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Los Angeles, California, United States
Why Arup?
At Arup we’re dedicated to shaping a better world. Our purpose, shared values and collaborative approach have set us apart for over 80 years. We solve the world's most complex problems and deliver what seems impossible, with curiosity and creativity. We’re a thriving and growing organization which offers you many possibilities to shape a better world, and your future.
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, our Marketing, Communications, and Business Development (MCBD) team enables Arup to build and protect our reputation, deepen client relationships, win quality work, and attract top talent. This role will be key in achieving strategic market and client ambitions. We are seeking to appoint a Head of Communications, Brand & Digital Marketing - Americas Region to join our MCBD function.
What this role involves
The Head of Communications, Brand & Digital Marketing - Americas Region plays a central role in leading the development and implementation of Arup’s regional communications plan enhancing, protecting Arup’s brand and reputation, and guiding the evolution of our digital footprint, ensuring alignment with our strategy and the business priorities defined in our integrated business plan.
The role leads the regional Communications, Brand & Digital Marketing teams and ensures positive work sharing, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of our resources supporting region and global priorities. They also work closely with the Regional Leadership: including the Managing Director, the Business and Markets Leader, MCBD Leader, Global Communications Leaders and Legal Counsel ensuring cohesive and effective delivery of content and campaigns that elevate the brand.
Team Leadership
Manage a regional team of digital marketers, brand and creatives, and communications professionals, providing alignment with global marketing and communications programs, and ensures that regional content and campaigns support broader firm initiative.
Collaborates with and advises Global Strategic Marketing and Communications providing a regional perspective on content, campaigns and programs.
Partners closely with regional leadership championing a business partner mindset across the team.
Ensures the team and its programs are high-performing and continually improving to meet the changing needs of the market.
Builds, mentors, and leads a high-performing team providing performance management and career development advice, as well as ongoing training and development opportunities to team members.
Foster a collaborative, inclusive and innovative team culture.
Champions connectivity and collaboration across the MCBD team, enabling joint working, resource flexibility and sharing better practice and learnings.
Develops and manage regional brand, digital marketing and communications budget, including allocation of resources and spend to optimize ROI.
Communications Strategy, Planning and Management
Provides strategic communications advice to Arup’s regional leadership team, and oversees the development and implementation of leadership communications across internal and external channels.
Leads the development of the regional communications plan (internal and external communications) in collaboration with Regional and Geography Leadership and working closely with other MCBD Region Leaders.
Apply insights gained from trends in communications, in particular changes in audience behaviour and use of technology, to identify opportunities to update our communications strategy and plans.
In consultation with Americas Legal Counsel Oversees, leads the regional crisis communications program.
Regularly reports on communications programs and monitors and assesses implementation of the communications plan and adjust as needed to achieve the region’s objectives.
Brand & Visual Communications
Leads the development of creative and content solutions required for marketing and communication campaigns.
In alignment with Arup’s Strategy and Integrated Business Plan, is responsible for increasing brand visibility within region to drive business growth across all media platforms.
Ensures all creative outputs align with Arup’s brand guidelines and maintain brand consistency across all channels and content types.
Digital Marketing & Social Media
Advises on digital marketing and social media element of integrated marketing and communication campaigns, monitoring results to optimize performance and report campaign outcomes.
Champions continued evolution and maturity in Arup's use of the full capability of our marketing automation platform and ensures cohesion and integration with regional marketing objectives, plans and campaigns.
Responsible for the region’s web content lifecycle plan, ensures that regional web content is aligned with brand guidelines and optimized for search engines.
Responsible for the region’s preference center campaigns to ensure alignment to GDPR, CASL, NPP or similar data privacy regulations as relevant to the jurisdiction.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Undergraduate or further degree or postgraduate professional qualification in communications, journalism, marketing, digital marketing or business management
Membership of a relevant professional body [PRSA, CPSM]
Knowledge and Experience
10+ years proven experience in digital marketing, brand management, and communications.
Knowledge of current trends and developments in communications, particularly in strategy, reputation management, and application of digital tools and techniques.
Strong understanding of digital analytics, SEO/SEM, paid media, and content marketing.
Significant, proven experience in strategic communications and proven track record in several of the following areas: communications strategy and planning, crisis communications, leadership communications and/or internal communications.
Demonstrated experience in leading a large team in an international business and in applying business partnering models across a range of communications specialisms.
Demonstrated experience in building trusted, influential relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience in building, managing and reporting on budgets.
Experience in leading change, innovation and operational excellence within MCBD functions.
Skills and Attributes
Strong skills in strategic thinking and analysis and problem-solving.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
Proficiency in communications technologies.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment across multiple time zones and adaptable to changing requirements. Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
Comfortable with high levels of ambiguity, particularly in the context of matrix organizational structures.
