Our Company

Our Team

The Opportunity

What You'll Own

• Define the managed marketing service: its scope, tiers, and deliverables, and the clear line between the KUKUI platform and the managed service.
• Set pricing, packaging, and the go-to-market: positioning, sales motion, and the story.
• Define the quality and results standard the service is held to, and hold it there.

• Work directly with the first clients as their marketing strategist and lead, and own their unified marketing roadmap and output.
• Run the results conversations, interpret performance, and be accountable for ROI.

• Own delivery across the whole marketing stack: paid search and social ads, SEO and AEO (AI-search visibility), managed social and content, reputation and reviews, and unified direct marketing, tied together by a single strategy-and-reporting layer.
• Clients cover hard media costs (ad spend, print, postage) as pass-through; KUKUI recommends, manages, executes, and reports.

• Design how the service is delivered with AI and automation at the core, so strategists can serve clients at a high standard efficiently.
• Specify the tooling, data, reporting, and AI-assist that delivery needs, and drive that build in partnership with product and technology, with client delivery as the design center.

• Own the growth and commercial performance of the service.
• Hire and lead the account and delivery team as it grows, and set the standards, playbooks, and metrics that keep quality high at scale.
• Partner across Sales, Client Success, Product, and delivery.

In Your First Year

• A clearly defined, priced, in-market managed service, with a clean line between the platform and the service.
• A first group of clients who are delighted with both the service and the results.
• A delivery and automation model that sets KUKUI apart and is built to scale.
• The foundations for growth: the team, the playbooks, and the standards.

Must-Have Qualifications

• A track record of building a marketing services offering. You have stood up a done-for-you marketing service or agency-style practice before, owned it commercially, and made it work. This is the non-negotiable.
• SMB and local marketing expertise. You understand how small and local businesses buy, what moves the needle for them, and how to deliver marketing a local owner can see the value of. This is a must.
• Deep, current channel command. Hands-on strength across paid search and social, SEO, and AEO / AI-search visibility, with working command of the rest of the stack (social, content, reputation, direct).
• AI and automation as a core instinct. You have used, and ideally built, AI and automation to deliver marketing services efficiently and at a high standard.
• Commercial ownership. Comfortable owning pricing, packaging, go-to-market, and the growth of the service.
• A hands-on leader. Willing and able to sell, strategize, and run accounts yourself early on, then build and lead the team, ego set aside and sleeves rolled up.
• Quality-first. You define the standard, and you protect it as the service scales. You deliver on what you promise.

Nice to Have

• Experience in the automotive repair industry, or with franchise, multi-location, or dealer-network marketing.
• Experience standing up a services line inside a software or platform company.
• Experience building or directing distributed delivery teams.
• A network of marketing talent you can draw from as the service grows.

The Engagement

• Contract-to-hire, full-time. The initial contract period is approximately six to nine months. We want candidates who are excited by a contract-to-hire path, so please apply only if that structure works for you.
• Conversion. On a successful engagement, the role converts to a permanent leadership position with re-evaluated scope and compensation.
• Remote, Continental US. Must be authorized to work in the United States; KUKUI does not provide visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

• During the contract period: competitive contract rate
• Upon conversion to permanent employment, the role includes a competitive base salary and KUKUI's full benefits package:
  • Flexible Work Schedule
  • 4 Weeks Paid Time Off
  • 7 Days Paid Sick Time
  • 1 Birthday Day Annually
  • 1 Floating Holiday
  • 7 Paid Holidays + Annual Holiday Break
  • Annual Anniversary Bonus
  • 401k
  • Family, Medical & Bereavement Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Employee Work-Life Wellness Program
  • Remote Employee Reimbursement Program
  • Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and Disability
  • Kukui Active (50% paid gym membership up to $100)
  • Team Building Events
  • LinkedIn Learning Partner
  • Employee Referral Bonus