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Marketing Director

Position Overview

Utah Film Center is looking for a natural-born storyteller to lead our brand. The Marketing Director provides strategic direction, leadership, and execution across all organizational marketing initiatives. In a fast-paced, high-energy environment, this role is for a results-driven leader who brings enthusiasm, initiative, and focus to achieving measurable audience growth, revenue targets, and national visibility. As our footprint expands, the Director will help to crystallize our value proposition and bring that story to life across every platform through a consistent brand voice.

The Marketing Director will lead digital storytelling through dynamic video and multimedia content. A core priority of this role is internal collaboration: the Director works closely with program staff, builds trust, and serves as an engaged partner to support their goals. Leading an internal team and managing external contractors, the Director oversees all marketing, branding, and video/digital promotions for film exhibitions, the Artist Foundry, and K-12 media education.

This is a full-time, salaried position based in Salt Lake City at our state-of-the-art new location in the historic Marmalade District. Standard working hours are 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Monday through Friday, with flexibility required for evening and weekend events such as festivals, premieres, and community screenings. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, the Marketing Director serves as a key executive partner, working collaboratively with all department heads to drive organizational strategy and dynamic brand growth.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

1. High-Impact Collaborative Marketing 

  • Brand Architecture and Brand Voice: Crystallize Utah Film Center’s brand strategy and value proposition, ensuring consistency across departments and platforms.
  • Drive Measurable Results: Design, launch, and optimize high-energy, performance-driven marketing campaigns that expand audience reach, increase ticket and festival pass sales, and boost regional and national program participation.
  • Digital Storytelling & Video Strategy: Develop the overarching digital storytelling and video strategy for Utah Film Center, setting creative direction and priorities across platforms to strengthen the organization’s position as a creative hub and elevate the stories of local and global filmmakers, K-12 students, and the Film Center’s programs and events.
  • Expanded Footprint & Program Opportunities: Build ongoing awareness and market demand around the expanded resources, physical experiences, and digital offerings made possible by our new permanent home and national growth. Partner closely with executive leadership and development to design and execute high-impact strategies that introduce new donors to Utah Film Center, build enthusiasm around the opportunities our new home enables, and cement the organization’s long-term financial success.
  • Core Pillar Promotion: Develop and oversee integrated marketing strategies for the Capital Campaign, Film Exhibition, Artist Support, and Media Education, in collaboration with program leads and the Marketing Manager.
    • Capital Campaign: Partner closely with the Executive Director and development to design and execute high-impact strategies that introduce new donors to Utah Film Center, build enthusiasm, and highlight the cultural and community value of our new building.
    • Exhibition: Drive attendance, ticket sales, and subscriptions for year-round theatrical screenings, special events, and annual film festivals (including Utah Queer Film Festival and Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Kids).
    • Artist Foundry: Promote memberships, studio access, workshops, and industry opportunities to independent filmmakers locally and nationally.
    • Media Education: Market K-12 media literacy programs, teacher professional development, and student screening programs to statewide school districts, educators, and educational networks nationwide.
  • Calculated Risk-Taking: Implement creative, agile marketing tactics that test new approaches to audience acquisition while maintaining brand fidelity and delivering high ROI.
  • Website Strategy: Own site performance, messaging, UX, and conversion optimization.
  • Budgeting, Forecasting & Performance Analytics: Develop and manage the annual marketing budget. Routinely present marketing and campaign performance and ROI to the leadership team and stakeholders. 
  • National & Global Market Reach: Build and execute targeted campaigns in new national markets to elevate awareness of the Film Center’s expanding footprint—specifically promoting filmmakers telling stories from around the world.

2. Inter-Departmental Collaboration & Audience Strategy

  • Team Alignment: Build strong, trust-based relationships with program and department leaders to ensure marketing serves as an active, supportive, and energetic partner across all initiatives.
  • Customer Journeys & Personas: Consult directly with program teams to define audience personas and build specific marketing pipelines tailored to local and national educators, global independent artists, members, donors, and film audiences.
  • External Relations Integration: Partner closely with the Development Director and Executive Director to align marketing strategies with corporate sponsorships, donor cultivation, membership growth, and Capital Campaign goals.
  • Strategize, review, and approve print materials in partnership with graphic designers, the marketing manager, and internal department heads.
  • Systems Integration: Utilize internal software platforms to track customer journeys, segment audiences, and optimize promotional and AI workflows.

3. Team Leadership & Contractor Supervision

  • Leadership Member: Serve as an active member of the leadership team, collaborating with executive peers to help shape overall organizational strategy, define long-term priorities, and inform the future direction of Utah Film Center.
  • Culture & Process Catalyst: Play an integral role in fostering a positive, inclusive, and strategic organizational culture. Help design, refine, and champion core operational processes and inter-departmental workflows that improve organizational efficiency and alignment.
  • Team Leadership & Mentorship: Direct, mentor, and manage internal marketing staff (including the Marketing Manager), maintaining a proactive, collaborative, and result-oriented environment that encourages creative risk-taking and professional growth.
  • Vendor & Contractor Management: Partner with the Marketing Manager to hire and direct external contractors supporting video production, graphic design, print collateral, and digital advertising. Ensure all external assets meet high-quality standards, brand guidelines, and tight deadlines.

Required Qualifications

  • Communication & Storytelling: Strong written, visual, and verbal communication skills. Passion for independent cinema, national media education, and diverse storytelling.
  • Experience: 5+ years of professional marketing experience, with at least 2 years in a management or director-level role. Preference for 1-2 years of working for arts, film, education, or cultural nonprofits or a small startup brand. 
  • Leadership Experience: At least 2+ years on managing teams or independent contractors
  • Collaborative Mindset: Demonstrated ability to build trust across diverse teams, working proactively as a service-oriented partner to internal departments.
  • Organizational Skills: Exceptional organizational skills and keen attention to detail. Ability to manage multiple high-stakes campaigns simultaneously under tight deadlines.
  • Results-driven: A track record of driving measurable growth and achieving ambitious performance metrics across local, national, or digital markets.
  • Video Production: Background in digital storytelling strategies.  A working knowledge in video production techniques is a plus 
  • Technical Proficiency: Advanced Experience using Salesforce (or similar CRM), WordPress, Asana, Slack, and Eventive.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $78,000 – $80,000 plus a benefits package including paid holidays, 22 days paid time off in year 1, medical, dental, and Simple IRA.

To Apply

Please submit a resume, cover letter detailing how you meet the requirements for this position, three references, and any work examples of projects you have created or directed, to [[email protected]] with the subject line “Marketing Director – [Your Name]”.

About Utah Film Center

Utah Film Center is Utah’s premier film-focused creative hub, connecting people, stories, and ideas through cinema, media arts, and artist support. We offer Utahns year-round access to independent and documentary cinema, two annual festivals (Utah Queer Film Festival and Tumbleweeds Film Festival), media arts education for 20,000+ students and teachers annually, and resources for local filmmakers through the Artist Foundry. We are a place for discovery, innovation, and community, championing stories told from around the world.