Founding Head of Managed Marketing Services (Contract-to-Hire)

Our Company
KUKUI's mission is to provide the automotive after-market industries a platform to enable our clients to capture new market share and provide a customer relationship management system to conduct superior outbound marketing programs, improve their customer relationships, and promote customer retention programs, and ultimately increase their revenue. We give business owners advantages they've never experienced before. Through Kukui's All-in-One Success Platform, businesses from mom-and-pop shops to large enterprises, dominate their local markets. We are creating and redefining industries, and we scare the pants off of our competitors!

Kukui is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Kukui is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Kukui are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, citizenship status, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, political affiliations, or any other characteristic protected by law where we operate. Kukui will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Kukui encourages applicants of all ages. Our Team
Our team consists of remarkable individuals with incredible stories. Our backgrounds vary from technology, liberal arts, public relations, grad school, and a variety of other experiences. We learn fast, adapt quickly to change, and juggle multiple responsibilities. We're friends, we're committed to what we do, and we're committed to each other. Sound appealing? We think so. The Opportunity
KUKUI is expanding its marketing services into a comprehensive, done-for-you managed offering on top of our All-in-One platform, and we are looking for a senior operator to lead it. This is a contract-to-hire role for someone who has built and run a marketing services offering before and wants to shape one, from the offering itself through how it is delivered, with modern AI and automation at the core.
You will own the service end to end: what it is, how it is packaged and priced, how it is sold, and how it is delivered to a standard clients can see and feel. Early on you will lead from the front, working directly with our first clients and setting the bar for the team that follows. As the service grows, you will build and lead the team, the playbooks, and the technology that let it scale without losing quality. On a successful engagement, the role converts to a permanent leadership position with re-evaluated scope and compensation. What You'll Own

Shape the offering.
- Define the managed marketing service: its scope, tiers, and deliverables, and the clear line between the KUKUI platform and the managed service.

- Set pricing, packaging, and the go-to-market: positioning, sales motion, and the story.

- Define the quality and results standard the service is held to, and hold it there.

Lead client delivery from the front.
- Work directly with the first clients as their marketing strategist and lead, and own their unified marketing roadmap and output.

- Run the results conversations, interpret performance, and be accountable for ROI.

Own full-stack delivery.
- Own delivery across the whole marketing stack: paid search and social ads, SEO and AEO (AI-search visibility), managed social and content, reputation and reviews, and unified direct marketing, tied together by a single strategy-and-reporting layer.

- Clients cover hard media costs (ad spend, print, postage) as pass-through; KUKUI recommends, manages, executes, and reports.

Make AI and automation central.
- Design how the service is delivered with AI and automation at the core, so strategists can serve clients at a high standard efficientl