Director Of Innovation Jobs in Georgia
Director Of Innovation jobs in Georgia are open across Atlanta, Savannah, and Athens and other Georgia metros, with employers like PruittHealth, Emory University, and Savannah College of Art and Design hiring at every experience level. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Why us?
The Ann is one of the first Apartments by Marriott Bonvoy in the country — an entirely new category in lifestyle hospitality. With 157 design-forward, apartment-style suites and our own café-and-cocktail concept, Little James, this isn’t a property you’ll manage by someone else’s playbook. You’ll help define what this brand becomes.
As a new, fast-evolving property, The Ann offers something rare in sales leadership: the chance to shape strategy from the ground up, build relationships and systems that don’t yet exist, and make a visible, measurable impact on a brand that’s still being written. If you want ownership over your work and a seat in building something new, let’s talk.
Job Overview
Meets and exceeds revenue goals by developing new accounts and growing current hotel accounts in a profitable and win-win selling approach.
Responsibilities
- Achieves a minimum of 90% of productivity goals and 100% of activity goals, as established by management.
- Leads direct reports in a manner that achieves the properties sales goals and holds them accountable to their essential duties and responsibilities.
- Direct Sales: Targets appointment-oriented sales calls to ensure a successful direct sales program, in accordance with goals established by department budget and marketing plan. Must have own reliable transportation and possess a valid state driver's license in order to make sales calls.
- Key Account Management: Maximizes current hotel key accounts by identifying and capturing those that offer revenue growth.
- New Account Development: Captures competitor's accounts through networking, research and reader board surveys in order to target and solicit those most probable to generate new business.
- Plans and implements an on-going Targeted Account Development "hit list" in order to create new revenue and acquire valuable hotel contacts, and contracts.
- Plan and implement ecommerce and internet marketing strategies.
- Promote the story of the brand and the hotel in the market, with the goal of increasing overall profitability of the property.
- Adjust the sales plan according to changes in business and marketing trends, aggressively pursue the market mix and type of group and transient business that will best achieve the success of the hotel and support the selling philosophy, meet or exceed the budgeted goals in sales, profit and occupancy for the total hotel operation.
- Maintain a current working knowledge of the competition, demonstrate a working knowledge of all hotel operation, and maintain an awareness and application of current state of the art sales techniques and practices.
- Continually targets and prospects for new business through telemarketing, individual creativity and innovation.
- Yield Management: Utilizes yield management techniques by profitably negotiating room rates and function space commitments in order to enhance the hotel's financial performance.
- Account Service and Management: Maintains well-documented, accurate, organized and up-to-date file management system in order to service client and employer in the most expedient, organized and knowledgeable manner.
- Develops strong customer relations through frequent communication and the use of professional, courteous and ethical interpersonal interaction.
- Develops customer profiles and maintains an effective trace system, including trace dates and references, in order to best meet client needs, resulting in superior account service and increased revenues.
- Promptly follows-up on all customer needs and inquiries in an efficient and expedient manner.
- Product Knowledge: Conducts research, surveys, personal investigation and studies market place and territory in order to effectively capitalize on the hotel's strengths and competitor's weaknesses and capabilities.
- Time Management: Focuses on revenue-producing activity and maximizes selling time by dedicating a minimum 90% work time on direct sales efforts.
- Professionalism: Controls expenses including travel on the property's behalf in order to minimize hotel costs.
- Represents themselves, the hotel and Sage Hospitality Resources, Inc. with the highest level of integrity, professionalism, a service-focused approach and a caring, sincere attitude at all times.
- Exhibits a positive and involved team attitude to all hotel departments and maintains open communications with all co-workers for the best overall performance of the hotel.
- Display a neat, clean and business-like appearance at all times.
Qualifications
Education/Formal Training
Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent.
Experience
4+ years of hotel sales management experience
Knowledge/Skills
- 3-5 years sales management experience
- Requires knowledge of general sales techniques, yield management, and customer service skills.
