Director, Entertainment & Culture.

Government Employees Insurance Company; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with match

Tuition assistance

Remote work up to four weeks per year

Job summary

GEICO, a Berkshire Hathaway company, seeks a Director of Entertainment & Culture Marketing to own the strategy for entertainment partnerships across film, TV, gaming, and live events. You will lead the team to craft integrated programs that feel earned and aligned with GEICO’s business goals, shaping how the brand engages audiences through culture.

You will collaborate with major properties, talent, and governance teams to ensure the brand voice remains consistent while driving growth,

Qualifications

• 12+ years in marketing, including leadership of entertainment, sports, or cultural partnerships.
• Background in financial services or insurance is preferred.
• Owned multi-property partnership portfolios with negotiation and renewal decisions.
• Ability to define success metrics and tie cultural impact to business outcomes.
• Strong leadership and relationship-building skills with senior partners.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year entertainment and culture strategy across GEICO's properties.
• Lead negotiations with partner properties and manage content integrations.
• Build brand collaborations and co-marketing with other brands.
• Partner with Insights and Analytics to measure results.
• Lead a team of partnership and content strategists.

Skills

Entertainment partnerships

Brand partnerships

Leadership

Negotiation

Measurement & analytics

Tools

Claude

Copilot

Job description

Why Join GEICO?

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.

Director, Entertainment & Culture Marketing

Location: Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite. Corporate offices in Bethesda, MD or Manhattan, NY. Reports To: VP, Integrated Marketing & Media.

About the Role

Within Marketing at GEICO, entertainment and culture are where the brand gets the kind of attention people choose to give. Showing up in the stories and moments audiences care about, in ways that feel genuine and worth watching, builds the affinity that makes people choose GEICO. The Director, Entertainment & Culture Marketing owns GEICO's strategy for how the brand shows up across entertainment and culture - film, TV and streaming, gaming, live moments, and collaborations with other brands. You'll set the vision for the portfolio and lead the team that turns those choices into integrations that feel earned, not forced. You'll sit across the table from major properties and talent, shape how the brand's personality flexes across very different partner contexts and be accountable for showing that the work moves brand and business outcomes - not just impressions. This role rewards a leader who has a real point of view on culture and can assemble the team and operating model to deliver it at scale. Much of how GEICO approaches entertainment and culture is still being shaped, which means you'll have genuine room to define what this function becomes.

How We Work

The Marketing organization at GEICO is guided by a clear set of principles: we hire the best at every level and invest in developing them. We believe that strategy comes before action - if we don't know why we're doing something, we don't do it. We bring the same care and accountability to how we spend resources as we would if it were our own business. And when there are challenges, we face them directly and collectively.

Key Responsibilities

Entertainment & Culture Strategy

• Set GEICO's multi-year entertainment and culture strategy, defining where the brand plays across entertainment and cultural moments - and where it deliberately doesn't
• Treat channels, talent, and partners as opportunities to bring the brand and products to life for audiences, not simply places to put ads
• Build a cultural point of view and calendar that matches GEICO's participation to moments where it feels additive
• Bring new ideas and thought leadership to partners proactively, landing opportunities before competitors do

Portfolio Leadership

• Own the entertainment and culture partnership portfolio, including investment frameworks, contracted deliverables
• Lead negotiations with partner properties, finding efficiencies and value beyond the contract
• Partner with Insights and Analytics to define how success is measured, and use results to shift investment toward what works

Integration Ideation & Activation

• Direct the development of branded and integrated content within partnerships, spotting storytelling opportunities that fit naturally within a partner's platform or programming
• Build senior-level relationships with entertainment platforms, brands and production teams so integrations and collaborations feel earned, not forced
• Champion ideas that add to how people consume media and content rather than interrupting it

Brand Collaborations

• Identify and pursue brand-to-brand collaborations - co-branded campaigns, products, content, and experiences - with partners whose audiences and values complement GEICO's
• Structure collaboration agreements, including shared deliverables, rights and approvals, and co-marketing commitments, so the value is clear for both brands
• Lead collaborations from pitch through launch, aligning creative, legal, and communications teams on both sides so the work lands as one idea

Brand Voice & Tone Adaptation

• Set the standard for how GEICO's brand personality is expressed across different partners - leaning into distinct tones as needed - while keeping messaging consistent with GEICO's established brand system
• Ensure work aligns with brand standards and messaging direction in close partnership with Creative Brand Governance, Product Marketing, Corporate Comms and Legal

Executive Communication & Stakeholder Alignment

• Own the strategic briefs and points of view for entertainment and culture programs - spelling out the creative rationale and how tone will adapt while staying anchored to the brand
• Present strategy, activation recommendations, and results to key stakeholders, building credibility and support for forward-looking ideas
• Work closely with Creative, Product Marketing, Media, Insights, Analytics, and agency partners to keep programs aligned and moving

Team Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a team of partnership and content strategists, hiring strong talent and investing in their growth
• Establish the operating rhythms and processes that take programs from concept through activation and measurement, consistently and at scale

You May Be a Good Fit

• Have led an entertainment, sports, or cultural partnership portfolio - owning the strategy and the big deals - and can point to the programs you created and the results they drove
• Have worked inside a company where acquiring and retaining customers was central to the business model, and know how to connect cultural relevance to that outcome
• Can sit across from network executives or talent representatives and walk away with both a better deal and a better idea
• Have built brand-to-brand collaborations that people noticed, and know how to make two brands' voices work together without either one getting lost
• Are energized by building something that doesn't exist yet
• Want to be inside a transformation at an iconic brand

Ideal Experience

Experience

• 12+ years in marketing, including significant time leading entertainment, sports, or cultural partnerships across traditional and digital, with proven, demonstrable results developing bespoke, partner-specific programs and activations
• Background in a conversion-driven service business - financial services, insurance, or banking - where success depends on acquiring and retaining customers.
• Owned a multi-property partnership portfolio and budget, including negotiation, contracting, and renewal decisions with major properties or talent
• Directly led branded content initiatives from idea through finished execution
• Led co-branded collaborations with other brands, from partner selection and deal structure through launch and measurement
• A strong sense of how to flex brand voice across different partner contexts without losing consistency or diluting the brand
• Experience defining success metrics for partnership programs and tying cultural impact to brand and business outcomes
• Comfort using AI tools such as Claude or Copilot in day-to-day work, from trend and audience analysis to concept development and results synthesis

Preferred

• May also have experience building an entertainment or cultural marketing practice in a transformational or matrixed organization
• A track record of identifying and scaling emerging formats - creators, gaming, streaming, live experiences - ahead of broader market adoption
• Senior relationships with studios, streamers, networks, leagues, or talent and representation
• Experience directing entertainment, sports marketing, or talent agency partners
• Experience in insurance or financial services, where trust and brand affinity directly shape consideration

The GEICO Pledge

Great Company

At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs. We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives.

Great Careers

We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career - and your potential - in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture

We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action, and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging that values different perspectives.

Great Rewards

We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health, and financial future - including market competitive compensation, a 401K savings plan vested from day one with a 6% match, performance and recognition-based incentives, tuition assistance, mental healthcare, fertility and adoption assistance, and the GEICO Flex program offering up to four weeks of remote work per year.

Annual Salary $146,575.00 - $229,600.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations. At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

GEICO is an equal opportunity employer. GEICO conducts drug screens and background checks on applicants who accept employment offers. The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of GEICO provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates.

GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States.

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