Marketing & Paid Media Manager

Portland, OR (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $75K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end audience growth engine across campaigns, paid media, and multi-channel orchestration for live performances.

  • Own integrated campaigns driving subscription sales, single-ticket revenue, and audience growth.
  • Own paid media across digital, social, search, and traditional channels with ROI focus.
  • Collaborate with Creative and cross-functional teams to adapt messages, assets, and calendars for patron engagement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns that support subscription sales, single-ticket revenue, and audience growth.
  • Plan, manage, and optimize paid media campaigns across digital, social, search, and traditional advertising channels to maximize performance and ROI.
  • Partner with advertising agencies and media vendors, managing campaign strategy, budgets, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Analyze campaign performance, ticket sales, and audience behavior to identify trends, measure success, and recommend improvements.
  • Develop audience segmentation and targeting strategies using patron data, demographics, and engagement insights.
  • Collaborate with the Creative team to develop compelling campaign assets that inspire audiences and support organizational goals.
  • Work closely with Patron Services and colleagues across the organization to coordinate promotions, marketing calendars, messaging, and audience engagement initiatives.
  • Help forecast marketing performance and optimize advertising investments across concerts and campaigns.
  • Support email marketing journeys and digital content strategies that strengthen patron relationships and improve campaign effectiveness.
  • Stay current on emerging marketing trends, technologies, and best practices, bringing new ideas and innovative approaches to audience development.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field.
  • Four or more years of professional marketing or audience development experience, preferably within the performing arts, entertainment, nonprofit, or live event industries.
  • Demonstrated experience planning, executing, and optimizing paid media campaigns across digital and traditional advertising platforms.
  • Experience using CRM or ticketing databases to support audience development and marketing analysis; Tessitura experience is strongly preferred.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and translate insights into marketing strategies. Experience with Power BI or similar business intelligence tools is preferred.
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
  • Excellent project management, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate effectively across departments.

Preferred

  • Tessitura experience strongly preferred.
  • Power BI or similar business intelligence tools preferred.

Benefits

  • A chance to be part of a respected and mission-driven organization.
  • A collaborative marketing team where creativity, strategy, and data come together to grow audiences and inspire community engagement.
  • An opportunity to help shape the future of marketing for one of the nation's leading orchestras.
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Oregon Symphony

The Oregon Symphony is Portland’s largest performing arts organization and the oldest American orchestra west of the Mississippi. Led by Music Director David Danzmayr and Paul Snyder, President and CEO, it performs with many of the world’s top musicians and offers the best of orchestral music – classical to pops to cutting-edge contemporary – to growing audiences in Portland and across Oregon.The orchestra consists of 76 full-time musicians who perform more than 80 concerts each year in downtown Portland’s historic Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, to draw an enthusiastic audience of more than 225,000 people annually.

Portland, Oregon, USA
135 employees (56 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
115.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$10.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42%
Direct
23.1%
Referral
16.3%
Social
3.6%
Paid
2.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~135

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
14 (10% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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