Assistant Director of Marketing-Digital Content & Advertising

West Lafayette, IN (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the athletics email and digital marketing engine to drive ticket sales and fan engagement, coordinating strategy, execution, and analytics across marketing, ticketing, and creative teams.

  • Own audience building and email marketing strategy for the Purdue Athletics community with targeted campaigns and automation.
  • Coordinate with ticketing, fan experience, and creative teams to maximize awareness, communications, and ticket sales across digital and traditional channels.
  • Use analytics and ROI data to optimize campaigns and report on performance, leveraging Paciolan-based automation and cross-channel assets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Provide input into the athletics marketing department’s strategy to develop fan affinity and sell tickets to revenue-producing athletic events through digital and traditional advertising platforms.
  • Manage and execute the revenue producing emails for the marketing department and work with marketing team to create, place, track and evaluate overall advertising efforts for the athletic program.
  • Email Marketing Execution and Strategy: Responsible for managing and building key audience segments of the Purdue Athletics community through email marketing and communications.
  • Coordinate with the ticket office, fan experience, communications, and the creative team to build outgoing email solicitations to drive ticket sales and improve communications with fans and season ticket holders.
  • Assist in building strategy and best practices as it relates to email marketing and communications.
  • Measure results and track metrics to improve campaigns and report on email performance.
  • Execute marketing automation services in conjunction with department’s Paciolan product to effectively maximize resources available to promote Purdue athletics and sell tickets to revenue-producing athletic events.
  • Digital/Traditional Marketing Collaboration and Execution: Responsible for coordinating digital marketing messaging and efforts across owned and paid digital assets.
  • Work with our ticketing partner to maintain and update marketing needs on our e-commerce website that reflect current and future marketing priorities.
  • Collaborate with the communications team to ensure coordination of marketing effort across Purdue Athletics social media handles (i.e. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and TikTok).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, management or related field.
  • Minimum of 1 year of experience in marketing, advertising, or social media management.
  • Experience in digital/social marketing, email marketing and e-commerce highly preferred.
  • Experience within a Division I or pro sports team is preferred.
  • A thorough knowledge and understanding of graphic design using the Adobe Creative Suite is required.
  • Business acumen with understanding of how job responsibilities advance departmental goals.
  • General creative thinking and idea generation skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, the ability to perform accurate detail-oriented work, the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse population and strong interpersonal skills are required.
  • Experience working with an e-mail marketing platform is preferred but not required. On-the-job training will be provided for using the Paciolan/Adobe platform.
  • Adherence to all applicable NCAA, conference, and institutional rules and regulations is required.

Preferred

  • Experience with e-mail marketing platform is preferred but not required.
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