drive customer acquisition and deepen customer retention
• Glean actionable insights from data and analytics
• Guide and manage a team of four direct reports, while overseeing a total headcount of eight marketing team members
• Develop a regular cadence of reporting and information sharing, ensuring team and stakeholder alignment; manage to, and deliver on, agreed-upon deadlines
• Identify tools and processes to improve and streamline work in order to drive results more efficiently, and with greater impact. Develop approaches that are scalable and repeatable
• Segment and track target audiences across email, web, and social channels
• Act as an internal thought leader, collaborating and educating cross functional teams about new and different approaches to marketing
• Manage relationships with external agencies and vendors
• Effectively communicate marketing campaigns to internal stakeholders and agencies, and ensure alignment with external partners
• Own the outcomes through effective use of A/B testing, integrated marketing campaign scorecards and key campaign KPIs

You have:

• 7+ years experience in media, integrated marketing, or in an ad agency environment
• A bachelor's degree (master’s degree is preferred)
• Experience managing and developing large teams
• A track record of developing and growing staff members of all experience levels
• Firm understanding of digital marketing principles including SEM, email marketing, social media marketing, and market automation

We offer:

• Competitive base salary and annual bonus potential
• Benefits options including: health, dental, vision, telemedicine, short and long term disability insurance, life insurance, pet insurance and 401K with CAVA match
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• Free CAVA food
• Four Community days per year to help the world with acts of services/volunteering
• The opportunity to be on the ground floor of helping craft the vision of a rapidly growing brand (while laying the foundation to build your team from the ground up).

CAVA – joining “A culture, not a concept™”

Do you want to be part of a fast growing, entrepreneurial minded business? Do you have a passion for attracting new, and engaging with existing CAVA fanatics? Are you constantly thinking about creative ways to promote your brand? If this is you, we want you to join our team!

CAVA is a fast-growing culinary brand with a portfolio of fast casual restaurants and a packaged goods line dedicated to fresh, Mediterranean inspired, better-for-you cuisine. Born from a full service restaurant collaboration between three first-generation Greek American childhood friends in the Washington, D.C. area, our chef-driven fast casual format has currently more than 45 restaurants with further expansion ahead.

We are looking for a strategic and results driven Director of Marketing & Advertising to join our team and promote CAVA’s quality brand and products. This person will work to support sales goals, operate in an integrated marketing environment, and customize marketing campaigns for individual campaign objectives and outcomes. Our ideal candidate is able to leverage their technical and creative skills to effectively promote CAVA to new and established customers.

You will:

• Drive customer acquisition and deepen customer retention
• Glean actionable insights from data and analytics
• Guide and manage a team of four direct reports, while overseeing a total headcount of eight marketing team members
• Develop a regular cadence of reporting and information sharing, ensuring team and stakeholder alignment; manage to, and deliver on, agreed-upon deadlines
• Identify tools and processes to improve and streamline work in order to drive results more efficiently, and with greater impact. Develop approaches that are scalable and repeatable
• Segment and track target audiences across email, web, and social channels
• Act as an internal thought leader, collaborating and educating cross functional teams about new and different approaches to marketing
• Manage relationships with external agencies and vendors
• Effectively communicate marketing campaigns to internal stakeholders and agencies, and ensure alignment with external partners
• Own the outcomes through effective use of A/B testing, integrated marketing campaign scorecards and key campaign KPIs

You have:

• 7+ years experience in media, integrated marketing, or in an ad agency environment
• A bachelor's degree (master’s degree is preferred)
• Experience managing and developing large teams
• A track record of developing and growing staff members of all experience levels
• Firm understanding of digital marketing principles including SEM, email marketing, social media marketing, and market automation

We offer:

• Competitive base salary and annual bonus potential
• Benefits options including: health, dental, vision, telemedicine, short and long term disability insurance, life insurance, pet insurance and 401K with CAVA match
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• Free CAVA food
• Four Community days per year to help the world with acts of services/volunteering
• The opportunity to be on the ground floor of helping craft the vision of a rapidly growing brand (while laying the foundation to build your team from the ground up).

CAVA – joining “A culture, not a concept™”