Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the marketing, audience growth, and commercial strategy for Simon & Schuster's digital-first publishing business.
• Drive measurable growth in readership, engagement, revenue, and author acquisition through data-driven marketing initiatives.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing marketing team focused on innovation, accountability, and measurable business outcomes.
• Establish KPIs and performance metrics while ensuring strong ROI across all marketing investments.
• Leverage audience insights, market research, and analytics to optimize campaigns, identify emerging publishing opportunities, and influence acquisition strategy.
• Partner across Simon & Schuster—including Corporate Marketing, Product Marketing, Business Development, Editorial, Sales, and Consumer Marketing—to share best practices and scale successful initiatives globally.
• Champion innovation by identifying emerging technologies, marketing tools, and digital platforms that create competitive advantage.
• Lead integrated digital marketing campaigns across paid, owned, and earned channels including Amazon, Meta, Google, TikTok, Spotify, BookBub, Kindle Unlimited, Audible, and other emerging platforms.
• Oversee digital advertising strategy, campaign execution, creative optimization, and audience targeting to maximize performance.
• Develop CRM, lifecycle marketing, and email acquisition strategies that grow engaged reader communities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience within publishing, media, entertainment, technology, or other digital consumer businesses.
• Demonstrated success launching and scaling digital brands or consumer products.
• Experience growing online communities and building engaged consumer audiences.
• Strong understanding of independent publishing, creator ecosystems, or digital author communities.
• Experience managing multimillion-dollar marketing budgets with a focus on ROI and business performance.
• Passion for commercial fiction, digital storytelling, audiobooks, ebooks, and evolving reader behaviors.
• Experience and willingness to work across multiple time zones
• UK line management experience is required.
• Experience with many of the following: - Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) - Meta Ads Manager - Google Ads - TikTok Ads - Spotify Advertising - BookBub - CRM and email marketing platforms - Marketing automation platforms - Google Analytics and marketing dashboards - Metadata optimization and discoverability strategies - Marketing attribution and reporting tools

Preferred

• 8+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience within publishing, media, entertainment, technology, or other digital consumer businesses.
• Demonstrated success launching and scaling digital brands or consumer products.
• Experience growing online communities and building engaged consumer audiences.
• Strong understanding of independent publishing, creator ecosystems, or digital author communities.
• Experience managing multimillion-dollar marketing budgets with a focus on ROI and business performance.
• Passion for commercial fiction, digital storytelling, audiobooks, ebooks, and evolving reader behaviors.
• Experience and willingness to work across multiple time zones
• UK line management experience is required.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable.
• Additionally, employees have access to our industry-first, Broad Based Ownership program, which makes all employees partners in our shared success.