Senior Digital Marketing Specialist

Braham, MN (Hybrid)

$76K/yr – $96K/yrSenior Level5+ years expInternship

Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Summary

Owns end-to-end digital marketing programs across paid media, website optimization, automation, and reporting, collaborating across teams to improve member engagement and growth.

  • Lead campaigns across paid search, social, email, and direct mail to drive engagement and growth.
  • Monitor performance with analytics and testing, turning data into actionable optimizations.
  • Coordinate with creative, operations, sales, and other teams to align efforts with broader goals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Running digital campaigns: You'll develop, launch, and optimize integrated marketing campaigns across digital and traditional channels, including paid search, display, social media, video, email, and direct mail, to drive member engagement and organizational growth.
  • Managing paid media: You'll handle Google Ads, YouTube, streaming media, and paid social, including audience targeting, keyword research, testing, and budget optimization.
  • Improving the website experience: You'll manage website content, landing pages, forms, and conversion paths, and apply SEO, local SEO, and AI search optimization best practices.
  • Measuring and explaining results: You'll use Google Analytics 4, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, CrowdFiber, and CRM tools to track performance, run A/B tests, and build reports that explain what happened and what to do next.
  • Supporting the customer journey: You'll manage marketing automation, email campaigns, and lead nurturing workflows that support acquisition and retention.
  • Collaborating across teams: You'll partner with communications, community relations, creative and business stakeholders, member services, sales, and operations to keep campaigns connected to the bigger picture.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Digital Marketing, Data Analytics, or a related field, plus five to seven years of progressively responsible experience in digital marketing, campaign management, paid advertising, website optimization, marketing automation, lead generation, analytics, or marketing operations, or a combination of education and experience.
  • Experience developing, executing, and evaluating campaigns across search, social media, email, website, and direct mail.
  • Proficiency with Google Ads, including Search, Display, YouTube, and Performance Max campaigns.
  • Knowledge of SEO, local SEO, content optimization, AI-powered search, and digital discoverability best practices.
  • Understanding of customer journeys, marketing funnels, audience segmentation, lead nurturing, conversion optimization, and campaign automation.
  • Ability to analyze campaign and website performance, conduct A/B testing, and translate data into actionable recommendations.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain results to a range of audiences.

Preferred

  • Experience in utilities, telecommunications, broadband, technology, subscription-based services, or customer acquisition marketing.
  • Google Ads, Google Analytics, Meta Blueprint, HubSpot, marketing automation, or related digital marketing certifications.
  • Experience with CRM and marketing automation platforms, campaign attribution, and reporting tools.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills, with experience managing multiple priorities across departments.

Benefits

  • Competitive Pay: Starting wage between $76,000 to $96,000, based on qualifications, education, and experience.
  • Outstanding Benefits: 100% employer-paid medical with employer contributions to a Health Savings Account (HSA), plus dental, vision, Short-Term Disability (STD), Long-Term Disability (LTD), tuition reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and other valuable benefits.
  • Future-Ready: Build your financial security with a 401(k)-plan featuring up to a 10% employer contribution.
  • Rest and Renewal: Receive 40 hours of PTO after your first 8-hour workday, with additional PTO accrued weekly based on years of service, in addition to ten paid holidays.
  • Community Focused: Be part of a cooperative that actively supports local initiatives and strengthens the communities we serve.
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Minnesota Rural Electric Association

The Minnesota Rural Electric Association (MREA) is a service organization and statewide voice for Minnesota's electric utility cooperatives. MREA's 15 employees provide their expertise in service and leadership including: public awareness communications, safety training, legislative research and lobbying, and industry education programs. A member board representing electric co-ops across the state governs MREA. MREA's members, forty-four electric distribution cooperatives and six generation and transmission (G&T) co-ops in Minnesota, serve 780,000 customer meters or about 1.8 million Minnesotans, covering 85 percent of the geographic area of the state. These cooperatives are locally-owned and operated by boards of directors, who are elected by the consumer-members they serve and operate according to the seven cooperative principles. The cooperatives seek to provide electric energy to rural consumers at the lowest possible cost consistent with sound management. They also promote and fund economic development initiatives to create jobs and maintain a high standard of living for rural and suburban Minnesota residents.

Founded in 1941
Osseo, Minnesota, USA
21 employees (4 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$76K/yr – $96K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (14% of company)
Median Career Experience
34 years
Median Tenure
13.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27.5%
Direct
44.8%
Referral
9.6%
Social
16.6%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~21

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Senior Digital Marketing Specialist

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