--- title: 'Brand Manager at Clutch Technologies Inc.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/brand-manager-clutch-technologies-inc-toronto-26ct8p2fc417' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Brand Manager at Clutch Technologies Inc. - **Company:** Clutch Technologies Inc. - **Location:** Toronto, Canada - **Posted:** 2026-09-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clutch/jobs/6180996004 ## Job description About Clutch: We’re on a mission to reinvent the way people buy, sell, and own cars. Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car buying and selling experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse thousands of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Named five years in a row to the Globe & Mail’s list of the Top Growing Companies in Canada and also awarded spots on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ lists, we’re looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team. Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including D1 Capital, Canaan, Real Ventures, BrandProject, and BMO. To learn more, visit[clutch.ca](https://www.clutch.ca/). ## About the Role We’re looking for an experienced Brand Manager to help bring the Clutch brand to life across every touchpoint. You’ll own the day-to-day execution of our brand strategy, from managing our agency of record and leading creative briefs to ensuring campaigns, retail spaces, and brand initiatives are delivered at a high bar. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who understands what makes a great brand and knows how to turn strategy into action. You’ll work cross-functionally, push for best-in-class creative, and help us build Clutch into Canada’s next household name. ## What You’ll Do - Manage the Agency of Record Relationship: Serve as the primary point of contact for our agency of record, ensuring alignment on brand strategy, creative direction, and deliverables. Build a collaborative, high-performing relationship that keeps the agency accountable to timelines, budgets, and brand standards. - Own the Briefing Process: Lead campaigns from ideation through execution, writing and delivering creative briefs to the agency, managing production timelines, and ensuring all assets are approved and launched on time. You're the connective tissue between strategy and delivery. - Own Real Estate Design Approval: collaborating closely with the Real Estate team to ensure all retail spaces are executed in accordance with our approved Design Control Document. - Drive Brand Planning: Be an active participant in brand planning sessions, contributing ideas, identifying opportunities, and helping shape the direction of upcoming campaigns and initiatives. - Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with the Marketing Coordinator and Social Media Manager to ensure current brand plans are executed consistently across all channels and touchpoints. - Champion the Brand: Ensure every campaign, asset, and piece of communication reflects Clutch's brand voice, visual identity, and tone acting as a steward of the brand across all external and internal touchpoints. Regularly audit work across teams to make sure brand guidelines are upkept across all channels. - Advocating for Best in Class Creative: our creative mantra is extremely important and we strive to stand out and be unique as a brand manager on this team you will help push the right teams to create creative tension. - Monitor Trends and Competitors: Stay on top of industry trends, competitor activity, and market shifts, bringing fresh ideas and insights to keep our brand ahead of the curve. - Measure and Report: Track campaign performance and key brand metrics, synthesizing insights and recommendations to inform future planning. ## What We’re Looking For - You’ve got 4-6 years of brand or marketing work experience at either a startup, agency or CPG. - You have a bachelor degree (marketing preferred but not required) . - You have experience managing agency or vendor relationships, and are comfortable holding external partners accountable to timelines and quality. - You're highly organized and can juggle multiple campaigns and briefs at once without dropping the ball. - You're comfortable navigating fast-paced, changing environments. - You're a self-starter who takes ownership without being asked. - You're eager to roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to help the brand succeed. - You want a direct hand in building Canada's next household name. ## Preferred Skills - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field. - Experience working at an agency and/or in-house brand team. - Experience in a startup or high-growth environment is a strong asset. Why you’ll love it at Clutch: - Autonomy & ownership -- create your own path, and own your work - Competitive compensation - Generous time off program - Health & dental benefits - Parental leave top-up - In office environment Employment Type: - Existing, Permanent Full-Time - 4 Days on site, Toronto Office Compensation & Benefits: - Salary range: 110,000 - 125,000 - Benefits: Healthcare, dental, vision, prescriptions, life insurance, and dependent coverage from day 1. - Pay decisions reflect skills, performance, market benchmarking, responsibilities, and working conditions. Clutch is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. If you require accommodation at any stage of the interview process, please email talent@clutch.ca. ## About Clutch Technologies Inc. