Who We Are
Chomps is America’s fastest-growing meat snack brand, redefining convenient snacking with a commitment to real ingredients and bold, satisfying flavors. Crafted from 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef and venison, along with antibiotic-free turkey and chicken, each Chomps meat stick delivers 10+ grams of high-quality protein without sugar, hormones, soy, dairy, artificial preservatives, artificial nitrates, or MSG. Seasoned with a blend of flavorful herbs and spices, Chomps provides a nutritious protein snack for the whole family. As a minority-owned, family-operated, and B Corporation-certified business, Chomps prioritizes thoughtful sourcing and recently earned the non–ultra-processed food certification through the non-GMO project. Discover a new standard in snacking at www.chomps.com.
Traits of a Chompian
If you’ve been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.
*Accepting applications from 6/15 - 6/21/2026
What You Will Do
We are looking for a strategic, forward-thinking marketing leader to join the team as our Director, Influencer & Social. This role will define how Chomps shows up in culture, building and evolving an influencer and social ecosystem that drives awareness, trial, affinity, and measurable business impact. You will lead influencer and social as core growth engines, embedding a test-and-learn mindset, identifying emerging opportunities, and translating cultural signals into scalable programs.
This role requires both deep cultural immersion and strategic perspective. Someone instinctively tapped into what is happening now, while connecting those signals to broader trends, brand strategy, and long-term growth. You will also shape how influencer and social integrate across the broader marketing ecosystem, ensuring these channels operate as connected drivers of brand and business performance. You will partner cross-functionally and lead agency partners and a growing internal team.
Responsibilities:
Influencer
- Define and lead the long-term influencer vision and roadmap, evolving with culture, platforms, and business priorities
- Architect 360° influencer programs across key campaigns and moments, spanning earned, owned, and paid
- Build and manage a high-impact creator ecosystem, balancing scaled partnerships with deeper, strategic relationships
- Lead agency partners and investment with a focus on performance, efficiency, and measurable impact
- Establish measurement frameworks that connect influencer activity to full-funnel and retail outcomes
- Embed influencer into broader marketing planning, ensuring integration with paid, PR, and brand from the outset
- Continuously test, learn, and refine, building a system that improves over time
Social
- Set the vision for a culture-first, brand-rooted social ecosystem that is both reactive and proactive in culture
- Define channel roles across owned, influencer, and paid, ensuring a cohesive system tied to brand and business goals
- Lead platform strategy while identifying and piloting emerging spaces with intention and rigor
- Build frameworks that enable speed in culture while maintaining brand clarity and consistency
- Partner with Creative to evolve a distinct, ownable voice; serve as a creative bar-setter across all work
- Translate performance into clear actions, improving engagement, growth, and brand impact over time
- Strengthen community engagement, building meaningful, two-way interaction beyond campaigns
Technology & Operations
- Identify and implement tools, platforms, and automation to improve efficiency, insight generation, and scalability
- Balance technology with a thoughtful, human approach to creators and community
- Build repeatable systems and processes that enable speed, consistency, and quality
- Stay ahead of industry shifts, benchmarking against best-in-class brands and translating trends into action
- Drive focus and prioritization, ensuring resources are deployed against highest-impact opportunities
Team Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, raising the bar on thinking, execution, and collaboration
- Model strong leadership behaviors, bringing clarity, accountability, and consistency to ways of working
- Foster a culture of curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Bring clear, well-informed POVs to leadership and elevate the function through strong communication
- Partner with PR, Partnerships and Brand on high-visibility moments, ensuring thoughtful, brand-aligned responses
Who You Are
- 8–10+ years of experience in Influencer, Social, or related fields, with a track record of leading at scale
- Proven ability to set vision and build systems, not just execute
- Deeply immersed in culture and platforms, with strong instinct for what will resonate and why
- Able to zoom in on content and zoom out to identify macro trends and long-term opportunities
- Strong test-and-learn mindset, with experience building adaptive strategies
- Fluent in modern marketing tools and technologies, with a pragmatic approach to implementation
- Highly analytical, able to connect marketing activity to business outcomes
- Experienced people leader who can coach and elevate a team
- Strong cross-functional partner with the ability to influence at all levels
- Brings both creative ambition and operational discipline
Position: Director, Influencer & Social
Reports to: Senior Director, Integrated Marketing Communications
Location: Remote + Travel
Type: Full-Time, exempt
Salary Range Opportunity:
- The salary range for this role is $165,000 - $175,000 + 25% annual bonus
Compensation Philosophy & Total Comp:
- Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry
- Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company
- In addition to base salary, full-time team members receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K 6% match, and monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.
Other Perks:
- Ability to make an impact: Join a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial-spirited team at a pivotal point to positively impact the food industry.
- Opportunities to grow: Advance within Chomps quickly based on outstanding performance.
- Unlimited PTO and 15+ paid holiday days. Hybrid & flexible remote schedule. Chicago office open to those in the area.
- Paid maternity and paternity leave.
- Bi-annual total team in-person activities.
- Company-wide Continual Education budget.
- Unlimited snacks: Enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).
Our Commitment
Chomps is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of making nutritious food more accessible we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and the smart thing for our business.
We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Chomps.
You must reside in the United States to be considered for this position. Chomps does not provide employment-based visa sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Important Notice:
It has come to our attention that fraudsters have been posing as Chomps employees or recruiters and contacting job-seeking candidates regarding potential job opportunities. These fraudulent messages sometimes include a request for payment and confidential personal information. Please note that the Chomps recruiting process does not include asking candidates for payments or other confidential financial information. If you are applying for a job, you can confirm the legitimacy of a job posting by viewing current open roles: https://chomps.com/pages/chomps-careers. If you have questions please email us at [email protected]
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