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Full-Time

VP – Marketing

Posted on 4/18/2024

Favor

Favor

1,001-5,000 employees

On-demand delivery service connecting local businesses

Social Impact
Consumer Goods

Expert

Austin, TX, USA

Requires onsite presence in Austin, Texas for roughly three days per week.

Category
Brand & Creative Marketing
General Marketing
PR & Communications
Growth & Marketing
Required Skills
Marketing
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 10+ years of senior-level marketing experience with a consumer-facing brand
  • Established and innovative marketing leader with a broad, diverse marketing background
  • Experience building and developing a multi-audience consumer-facing brand
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire an experienced team
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
  • Comprehensive understanding of loyalty and retention marketing, media buying, and brand marketing
  • Able to handle aggressive deadlines, work cross-functionally, and prioritize work in a fast-paced environment
  • Data-driven, quantitative approach to using analytics and metrics
  • Passion for innovation, creative branding, positioning, and messaging
Responsibilities
  • Develop and execute a clearly defined marketing and external communications strategy
  • Lead integrated marketing planning across all audiences and channels
  • Manage large budgets across customer and runner awareness, acquisition, and retention efforts
  • Operationalize approaches to measuring and increasing customer lifetime value
  • Collaborate with H-E-B counterparts to develop campaigns and programs
  • Lead and mentor a high-performing marketing team
  • Work with the leadership team to refine marketing roadmap and vision

Favor Delivery operates in the on-demand delivery market, primarily in Texas, providing a service that delivers a variety of products, including food, beverages, and everyday essentials, directly to customers' homes. The service works by partnering with local businesses such as restaurants and retail stores, allowing users to choose from a diverse selection of items that can be delivered quickly. Favor Delivery stands out from competitors like DoorDash and Uber Eats by focusing on hyper-local markets and building strong relationships with local businesses, as well as actively supporting community initiatives that resonate with socially conscious consumers. The company's goal is to offer convenience to busy individuals and families while promoting local businesses and community engagement. Favor generates revenue through delivery fees charged to customers and service fees from partner businesses, along with potential earnings from promotional partnerships.

Company Stage

M&A

Total Funding

$50M

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

2013

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

13%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Favor's strong community engagement, such as the Feeding Texas campaign, enhances its brand reputation and customer loyalty.
  • The company's hyper-local focus allows it to better understand and cater to the specific needs and preferences of Texas residents.
  • Recent executive team expansions and leadership hires signal a commitment to growth and innovation, potentially leading to new opportunities for employees.

What critics are saying

  • Operating exclusively in Texas limits Favor's market reach and exposes it to regional economic fluctuations.
  • The highly competitive on-demand delivery market, dominated by giants like DoorDash and Uber Eats, poses a constant threat to Favor's market share.

What makes Favor unique

  • Favor Delivery focuses exclusively on the Texas market, fostering strong local relationships and community engagement, unlike national competitors.
  • The company's emphasis on supporting community initiatives, such as promoting Black-owned businesses and LGBTQI communities, resonates with socially conscious consumers.
  • Favor's unique promotional partnerships with local brands like H-E-B and Central Market provide additional value to customers and differentiate it from other delivery services.

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