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Position: Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Location: In-office, Toronto, Ontario

Employment Type: Full-time, permanent

Reports To: President & Owner

Travel: Periodic travel across Canada and the United States to support franchise partners, training, market launches, and brand initiatives

Build the Marketing Engine Behind Better Learning Outcomes

Prep Academy Tutors is a premium tutoring and academic-support company serving families through a growing network of more than 50 franchise locations across Canada and the United States. We deliver highly personalized in-home and online tutoring, helping students build confidence, master skills, and reach meaningful academic goals.

We are seeking a commercially minded, hands-on Chief Marketing Officer to lead the next chapter of our brand and franchise marketing growth. This is not a purely strategic or agency-management role. The successful candidate will set the marketing vision, establish scalable systems, and work directly with franchisees and the corporate team to turn that strategy into measurable local demand, qualified leads, enrollments, referrals, and durable brand equity.

The CMO will own the full marketing ecosystem:

- Brand strategy and governance
- Performance marketing
- Website and conversion optimization
- CRM and lifecycle marketing
- Content and social media
- Reputation and referral programs
- Market-launch marketing
- Analytics
- Franchisee education, coaching, and accountability

The role is in-office and requires an energetic operator who can move comfortably between executive-level planning, creative direction, data analysis, vendor management, and practical franchisee support.

Our goal: Create a consistent, trusted North American brand while giving every franchise partner practical, measurable marketing support to grow sustainably in their local market.

The Opportunity at a Glance Area What You Will Own
Brand leadership Positioning, messaging, visual identity, brand standards, local-market adaptation, and reputation stewardship.
Franchise growth Marketing playbooks, launch plans, training, coaching, campaign templates, and performance support for 50+ franchisees.
Demand generation Paid digital advertising, local search, organic acquisition, partnerships, referrals, email nurture, and conversion-rate optimization.
CRM and lifecycle marketing HubSpot architecture, lead routing, segmentation, automation, reporting, franchise adoption, and sales-marketing alignment.
Digital experience Corporate and local-market web strategy, landing pages, SEO foundations, online booking/contact funnels, and continuous testing.
Team and partners Build and lead a high-performing internal marketing function and manage specialist agencies, freelancers, and technology partners.
Measurement Marketing investment, pipeline contribution, qualified-lead volumes, conversion rates, customer acquisition cost, retention, referral activity, and franchisee adoption.
Key Responsibilities 1. Set the Marketing and Brand Strategy

- Develop and execute a multi-year marketing strategy that supports corporate priorities, franchise system growth, local market performance, customer acquisition, retention, and brand differentiation.
- Translate company objectives into an annual marketing plan, operating calendar, budget, KPIs, and a explicit cadence for measuring results and reallocating investment.
- Sharpen Prep Academy Tutors' brand positioning for parents, students, educators, community partners, prospective franchisees, and referral sources.
- Protect a cohesive, high-quality brand experience across all customer touchpoints while creating practical approved assets and guardrails that allow franchisees to market confidently and effectively in their own communities.

2. Lead Franchise Marketing, Launches, Training, and Coaching
- Create a scalable franchise marketing system that makes strong marketing execution easier at the local level.
- Develop and deliver onboarding training for new franchisees covering business-start-up marketing, local market analysis, ideal-customer targeting, competitive positioning, lead generation, HubSpot usage, follow-up standards, campaign execution,



budgeting, and business planning.
- Provide ongoing group training and one-on-one coaching, identify performance gaps, and help franchisees convert marketing activity into disciplined growth plans.
- Establish clear service levels and routines for franchise marketing support, including office hours, training sessions, performance reviews, resource libraries, campaign briefings, and structured feedback loops.
- Work closely with franchise operations and leadership to ensure marketing initiatives are practical, adopted, measured, and connected to each franchisee's revenue goals.

3. Build a High-Performing Demand-Generation Program
- Lead the development and optimization of multi-channel lead-generation programs across paid search, paid social, local SEO, organic social, content, email, referral, partnerships, retargeting, and other relevant channels.
- Manage digital advertising strategy and performance across platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, and emerging channels.
- Establish disciplined testing of audiences, creative, landing pages, offers, bidding strategies, and local-market variations.
- Identify and cultivate scalable local-growth levers, including school and community relationships, professional referral partnerships, parent ambassadors, alumni and customer referrals, events, seasonal campaigns, and strategic partnerships.

4. Own HubSpot, Lead Management, and Lifecycle Marketing
- Serve as the executive owner of the marketing side of HubSpot and work with sales, franchise operations, and technical partners to ensure it is configured and adopted as the system of record for marketing activity, lead management, customer communications, and performance reporting.
- Establish standards for lead capture, source tracking, routing, response-time expectations, lifecycle stages, pipeline definitions, segmentation, nurture sequences, re-engagement programs, and post-enrollment communications.
- Build dashboards that give corporate leadership and franchisees a clear view of local demand generation, lead quality, follow-up performance, conversion, campaign impact, and chance gaps.
- Design email marketing and marketing-automation programs that guide parents through the decision process with useful, timely, brand-consistent communications.

