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Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid) or Remote
Position Summary
Grand Circle Corporation (GCC) is the leader in international travel, adventure and discovery for Americans aged 50+. Headquartered in Boston, MA, and with more than 35 offices globally, more than two million Americans have traveled with our award-winning travel brands: Grand Circle Cruise Line, Overseas Adventure Travel, and Grand Circle Travel.
We’re looking for a growth-oriented, data-driven Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) to lead and transform all aspects of the marketing organization, from the company’s data/AI-driven performance marketing engine to the future of this leading brand. The CMO will play a key role in driving revenue, providing best in class personalized customer experiences, defining how Grand Circle and its portfolio are viewed in the market and expanding our market reach through new customer acquisition. Reporting directly to the CEO, the CMO will serve on the Executive Team and play a pivotal role in GCC’s future success.
The CMO will be responsible for building, scaling and leading a high-performing marketing team and driving growth in a B2B2C environment. This executive will understand how to combine the art and science behind the marketing function, responsible for developing, implementing and leading performance marketing and brand marketing initiatives across digital and traditional marketing channels. The successful candidate will have a performance-oriented, data-driven mindset, with a track record of success driving transformation across a company’s marketing organization. This person will be a builder and an excellent cross-functional collaborator who is able to pivot between hands-on execution and high-level strategic conversations with stakeholders across all levels of a business.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and lead the comprehensive marketing organization across all marketing disciplines, enhancing existing capabilities while building new ones.
- Transform marketing into a proactive, data-driven, modern function aligned with overall business strategy.
- Drive the company’s digital evolution, optimizing eCommerce platforms and digital customer touchpoints to maximize engagement, conversion, and revenue.
- Oversee and scale performance marketing and digital programs across channels in partnership with sales.
- Leverage data, analytics, and personalization strategies to deliver seamless, high-performing customer experiences.
- Strengthen brand positioning and equity through integrated campaigns that build awareness, preference, and loyalty.
- Expand reach to new audiences while maintaining strong relationships with existing customers.
- Develop and scale customer acquisition strategies across paid media, SEO/SEM, social, influencer, and affiliate channels.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, sales, and operations to improve customer journeys, retention, and lifetime value.
- Ensure marketing technology investments drive measurable ROI and support scalable growth.
- Provide inspirational leadership, fostering alignment with company mission, vision, and strategic priorities.
- Recruit, develop, and mentor top talent while reinforcing a high-performance, collaborative culture.
Qualifications
- Strategic Marketing Leadership: 15+ years of marketing leadership experience with demonstrated success leading a comprehensive marketing organization for a multi-brand portfolio. Leverages best-in-class digital and traditional marketing tactics to support a business’s overarching strategy.
- Performance Marketing: Experience building and leading a modern performance marketing organization. Expertise across digital marketing, eCommerce optimization, paid search, paid social, SEO, variable marketing, acquisition marketing, MarTech & marketing analytics activities.
- Brand Evolution and Loyalty: A customer-obsessed marketer who shapes meaningful strategies to evolve a company’s brand and engage with a diverse consumer audience. Understands all aspects of the customer lifecycle and experience creating customer acquisition, upsell and cross-sell engines without sacrificing the loyalty of existing buyers.
- Growth and Transformation: Track record of success building, upleveling and scaling strategic marketing plans and teams that support growth and transformation. Works cross-functionally across an organization to introduce and optimize new, proactive marketing tactics.
Total Rewards
The base salary range for this role is $350,000 – $450,000 annually for employees based in Boston, MA. Final compensation may vary and will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for short- and long-term incentive bonuses and first-class benefits, which include:
- Health & wellness: Comprehensive and heavily subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans, plus on-site gym access, holistic wellness sessions, and group fitness classes
- Time for you: Substantial Paid Time Off (PTO), and 11 paid holidays - including Juneteenth, Memorial Day, and Labor Day – and Summer Fridays. Plus - extensive parental leave, with up to 12-16 weeks paid leave at 100% base salary.
