Director of Marketing & Business Development
Work Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Work Location: Wallenstein, ON (Hybrid)
Wage: $120,000 - $150,000
At Earthscape Play, we're not just another company; we're a playground for creativity, craft, and innovation. Our mission is to push boundaries and be a leader in the playground industry. What shapes our culture is how deeply people care about their craft, whether they're sketching the first concept, engineering the structure, or hand-building the final piece. We're growing quickly, trying new things, and stretching into new markets. As we grow, we stay grounded in what matters most: design excellence, craftsmanship, and the people and places we serve.
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Director, Marketing & Business Development to bring focus, structure, and execution to our front-end efforts. This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You'll partner closely with the VP, Brand & Business Development to translate direction into clear plans, aligned priorities, and consistent follow-through ensuring the team is set up to deliver.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll contribute directly to the work while leading the team, not just setting direction, but helping move it forward. Our work is design-led, relationship-driven, and often complex. Success in this role requires someone who can bring clarity to that complexity, strengthening how the team operates, improving how work flows, and ensuring we are showing up in the market with intention and consistency.
What You'll Do
Strategy into Execution
- Translate high-level direction into clear, actionable plans across Marketing and Business Development, including defined priorities, timelines, ownership, and expected outcomes
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Build and manage quarterly and monthly execution plans that align team efforts to company goals
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Establish clear workflows and operating rhythms that improve focus, reduce duplication, and increase follow-through
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Bring structure to ambiguous work, ensuring ideas are translated into execution without losing momentum
Market Presence & Growth
- Lead the planning and execution of trade shows, conferences, and educational events, including defining objectives, target audiences, and follow-through
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Strengthen how Earthscape shows up in the market, ensuring consistency in messaging, positioning, and engagement
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Support how opportunities are generated, qualified, and progressed in partnership with the broader Business Development team
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Ensure market insights, client feedback, and industry trends are consistently captured and used to inform decisions
Team Leadership & Effectiveness
- Lead and support a team across Marketing and Business Development, creating clarity around roles, priorities, and expectations
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Improve how work flows across the team, removing bottlenecks and increasing overall efficiency and output
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Set and maintain a high standard for quality, responsiveness, and follow-through
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Support the development of team members while ensuring strong day-to-day execution
Execution Leadership
- Lead from the front on key initiatives, contributing directly to high-impact deliverables including presentations, campaigns, messaging, and stakeholder engagement strategies
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Set the standard for execution ensuring work is clear, well-structured, and delivered with consistency and quality
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Step in to unblock work, maintain momentum, and ensure priorities move forward when timelines or clarity are at risk
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Support the team in refining outputs so they reflect the quality, clarity, and intent of Earthscape's brand
Business Integration
- Ensure Marketing and Business Development efforts are fully aligned with operational capacity, project pipeline, and company priorities
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Strengthen how opportunities are handed off and transitioned, ensuring work is well-positioned and set up for successful execution
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Build stronger connections between teams, improving how information flows and decisions are made
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Provide clear visibility into progress, risks, and trade-offs to support leadership decision-making
What We're Looking For
We care deeply about how you think, how you lead, and how you show up in complexity just as much as where you've worked.
- Experience in marketing, business development, or growth roles within a design-led, project-based, or relationship-driven environment
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Proven ability to translate high-level direction into execution and bring structure to ambiguous work
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Experience leading and developing teams while staying close to the work
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Strong organizational and operational thinking with an ability to build clarity and improve how work flows
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Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where not everything is fully defined
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Ability to manage effectively; communicating clearly, providing direct feedback, and articulating trade-offs
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Strong communication and relationship-building skills
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A mindset that aligns with Earthscape: humble, curious, collaborative, and accountable
A Role With Real Impact
This is a high-impact leadership role. Success in this role means building an operational and execution framework that scales with the business, improving market visibility, workflow predictability, and strategic discipline while strengthening the team systems and insights that support impactful growth
You'll help shape how Earthscape grows from how we plan and invest, to how we measure performance, to how we operate as a business.
If you're someone who enjoys building clarity in complex environments, cares about people and performance, and knows how to turn financial insight into meaningful action, this might be your place.
What's in it for you
This role offers the opportunity to work on some of North America's most innovative projects while helping shape how the business grows and operates.
You'll work alongside a highly skilled, committed group of people who care deeply about the work and hold a high standard for how things get done.
We believe in great compensation for great employees and offer:
- Profit sharing and performance bonuses
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Employee share ownership opportunities (ESOP) after 1 year of service
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Six-week sabbatical after 14,000 hours worked
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Tuition reimbursement
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Extended health and dental benefits
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Company events
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Casual dress code
Accommodations: We are committed to treating all people in a way that respects their dignity and independence. Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process or otherwise, please notify us of this when you apply and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
Pre-employment checks: As part of our selection process, successful candidates may be required to consent to background checks relevant to the role, prior to receiving a job offer. These could include: work references, education and credential confirmation, employment verification, identity check, criminal offense and driver's license record.
At Earthscape Play, we are committed to building an environment where everyone feels included, valued, and heard. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are an important part of our everyday work, and it is our belief that they enable us to reach our goal of bringing incredible play spaces to life. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.