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Canada’s largest online used-car retailer, buying, reconditioning, and selling vehicles directly to consumers through a fully digital, vertically integrated experience. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, growth stage) - **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - **Founded**: 2016 (operations began 2017 in Halifax) - **Founders**: Stephen Seibel, Andrew Dolinski, Chris Dolinski ## Core Business - Primary industry: Online used‑car retailing, automotive e‑commerce - Target customers: B2C – individual car buyers and sellers across Canada (Ontario, Atlantic Canada, and British Columbia) - Mission: “Reinventing how Canadians buy and sell cars” – making the transaction effortless, honest, and transparent. ## Products & Services - **Clutch Retail Platform (SaaS‑inspired marketplace)**: A fully online car‑buying and selling experience. Customers browse a curated inventory, get an instant data‑driven offer for their trade‑in, purchase with financing, and receive home delivery with a 10‑day money‑back guarantee. - **Vehicle Financing**: In‑house financing options offered during checkout. - **Inspection & Reconditioning Services**: In‑house mechanical inspections and cosmetic reconditioning at company‑owned facilities (Mississauga, Halifax, Richmond). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; a 2025 funding round reset the valuation “slightly above” the 2021 peak of approximately C$575 million [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_(company)) - **Key Metric**: Total funding – at least C$217 million including debt (C$7M seed, C$60M Series A/2021, C$100M Series B, and C$50M in 2025 from Altos Ventures) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: D1 Capital Partners, Canaan Partners, Altos Ventures, Real Ventures, BrandProject, BMO, Upper90, FJ Labs - **Growth Signals**: - Revenue of C$320 million in 2024, up ~81% YoY; reached profitability - Cumulative C$1.7 billion paid out to Canadian vehicle sellers, 95,000+ cars bought/sold - Re‑entered British Columbia (Richmond) in August 2025 after a 2023 exit - Opened a new inspection facility in Mississauga - Named to Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Globe & Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies (2025 rank: 132nd) ## Competitive Advantages - **Vertical integration**: Clutch owns the full supply chain – purchasing, inspecting, reconditioning, listing, financing, and delivering – enabling tight quality control and cost efficiency. - **Proprietary technology**: Custom‑built pricing engine using machine learning, VIN decoding, automated title transfers, and inventory routing. No off‑the‑shelf dealership software. - **Data‑driven pricing**: Real‑time offers informed by millions of data points (make, mileage, condition, regional demand). - **Trust and transparency**: Non‑negotiable upfront prices, 10‑day money‑back guarantee, and a “radically transparent” culture that reduces traditional dealership friction. ## Strategic Focus - **Profitable growth**: After a 2023 downturn and 65% workforce reduction, the company shifted from “aggressive growth to profitability at all costs.” Focus on margin improvement and operational efficiency. - **Expansion in Western Canada**: Re‑entered British Columbia with a wholesale‑focused model; aims to bring direct‑to‑consumer sales back over time. - **Tech‑enabled scale**: Continue investing in in‑house software, ML model retraining, and automation to handle growing transaction volumes without proportional headcount increase. - **Inventory sourcing**: Prioritise purchases directly from individual sellers (vs. wholesale auctions) to keep margins competitive. ## Why Work Here - **Engineering culture**: Engineers own large domains, deploy multiple times a day with feature flags, and work directly with operations. Stack is built from scratch – no legacy dealership software. - **Autonomy & ownership**: “Create your own path and own your work” – cross‑functional teams with direct lines to the field. - **Compensation**: Competitive base pay plus equity (stock options for roles that shape the company’s future). - **Benefits**: Medical, dental, wellness support; generous time off and parental leave. - **Work mode**: Primarily office‑based at locations in Toronto (HQ), Mississauga, Halifax, and Richmond (BC). Field Operations and Production roles are on‑site; engineering roles appear to be in‑office as well (no explicit remote‑first policy). - **People principles**: Radically transparent, always improving, reliably clutch (go‑above‑and‑beyond), people first – values strongly emphasised in internal culture. ## Sources 1. [clutch.ca/about](https://www.clutch.ca/about) – Company overview, mission, key stats ($1.7B paid, 95,000+ cars, 650+ employees) 2. [clutch.ca/careers](https://www.clutch.ca/careers) – Perks, values, engineering culture, employee count (450), annual revenue ($700M reported; note discrepancy with Wikipedia’s C$320M for 2024) 3. [boards.greenhouse.io/clutch](https://boards.greenhouse.io/clutch) – Current job openings, description of teams, investor list 4. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_(company)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_(company)) – History, funding rounds, revenue (C$320M in 2024), valuation, employee count (~510 in 2025), recognition 5. 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