The posting
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Bumble is looking for a Business Director on our International Markets, leading the strategy and performance of our portfolio of established international markets.
Reporting to the VP of International Markets, you will be responsible for defining what it takes for Bumble to win across the International portfolio. You will help to protect and strengthen our market position while identifying the next opportunities for sustainable growth, cultural relevance, and brand leadership. This is a senior leadership and people management role. You will lead and develop a talented team of market leaders, setting clear strategic direction while empowering them to translate Bumble's global strategy into locally relevant, insight-led market plans.
You are a strategic and empathetic leader who sets a high bar for both thinking and execution. You know how to coach teams, navigate complexity, challenge established approaches, make difficult prioritization decisions, and create an environment where people have the clarity, autonomy, and support to do their best work.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Own the strategy and performance of Bumble's International Markets portfolio, establishing a clear long term vision, drives sustainable growth, and remains culturally relevant in each market.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of market leaders, setting clear direction and empowering them to own outcomes.
- Drive alignment across the portfolio, ensuring teams stay focused on priorities, share learnings, and adapt quickly as business needs evolve.
- Regularly assess performance across the portfolio and make deliberate choices about where to prioritize, where to invest, where to optimize.
- Establish clear success measures across the portfolio and champion a strong culture of measurement and learning.
- Use performance and consumer insights to continuously challenge assumptions and evolve market strategies.
- Build strong partnerships with Global Marketing, Creative, Media, Product Marketing, Growth, Communications, Partnerships, Research & Insights and other cross-functional teams, ensuring Market priorities are clearly represented and incorporated into broader company plans.
- Communicate portfolio performance, priorities, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership, translating complexity into clear recommendations and decisions.
- Build a high performing and inclusive team culture grounded in trust, accountability, openness, and mutual respect.
- Act as a senior leader within the broader International organization, contributing beyond the existing Markets portfolio by sharing frameworks, market learnings, leadership practices, and strategic perspectives that raise the effectiveness of the wider team.
KEY SKILLS
- Bachelor's degree; MBA or Master's is a plus
- +12 years of experience in brand, integrated, or strategic marketing, ideally in consumer tech, lifestyle, or culturally-driven brands.
- Significant experience in senior brand, integrated, strategic, or market marketing leadership roles, ideally within consumer technology, lifestyle, entertainment, or other culturally driven brands.
- Proven experience leading multiple markets, business units, or a complex portfolio, with accountability for setting strategy, determining priorities, and driving measurable business and brand outcomes.
- Strong people leadership experience, with a demonstrated ability to coach and develop high performing teams and managers.
- Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to move between the portfolio level view and individual market dynamics and determine what matters most.
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex market challenges by synthesizing information and translating those insights into clear strategic choices.
- Strong commercial and analytical judgment, with experience using data, measurement, and ROI frameworks to inform prioritization, investment decisions, and changes in strategy.
- Deep understanding of integrated marketing and the role of brand, media, creators, partnerships, communications, experiential, product marketing, and growth in driving both brand and business outcomes.
- Understanding of international marketing and the balance between global consistency and meaningful local relevance.
- Proven ability to influence and align senior cross functional stakeholders.
- Excellent executive communication skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast moving environment.
- Excellent relationship building, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
ABOUT YOU
- You are a portfolio strategist. You can look across multiple markets, identify the few challenges and opportunities that matter most, and translate them into a clear direction for the organization.
- You are a leader of leaders. You create clarity and set a high bar.
- You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and dive in when necessary..
- You are deeply consumer and culture focused but equally comfortable with business performance and data.
- You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and can create structure and direction without waiting for every answer to be available.
- You are an exceptional collaborator who builds trust across functions.
- You are energized by change and know how to lead others through it with clarity, transparency, resilience, and optimism.
- You think beyond established playbooks. You are willing to test new approaches and encourage your teams to do the same when existing solutions are no longer sufficient.
- You are an excellent communicator who can turn complexity into a clear story.
About Us
Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.
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Final Compensation
Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.
Inclusion at Bumble Inc.
Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.
In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).
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