- Ability to Travel
- Requires the ability to hear, speak, read and write English fluently.
- Requires 12th grade level mathematics, spelling and reading skills.
- Requires effective business writing skills.
- Vision to read fine print and computer screens, to see colors, to observe rooms in poorly lit conditions
- Understand and follow verbal/written instructions.
- Organized.
- Be able to work on more than one task at a time.
- Develop strong internal and customer relations.
- Set and manage priorities and plan activities in advance.
- Adhere to deadlines.
- Solve Problems and make sound business decisions.
- Understand and follow verbal/written instructions. Work on more than one task at a time. Develop strong internal and customer relationships. Set and manage priorities and plan activities in advance. Solve problems and make sound business decisions.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Sitting 85%, Walking 5%, Standing 5%, bending, kneeling, lifting, climbing 5%
- Must have dexterity/mobility to meet clients on and off premises, to tour property and attend functions, to climb stairs, and operate basic office equipment.
Environment
Office environment, weather exposure when making sales calls
ID: 2026-32181
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Property: The Ann Savannah
Outlet: Hotel
Category: Sales & Marketing
Address: 110 Ann St
City: Savannah
State: Georgia
EOE Protected Veterans/Disability
Why us?
The Ann is one of the first Apartments by Marriott Bonvoy in the country — an entirely new category in lifestyle hospitality. With 157 design-forward, apartment-style suites and our own café-and-cocktail concept, Little James, this isn’t a property you’ll manage by someone else’s playbook. You’ll help define what this brand becomes.
As a new, fast-evolving property, The Ann offers something rare in sales leadership: the chance to shape strategy from the ground up, build relationships and systems that don’t yet exist, and make a visible, measurable impact on a brand that’s still being written. If you want ownership over your work and a seat in building something new, let’s talk.
Job Overview
Meets and exceeds revenue goals by developing new accounts and growing current hotel accounts in a profitable and win-win selling approach.
Responsibilities
- Achieves a minimum of 90% of productivity goals and 100% of activity goals, as established by management.
- Leads direct reports in a manner that achieves the properties sales goals and holds them accountable to their essential duties and responsibilities.
- Direct Sales: Targets appointment-oriented sales calls to ensure a successful direct sales program, in accordance with goals established by department budget and marketing plan. Must have own reliable transportation and possess a valid state driver's license in order to make sales calls.
- Key Account Management: Maximizes current hotel key accounts by identifying and capturing those that offer revenue growth.
- New Account Development: Captures competitor's accounts through networking, research and reader board surveys in order to target and solicit those most probable to generate new business.
- Plans and implements an on-going Targeted Account Development "hit list" in order to create new revenue and acquire valuable hotel contacts, and contracts.
- Plan and implement ecommerce and internet marketing strategies.
- Promote the story of the brand and the hotel in the market, with the goal of increasing overall profitability of the property.
- Adjust the sales plan according to changes in business and marketing trends, aggressively pursue the market mix and type of group and transient business that will best achieve the success of the hotel and support the selling philosophy, meet or exceed the budgeted goals in sales, profit and occupancy for the total hotel operation.
- Maintain a current working knowledge of the competition, demonstrate a working knowledge of all hotel operation, and maintain an awareness and application of current state of the art sales techniques and practices.
- Continually targets and prospects for new business through telemarketing, individual creativity and innovation.
- Yield Management: Utilizes yield management techniques by profitably negotiating room rates and function space commitments in order to enhance the hotel's financial performance.
- Account Service and Management: Maintains well-documented, accurate, organized and up-to-date file management system in order to service client and employer in the most expedient, organized and knowledgeable manner.
- Develops strong customer relations through frequent communication and the use of professional, courteous and ethical interpersonal interaction.
- Develops customer profiles and maintains an effective trace system, including trace dates and references, in order to best meet client needs, resulting in superior account service and increased revenues.
- Promptly follows-up on all customer needs and inquiries in an efficient and expedient manner.
