Marketing Manager, Audience Strategy & Growth

New York, USA (On-site)

$80K/yr – $82K/yrMid Level3+ years expContract

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end growth and promotion for TED podcasts across paid, organic and partner channels.

  • Own end-to-end marketing strategy and execution for priority TED podcasts.
  • Must-have: 3–5 years in multi-channel growth or marketing operations.
  • Standout: Cross-functional liaison across marketing, editorial, production, PR, analytics and platform partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end marketing strategy and execution for a slate of priority TED podcasts
  • Utilize and optimize existing growth tools and placements, including audio cross-promotions, feed drops, host guest swaps, PR, paid, newsletter, social media and Web.
  • Manage a paid media budget, developing and executing a strategy to meet listeners on social media, YouTube and Search.
  • Help refine organic social media strategy for TED podcasts, locating mechanisms and channels for optimized audience reach.
  • Help to define audiences, messaging and channel strategy to reach target listeners.
  • Build and iterate a growth roadmap informed by data, experimentation and audience insight.
  • Partner closely with PR teams and external partners to support press outreach and cultural moments, ensuring they have the assets and context needed to be effective (episode descriptions, host details, launch timelines, etc.).
  • Serve as a key point of connection between marketing, editorial, production, PR, analytics and platform partners for focus shows.
  • Ensure cross-team alignment on promotion plans, timelines and outcomes by proactively communicating with senior stakeholders.
  • Contribute to brainstorming around activating top of funnel awareness via distribution platforms.

Requirements

  • Degree (preferred) or diploma in commerce, administration, communications or similar discipline, or similar experience.
  • 3-5 years of customer support experience, both in-person and online.
  • Experience using CRMs to effectively manage customer data, communications, and customer support.
  • Experience working in events or similar industry (ex. theater, TV, etc).
  • Extensive knowledge of Google applications / Microsoft suite (especially Excel / Sheets).
  • Tech-savvy, fast learner of new tools.
  • Meticulous attention to detail.
  • Able to perform repetitive tasks with consistency and accuracy.
  • Ability to pivot and prioritize simultaneous projects based on urgency.
  • Quantitative and qualitative analytical and problem-solving skills.
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TED Conferences, LLC

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TED’s mission is to discover and champion the ideas that will shape tomorrow. Powerful ideas, powerfully presented, can move us to feel something, to think differently, to take action and create a brighter future.TED finds these powerful ideas across disciplines and around the globe, from people who passionately seek a deeper understanding of the world and want to make a difference in it. TED’s spotlight, and its engaged, open-minded audience, help these ideas to create real impact: to shift one person’s perspective, to make a difference within a community or to spark global transformation. Ideas change everything.

Founded in 1984
New York, New York, USA
16K employees (2,575 in marketing)
97% recommend to a friend
63% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$113.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.4%
Direct
52.3%
Referral
11.1%
Social
1.7%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~15.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,018 (13% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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