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CIM Group

Urban real estate developer and lender

Vice President of Digital Marketing & Marketing Analytics

Full-Time
No salary listed
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Bachelor's, MBA
Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Growth & MarketingMarketing Generalist & Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Analytics, or a related field is required.
  • 15+ years of progressive experience in digital marketing and marketing technology across multiple platforms and channels, including significant experience in B2B environments.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience, including people management and the ability to mentor and develop talent.
  • Deep understanding of modern marketing technology stacks, including hands-on experience evaluating, implementing, and optimizing platforms.
  • Strong expertise in marketing analytics, performance measurement, and return on investment modeling, with the ability to connect marketing activity to tangible business and fundraising outcomes.
  • Practical experience applying artificial intelligence and advanced technologies in marketing.
  • Proven success partnering closely with Sales and Information Technology to deliver integrated, results-driven solutions.
  • Experience engaging and advising senior-level stakeholders.
  • Comfort operating in evolving, fast-paced environments.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the end-to-end digital marketing strategy across platforms, channels, and audiences, including complex business-to-business environments.
  • Align digital marketing priorities with organizational goals, growth initiatives, and fundraising objectives.
  • Provide hands-on leadership and strategic direction to the digital marketing team, fostering a collaborative, curious, and high-performance culture.
  • Bring a forward-looking external perspective that positions marketing as a strategic growth engine for the organization.
  • Assess the current marketing technology stack and ecosystem, identifying strengths, gaps, and opportunities to improve effectiveness and scalability.
  • Develop and articulate a future-state vision and roadmap for marketing technology, including platform selection, integration, and investment recommendations.
  • Partner closely with Information Technology to ensure marketing platforms, data architecture, security, and systems support the organization’s evolving needs.
  • Champion the responsible adoption of artificial-intelligence-driven marketing tools and techniques that improve efficiency, personalization, and measurable results.
  • Own marketing analytics, reporting, and performance management frameworks that connect activity to business and fundraising outcomes.
  • Establish clear key performance indicators, dashboards, and insights that demonstrate Marketing’s contribution to lead generation, pipeline performance, and return on investment.
  • Use data, attribution modeling, experimentation, and test-and-learn practices to continuously refine strategy, execution, and resource allocation.
  • Build and oversee the end-to-end digital user experience to support engagement, conversion, and lead generation.
  • Partner closely with Sales to drive high-quality lead generation and support end-to-end lead management efforts.
  • Ensure strong alignment between Marketing and Sales on strategy, data, reporting, performance metrics, and shared accountability for results.
  • Implement and optimize search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and other digital acquisition practices that strengthen funnel performance.
  • Influence senior leaders through clear insights, compelling storytelling, and evidence-based recommendations.
  • Build strong business cases for marketing and technology investments, clearly articulating expected return on investment, organizational impact, and resource requirements.
  • Balance innovation and fiscal discipline, ensuring resources are aligned to the highest-value opportunities.
  • Build strong cross-functional relationships that enable speed, consistency, innovation, and confident decision-making.
Desired Qualifications
  • An advanced degree, such as a Master of Business Administration or similar, is preferred.

About the company

CIM Group is a real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender, and developer that focuses on urban areas with high growth potential. It acquires, develops, and manages properties and provides loans for real estate projects, earning revenue from rentals, sales, and lending activities. Its portfolio includes notable properties such as the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Tribune Tower in Chicago, and the Downtown Grand Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. The company also engages in community outreach, like meals programs for people with chronic illnesses and building community gardens. CIM differentiates itself by combining ownership, development, and lending under one group, plus a strong emphasis on community impact and urban development. Its goal is to be the premier partner for investors in real assets that serve communities and to create value for both investors and local communities through responsible, growth-focused real estate and infrastructure projects.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$607M

Headquarters

Los Angeles, California

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • September 22, 2026 2535 Alsace opened, showing CIM still delivers infill housing.
  • June 18, 2026 Permanent Power closed a roughly $600 million Grape financing.
  • July 27, 2026 AHIF passed $315 million, and Fifth Third joined CIM's housing push.