Able to build strong and highly collaborative working relationships with peers, leaders and other stakeholders.
High level of personal integrity, professionalism, and inclusive leadership. Commitment to exemplifying Arup’s aims, particularly those of being a ‘humane organization’, maintaining ‘quality of work’, and ‘straight and honorable dealings’.
You Should Apply If
If you want to drive the evolution of our communications, brand and digital marketing at a moment of significant change, bringing together creativity, technology and insight to strengthen our reputation, deepen engagement and support future growth.
If you aim to lead an integrated global capability, influence senior leadership and transform how we communicate, engage our audiences and build relevance in a rapidly changing world.
If you desire to shape a globally recognized brand, rethink how we communicate and engage digitally, and lead a talented community through the next evolution of marketing and communications.
Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.
To understand what to expect next, please visit https://www.arup.com/careers/recruitment-process/
Los Angeles, California, United States
Why Arup?
At Arup we’re dedicated to shaping a better world. Our purpose, shared values and collaborative approach have set us apart for over 80 years. We solve the world's most complex problems and deliver what seems impossible, with curiosity and creativity. We’re a thriving and growing organization which offers you many possibilities to shape a better world, and your future.
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, our Marketing, Communications, and Business Development (MCBD) team enables Arup to build and protect our reputation, deepen client relationships, win quality work, and attract top talent. This role will be key in achieving strategic market and client ambitions. We are seeking to appoint a Head of Communications, Brand & Digital Marketing - Americas Region to join our MCBD function.
What this role involves
The Head of Communications, Brand & Digital Marketing - Americas Region plays a central role in leading the development and implementation of Arup’s regional communications plan enhancing, protecting Arup’s brand and reputation, and guiding the evolution of our digital footprint, ensuring alignment with our strategy and the business priorities defined in our integrated business plan.
The role leads the regional Communications, Brand & Digital Marketing teams and ensures positive work sharing, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of our resources supporting region and global priorities. They also work closely with the Regional Leadership: including the Managing Director, the Business and Markets Leader, MCBD Leader, Global Communications Leaders and Legal Counsel ensuring cohesive and effective delivery of content and campaigns that elevate the brand.
Team Leadership
Manage a regional team of digital marketers, brand and creatives, and communications professionals, providing alignment with global marketing and communications programs, and ensures that regional content and campaigns support broader firm initiative.
Collaborates with and advises Global Strategic Marketing and Communications providing a regional perspective on content, campaigns and programs.
Partners closely with regional leadership championing a business partner mindset across the team.
Ensures the team and its programs are high-performing and continually improving to meet the changing needs of the market.
Builds, mentors, and leads a high-performing team providing performance management and career development advice, as well as ongoing training and development opportunities to team members.
Foster a collaborative, inclusive and innovative team culture.
Champions connectivity and collaboration across the MCBD team, enabling joint working, resource flexibility and sharing better practice and learnings.
Develops and manage regional brand, digital marketing and communications budget, including allocation of resources and spend to optimize ROI.
Communications Strategy, Planning and Management
Provides strategic communications advice to Arup’s regional leadership team, and oversees the development and implementation of leadership communications across internal and external channels.
Leads the development of the regional communications plan (internal and external communications) in collaboration with Regional and Geography Leadership and working closely with other MCBD Region Leaders.
Apply insights gained from trends in communications, in particular changes in audience behaviour and use of technology, to identify opportunities to update our communications strategy and plans.
In consultation with Americas Legal Counsel Oversees, leads the regional crisis communications program.
Regularly reports on communications programs and monitors and assesses implementation of the communications plan and adjust as needed to achieve the region’s objectives.
Brand & Visual Communications
Leads the development of creative and content solutions required for marketing and communication campaigns.
In alignment with Arup’s Strategy and Integrated Business Plan, is responsible for increasing brand visibility within region to drive business growth across all media platforms.
Ensures all creative outputs align with Arup’s brand guidelines and maintain brand consistency across all channels and content types.
Digital Marketing & Social Media
Advises on digital marketing and social media element of integrated marketing and communication campaigns, monitoring results to optimize performance and report campaign outcomes.
Champions continued evolution and maturity in Arup's use of the full capability of our marketing automation platform and ensures cohesion and integration with regional marketing objectives, plans and campaigns.
Responsible for the region’s web content lifecycle plan, ensures that regional web content is aligned with brand guidelines and optimized for search engines.
Responsible for the region’s preference center campaigns to ensure alignment to GDPR, CASL, NPP or similar data privacy regulations as relevant to the jurisdiction.
Qualifications and Accreditations
Undergraduate or further degree or postgraduate professional qualification in communications, journalism, marketing, digital marketing or business management
Membership of a relevant professional body [PRSA, CPSM]
Knowledge and Experience
10+ years proven experience in digital marketing, brand management, and communications.
