Digital Marketing Specialist

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$55K/yr – $60K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 23 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the museum’s digital content strategy and end-to-end campaigns, shaping lead generation, content optimization, and performance reporting across web and email channels.

  • Lead cross-team digital content initiatives and SME guidance for measurable impact.
  • Drive optimization of guest journeys, SEO, and analytics to improve attendance and leads.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Digital Content Strategy - Develop strategic plans to generate leads through web and email communications, adjusting the marketing strategy based on data, research and user behavior. - Analyze and deliver reports on high-performing web and email content that most engages the Museum’s various audiences of guests, members, and donors, including campaign-specific lead capture performance. - Serve as subject matter expert (SME) to create high-converting and measurable digital content for Museum teams. Digital marketing and Communications - Work with teams across the Museum to create and produce email campaigns and automations for guests, members and donors that meet defined performance goals, ensuring timely and strategically aligned deplyment. - Manage and optimize guest journeys through Salesforce, leveraging automation tools to enhance acquisition, retention and conversion rates. - Research and maintain best practices in email deliverability, design, A/B testing and effectiveness Website Content - Work with teams across the Museum to plan, edit, build and update website content - Optimize the website content, organization and metadata for greatest accessibility, SEO and GEO performance, and search traffic acquisition. - Research and maintain best practices in tagging digital assets and metadata - Maintain and build web forms and landing pages designed for campaign tracking and lead capture. Content Creation & Optimization - Conceptualize and produce compelling digital content—including landing pages, blog posts, email copy, and social ads—aligned with campaign objectives and audience intent. - Collaborate with design, programming, and associated teams to ensure a consistent and dynamic digital experience across all touchpoints. Performance Analysis & Reporting - Analyze email and website activity to identify guest intents, interests, and conversion performance. - Research and maintain best practices that improve the Museum’s presence in search results and convert digital activity into measurable attendance and leads. - Develop and deliver regular reports on campaign performance, KPIs, and ROI, offering actionable insights to improve future outcomes. - Establish performance benchmarks and continually optimize digital campaigns through test-and-learn approaches. - Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • HS Diploma or equivalent with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in digital marketing.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred
  • Direct experience creating content for CMS-managed websites, building inbox-friendly HTML email campaigns, and reading and interpreting analytics reports
  • Proven expertise in website accessibility, SEO/SEM, and digital content strategy.
  • Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud or similar CRM and automation platforms preferred.
  • Working knowledge of Google Analytics, Google Ads, and keyword research tools.
  • Strong writing and copyediting abilities
  • Demonstrated skills designing and developing responsive microsites and landing pages.
  • Ability to work well in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team
  • Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred
  • Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud or similar CRM and automation platforms preferred.
  • Basic proficiency in Photoshop and other Adobe Creative Suite programs preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • An attractive time off program including vacation, sick, and personal days
  • 10 Company Holidays
  • 401(k) plans (Traditional and Roth) including a generous employer match
  • Robust Voluntary benefit plans including transportation, legal, and many others
  • Free onsite garage parking
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Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is one of the world's largest science museums. Griffin MSI exposes guests of all ages to awe-inspiring exhibitions that spark curiosity and bring science to life. Griffin MSI’s mission – to inspire the inventive genius in everyone – is realized through our world-class exhibitions and engaging guest experiences. We provide programs and experiences that deepen the engagement of students and teachers in science and science-related disciplines, with a vision to inspire and motivate our children to achieve their full potential.We offer a creative, collaborative and innovative environment for our employees. Our employees get great perks such as benefits starting day one of your employment, free admission to Griffin MSI for family and friends, free admission to other museums, free parking in our garage and more!

Founded in 1933
Chicago, Illinois, USA
428 employees (43 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$55K/yr – $60K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Digital Marketing median pay in the United States

$80K/yr

Most pay falls between $66K and $105K. Based on 1,337 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
25 (6% of company)
Median Tenure
1.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
52.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$70.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
58.2%
Direct
34.3%
Referral
6%
Social
0.9%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~428
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Digital Marketing Specialist

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry · Chicago, IL · On-site