Chief Marketing Officer

Cornerstone Practice Management LLC; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone Practice Management is seeking a first Chief Marketing Officer to own brand, demand generation, and market positioning across the enterprise, reporting to the COO with a dotted line to the Managing Partner.

The CMO will lead a data‑driven, AI‑first marketing function across nationwide offices, ensure compliance with attorney advertising rules, and partner with BD and intake to optimize qualified leads and revenue growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of marketing leadership experience, with law firm exposure preferred.
• Experience building and leading a creative team delivering high‑quality, on‑brand output.
• Proven ability to own a data‑driven, revenue‑accountable marketing function.
• Fluency with AI tools in marketing for content, optimization, analytics, or personalization.
• Deep experience with marketing technology, analytics, and attribution (HubSpot preferred).

Responsibilities

• Build and own a full‑funnel client acquisition engine, from awareness to qualified intake, with ROI tracking.
• Define and steward the Frost Law brand as a national authority in tax controversy, across multiple markets.
• Lead the marketing function, including in‑house creative, setting structure, hiring, and managing vendors.
• Ensure compliance with attorney advertising rules across jurisdictions and maintain a defensible compliance framework.
• Champion an AI‑first approach to marketing operations, including content production, campaign optimization, and analytics.

Job description

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Entity: Cornerstone Practice Management (MSO), serving Frost Law
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer (dotted line to Managing Partner)
Location: Annapolis, MD (primary) — with responsibility across nationwide offices

The Opportunity

Cornerstone Practice Management is the management services organization powering Frost Law, a national tax controversy practice. We are building a modern, data-driven, AI-first professional services platform, and we are hiring our first Chief Marketing Officer to own brand, demand generation, and market positioning across the enterprise.

This is not a communications or collateral role. The CMO is a member of the executive leadership team, accountable for translating firm growth objectives into a measurable marketing and client‑acquisition engine, and for building the brand of a national tax controversy leader across three markets and multiple practice areas.

What You’ll Own

Growth and Demand Generation

• Build and run a full‑funnel client acquisition engine, from awareness through qualified intake, measured on cost‑per‑acquisition, pipeline contribution, and marketing‑sourced revenue.
• Own the marketing technology stack, with HubSpot CRM at the center, including lead scoring, contact classification by practice area, campaign attribution, and pipeline reporting.
• Partner closely with Business Development and the intake team to ensure marketing‑qualified leads convert; align on shared metrics and a single view of the funnel.

Brand and Positioning

• Define and steward the Frost Law brand as a national tax controversy authority, differentiated against mid‑tier tax boutiques and Big Four/national competitors.
• Own thought leadership, content strategy, digital presence, and the firm’s website, including SEO and the client‑facing narrative across practice areas.
• Manage awards, rankings, media, and reputation programs that build institutional credibility.

Team and Budget

• Build, lead, and develop the marketing function, including an in‑house creative team (design, content, digital), setting structure, hiring, and managing both staff and external vendors (SEO, agencies, design, events).
• Own the marketing budget with full P&L accountability; report performance and ROI to firm leadership on a regular cadence.

Compliance-First Marketing

• Ensure all marketing and web content complies with attorney advertising and solicitation rules across every operating jurisdiction (Maryland, Arizona, Texas) and any market the firm enters.
• Partner with legal/ethics to maintain a defensible compliance framework for all client‑facing content.

AI-First Execution

• Champion an AI‑first approach to marketing operations, including content production, campaign optimization, analytics, and personalization, consistent with the firm’s broader AI enablement strategy.

What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)

• A single, instrumented funnel from first touch to signed engagement, with attribution live in HubSpot.
• A clarified, consistent national brand and positioning framework deployed across all three markets.
• A compliant, high‑performing website driving measurable qualified intake.
• Defined marketing KPIs and a reporting rhythm the leadership team trusts to make growth decisions.

Who You Are

• 8+ years in marketing leadership, including direct law firm experience (tax, accounting, or financial services a strong plus). You understand how marketing works inside a partnership and within attorney advertising constraints.
• Proven experience building and managing a creative team, including designers, content, and digital talent, and getting high‑quality, on‑brand output from them consistently.
• Demonstrated ownership of a revenue‑accountable, data‑driven marketing function, not just brand or communications.
• Already uses AI tools in your day‑to‑day marketing work, for content production, campaign optimization, analytics, or creative, and can show how you’ve put them into practice. This is a firm operating on an AI‑first philosophy; fluency is expected, not aspirational.
• Deep, hands‑on fluency with marketing technology and CRM (HubSpot strongly preferred), analytics, and attribution.
• Working knowledge of attorney advertising / bar compliance rules, or the judgment and discipline to build that capability quickly.
• Comfortable operating in a partnership structure, able to build consensus among attorneys and practice leaders while driving accountability.
• An operator's mindset: structured, metrics‑first, and biased toward execution.

Why This Role

You will build the marketing function of a growing national firm from a position of executive authority, with a modern operating platform behind you and a leadership team that treats marketing as a growth driver, not a cost center.

Cornerstone Practice Management is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to a workplace free of discrimination and to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.