Manager, Social & Paid Digital Marketing

Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

$78K/yr – $90K/yrManager5+ years exp

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end‑to‑end paid and organic growth programs across paid social, paid search, SEO, and creative planning, guiding strategy, execution, and cross‑team collaboration while partnering with media agencies to optimize budgets and performance.

  • Develop and execute paid social, paid search, and SEO strategies to drive growth.
  • Lead cross‑functional collaboration and agency partnerships to optimize campaigns and budget allocations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Paid Social
  • Coordinate the paid social strategy across the various social platforms for all marketing departments
  • Use targeting and segmentation strategies to ensure ads are reaching the right audience.
  • Present insights and recommendations to guide content creation by platform needs and complete campaign objectives.
  • Lead the partnership with Media Agency to manage budget allocations, audiences and platform performance.
  • Paid Search
  • Develop and execute paid search strategies across platforms like Google Ads, Bing Ads, and other search engines to drive qualified traffic and conversions.
  • Conduct keyword research and competitor analysis to identify new opportunities.
  • Continuously monitor and adjust bidding strategies to improve performance.
  • Lead the partnership with Media Agency to manage budget allocations, audiences and platform performance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Brand Marketing, Social Marketing, or Digital Marketing, with demonstrated success in developing strategies for recognized brands, either from a client or agency perspective.
  • Strong knowledge and experience managing, motivating, and building marketing teams (direct and cross-functional partners).
  • Experience creating strategic paid media marketing plans that drive demand generation, customer acquisition programs.
  • Experience leveraging integrated social marketing strategies and techniques to drive optimal value for promotions, media campaigns, product launches, brand initiatives, and other marketing programs.
  • Ability to build strong relationships and work effectively, proactively and seamlessly amongst a large and complex cross-functional team.
  • Strong storytelling skills with the ability to communicate complex strategic social concepts in streamlined, logical and well-designed decks.
  • Effective presentation skills.
  • Proven ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast paced and deadline driven environment.
  • Be able to foster an environment that encourages collaboration, risk-taking, innovation and creativity.

Preferred

  • 2+ years’ experience with Google Ads.
  • 2+ years’ experience in SEO optimization.
  • Proficient in GA4 or other web analytics platform.

Benefits

  • We care about your health. We offer competitive healthcare (health, dental, vision, coverage) in addition to voluntary benefits, including home and car insurance, pet insurance, flexible spending account, and many more.
  • We invest in your future. Our 401K plan has immediate vesting, so you can start saving for retirement right away.
  • We believe in flexibility. We offer a hybrid schedule with on-site work 3 days a week.
  • We want you to unplug when needed. We believe in taking your time off without guilt and offer accrued paid time off and company-paid holidays. *For Washington residents, you will receive 13 vacation days, 8 paid sick leave, 11 company-paid holidays, and family paid leave.
  • We care about your development. We support tuition reimbursement after 6 months of service.
  • We believe in pay transparency. The salary range is $78,000 to $90,000 with annual bonus eligibility.
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Jostens

Jostens leads the student commemoration market and has been serving local communities for over 125 years. We work with thousands of K-12 schools, colleges and universities each year, and have the honor of partnering with beloved sports teams and esteemed organizations across the country. Our iconic products — like yearbooks, letter jackets, class jewelry and championship rings — keep meaningful traditions alive and inspire millions of people to celebrate their unique stories, milestone moments and biggest accomplishments every year. We have 13 first-class facilities across the globe, from North America to the Caribbean. Watch a short video about us here: https://f.io/HIAsH659

Founded in 1897
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
2.8K employees (493 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$78K/yr – $90K/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 1,230 salaries.

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Funding

Total Funding
$640M
Last Raise
$450M
Private Equity, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2024
    Private Equity • $450M
  • Nov 2024
    Debt Financing • $190M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$32.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.9%
Direct
65.6%
Referral
8.4%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3K
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Manager, Social & Paid Digital Marketing

Jostens · Minneapolis, MN · Hybrid