What critics are saying

  • Goodtime Hotel foreclosure litigation on March 25, 2026 exposed CIM's hospitality-credit losses.
  • Central Tower and 1 Kaiser Plaza defaults signal office distress across CIM's Bay Area portfolio.
  • June 2026 reverse acquisition added $2.99 billion debt; integration failure risks capital strain.

What makes CIM Group unique

  • CIM combines ownership, development, lending, and operations across real estate and infrastructure.
  • Centennial Yards and Miami Worldcenter prove CIM can execute massive urban placemaking.
  • Permanent Power adds utility-scale solar, storage, and transmission to CIM's real-assets platform.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays
  • Bereavement Leave
  • Hybrid Work Options

Company News

Free Republic
Oct 16th, 2026
Judge appoints receiver for 455-unit X Denver tower after no-show.

Judge appoints receiver for 455-unit X Denver tower after no-show. Hoodline ^ | October 12, 2026 | Ethan Morgan Posted on 10/16/2026, 9:39:25 AM by george76 A Denver judge has appointed a court receiver for the 455-unit X Denver apartment complex near Coors Field after no representatives of X Denver appeared at a hearing. Judge Heidi Kutcher appointed Trigild, a distressed real estate firm, as receiver for the tower at 3100 Inca St. following a hearing Friday that no representatives of X Denver attended. The appointment follows Mack Real Estate Group's request for a receiver, as detailed by BusinessDen. The $170 million loan backing X Denver was originated by Mack Real Estate Group in 2022 and went into default after reaching its maturity date in January 2025, according to the Denver Business Journal. Mack asked the court to appoint a receiver for the property. A Legal Playbook Years in the Making... Mack's involvement in X Denver's debt comes amid broader distress in developer The X Company's portfolio. In May 2025, Newmark was hired by Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies to market $325 million in nonperforming debt tied to both X Denver and its Phoenix counterpart, with $170 million attached to the Denver tower and $155 million to X Phoenix, X Denver is not the first local tower lost by The X Company. CoStar reported that CIM Group assumed ownership of its sister project, X Denver 2, at 2130 Arapahoe St., after issuing a $105 million construction loan. Part of a Wider Downtown Denver Reckoning... X Denver's receivership arrives amid broader distress in Denver's commercial real estate market. Trigild was separately named receiver in August for Republic Plaza, Colorado's tallest building, after owner Brookfield Properties defaulted on $230 million in mortgage debt, the Real Deal reported. The developer's troubles stretch beyond Colorado, too - Hoodline previously reported that a December trustee sale looms over X Phoenix, where Mack Real Estate Group scheduled the auction of Phase 1 over an unpaid $128 million loan after construction on Phase 2 stalled in late 2023. The company was founded in 2018 by CEO Noah Gottlieb, a former executive at Miami-based Property Markets Group, who built the business around combining co-living suites, traditional apartments, coworking space, and members-only social clubs, per the Real Deal. For now, Trigild's appointment as receiver puts the Inca Street tower in receivership while the fallout from the developer's defaulted debt continues to play out in court. | / | Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. | 1 posted on 10/16/2026, 9:39:26 AM by george76 To: dynachrome; MileHi; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; bluejean;... Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.) 2 posted on 10/16/2026, 9:41:04 AM by george76 (Ward Churchill: Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art) To: george76 I'm a fairly longtime believer in REITs as a good income balancer in a diversified portfolio. Nifty way to add some real estate exposure without the direct headaches. Don't get me wrong - I'm not dumping (whether Twain or Will Rogers - the apocryphal "Buy land, they're not making any more of it" will never stop being true). I always do my due diligence regardless of prevailing conditions, but debt loads are becoming a REAL problem in all areas of investing and - especially in the real estate realm, I've throttled back my 'acceptable' line for debt load substantially. This is just one instance - a drop in the bucket (not even that) - but way too many stories like these popping up like rabbits. 3 posted on 10/16/2026, 9:47:31 AM by Capn Hayek (Capital is not responsible for Labor's lack of planning) To: Capn Hayek The 450-unit apartment complex has been in default of a $170 million loan since early 2025... The building's assessed value of $93.1 million is significantly lower than the outstanding loan balance, highlighting the severe financial distress surrounding the asset.= X Denver's assessed value is $93.1 million, or just 55% of its $170 million loan. 4 posted on 10/16/2026, 9:52:16 AM by george76 (Ward Churchill: Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art) To: george76 Given a tight housing market, how can an apartment tower be valued for less than the loan? Or was too much commercial space built in? 5 posted on 10/16/2026, 11:59:54 AM by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens") Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794

Urbanize Media LLC
Sep 25th, 2026
47 apartments completed at 2535 Alsace ave. in west Adams.

