Chief Marketing Officer, Main Campus

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$104K/yr – $203K/yrDirector/Executive15+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the multi-channel demand and content engine for graduate programs, balancing site UX, content strategy, and AI-assisted SEO to influence prospective student decisions.

  • Lead creation and optimization of lead-gen and advertising programs across channels
  • Own website strategy, content, and creative asset development to improve conversion
  • Drive market research and AI-enabled search tactics to surface insights that guide outreach and messaging

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Developing and executing lead-gen strategies for master’s programs
  • Leading website strategy and user experience optimization
  • Designing and implementing content strategies across channels
  • Overseeing the development of creative assets, including photography and video
  • Planning and executing multi-channel advertising campaigns
  • Advancing SEO and emerging strategies including AI-driven search
  • Designing and conducting market research to better understand prospective student behaviors, needs, and decision drivers

Requirements

  • Master’s degree
  • 15+ years marketing, branding and/or advertising experience or an equivalent combination
  • Project or client management experience in advertising, marketing, or communications-oriented organization and demonstrated results over time
  • Extensive website redesign, creative development and production, and media planning and placement experience required
  • Proven success at managing and mentoring a team
  • Budget management experience including building a marketing budget and working with finance to plan for resources
  • Experience with CRM strategy and implementation, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, paid search and SEO best practices
  • Must have strong analytical thinking, written, and oral communication skills
  • A high level of organizational and time management skills is required
  • S/he will be detail-oriented, a good communicator with excellent interpersonal, collaborative, and consultative skills

Preferred

  • Higher education marketing experience required
  • Advertising agency experience preferred

Benefits

  • Georgetown University offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, retirement savings, tuition assistance, work-life balance benefits, employee discounts and an array of voluntary insurance options.
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Washington, District of Columbia, USA
10K employees (476 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$959.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.4%
Direct
43.3%
Referral
6.1%
Social
0.8%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
374 (4% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$13.7M
Last Raise
$750K
Grant, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2023
    Grant • $750K
  • Sep 2022
    Grant • $300K
  • Dec 2019
    Grant • $1M

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