Director, Performance Marketing

USA (Remote)

$149K/yr – $162K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years exp

Posted 1 day ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Market Performance & Strategy Identify and assess underperforming markets through rigorous analysis of enrollment trends, competitive dynamics, and marketing effectiveness
  • Build and execute targeted marketing plans to lift enrollment performance in priority markets
  • Own evergreen messaging strategy that builds sustainable, long-term market presence and brand recall
  • Partner with Direct Marketing and Creative to align channel execution with market-level strategy
  • Daily Investment Management Drive day-to-day optimization, pacing, and performance across assigned marketing channels and platforms
  • Lead recurring business reviews with vendors (multiple times weekly) to surface trends, ROI, and next steps
  • Keep channel-level adjustments aligned with broader marketing performance goals
  • Financial Ownership Manage monthly accruals, actuals, spend tracking, and invoice processing in partnership with Finance and Accounts Payable
  • Ensure media investments track against forecasted budgets and performance targets
  • Maintain rigorous financial accountability across the full paid media portfolio

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 7+ years of progressive experience in performance marketing, media buying, or growth marketing
  • Demonstrated experience managing significant paid media budgets with direct financial accountability — accruals, reconciliations, pacing
  • Strong analytical and data literacy skills, with the ability to turn cross-platform data into actionable strategy
  • Experience managing agency and vendor relationships at a strategic level
  • Proficiency with CRM platforms and marketing analytics tools

Preferred

  • Experience in higher education, healthcare, or other mission-driven organizations
  • Familiarity with enrollment marketing or learner acquisition funnels
  • Experience with Salesforce CRM and UTM/attribution tracking systems
  • Graduate degree in a related field (Master's preferred)

Benefits

  • All new hires are required to attend New Collaborator Orientation (NCO) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The College will cover travel, lodging, and other accommodations.
Nightingale College logo

Nightingale College

Nightingale College facilitates higher learning along the professional nursing continuum focused on cognitive, practice, and everyday ethical comportment apprenticeships, while serving diverse communities to close educational equity gaps.Nightingale College offers accredited nursing degree programs(PN, LPN to ASN, BSN, RN-to-BSN, MSN ED and MSN FNP)Request info: https://nightingale.edu/request-info

Founded in 2010
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
688 employees (17 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
117K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$161.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.2%
Direct
44.1%
Referral
5.6%
Social
0.7%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~692

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Recent News