Knowledge of current trends and developments in communications, particularly in strategy, reputation management, and application of digital tools and techniques.
Strong understanding of digital analytics, SEO/SEM, paid media, and content marketing.
Significant, proven experience in strategic communications and proven track record in several of the following areas: communications strategy and planning, crisis communications, leadership communications and/or internal communications.
Demonstrated experience in leading a large team in an international business and in applying business partnering models across a range of communications specialisms.
Demonstrated experience in building trusted, influential relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience in building, managing and reporting on budgets.
Experience in leading change, innovation and operational excellence within MCBD functions.
Skills and Attributes
Strong skills in strategic thinking and analysis and problem-solving.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
Proficiency in communications technologies.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment across multiple time zones and adaptable to changing requirements. Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
Comfortable with high levels of ambiguity, particularly in the context of matrix organizational structures.
Able to build strong and highly collaborative working relationships with peers, leaders and other stakeholders.
High level of personal integrity, professionalism, and inclusive leadership. Commitment to exemplifying Arup’s aims, particularly those of being a ‘humane organization’, maintaining ‘quality of work’, and ‘straight and honorable dealings’.
You Should Apply If
If you want to drive the evolution of our communications, brand and digital marketing at a moment of significant change, bringing together creativity, technology and insight to strengthen our reputation, deepen engagement and support future growth.
If you aim to lead an integrated global capability, influence senior leadership and transform how we communicate, engage our audiences and build relevance in a rapidly changing world.
If you desire to shape a globally recognized brand, rethink how we communicate and engage digitally, and lead a talented community through the next evolution of marketing and communications.
Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.
To understand what to expect next, please visit https://www.arup.com/careers/recruitment-process/
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Retail
- Consumer Goods
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in head of brand jobs.
- 8 or more years of brand marketing or brand management experience
- Proven experience developing and maintaining brand identity systems
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams across creative, marketing, and product
- Experience managing agencies, creative partners, and production budgets
- Strong executive communication and executive-level presentation skills
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field
Tips for Your Head of Brand Job Search
Quantify brand impact on your resume
Head of brand roles demand proof that your work moved brand equity, not just activity metrics. Tie each initiative to outcomes like aided awareness lift, share of voice growth, or revenue attributed to brand campaigns rather than listing responsibilities alone.
Build a portfolio of brand systems
Hiring panels want to see full brand systems, not individual ads. Include brand guidelines, tone-of-voice documents, and launch campaigns that show how you created a coherent identity across every consumer touchpoint from packaging to digital.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists head of brand openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies at a rebranding inflection point
Heads of brand are most urgently needed when a company is repositioning, entering a new market, or recovering from a brand crisis. Filter your search for employers that have recently merged, launched a new product line, or changed leadership.
Prepare a brand positioning case study for interviews
Most head of brand final rounds include a live brief or strategic exercise. Practice articulating how you would audit an existing brand, identify the positioning gap, and build a go-forward narrative under time pressure, not just how you have done it in the past.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Head of brand titles vary widely in authority. Before accepting an offer, clarify whether you own the brand standards, have sign-off on agency relationships, and control the brand budget directly, because title without those levers limits what you can accomplish.
Head of Brand Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most head of brands?
Meta, JPMorganChase, and Ashley Stewart are hiring the most head of brands right now, with openings concentrated in California, New York, and New Jersey, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Consumer goods, tech, and retail companies tend to post the highest volume of these roles.
How many head of brand jobs are remote?
About 64% of head of brand openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the role's reliance on collaboration with agencies, creative teams, and executives. Brand strategy work and copy or concept review tend to be most amenable to remote arrangements, while in-person production oversight and leadership alignment often require on-site presence.
How do you become a head of brand?
Most heads of brand build their path through progressively senior brand management or creative strategy roles, moving from brand coordinator or associate to manager, then director, before reaching the head level. Along the way, you need to own a full brand identity project end to end, manage an agency relationship, and demonstrate you can influence product and business decisions with brand thinking, not just execute campaigns.
Can you get a head of brand job with limited experience?
Getting hired as a head of brand without deep experience is difficult because the role requires credibility with executives, agencies, and creative teams simultaneously. The most practical path is to take on a brand lead or director role at a smaller company where you own the full scope, build a portfolio of brand system work, and move to a larger organization once you have that proof of end-to-end ownership.
What does the head of brand interview process look like?
Head of brand interviews typically run three to five rounds, starting with a recruiter screen, followed by a hiring manager conversation focused on your philosophy and past work, then peer or cross-functional interviews with product, marketing, and creative leaders. Most processes conclude with a strategic exercise or live brief where you present a brand audit, a positioning recommendation, or a campaign framework to a panel of senior stakeholders.
Where can I find and apply to head of brand jobs?
You can find and apply to head of brand jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits your background and the type of company you want to work for.
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