Director, Athletics Digital Marketing

Tampa, FL (On-site)

$90K/yr – $95K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 1 hr ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end digital marketing program for South Florida Athletics, leading strategy, team development, and cross-functional collaboration to drive ticketing, engagement, and revenue.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Digital Marketing Strategy & Leadership
  • Lead annual and seasonal digital marketing planning tied to sport calendars, ticketing priorities, departmental initiatives, and organizational objectives.
  • Establish digital marketing strategies that effectively move consumers through the customer journey, from awareness and consideration through purchase, engagement, and retention.
  • Serve as a strategic partner to ticket sales, communications, creative services, sponsorship, merchandising, development, and other internal stakeholders to align digital marketing efforts with broader business objectives.
  • Lead, manage, and develop two (2) Coordinators, Digital Marketing, establishing clear goals, priorities, processes, and performance expectations.
  • Provide strategic direction and quality control for digital marketing campaigns and initiatives across the department.
  • Email Marketing & CRM
  • Oversee email marketing strategy, segmentation, automation, personalization, and lifecycle campaigns to drive ticket sales, purchases, engagement, and retention.
  • Develop targeted email strategies supporting ticketing, merchandise, premium seating, donations, events, promotions, and other consumer initiatives.
  • Ensure best practices in list management, audience segmentation, personalization, deliverability, and compliance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and five years of related experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or related field and 3+ years of experience in digital marketing, consumer marketing, e-commerce, CRM, or a related field, with increasing leadership responsibility is preferred.
  • Senate Bill 1310- The Florida Senate (https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1310) is conditional upon meeting all employment eligibility requirements in the U.S.
  • SB 1310: Substitution of Work Experience for Postsecondary Education Requirements
  • A public employer may include a postsecondary degree as a baseline requirement only as an alternative to the number of years of direct experience required, not to exceed:
  • (a) Two years of direct experience for an associate degree;
  • (b) Four years of direct experience for a bachelor’s degree;
  • (c) Six years of direct experience for a master’s degree;
  • (d) Seven years of direct experience for a professional degree; or
  • (e) Nine years of direct experience for a doctoral degree

Benefits

  • Our first-class benefits package includes medical, dental and life insurance plans, retirement plan options, employee and dependent tuition programs, generous leave, and hundreds of employee perks and discounts.
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University of South Florida

The University of South Florida, a high-impact research university dedicated to student success and committed to community engagement, generates an annual economic impact of more than $6 billion. With campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee, USF serves approximately 50,000 students who represent nearly 150 different countries. U.S. News & World Report has ranked USF as one of the nation’s top 50 public universities for five consecutive years, and this year USF earned its highest ranking ever among all universities public or private. In 2023, USF became the first public university in Florida in nearly 40 years to be invited to join the Association of American Universities, a prestigious group of the leading universities in the United States and Canada. Through hundreds of millions of dollars in research activity each year and as one of the top universities in the world for securing new patents, USF is a leader in solving global problems and improving lives. USF is a member of the American Athletic Conference. Learn more at www.usf.edu.

Founded in 1956
Tampa, Florida, USA
19K employees (728 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$90K/yr – $95K/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 1,227 salaries.

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Funding

Total Funding
$170.3M
Last Raise
$75K
Grant, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2024
    Grant • $75K
  • Apr 2024
    Grant • $200K
  • Sep 2023
    Grant • $17.1M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$28.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.4%
Direct
43.2%
Referral
6.1%
Social
1.1%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~18.9K

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Director, Athletics Digital Marketing

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