Note that your thread title is incorrect. From the listing, they aren't looking for a new Brand Manager. They're looking for a Director of Brand Marketing - this is a person to whom Brand Managers report.
This sounds like a job for...a Gamer with an MBA!!!!!!
...who lives in or near Washington.
I live in Tx. Damn.
(May still ally for it, though.)
With Monte coming on as a developer/imagineer (whether as a consultant or full-time employee) and now a new brand manager position announcement, I think this portents a new edition big time. When? I say the D&D XP show or Gencon 2013. There's still a lot to be done and I hope they adopt an open beta program.
Ha! If they hired me, they'd be in for a surprise!
I bet you that we won't see a new edition any time in the next two years. I'll go a location bet for a month but I'm also willing to do a ban bet.
I'll go with a location bet. However, and I am not sure if you want to bet on this, I will bet that they will announce in 2013, for release in 2014, some sort of 40th anniversary edition of previous rule sets.