- Travel more, spend less: 50% off our trips for you and a companion, 25% for additional immediate family members, and exclusive quarterly associate travel deals
- Your future, secured: 401(k) with company match, life insurance, and disability coverage
- Continuous growth: Tuition assistance for both professional and personal development, opportunities for professional development through oversees travel, and direct access to Pinnacle Leadership & Team Development.
- Extra perks: Commuter benefits, FSA options, pet insurance, home & auto discounts, and paid volunteer time off to give back to the community
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid) or Remote
Position Summary
Grand Circle Corporation (GCC) is the leader in international travel, adventure and discovery for Americans aged 50+. Headquartered in Boston, MA, and with more than 35 offices globally, more than two million Americans have traveled with our award-winning travel brands: Grand Circle Cruise Line, Overseas Adventure Travel, and Grand Circle Travel.
We’re looking for a growth-oriented, data-driven Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) to lead and transform all aspects of the marketing organization, from the company’s data/AI-driven performance marketing engine to the future of this leading brand. The CMO will play a key role in driving revenue, providing best in class personalized customer experiences, defining how Grand Circle and its portfolio are viewed in the market and expanding our market reach through new customer acquisition. Reporting directly to the CEO, the CMO will serve on the Executive Team and play a pivotal role in GCC’s future success.
The CMO will be responsible for building, scaling and leading a high-performing marketing team and driving growth in a B2B2C environment. This executive will understand how to combine the art and science behind the marketing function, responsible for developing, implementing and leading performance marketing and brand marketing initiatives across digital and traditional marketing channels. The successful candidate will have a performance-oriented, data-driven mindset, with a track record of success driving transformation across a company’s marketing organization. This person will be a builder and an excellent cross-functional collaborator who is able to pivot between hands-on execution and high-level strategic conversations with stakeholders across all levels of a business.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and lead the comprehensive marketing organization across all marketing disciplines, enhancing existing capabilities while building new ones.
- Transform marketing into a proactive, data-driven, modern function aligned with overall business strategy.
- Drive the company’s digital evolution, optimizing eCommerce platforms and digital customer touchpoints to maximize engagement, conversion, and revenue.
- Oversee and scale performance marketing and digital programs across channels in partnership with sales.
- Leverage data, analytics, and personalization strategies to deliver seamless, high-performing customer experiences.
- Strengthen brand positioning and equity through integrated campaigns that build awareness, preference, and loyalty.
- Expand reach to new audiences while maintaining strong relationships with existing customers.
- Develop and scale customer acquisition strategies across paid media, SEO/SEM, social, influencer, and affiliate channels.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, sales, and operations to improve customer journeys, retention, and lifetime value.
- Ensure marketing technology investments drive measurable ROI and support scalable growth.
- Provide inspirational leadership, fostering alignment with company mission, vision, and strategic priorities.
- Recruit, develop, and mentor top talent while reinforcing a high-performance, collaborative culture.
Qualifications
- Strategic Marketing Leadership: 15+ years of marketing leadership experience with demonstrated success leading a comprehensive marketing organization for a multi-brand portfolio. Leverages best-in-class digital and traditional marketing tactics to support a business’s overarching strategy.
- Performance Marketing: Experience building and leading a modern performance marketing organization. Expertise across digital marketing, eCommerce optimization, paid search, paid social, SEO, variable marketing, acquisition marketing, MarTech & marketing analytics activities.
- Brand Evolution and Loyalty: A customer-obsessed marketer who shapes meaningful strategies to evolve a company’s brand and engage with a diverse consumer audience. Understands all aspects of the customer lifecycle and experience creating customer acquisition, upsell and cross-sell engines without sacrificing the loyalty of existing buyers.
- Growth and Transformation: Track record of success building, upleveling and scaling strategic marketing plans and teams that support growth and transformation. Works cross-functionally across an organization to introduce and optimize new, proactive marketing tactics.
Total Rewards
The base salary range for this role is $350,000 – $450,000 annually for employees based in Boston, MA. Final compensation may vary and will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for short- and long-term incentive bonuses and first-class benefits, which include:
- Health & wellness: Comprehensive and heavily subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans, plus on-site gym access, holistic wellness sessions, and group fitness classes
- Time for you: Substantial Paid Time Off (PTO), and 11 paid holidays - including Juneteenth, Memorial Day, and Labor Day – and Summer Fridays. Plus - extensive parental leave, with up to 12-16 weeks paid leave at 100% base salary.
