Director, Growth Marketing

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$160K/yr – $190K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the growth engine by aligning audience, registrations, and revenue through a connected, data-driven mix of events, email, paid and organic channels.

  • Lifecycle and audience growth: own welcome journeys, segmentation, and re-engagement to drive subscriber and cohort growth.
  • Organic and paid growth: lead SEO/GEO, content architecture, and cross-channel campaigns with hands-on optimization and rapid iteration.
  • Cross-functional influence: partner with content, product, and events to scale organic visibility and measurement across the business.

Job Description

Own marketing strategy and execution for event registrations and audience growth, delivering business-aligned impact.

  • Own marketing strategy and execution for event registrations and audience/subscriber growth.
  • Build and run full-funnel campaigns across email, paid, organic, SEO, video, social, and partnerships with hands-on platform execution.
  • Lead event marketing for Becker's conference portfolio, from targeting and funnels to on-site amplification and post-event retention.
  • Drive audience and newsletter growth through welcome series, lifecycle programs, re-engagement, and segmentation.
  • Own SEO and GEO strategy and apply AI tooling to campaigns, copy, segmentation, and analysis to speed output without sacrificing quality.
  • 8+ years leading organic growth with content architecture, entity authority, technical SEO, and structured data.
  • Deep GEO and Generative Engine Optimization know-how, understanding how LLMs retrieve and cite content.
  • Expert technical SEO with schema, JSON-LD, site architecture, and enterprise tools; migration experience preferred.
  • Own marketing tech stack, attribution, reporting, and a test-and-learn cadence that informs decisions.
  • Manage external contractors across paid media, creative, search and video to accelerate execution.
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Becker's Healthcare offers forward looking business news, analysis and guidance relating to the healthcare industry. Our portfolio includes five industry-leading trade publications:Becker's Hospital Review Becker's ASC Review Becker's Spine ReviewBecker's Clinical Leadership & Infection Control Becker's Dental Review Want to learn more? Sign up for our free E-newsletters here: https://beckers.dragonforms.com/BCKR_prefsnew&pk=LINKEDIN2020Check out this video highlighting a company culture we're proud of: vimeo.com/386545828/4d987b8dc9

Founded in 2007
Chicago, Illinois, USA
173 employees (40 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
591.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$182
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.9%
Direct
63.3%
Referral
8.7%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~173

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
40 (23% of company)

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 9 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2017
    Private Equity

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