Job Description
Position: Manager, New Audience Development
Overview
Awarded World's Best Small Ship Cruise line, Windstar Cruises is known for ******** yacht style experience and unique voyages to the world's best small ports and hidden harbors. Its three sailing yachts and four all-suite yachts carry just 148 to 342 guests and cruise around the world. Our mission is to imagine and deliver personalized and immersive experiences 180 degrees from ordinary.
We enrich people's perspective through inspired travel.
Our Mission:
We imagine and deliver personalized and immersive experiences 180 degrees from ordinary
Our Vision:
Enriching people's perspective through inspired travel
Our Values:
Welcoming, Innovative, Now, Discipline, Serve, Teamwork, Authentic, Responsible
Job Summary:
The Manager, New Audience Development is responsible for identifying, developing, and activating high‑value niche audience segments to drive demand for Windstar's new destination‑led products and experiences. This role focuses on audience strategy, segmentation, partnerships, and content activation, ensuring that new products are launched with clearly defined target audiences, compelling messaging, and scalable demand‑generation models.
As part of the cross‑functional New Experiences Task Force, the Manager works closely with New Product Development to align audience strategy with approved product concepts, and with New Experience Development to ensure guest communications and journey touchpoints are aligned with execution. This role owns the audience lens within the task force and is accountable for building awareness, engagement, and conversion within priority niche segments.
Responsibilities
Audience Strategy & Segmentation
• Define and develop comprehensive audience profiles and ideal customer profiles (ICPs) for priority niche segments (e.g., equestrian, golf, river cruise converters).
• Design CRM driven segmentation and lifecycle journeys aligned to audience motivations, decision behaviors, and booking pathways.
• Identify growth opportunities, acquisition levers, and messaging frameworks unique to each niche audience.
Demand Activation & Campaign Planning
• Develop full funnel audience activation strategies supporting new product pilots and launches.
• Translate audience insights into campaign strategies that drive awareness, engagement, and conversion.
• Align demand plans with product launch timelines, itinerary deployment, and seasonal audience moments.
Partnership Development
• Identify, evaluate, and establish partnerships with relevant organizations, events, communities, publications, and influencers aligned to target niche audiences.
• Develop co marketing and partnership programs that support list growth, content amplification, and qualified demand generation.
• Build long term partner activation plans aligned to product roadmaps and deployment schedules.
Content & Creative Direction
• Partner closely with Creative and Content teams to develop compelling, audience specific storytelling and campaign assets.
• Translate audience insights into content pillars, creative briefs, and messaging frameworks.
• Ensure content and toolkits are delivered for internal stakeholders and travel advisors to support consistent messaging.
• Develop content strategies aligned with audience specific moments (e.g., competitions, seasonal cycles, major events).
Cross Functional Collaboration
• Work with New Product Development to align audience strategy with approved product concepts, positioning, and value propositions.
• Collaborate with New Experience Development to ensure guest communications, onboard messaging, and journey touchpoints align with delivery models.
• Participate actively in NET operating rhythms, including standups, steering reviews, and shared workflows.
Measurement & Performance Tracking
• Track and report on audience growth, lead acquisition, content engagement, PR reach and quality, and contribution to demand for new products.
• Monitor early indicators of audience to pilot velocity and campaign effectiveness.
• Use insights to refine segmentation, messaging, and activation strategies over time.
Success Measures
• Growth and engagement of defined niche audience segments.
• Quality and volume…
