Director, Digital and Marketing Strategy

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $170K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic digital marketing, brand, and analytics for a civil rights law firm, with senior leadership and a 10+ year track record in integrated digital strategy.

  • Must-have: 10+ years in digital marketing with supervisory experience and cross-functional leadership.
  • Standout: Experience shaping narrative for civil rights or public interest campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic leadership and planning: Partner with leaders across the organization to identify opportunities to align digital and marketing strategy with organizational and program priorities
  • Strategic leadership and planning: Serve as a subject matter expert to translate historical, cultural, and societal insights into forward-looking, audience-centered digital strategies that drive engagement
  • Strategic leadership and planning: Ensure all digital strategies and tactics are consistently aligned with and reinforce LDF’s brand identity, safeguarding the integrity, credibility, and distinct voice of the nation’s preeminent civil rights law firm across all platforms and channels
  • Team Leadership And Development: Manage, mentor, and empower a team of five direct reports: Digital Project Manager, Content Producer (video), Digital Media Strategist (web), 2 Social Media Strategists
  • Team Leadership And Development: Guide workload management and prioritization across the team, ensuring resources are aligned to the highest impact work
  • Brand Marketing And Content Strategy: Serve as a senior steward of the organization’s digital brand, ensuring all strategies, content, and campaigns consistently reinforce and elevate the identity, credibility, and distinct voice of LDF across platforms and channels
  • Brand Marketing And Content Strategy: Partner with the Editorial Directors and the Principal Designer and Brand Manager to uphold and evolve editorial and visual standards
  • Brand Marketing And Content Strategy: Define and oversee a data-informed digital advertising strategy, integrating paid media into broader content and campaign planning to maximize LDF visibility, audience growth, and impact
  • Project And Campaign Management: Provide senior leadership for the planning, execution, and performance of integrated digital marketing campaigns, ensuring all initiatives advance strategic priorities and deliver measurable impact
  • Project And Campaign Management: Establish and refine organization-wide approval systems, workflows, and governance to ensure content quality and operational excellence across digital initiatives
  • Department Operations: Build and maintain relationships with vendors, contractors, and freelancers to enhance the organization’s digital capacity and expertise. Creates and submits contracts for vendors, contractors, and freelancers
  • Department Operations: Represent the digital and marketing team in organizational meetings, contributing strategic insights and updates on initiatives
  • Department Operations: Make recommendations about the need for new digital tools, software, and services
  • Digital Marketing Analytics And Optimization: Provide senior-level leadership in the use of data and analytics to shape and continuously refine digital strategy, establishing key performance indicators and ensuring insights are translated into performance improvement. Establish best practices for digital measurement and content performance across platforms, guide the strategic use of SEO, AEO, and SEM.
  • Digital Marketing Analytics And Optimization: Oversee the development of executive-level reporting and insights, delivering clear, strategic narratives to demonstrate impact and drive innovation and continuous improvement.
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NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.

LDF is the nation’s first and foremost civil and human rights law organization. Since its founding under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall in 1940, LDF has been committed to transforming this nation’s promise of racial equity and justice into reality for all Americans. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. Working in the areas of criminal justice, economic justice, education, and political participation, we seek to diminish the role of race in the criminal justice system; increase fairness and participation in all aspects of economic life; increase equity in education; and achieve full civic engagement and participation in the democratic process for all Americans. We use litigation, advocacy, educational outreach, monitoring of federal and state government activity, coalition building, and policy research to achieve our goals. Additionally, through our scholarship, fellowship, and internship programs, we help students attend and graduate from many of the nation’s best institutions of higher education."The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund is simply the best civil rights law firm in American history." - President Obama

Founded in 1940
New York, New York, USA
293 employees (23 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
137.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$30.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.8%
Direct
37%
Referral
6.9%
Social
1.8%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~293

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
23 (8% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$300K
Last Raise
$300K
Grant, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2023
    Grant
  • Feb 2022
    Grant • $300K

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