47 apartments completed at 2535 Alsace ave. in west Adams. The six-story building was developed by CIM Group. September 25, 2026, 6:05AM Steven Sharp The Mid-Wilshire-based firm recently announced the completion of 2535 Alsace, a six-story, 47-unit apartment complex located just north of Adams Boulevard. CIM Group utilized development incentives to permit a larger structure than otherwise allowed by zoning rules. In exchange, four of the new apartments are to be set aside for rent by very low-income households. The property includes a blend of studio and one-bedroom apartments, as well as amenities such as a rooftop deck. Roughly 400 square feet of office space is located on the building's ground floor. CIM also built an adjacent mixed-use building at 2599 Alsace, as well as similar structures at 5109 Adams and 5217 Adams.

MarketScreener
Sep 22nd, 2026
CIM Group completes and opens 2535 Alsace, 47-unit apartment community in West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles.

CIM Group completes and opens 2535 Alsace, 47-unit apartment community in West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. Published on 09/22/2026 at 02:37 pm EDT S&P Capital IQ CIM Group announced the completion and opening of 2535 Alsace, a six-story, 47-unit apartment community in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. 2535 Alsace features a mix of pet-friendly studio and one-bedroom apartment residences designed for contemporary urban living. Community amenities include a rooftop deck, BBQ and lounge area, and on-site bicycle storage. Select residences offer private balconies, and the property also includes approximately 400 square feet of ground-floor commercial office space. Located just off West Adams Boulevard on Alsace Avenue, 2535 Alsace is situated in one of Los Angeles' most dynamic neighborhoods. The community provides residents with convenient access to local restaurants, retail destinations, employment centers and transportation options, with connectivity to neighborhoods throughout the city. 2535 Alsace includes four affordable units reserved for households earning no more than 50% of the Area Median Income, as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and is located within a Qualified Opportunity Zone. (C) S&P Capital IQ - 2026

Yahoo Finance
Sep 8th, 2026
CIM Group hires Adam Lerer as managing director for real estate equity expansion

CIM Group has appointed Adam Lerer as Managing Director, Investments, expanding its Real Estate Equity team. Lerer will focus on sourcing, structuring, and executing opportunities across CIM's real estate strategies, including core, value-add, net lease, impact, and Opportunity Zone investments. Lerer brings nearly 20 years of commercial real estate experience. He previously served as Head of Special Situations Group, America at PIMCO Prime Real Estate, overseeing debt restructuring for a $14 billion loan portfolio. He also led PIMCO's US real estate acquisitions across multiple sectors. His earlier career included roles at Decron Properties, Norges Bank Investment Management, and Goldman Sachs. Lerer holds a BA in Economics from New York University and will be based in Los Angeles. Since 1994, CIM has delivered over $60 billion in real estate and infrastructure projects across the Americas.

Associated Press
Aug 6th, 2026
CIM Group's Permanent Power appoints Steve Vavrik as CEO to scale $8B energy platform

Permanent Power Company, a CIM Group portfolio company focused on US power assets, has appointed Steve Vavrik as chief executive officer. Vavrik brings over 25 years of experience in power plant development, operations, finance and trading across multiple energy sectors. He previously founded and led Broad Reach Power and served as chief executive of Earthrise Energy, developing more than $8 billion in solar, wind and battery projects. The company's initial portfolio includes approximately 1,200 MW of solar photovoltaic capacity, 690 MW of battery storage capacity and 15 miles of transmission infrastructure in California. Permanent Power Company aims to address growing energy demands through long-term ownership and operation of power assets, with particular focus on projects in qualified rural Opportunity Zones across the United States.