Executive Director of Enrollment Marketing

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$140K/yr – $154K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead SAIC's multi-channel recruitment marketing and brand storytelling to drive inquiries and enrollment across programs, overseeing strategy, execution, analytics, and cross-functional collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Leads integrated, multi-channel marketing strategies to generate prospective student inquiries and drives enrollment across undergraduate, graduate, and continuing studies programs.
  • Develops and manages messaging frameworks and campaign calendars aligned with SAIC's student recruitment priorities.
  • Leverages institutional brand storytelling with targeted programmatic marketing campaigns for key academic areas.
  • Leads digital and performance marketing by setting strategy and overseeing execution for digital advertising channels, managing campaign budgets and overseeing SEO strategy,
  • Leads recruitment content planning and production across web, email, social media, and print platforms to ensure creative, accurate, and brand-aligned storytelling.
  • Aligns communications with the prospective student audience journey and oversees SAIC's marketing automation strategy.
  • Oversees yield campaigns and event promotion to include the design and execution of yield communications. Coordinates integrated marketing plans for recruitment events.
  • Creates and maintains dashboards and reports tracking marketing effectiveness, inquiry/application flow, and campaign ROI.
  • Supervises internal recruitment marketing staff and manages external agency and platform vendor relationships.
  • Enhances cross-functional collaboration with Admissions, Continuing Studies, and Academic Affairs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field.
  • 7-10 years of progressive experience in digital marketing, enrollment marketing, or strategic communications, preferably in higher education or an agency setting.
  • Proven experience developing and executing high-performing, data-informed marketing campaigns.
  • Strong background in CRM and marketing automation platforms (e.g., Slate, Salesforce, HubSpot).
  • Demonstrated leadership managing teams, vendors, and cross-campus collaborations.
  • Experience in art and design education or a passion for creative communities is a plus.
  • Exceptional communication, project management, and analytical skills.
  • Expertise in digital marketing strategy, performance marketing, CRM, and marketing automation.
  • Ability to develop and execute integrated, data-informed marketing campaigns.
  • Strong leadership and collaboration skills with the ability to manage cross-functional teams, vendors, and agency partners.

Preferred

  • Experience in art and design education or a passion for creative communities is a plus.
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago

For more than 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program consistently ranking among the top four graduate fine arts programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world—as seen through notable alumni and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, and LeRoy Neiman. For more information, please visit saic.edu.

Chicago, Illinois, USA
2K employees (174 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
297K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$11.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.8%
Direct
39.9%
Referral
5%
Social
0.8%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
43 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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