- Travel more, spend less: 50% off our trips for you and a companion, 25% for additional immediate family members, and exclusive quarterly associate travel deals
- Your future, secured: 401(k) with company match, life insurance, and disability coverage
- Continuous growth: Tuition assistance for both professional and personal development, opportunities for professional development through oversees travel, and direct access to Pinnacle Leadership & Team Development.
- Extra perks: Commuter benefits, FSA options, pet insurance, home & auto discounts, and paid volunteer time off to give back to the community
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Chief Marketing Officer
Verify your degree field matches CMO requirements
USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree directly relates to the CMO role. A business or marketing degree typically clears the bar, but a degree in an unrelated field requires a detailed explanation of how coursework qualifies you for executive marketing work.
Target cap-exempt employers to skip the lottery
Nonprofits, universities, and government-affiliated research organizations can file H-1B petitions year-round without entering the March lottery. CMO and VP of Marketing roles at these institutions are real executive positions with the same sponsorship process.
Search LCA filing history on Migrate Mate
Filter by occupation code to see which companies have certified LCAs for marketing executive roles. This tells you which employers have already navigated the DOL prevailing-wage process for positions at your level before you apply.
Confirm the offered wage meets prevailing-wage level
Your employer must certify your salary meets at least the Level II or Level III prevailing wage for your metro area in the LCA. Cross-check the offered compensation against OFLC Wage Search using SOC code 11-2021 before accepting any offer.
Document your portfolio as specialty occupation evidence
An RFE on specialty occupation for a CMO petition is common. Compile job postings from peer companies requiring a bachelor's degree, your own offer letter specifying degree requirements, and the O*NET occupation profile showing the standard educational baseline for Chief Marketing Officers.
Time your job search around the H-1B filing window
Cap-subject H-1B registration opens in March for an October 1 start date. For a CMO role, your employer needs lead time to file the LCA with DOL and prepare the I-129 petition, so start conversations with prospective employers by December or January.
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Does a Chief Marketing Officer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, CMO positions qualify as specialty occupations when the employer requires at least a bachelor's degree in marketing, business, communications, or a directly related field. USCIS evaluates the specific job duties and degree requirement in the petition, not the title alone. If the role description is broad or accepts any bachelor's degree regardless of field, the employer may need to strengthen the LCA and petition documentation to satisfy the specialty occupation standard.
Which types of employers sponsor H-1B visas for CMO roles?
Technology companies, consumer packaged goods firms, media organizations, and financial services companies regularly sponsor H-1B petitions for executive marketing positions. Cap-exempt employers, including nonprofit hospitals, universities, and research institutions, can file outside the lottery cycle. To find employers with verified LCA filing history for marketing executive roles, browse Migrate Mate, which surfaces DOL Labor Condition Application data by occupation code.
How does the H-1B lottery affect CMO-level candidates?
Cap-subject CMO candidates must be registered in the annual lottery, which USCIS runs each March for an October 1 start date. Selection is random across all 85,000 available slots, with no preference for seniority or executive level. If you're not selected, your employer can re-register you the following year, or you can target cap-exempt organizations that hire year-round without lottery exposure.
What happens to my H-1B status if I'm let go from a CMO role?
You have a 60-day grace period from your last day to find a new employer willing to file an H-1B transfer petition. Because CMO searches at the executive level can take several months, starting your search immediately is practical. Your new employer files a new I-129 petition, and your authorized status continues while that petition is pending if filed before the grace period ends.
Can a company sponsor my H-1B for a CMO role and later support a green card?
Yes, and many CMOs eventually pursue employer-sponsored permanent residence through the EB-1C multinational manager category or the EB-2 PERM pathway. EB-1C applies if you've worked abroad for a qualifying affiliate, while PERM requires a labor market test conducted by DOL. The H-1B is nonimmigrant status with allowable dual intent, meaning pursuing a green card while on H-1B doesn't jeopardize your nonimmigrant status.
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