Marketing & Communications Director

Pullman, WA (Remote)

$7K/mo – $9K/moDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Lead the Global Campus OPM marketing function, owning brand strategy, enrollment marketing, and performance analytics, while building scalable marketing infrastructure and collaborating with academic units.

  • Own brand strategy and identity across channels to support recruitment and revenue goals.
  • Drive multi-channel enrollment marketing and lead generation initiatives with measurable outcomes.
  • Oversee performance analytics, campaign measurement, and vendor/partner management to optimize results.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Director oversees brand strategy, digital marketing, enrollment marketing, market research, and performance analytics for Global Campus OPM services, ensuring alignment with WSU’s mission, academic priorities, and revenue‑growth goals.
  • This role builds the marketing infrastructure, systems, and processes needed to attract, convert, and retain online learners at scale.
  • This position reports to the Associate Vice President for the Global Campus and collaborates closely with academic units, enrollment management, and central marketing.
  • This is a remote position with the successful candidate performing all work at an alternative location.

Requirements

  • Positions require a Bachelor’s degree in communication, journalism, public relations, marketing, or other relevant field and six (6) years of progressively responsible professional level experience in public relations, marketing, print or broadcast media, or public relations, which has included at least three (3) years of managerial experience. Any combination of relevant education and professional experience may be substituted for the educational requirement on a year‑for‑year basis. A Master’s degree in a related field may be substituted for up to one (1) year of the required experience.
  • Brand Management: Experience with or ability to develop, maintain, and enhance brand identity and reputation.
  • Cultural Competency: Demonstrated knowledge of effective strategies for working with diverse faculty, staff, and students.
  • Bandwidth: Minimum bandwidth of 4.0Mbps for upload and download required for telework or hybrid work assignment.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and executing multi-channel marketing campaigns that drive lead generation, enrollment, customer acquisition, or other measurable outcomes.
  • Experience managing digital marketing channels, including paid search, social media, email marketing, CRM -based campaigns, and web content strategy.
  • Experience using marketing analytics and data to assess campaign performance and inform decision-making.
  • Experience managing external vendors, agencies, or strategic marketing partners.
  • Demonstrated project management experience, including managing multiple priorities, budgets, and timelines.
  • Not eligible for work visa sponsorship

Preferred

  • Digital Marketing: Demonstrated experience in developing strategies for digital marketing related to higher education for online and/or adult learners.
  • Performance Metrics: Establishing or analyzing key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the effectiveness of campaigns and initiatives.
  • Experience in higher education enrollment marketing, particularly for online degree and certificate programs.
  • Demonstrated success developing and executing lead generation and enrollment growth strategies.
  • Experience working with Online Program Management ( OPM ) organizations or leading OPM-related functions within a university.
  • Knowledge of student recruitment funnels, CRM systems (e.g., Slate, Salesforce), and marketing automation platforms.
  • Experience conducting market research, competitive analysis, and program launch planning.

Benefits

  • WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation, optional supplemental retirement accounts; training and development; and employee tuition waiver.
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Washington State University

Washington State University is a nationally recognized land-grant research university, founded in Pullman in 1890. WSU’s statewide system includes campuses in Pullman, Spokane, Everett, Tri-Cities and Vancouver, with extension and research offices in every county of the state, and a nationally ranked online program. WSU is well known for its programs in veterinary medicine, agriculture, engineering, architecture, global animal health, food science, plant science, business, human health, pharmacy, neuroscience, communications, biofuels, sleep, business, education, energy. And, WSU athletics teams compete in the NCAA’s Pac-12 Conference.

Pullman, Washington, USA
11K employees (486 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$738.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.9%
Direct
47.4%
Referral
11.2%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~11.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
343 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
11.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$10.8M
Last Raise
$750K
Grant, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2021
    Grant • $750K
  • Dec 2017
    Grant • $10M

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