Year Round
WORK AND PLAY IN THE MOUNTAINS
Join our team of big mountain adventurers at the largest ski resort in Washington! Here at Crystal, it's more than our work. It's our passion for the guest experience, the outdoors, and the community that bring us together at the end of the tree-lined road. We come from near and far to be up on the mountain because it's an experience you just don't get anywhere else. Events are always on the calendar and friends are always down to play. Work in the beautiful National Forest, neighboring Mt. Rainier, as a premier Ikon Pass destination with a whole lot of stoke to share.
JUST LIKE THE TREES, WE ARE GROWING! Apply today to grow your mountain roots with us- whether you are looking to escape the city, expand your skills, or progress in the ski industry, we have a variety of roles for hard-working and enthusiastic team-players. Find your line, join our team!
BIG PEAKS, BIGGER PERKS
Employee perks:
- Free Alterra season pass (unlimited, direct to lift at all Alterra resorts)
- + Free Alterra season pass for spouse and dependents 25 & under
- 50% off window ticket price at IKON partner resorts
- Free access to Alterra Mountain destinations during time off
- Free ski-referral letters for employees to use at other mountain resorts during time off
- Free friends & family day-ski vouchers (Periodic allotment)
- Discounts on Ski & Snowboard Lessons
- Discounts on Ski & Snowboard Rentals
- Discounts on Gear Tune-Ups
- Discounts on Food & Beverage
- Discounts at Crystal Mountain Retail shops
- Free Crystal branded swag
- Pro deals on gear with 100s of brands
- Discount Marketplace
- Deals on accessories, auto, electronics, entertainment, fitness, food, home, pet supplies, travel, and more
- Employee-only Night Skiing events
- Employee Housing Available for eligible positions
- Accrued paid time off for eligible positions
- Group health insurance for eligible positions
- 401K benefit and generous match with immediate vesting for all staff members over 18
- Opportunities for growth, advancement, and year-round employment
Position Title: Director, Brand, Communications and Marketing Operations
Business Unit or Department: Marketing
Position Reports to: Vice President of Marketing, Sales, Communications
Classification: Exempt - Salary
# of Direct Reports: 1-4
# of Indirect Reports: 3-5
Wage Range: $100,000 - $130,000
Bonus Eligibility: Eligible for Annual Incentive Plan
Benefits & Perks: Listed Below
RESORT OVERVIEW AND CULTURE
Crystal Mountain is the Pacific Northwest's premier destination for skiers, snowboarders, and summer adventurers. We are part of Alterra Mountain Company which consists of some of the world's most aspirational brands.
A career with Crystal Mountain is more than what you do today; it's being part of creating a community rooted in the spirit of the mountains, united by a passion for adventure, and celebrating the legendary adventures and enduring memories that mountains bring to everyone.
Crystal Mountain delivers best in class service and adventures worthy of our extraordinary terrain and beauty.
We are here to shape the future of mountain adventure.
We Embrace
Empowerment
We Honor
Authenticity
We Cultivate
Collaboration
We Prioritize
Purpose
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
POSITION SUMMARY
The heart of this role is our guest and the guest experience. The Director of Brand, Communications, and Marketing Operations at Crystal Mountain is responsible for developing creative ways to serve guests and express our brand digitally and on-site, while also providing strong project management to keep the team operating effectively.
As the Director of Marketing, this role is essential to the strategic brand management and marketing operations of Crystal Mountain Ski Resort. The position requires a creative, driven, and business savvy individual who can elevate our work to the next level of excellence. This position is responsible for developing and implementing annual marketing plans and activities that generate sales, increase brand value, achieve company OKRs, and drive consumer engagement. The role is also responsible for developing budgets and evaluating KPIs and ROI. This role requires long-range organizational planning, as well as a creative and adaptable skill set that can respond quickly to changing business conditions and consumer needs as the winter snow arrives and the summer sun emerges.
This position manages four direct reports (Project and Communications Manager, Digital Marketing Manager, Creative Services & Content Specialist, and Contact Center Manager) and three to seven indirect reports, depending on the season. The team is responsible for product launches, budget tracking, digital marketing, communications, public relations, social media, data collection and analysis, brand performance reporting, and administrative duties related to brand marketing. The role also collaborates closely with Revenue Management, the Director of Sales, Events and Partnerships, and department heads throughout the resort.