5. Improve Websites, Landing Pages, SEO, and Conversion Paths
- Lead the strategic evolution of the corporate and franchise digital experience, including website architecture, local landing pages, service pages, content hubs, calls to action, forms, booking pathways, lead capture, accessibility, speed, analytics, and search-engine visibility.
- Prioritize conversion-rate optimization through evidence-based testing and use insight from calls, CRM data, and franchise feedback to improve the customer journey continuously.
- Establish a sustainable content and SEO roadmap focused on the questions, concerns, seasons, academic needs, and decision triggers of families.

6. Direct Content, Social Media, and Reputation Marketing
- Develop an editorial and social-media strategy that positions Prep Academy Tutors as a trusted, helpful authority for families navigating academic support.
- Oversee the planning, production, quality control, and distribution of useful content in formats such as articles, parent guides, student-success stories, expert videos, social posts, email newsletters, case studies, webinars, and local-market materials.
- Establish social-media standards and a practical operating model that supports consistent corporate storytelling while enabling thoughtful, compliant, localized franchise activity.
- Own reputation strategy, including review-generation programs, testimonial collection, response standards, and monitoring of brand sentiment.

7. Apply AI and Marketing Technology Responsibly




- Identify and implement AI-enabled workflows that increase the speed, quality, and scalability of marketing work.
- Set sensible governance for AI use, including brand tone, human review, data privacy, customer confidentiality, permissions, accuracy, intellectual property, and responsible use of student and family information.

8. Lead People, Partners, Budgets, and Performance
- Build, coach, and retain a capable marketing team that combines strategic thinking with reliable execution.
- Define roles, goals, performance expectations, workflows, and development plans across key capabilities such as paid media, CRM, creative, web, content, design, analytics, and franchise marketing.
- Select and manage agencies, contractors, technology vendors, and other external partners with clear scopes, service levels, reporting expectations, and accountability for outcomes.
- Manage corporate marketing budgets and guide local-market investment, ensuring funds are deployed with discipline and aligned to strategic priorities.

What Success Looks Like Time Frame Expected Outcomes
First 90 days Complete a practical audit of brand, marketing channels, CRM, website funnels, franchisee needs, marketing technology, team capacity, and measurement; establish priorities, baseline metrics, and a clear operating cadence.
First 6 months Launch standardized franchise marketing playbooks and onboarding materials; improve lead capture, tracking, routing, and reporting; establish test-and-learn performance campaigns; and deliver a prioritized website/CRM optimization roadmap.
First 12 months Demonstrate stronger marketing accountability across the network, improved quality and consistency of demand generation, higher franchisee marketing adoption, a mature content and referral system, and a clear evidence base for scaling the most effective local-market programs.
Qualifications and Experience Requirement Preferred Profile
Franchise or multi-unit expertise Demonstrated success supporting decentralized local operators while maintaining brand standards, improving adoption, and driving measurable market-level performance. Franchise experience is strongly preferred.
Performance marketing Deep working knowledge of paid search, paid social, analytics, audience strategy, campaign testing, attribution, conversion optimization, and reporting tied to commercial outcomes.
HubSpot and CRM Strong hands-on experience with HubSpot Marketing Hub and CRM, including automation, segmentation, lifecycle design, reporting, lead management, user adoption, and data hygiene. HubSpot certifications are an asset.
Web and digital experience Experience leading website strategy, landing-page development, SEO, local search, UX, analytics, content management systems, and conversion-rate optimization.
Content and brand Excellent brand judgment and demonstrated ability to create clear positioning, strong messaging, scalable content systems, social-media strategies, and compelling creative briefs.
Training and influence Outstanding facilitator and coach who can train new franchisees, influence independent operators, deliver candid feedback, and translate complex marketing concepts into usable actions.
Analytics and financial discipline Comfortable setting KPIs, managing budgets, analyzing funnel performance, interpreting data, and making investment decisions based on lead quality, revenue contribution, and return on investment.
AI and technology fluency Practical knowledge of AI-assisted marketing tools and marketing-technology ecosystems, with sound judgment around governance, privacy, and quality control.
Leadership and communication A confident, collaborative leader with exceptional written, presentation, relationship-building, and cross-functional communication skills.
Education Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field is preferred; equivalent experience and demonstrated results will be considered.
Core Competencies

The ideal candidate is both strategic and hands-on. They bring commercial curiosity, sound judgment, urgency, creativity, and a strong service orientation toward franchise partners.

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