Après Nail has innovated the nail market as the creator of Gel X. Our mission is to improve nail industry standards and the lives of nail artists by providing innovative products that help both them and their services thrive. Our nails are seen everywhere, from the Met Gala to the Oscars to your local nail salon. The Gel X revolution is real, and we're looking for our next great team member!
Role Overview
The Marketing Manager is the strategic leader responsible for driving acquisition, retention, and brand growth across all customer-facing marketing channels for Aprés Nail. They own the campaign strategy, channel performance, team leadership, and executional briefs that ensure Aprés remains the category leader in professional nail innovation and consumer brand awareness. The ideal candidate will have a background in the Beauty, Cosmetics, Skincare, and/or Nail industries.
The Marketing Manager owns the “how we go to market” -- across CRM, paid media, social, influencer, and loyalty.
Key Responsibilities
Campaign & Channel Strategy
- Own the marketing strategy for launch and evergreen campaigns to ensure goals are aligned to brand goals and revenue targets
- Translate brand-level campaign themes into channel-specific strategies across email, paid, social, influencer, and loyalty
- Write and review campaign briefs, ensuring clarity on messaging, audience, deliverables, KPIs, and channel adaptations
- Partner with Sales, Product, and Creative to craft launch marketing angles, customer benefits, and storytelling arcs
- Lead creative testing strategy in partnership with Paid, CRM, and Creative (hooks, formats, messaging variations, offer framing, etc.)
Team Leadership & Cross-Channel Management
- Manage and mentor Social, Influencer, and CRM roles, ensuring they hit KPIs and execute to brief
- Leads communication across OOH partners such as Beach House and OverCast
- Ensure each channel owner has a clear content & performance plan tied to campaign calendar
- Review and approve channel creative for brand alignment, accuracy, and messaging clarity
- Review live data, identify shifts needed, and reallocate focus if required
- Ensure assets, timelines, and deliverables stay on schedule
Performance Ownership & Analytics
- Own weekly KPI reporting across all channels (topline + channel breakdowns)
- Analyze performance of major launches and evergreen growth channels, identify insights, wins, and next steps
- Monitor loyalty membership growth, paid media efficiency, email retention metrics, and social reach/engagement
- Deliver weekly performance snapshots and quarterly business reviews to Brand Director
Loyalty Strategy & Retention Growth
- Grow loyalty engagement and develop performance strategy
- Work with E-Comm+ CS + CRM to ensure tier benefits, reward cycles, and loyalty-based campaigns support customer retention and upsell
- Drive YOY growth in loyalty sign ups, tier migration, and repeat purchase rate
Budget & Resource Stewardship
- Own monthly budget pacing and reporting across paid, influencer, and creator allocations
- Track ROI by channel, campaign type, and audience segment
- Recommend spend shifts based on performance and seasonality
Qualifications and Requirements
- 5-7+ years of marketing experience
- 2+ years of experience of leading a team
- Comfort owning and tracking marketing budgets across paid, influencer, and creator spend
- Ability to analyze weekly KPIs, diagnose performance shifts, and make data-backed recommendations
- Strong background in developing multi-channel marketing strategies (email, social, paid, influencer, loyalty).
Skills Required
- 4-7 years of experience in integrated marketing, campaign management, or brand marketing for a consumer brand
- DTC beauty, fashion, or lifestyle experience
- Demonstrated record of building and managing complex, multi-channel campaign plans from brief through post-launch analysis
- Exceptional attention to detail and planning discipline; ability to spot dependencies and follow through
- Strong creative and strategic judgment; generate ideas and turn them into executable plans
- Clear, persuasive communication across creative, channel specialists, leadership, agencies, and commercial partners
- Fluency in core DTC and brand metrics (revenue, conversion rate, CAC, MER/ROAS, email/SMS performance, social engagement, creator performance, sell-through)
- Experience with project-management systems such as Asana and enforcing a shared workflow
- Experience launching a new brand, sub-brand, or major product line
What We Do
As the pioneer in soft gel nail extension technology, Aprés Nail is united by one common motif- creating standards and not trends. Our patented products are developed with one goal in mind: to break the habit of fast nail fashion and pave the way for compelling change in the professional nail industry. We work alongside nail technicians to understand what the market and industry want and need. And we deliver with quality, consistency, and innovation.
