Senior Marketing Manager

Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid)

$65K/yr – $70K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive integrated marketing and revenue growth for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra through multi-channel campaigns and partnerships.

  • Own multi-channel campaigns across digital and traditional media for concerts and education initiatives.
  • Must-have: Demonstrated success with audience segmentation to boost campaign performance.
  • Standout: Budget ownership and vendor management to maximize ROI.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Integrated Marketing & Revenue Accountability
  • Translate revenue targets into actionable marketing plans that drive ticket sales and audience growth.
  • Lead strategy and execution across multi-channel campaigns (digital + traditional) from concept through completion for concerts, presentations, and education initiatives for all media channels (direct marketing, digital, traditional broadcast, outdoor, video, etc.).
  • Manage multiple concurrent campaigns while maintaining strong creative quality and staying within budget.
  • Establish positioning, identify target audiences, and develop marketing plans with specific objectives across different channels and segments. Test and optimize segmentation strategies to improve click-through, conversion, and ticket sales.
  • Develop and execute digital-first media plans while managing traditional channels as appropriate, including direct mail, radio, print, and out-of-home.
  • Oversee in-house media planning and buying, including negotiations, placements, schedules, and budget optimization. Allocate budgets strategically to maximize ROI across digital and traditional channels.
  • Monitor campaign performance and make proactive adjustments to messaging, segmentation, media mix, and timing to meet or exceed revenue and engagement targets.
  • Manage external vendors to develop, execute, and evaluate digital campaigns that align with audience segments, revenue goals, and season objectives. Ensure digital campaigns are integrated with broader marketing and communications efforts, including social media and communications.
  • Partner with communications, email, and web teams to ensure integration and execution of marketing plans.
  • With Marketing Project Manager, propose marketing expense budgets and oversee expense forecasting.
  • Develop partnership-driven campaigns that expand reach, reduce acquisition costs, and generate incremental revenue. Ensure campaigns reflect community relevance, accessibility, and inclusivity.
  • Partner with Director of Marketing and Director of Ticketing and Customer Care to deploy promotional strategies, optimize offers, and support revenue pacing goals.
  • Creative & Content Leadership
  • Write and edit high-quality copy for all channels, including direct mail, digital ads, email campaigns, and website content.
  • Develop creative briefs and collaborate with Publications Manager to guide creative direction to designers, agencies, and internal teams.
  • Ensure cohesive brand voice across digital and traditional campaigns.
  • Translate artistic and educational content into accessible, audience-centered digital storytelling.
  • Analytics, Optimization, & Learning
  • Track performance of marketing campaigns across revenue, sales, engagement, and audience metrics. Analyze data to understand channel effectiveness, cost-per-acquisition, and conversion rates. Report outcomes, insights, and recommendations to the Director of Marketing and senior leadership to inform future digital and integrated campaign strategies.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, known for its artistic excellence for more than 120 years, is credited with a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians, and a strong commitment to the Pittsburgh region and its citizens. Past music directors have included Fritz Reiner (1938-1948), William Steinberg (1952-1976), André Previn (1976-1984), Lorin Maazel (1984-1996) and Mariss Jansons (1995-2004). This tradition of outstanding music directors was furthered in fall 2008, when Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck became music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony. The orchestra has been at the forefront of championing new American works, and gave the first performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah” in 1944 and John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine in 1986. The Pittsburgh Symphony has a long and illustrious history in the areas of recordings and radio concerts. Its “Pittsburgh Live!” series with Reference Recordings has resulted in back-to-back Grammy Award nominations in 2015 and 2016. As early as 1936, the Pittsburgh Symphony radio broadcasts aired nationally and in the late 1970s it made the ground breaking PBS series “Previn and the Pittsburgh.” Since 1982, the orchestra has been heard through national network radio broadcasts on Public Radio International, produced by Classical WQED-FM, made possible by the musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. At home in historic Heinz Hall, the Pittsburgh Symphony offers a variety of musical experiences, including its BNY Mellon Grand Classics and PNC Pops series, FUSE@PSO series, Fiddlesticks Family Concerts series, specials, and numerous community engagement and education concerts throughout the region. With a long and distinguished history of touring both domestically and overseas since 1900 — including international tours to Europe, the Far East and South America—the Pittsburgh Symphony continues to be critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest orchestras.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
201 employees (78 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
119.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$7.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.5%
Direct
48.8%
Referral
6.5%
Social
1.5%
Paid
2.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~203

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
14 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
2.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$1.3M
Last Raise
$1.3M
Grant, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2018
    Grant • $1.3M

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