This role serves as the creative steward of the Crystal Mountain brand, ensuring that every guest touchpoint from advertising to on-mountain experiences delivers a compelling, emotionally resonant story about distinct mountain adventure that only Crystal Mountain can offer. The Director will guide the development and lead the implementation of compelling creative campaigns, immersive brand experiences and authentic storytelling that elevate Crystal Mountain's position as the premier Pacific Northwest mountain destination.
The primary function of this role is to help achieve Crystal Mountain Ski Resort's annual business goals through strategic planning, management of the consumer journey, expression of the authentic brand, and leadership of marketing, digital, and communication plans, as well as ensuring best in class guest service through the contact center for both winter and summer seasons.
This is a full-time, year-round on-mountain position with the ability to work from home two to three days per week depending on business needs.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
GENERAL
- Develop and implement an annual marketing plan based on the resort strategy supported by a detailed budget; deliver seasonal and annual performance recaps, evaluate goal attainment, and recommend actions to enhance results.
- Monitor weekly business performance and guest satisfaction feedback, and use these insights to shape initiatives that support annual OKRs in both the short and long term.
- Adapt to changing business conditions and apply new tactics as needed to solve complex problems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create guest offerings aligned with the consumer journey and guest needs.
- Lead the creative vision for seasonal marketing campaigns, ensuring concepts reflect Crystal Mountain's brand voice, sense of place, and adventurous spirit.
- Lead development and implementation of promotion and paid advertising plans.
- Translate business goals into bold creative briefs that inspire compelling campaigns across digital, social, video, experiential, and on-mountain channels; perform post campaign analysis and optimize.
- Champion innovative formats including video storytelling, experiential marketing, interactive digital experiences, and user-generated content.
- Serve as the creative conduit across F&B outlets, retail, ski & ride school, and other teams; transforming their business needs into compelling content, digital and physical experiences.
- Maintain, follow, and enforce brand guidelines and standards for digital and on mountain guest experience.
- Oversee and collaborate with external agencies on initiatives including paid advertising, communications, organic social media, and the ambassador program when engaged
LEADERSHIP
- Lead and inspire the team to deliver on responsibilities including Brand Management, Communications, Digital Engagement, Creative Services, Content Management, and the Contact Center.
- Coach, develop, and mentor direct reports daily and ensure indirect reports also receive appropriate coaching and development. Maintain accurate department RACI.
- Lead the development of photo and video storytelling that captures the authentic culture of the mountain community.
- Support consumer events in person and be on mountain on Saturdays and occasional Sundays during winter.
- Guide and ensure quality and consistency across the resort in the look, feel, voice, and positioning of Crystal Mountain Ski Resort.
- Inspire, share and educate teams, agencies, and partners on brand and style guides, ensuring consistent understanding and adherence.
- Lead agencies, vendors, and third parties to deliver on scopes of work and project briefs that meet company goals and OKRs.
- Build relationships with companies and influencers that align with the Crystal brand.
- Lead brand communications strategy, including public relations, earned media, social media, and other guest communication touch points, and collaborate with Human Resources on internal communications.
- Ensure all marketing communications deliver emotionally engaging narratives, not simply promotional messaging.
BRAND MANAGEMENT & MARKETING OPERATIONS
- Co-develop and execute the annual marketing planning cadence and process with the VP of Marketing, Sales, and Communications.
- Co-develop and execute the product planning cadence, launch checklist, and post-launch and product success analysis with the VP of Marketing and the Product Management Committee.
- Collaborate on and implement plans from Alterra Mountain Company Shared Services and Ikon Pass.
- Demonstrate mastery of program and project management, including establishing project plans and meeting milestones.
- Monthly budget management for labor and expenses.
- Develop a content ecosystem strategy spanning seasonal campaigns, athlete/ambassador storytelling, social media, and editorial content.
- Guide and provide feedback on all brand creative-digital and on mountain-to ensure alignment with brand standards, current campaign look and feel, and event needs.
- Create, execute, and continually optimize digital strategy and CRM plans, primarily focused on website and email.
- Co-develop paid media plans, briefs, deliverables lists, resource allocation, and seasonal campaign launches.
- Develop annual email strategy and optimize in real time with the Digital Marketing Manager.
