Growth Marketing Specialist

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$70K/yr – $77K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end marketing calendars and campaigns across email, content, social, product launches, and paid media, while coordinating creative, PR, and cross-functional partnerships to drive our brand and revenue.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Email Marketing: Own the end-to-end calendar (building, scheduling, testing, sending) and analyze performance metrics to optimize segmentation and content.
  • Creative & PR Coordination: Manage creative briefs and timelines across departments. Act as the primary liaison with our PR agency and ensure all brand communications, talking points, and assets are on-brand. Develop, manage and source merchandise.
  • Content & Social Strategy: Maintain a unified content calendar for all channels. Plan, launch and optimize social campaigns that grow our social presence while adjusting strategy based on results.
  • Product Launches: Lead marketing timelines for new coffee and seasonal releases, ensuring cross-functional alignment and cohesive go-to-market materials.
  • Brand Events & Sponsorships: Support marketing for all branded events across wholesale, CPG and retail that include but are not limited to activations and trade shows.
  • Paid Ads: Manage, maintain and optimize all paid ads on social channels and google channels to drive revenue.
  • Other Responsibilities: Manage the marketing timeline and develop materials for new coffee and seasonal releases.
  • Represent Intelligentsia at select in-market events.
  • Ensure marketing collateral is placed correctly at retail locations.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of marketing experience, ideally within specialty coffee, food & beverage, or a related consumer/wholesale brand.
  • Hands-on experience with email marketing platforms (e.g., Klaviyo, Mailchimp) and paid social ad managers (Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn Campaign Manager).
  • Comfort managing multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously without losing sight of the details.
  • Strong written communication skills and and eye for brand-consistent creative.
  • Experience with content calendar and project management tools (e.g., Asana, Airtable, Notion).
  • A collaborative approach to working across marketing, sales, wholesale, and creative teams.
  • Genuine interest in specialty coffee and Intelligentsia's mission and standards.
  • Willingness to travel locally and support occasional evening or weekend events.
  • Driver’s license is required

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Company-paid long & short-term disability and life insurance
  • Paid vacation and sick time
  • 401(k) eligible after 90 days of employment and a company match after one year
  • 8 Paid holidays per year
  • Commuter benefits
  • Free bag of coffee each week with a discount on other items
  • Employee Assistance Program
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Intelligentsia Coffee Inc.

3.3 Glassdoor

Intelligentsia Coffee’s buying philosophy is not very complicated. We believe in coffee quality and have made a commitment to our customers to offer only truly dazzling Specialty Coffees that speak for themselves in the cup. We believe that to get such coffees we need to work closely with actual producers, not just importers or exporters, so that we can build great coffees from the very start.

Founded in 1995
Chicago, Illinois, USA
170 employees (4 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
0% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$70K/yr – $77K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.6K

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~170
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Growth Marketing Specialist

Intelligentsia Coffee Inc. · Chicago, IL · On-site