Director, Independent Hotel Marketing

Lighthouse Io; Oost-Vlaanderen; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working environment

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive health insurance

Career development opportunities

Mobility options

Résumé du poste

Lighthouse Io is looking for a Director of Independent Hotel Marketing to lead the marketing strategy for their global independent hotels segment. This full-time hybrid position based in Ghent requires hands-on management and the ability to utilize AI tools creatively in marketing efforts.

As a key player in the marketing team, you will drive lead generation, optimize campaigns, and build efficient workflows to enhance growth. Competitive compensation and benefits are included, alongside opportunities for career development and mobility.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of marketing experience, with 5-7 in a leadership role at a B2B SaaS company.
• Expertise using AI tools for marketing and automation.
• Experience with HubSpot and Salesforce.
• Strong analytical skills for funnel analysis and reporting.

Responsabilités

• Own the marketing strategy for independent hotels.
• Drive lead generation through various channels.
• Build automations that improve team efficiency.
• Manage the marketing budget with discipline.

Connaissances

Marketing Leadership

AI Tools Integration

HubSpot Expertise

Salesforce Management

Quantitative Analysis

Campaign Strategy

Communication

Description du poste

Job Details

• Marketing Team
• Ghent - Belgium
• Full-Time Hybrid

What you will do

You will own the entire marketing motion for our global Independent Hotels segment. As the Director, Independent Hotel Marketing, you will set the channel strategy, build the demand engine, and lead a dedicated team to convert independent hoteliers into Lighthouse customers. This is a hands‑on, player‑coach role where you will not only set the strategy but also roll up your sleeves to ship campaigns and drive our growth.

What makes this different: we're an AI‑first marketing organization. You're not just expected to use Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini — you're expected to build with them. Vibe‑code landing pages. Spin up Clay tables to enrich data, route leads, draft nurture copy, and run experiments overnight. If your reaction to "we need a 200‑account ABM motion by Friday" is to open Cowork and start building, you're going to thrive here. If you'd rather brief an agency and wait three weeks, this is not the role for you.

Where you will have impact

• Own the Indie marketing strategy. Build the global demand generation plan for independent hotels, including campaign planning, channel mix, segmentation, and pipeline targets. Defend it with data and adjust it monthly.
• Run a high‑velocity demand engine. Drive lead generation across paid media, email, webinars, field events, content syndication, and partner programs. Indie is a volume game — your funnel needs to scale.
• Build, don't brief. Use Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini as part of your daily craft. Build agents and automations that take work off your team's plate. Maintain a portfolio of internal AI workflows that compound your team's output.
• Performance management. Build bottoms‑up targets per channel, per region, per segment. Use data to act on insights weekly, live and breath metrics like MQLs, SQLs, and closed‑won analysis.
• Partner with Sales Leadership. Optimize lead scoring, routing, and nurturing. Partner with sales leadership to keep handoffs clean and feedback loops tight. Use sales feedback to refine your next campaign, not your next quarter.
• Conversion optimization. Test and improve landing pages, forms, and lifecycle journeys. A/B test relentlessly. Treat the website as a product, not a brochure.
• Field & event marketing. Use field events, conferences, and partner moments to drive pipeline in the markets where independent hoteliers gather. Make every event accountable to a number.
• Budget ownership. Manage the indie marketing budget with discipline. Reallocate to what's working. Kill what isn't.

About our team

You’ll be joining our global Marketing team, a group of creative thinkers who blend the art and science of marketing to drive revenue and deliver amazing experiences. We are an AI‑first organization where every marketer is expected to think like a builder and use technology to innovate. In this role, you will lead the charge for our independent hotels segment, a key growth area for Lighthouse, working closely with our content, paid media, field events, and Indie sales teams. You'll guide a dedicated team, focus on the metrics that matter, and push the boundaries of what's possible in a fun, collaborative, and fast‑paced environment.

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working environment: Work from home or at one of our global offices.
• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work‑life balance.
• Collaborative team: High‑bar, friendly, creative, and passionate colleagues.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, tools, training, and processes to realize your full potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category).
• Competitive compensation: Proactively maintained to value your work.
• Net allowance: to support home office related expenses.
• Vouchers: lunch vouchers & eco vouchers.
• Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
• Pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

Who you are

Essential

• A minimum of 10 years of marketing experience, with 5-7 years in a growth, demand generation, or digital marketing leadership role at a B2B SaaS company.
• An AI-native operator who doesn't just use tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, but actively builds automations, workflows, and uses AI for research and as a thought partner.
• Hands‑on expert in HubSpot and Salesforce, with the ability to build and optimize within these platforms yourself.
• Highly analytical and comfortable with quantitative analysis of the funnel, GA4, and BI tools like Looker or Tableau, with a habit of daily reporting.
• A proven player‑coach who can set strategy for the team and also ship a campaign yourself in the same week.
• Fluent across multiple channels including paid media, email, content, SEO, webinars, and field events.
• A strong communicator with the ability to pitch strategy to leadership, brief creatives, and unblock team members effectively.
• A demonstrated track record of building strong alignment and tight feedback loops with sales leadership.
• Available to travel up to 5–10%.

We welcome

• An entrepreneurial and scrappy mindset; you are confident but humble, willing to admit what you don't know, and hungry to take on new things.
• A global perspective with experience building campaigns that work across NAM, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
• A strong bias to action, preferring to ship a B+ campaign this week over an A campaign next quarter.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. Our commitment to equality is part of our culture. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please notify your recruiter.

Not ticking every box? No problem! We value diverse backgrounds and unique skill sets, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply. If your experience looks a little different from what we've described, but you're passionate about what we do and are a quick learner, we'd love to hear from you!