- Product Knowledge: Conducts research, surveys, personal investigation and studies market place and territory in order to effectively capitalize on the hotel's strengths and competitor's weaknesses and capabilities.
- Time Management: Focuses on revenue-producing activity and maximizes selling time by dedicating a minimum 90% work time on direct sales efforts.
- Professionalism: Controls expenses including travel on the property's behalf in order to minimize hotel costs.
- Represents themselves, the hotel and Sage Hospitality Resources, Inc. with the highest level of integrity, professionalism, a service-focused approach and a caring, sincere attitude at all times.
- Exhibits a positive and involved team attitude to all hotel departments and maintains open communications with all co-workers for the best overall performance of the hotel.
- Display a neat, clean and business-like appearance at all times.
Qualifications
Education/Formal Training
Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent.
Experience
4+ years of hotel sales management experience
Knowledge/Skills
- 3-5 years sales management experience
- Requires knowledge of general sales techniques, yield management, and customer service skills.
- Ability to Travel
- Requires the ability to hear, speak, read and write English fluently.
- Requires 12th grade level mathematics, spelling and reading skills.
- Requires effective business writing skills.
- Vision to read fine print and computer screens, to see colors, to observe rooms in poorly lit conditions
- Understand and follow verbal/written instructions.
- Organized.
- Be able to work on more than one task at a time.
- Develop strong internal and customer relations.
- Set and manage priorities and plan activities in advance.
- Adhere to deadlines.
- Solve Problems and make sound business decisions.
- Understand and follow verbal/written instructions. Work on more than one task at a time. Develop strong internal and customer relationships. Set and manage priorities and plan activities in advance. Solve problems and make sound business decisions.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Sitting 85%, Walking 5%, Standing 5%, bending, kneeling, lifting, climbing 5%
- Must have dexterity/mobility to meet clients on and off premises, to tour property and attend functions, to climb stairs, and operate basic office equipment.
Environment
Office environment, weather exposure when making sales calls
ID: 2026-32181
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Property: The Ann Savannah
Outlet: Hotel
Category: Sales & Marketing
Address: 110 Ann St
City: Savannah
State: Georgia
EOE Protected Veterans/Disability
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Director Of Innovation Job Market in Georgia
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Who's Hiring
- PruittHealth19
- Emory University12
- Savannah College of Art and Design8
- Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities6
- Trinity Health6
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services45
- Education31
- Consulting & Professional Services16
- Technology & Software16
- Manufacturing6
What Georgia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of innovation jobs across Georgia.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in business, engineering, or a related field
- Proven experience leading cross-functional innovation or R&D programs
- Proficiency with design thinking, agile, and lean methodology frameworks
- Experience building and managing innovation labs or incubator programs
- Strong executive stakeholder management and board-level presentation skills
- Familiarity with emerging technology evaluation and technology roadmapping
Director Of Innovation Jobs in Georgia: Frequently Asked Questions
How many director of innovation jobs are there in Georgia?
There are 154+ director of innovation openings in Georgia on Migrate Mate as of June 2026, with the most roles in Atlanta, Savannah, and Athens. New positions post regularly as employers across Georgia hire.
Which Georgia cities have the most director of innovation jobs?
Atlanta, Savannah, and Athens have the most director of innovation openings in Georgia right now, with additional roles spread across smaller metros statewide.
Which companies hire director of innovations in Georgia?
Employers hiring director of innovations in Georgia include PruittHealth, Emory University, and Savannah College of Art and Design, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026.
Are there remote director of innovation jobs in Georgia?
Yes. About 12% of director of innovation openings tied to Georgia are remote or hybrid as of June 2026. The rest are on-site roles based in Georgia metros.
How do I apply for director of innovation jobs in Georgia?
You can apply to director of innovation jobs in Georgia directly on Migrate Mate. Search the listings above, find roles that match your experience and preferred Georgia location, then apply to each one that fits.
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