Carv
Head of Marketing

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Head of Carv Marketing
The Challenge
Carv’s customers span a diverse spectrum:
- Dedicated improvers seeking structured coaching and performance data
- Recreational skiers aiming for progress without intensive learning Unifying them is their shared investment in skiing, with a desire for more meaningful experiences—whether through measurable progression, greater confidence, or social exploration. Traditionally, Carv appealed to technically-savvy skiers valuing motion sensing and biomechanics. However, the company is now expanding into a broader market, needing a different entry point that positions Carv as a personalised co-pilot rather than a technical tool.
Your challenge: Effectively manage both the Carv 2 sensor and Carv app-only product, reframing Carv’s positioning strategy and acquisition funnel to bridge Carv’s technical heritage with a new customer-centric identity. This includes:
- Developing brand messaging that resonates with the evolving customer base.
- Enhancing Carv’s offering as a skiing co-pilot: intelligent coaching, session tracking, social features, and moment recognition.
- Reducing the barrier to entry through clear, compelling marketing messaging and strategies.
Current Stack
Carv’s marketing currently divides into two functions:
- Content Marketing: Organic reach led by social, video, and community engagement
- Performance Marketing: Paid acquisition focused on CAC and ROAS within a direct-to-consumer (DTC) model.
This role will take a strategic layer above, encompassing:
- Brand positioning and messaging architecture
- Funnel investment strategy and growth outcomes accountability
Increase focus on real-world activation, including:
- Resort partnerships and demos
- Sponsorships and events that engage customers on the mountain
- Product-led growth through referrals, social sharing, and in-app conversion
Recognise the seasonal rhythms of skiing:
- Peak selling window for pre-season anticipation
- Off-season strategies for retention and community engagement
What This Role Owns
Brand & Messaging
Define and evolve:
- Carv’s brand positioning for both Carv 2 and the phone product
- Messaging architecture connecting with customers
- Conduct market research, identifying gaps in customer understanding, creative resonance, and brand equity
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Coordinate brand voice across:
- Packaging, communications, social, product copy, and support
Set strategic direction for:
- Campaigns, product launches, and brand moments (collaborate with the Content Lead on creative direction)
Growth Outcomes & Funnel
- Accountable for marketing OKRs addressing:
- Customer growth
- Acquisition cost
- Sales volume
- Lead generation
- Funnel conversion
Own end-to-end funnel strategy from:
- Awareness → Conversion → Retention, diagnosing gaps and opportunities
Support funnel initiatives:
- Performance Lead: Paid channel strategy and budget allocation
- Content Lead: Organic and editorial strategy
Optimise conversion experience:
- Website design (UX), pricing models, and purchase flow
Team & Resourcing
- Lead marketing functionDirector of the Content Lead and Performance Lead, building the team through scaling
Define team roadmap:
- Identify capabilities best developed in-house vs outsourced
- Align hiring sequences against seasonal business cycles and priorities
Manage and allocate marketing budget across:
- Brand
- Content
- Performance
- Activation
Market Insight
- Be the voice of the customer internal to the organisation
- Translate qualitative/quantitative insights to influence product and commercial strategy
Monitor the competitive landscape
- Track category developments and market sizing
Strengthen link between marketing data and product direction
- Ensure marketing resonance influences product construction
How Success Looks
Year One
- Phone product launch with clear positioning and a go-to-market strategy that converts well.
- Brand positioning is concisely articulated and consistent across all touchpoints.
- Use of AI for workflow optimisation improves overall funnel performance.
- Acquisition funnel is optimised, mapped, and streamlined with clear actions to mitigate losses.
- Expansion into new customer touchpoints, moving beyond digital-focused tactics.
- Set and achieve growth OKRs targeting:
- Acquisition benchmarks and CAC
- Conversion rate trends
- Marketing team structured for efficiency with aligned performance and accountability between Content, Performance, and strategic leadership.


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Ongoing
- Growth of brand awareness within target demographic
- Steady customer acquisition cost via:
- In-resort activations
- Endemic marketing channels
- Product-led acquisition
- Increase in word-of-mouth and product-driven conversions
- Seamless marketing–product alignment
- Launched products receive effective positioning support
- Customer feedback informing product development
Who You Are
Experience
You have:
- Built or substantially evolved a consumer brand, not just managed an established one. Experience defining brand identity, creative direction, voice consistency, and strategic messaging that resonates.
- Deep expertise in funnel strategy for direct-to-consumer businesses:
- Diagnose pain points for underperforming funnels
- Implement measurement framework for impact
- Experience in D2C businesses blending app/hardware models:
- Understanding of consumer purchase dynamics, ecommerce processes and onboarding engagement strategies
Qualities
- Learning agility: Fast learner, good at conducting rapid domain analysis, and manage ambiguity.
- Customer obsession: Engages deeply with user behavior, attitudes, and mindset, adept at qualitative/quantitative research and community understanding.
- AI-first mindset: Highly skilled with AI tools, applying them to streamline workflows, generate beneficial outcomes, and refine processes.
- Problem-solving under constraint: Capable of creative, resource-efficient solutions for complex marketing challenges.
- Independence and initiative: Works autonomously and speedily, taking ownership and forming actionable strategies.
- High standards: Uncompromising detail-oriented execution, recognising the commercial coalition of polished branding. Ensures consistency in every creative and writing deliverable.
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