PMC: Director, Growth Marketing

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $160K/yrDirector/Executive5+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize CRM and lifecycle programs across multiple brands, leading email-centric strategies, testing, segmentation, and channel expansion to SMS/browser/push; collaborate with brand/editorial/creative teams; establish governance, roadmaps, and measurement; maximize Zeta platform capabilities.

  • Own cross-brand contact strategies and email marketing programs
  • Develop scalable frameworks for cadence, segmentation, and journeys
  • Partner with creative and editorial teams to optimize newsletters and engagement

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own customer contact strategy across PMC’s portfolio, with emphasis on email marketing and newsletter programs
  • Develop scalable frameworks for contact cadence, segmentation, targeting, messaging, testing, and audience journeys across 20 brands
  • Partner with brand, editorial, audience, and creative teams to optimize 200+ newsletter programs for engagement, retention, and conversion
  • Expand channel strategy beyond email to include SMS, browser/web notifications, and audience extension into paid social targeting plans
  • Create recommendations for how owned-channel engagement signals can inform downstream paid and performance marketing strategies
  • Advise brands on lifecycle and contact best practices while balancing portfolio-level governance with brand-level nuance
  • Work directly with creative teams to evaluate and improve email templates, modular design systems, and message presentation
  • Use data and testing to identify opportunities in open rate, click-through rate, conversion, retention, and overall audience engagement
  • Establish testing roadmaps and measurement frameworks across channels and brands
  • Help standardize best practices, playbooks, and operating rhythms across the portfolio

Requirements

  • 5–7 years of experience in CRM, lifecycle marketing, audience engagement, contact strategy, or related digital marketing roles
  • Strong expertise in email strategy and execution; familiarity with SMS and browser/push notification strategy
  • Experience managing or advising complex, multi-brand or multi-business-unit programs
  • Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels
  • Strong background in segmentation, testing, personalization, and engagement optimization
  • Experience partnering with creative teams to improve templates, messaging systems, and campaign effectiveness
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative media or consumer brand environment
  • Experience with Zeta Global strongly preferred
  • Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills

Preferred

  • Media, publishing, newsletter, subscription, or audience development experience
  • Familiarity with mapping owned-channel engagement to paid audience activation
  • Experience building cross-brand governance models without over-centralizing execution

Benefits

  • PMC’s comprehensive benefits package is thoughtfully designed to support every aspect of your life, empowering you to thrive both personally and professionally. We offer PMC-Paid Healthcare with no employee paycheck contributions on medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. PMC also offers Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care & Commuter), an Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability, Paid Parental Leave, and a 401(k) Retirement Plan with an Employer match. Employees are also eligible to take advantage of company discounts and perks including Pet Insurance, Home & Auto Insurance, Mortgage discounts, and a variety of other savings on wellness, lifestyle, and financial essentials. As part of PMC’s dedication to consistently meeting employees’ needs, we have launched a new Flexible Vacation Policy.
  • At PMC, we believe working in a highly collaborative, office-first environment fosters real-time communication, spontaneous idea sharing, and stronger interpersonal relationships that drive innovation and team cohesion. PMC prioritizes in-person collaboration and does not offer remote-only roles.
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Penske Media Corp.

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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is a leading global media and information services company whose award-winning content attracts a passionate audience. Since 2004, Penske Media has been a pioneer in digital media and a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens across its ever-growing constellation of iconic brands, which includes Variety, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, WWD, SHE Media, Robb Report, Deadline, Sportico, BGR, ARTnews, Fairchild Media, Vibe, IndieWire, Dirt, Gold Derby and Spy.com, among many others. PMC’s journalists and content creators deliver daily the most comprehensive news and information in their industries and areas of coverage, unequaled in ambition, depth, and courage. In addition, PMC owns several vital cultural events such as SXSW, LA3C, and Life is Beautiful. Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles with additional offices in 14 countries worldwide, PMC believes companies should not only be profitable but also forces for good.

Founded in 2003
Los Angeles, California, USA
338 employees (99 in marketing)
60% recommend to a friend
74% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
196.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.4%
Direct
54.2%
Referral
4.9%
Social
8%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~338

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
71 (21% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

Funding

Total Funding
$200M
Last Raise
$200M
Corporate Round, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2018
    Corporate Round • $200M

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