- Develop a weekly or bi-weekly Brand/Communications meeting to review the status of internally produced assets and provide direction as needed.
- Assign and manage work for the direct team and cross functional partners via the project management tool, and complete assigned tasks.
- Maintain updated Asana projects and corresponding tasks.
ANALYTICS
- Continuously optimize the marketing mix and plan based on data and insights; review with the team to ensure metrics guide decisions and next steps.
- Co-own and manage the customer journey and improvements related to consumer engagement, Net Promoter Score, and Medallia analytics.
- Lead competitor audits to provide insights into brand positioning and identify points of difference and opportunities for new campaigns and promotions.
- Collaborate with Shared Services to conduct internal or third-party marketing studies as needed.
DIRECT TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES
- Guest Experience: Understand, analyze and optimize guest experience trails and weekly guest net promoter feedback; facilitate improvements across the resort in collaboration with Guest Experiences Manager, who reports directly to VP.
- Product Management: Oversight of all Crystal Mountain products and services, pricing, and FAQs in collaboration with Revenue Management, and direct responsibility for all product launches to guests.
- Communications: Management of all guest communications including website and email copy, daily mountain report, newsletters, social media, resort signage, press releases, web announcements, blog content, ambassador program content, influencer content, and cross collaboration with Human Resources on internal communications through the Project and Communications Manager who reports to the Director of Marketing.
- Website, CRM, Email, and Crystal Mountain content on the Ikon app: Managed by the Digital Marketing Manager, who reports to the Director of Marketing.
- Creative Services and Content Strategy: Graphic design and content creation in digital and physical formats to support marketing and communications objectives, managed by the part-time Creative Services and Content Strategy Specialist who reports to the Director of Marketing.
- Contact Center: Oversight of the customer contact center, including the Manager, Supervisor, and hourly staff who report to the Director of Marketing.
- Sales, Events, and Partnership Deliverables: Execution of brand partnership, event, and sales deliverables across the resort by the Director of Marketing's team; Sales, Events, and Partnerships report directly to the VP.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS
- Growth mindset to learn new technologies, ways of working and ideas as they come along from any level of the company; be open to feedback and daily optimization.
- Demonstrated knowledge of marketing practices and principles, including paid media and CRM.
- Ability to think creatively and big picture while aligning brand and company goals.
- Willingness to dig into details and weeds to resolve issues.
- Experience in establishing and maintaining effective relationships with direct team and cross functional departments.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and ability to quickly master programs such as Asana, PowerBI and Medallia.
- Experience in strategic communication and social media planning.
- Experience in principles, concepts, and practices of project management.
- Experience leading projects with cross-functional teams from different departments.
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment with modest supervision.
- Ability to work under deadline pressure, handle many projects at once and problem solve.
- Ability to own the brand identity of Crystal and, when speaking from or positioning, exclude any personal views, beliefs, or opinions that do not fall within the brand guidelines.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, branding, graphic design, communications, or other related field.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Candidates should be able to present examples of brand campaigns, storytelling initiatives, or creative work they have led or directed, including the strategic thinking and results behind the work.
- 5+ years' experience in management.
- 10+ years' experience in advertising and/or marketing experience in a corporate brand or ad agency role.
- Experience in ski, travel & tourism, or hospitality, with a proven marketing capability for these industries is a plus.
- Experience leading projects with cross-functional teams from different departments and achieving OKRs.
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, talk, see, hear, and operate a computer and other office productivity machinery.
WORKING CONDITIONS
- Position may require occasional work on evenings, weekends, and holidays, especially during winter season.
- The ability to work for extended periods of time sitting, bending, reaching, and speaking on a constant basis.
- Manual dexterity to operate a computer and other common office equipment on a constant basis.
- Auditory and visual acuity to operate computers, phones, mobile devices, and basic office equipment on a constant basis.
- Ability to work for extended periods of time sitting, bending, reaching, and speaking on a constant basis.
- Ability to work for extended periods of time standing, walking, kneeling, pushing, and pulling on an occasional basis.
This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions and responsibilities that an employee may be required to perform in this position. Crystal Mountain Resort and its affiliates reserve the right to modify, increase, decrease, suspend, and or eliminate any of the essential duties and/or the position in its entirety.
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Crystal Mountain Resort
paid time off, 401(k), remote work
Mar 13, 2026