Senior Marketing Manager

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive integrated marketing strategy for a portfolio of client events, shaping audience targeting, channels, budgets, and measurement, while leading planning conversations and delivering measurable attendance and revenue outcomes.

  • Lead multichannel plans across email, paid, web, social, and content
  • Convert audience insight into practical strategy and briefs
  • Manage multiple clients with accountability for deadlines and outcomes

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own integrated marketing strategy for a portfolio of client accounts, from business and attendance objectives through audience, positioning, channel mix, budget, execution, and measurement.
  • Develop launch-to-event, multichannel marketing plans across email/CRM, paid media, website, organic social, content, and other audience touchpoints.
  • Build campaign calendars, briefs, messaging frameworks, test plans, and measurement approaches with clear KPIs tied to attendance, registration, membership, engagement, or revenue goals.
  • Define target audiences and segmentation using first-party data, research, historical behavior, and client insight.
  • Recommend where to invest - which audiences, channels, messages, and tactics will drive the most impact, what to test, and what to stop doing.
  • Serve as a senior marketing advisor to clients and account teams, leading planning and performance conversations and presenting recommendations with a clear point of view.
  • Translate audience insight into practical marketing decisions, partnering with research, content, creative, event strategy, and account teams.
  • Bring new ideas, tools, and approaches to the work and help build repeatable systems and templates that make the team smarter and more efficient.
  • Direct and execute integrated client campaigns end to end, without day-to-day oversight; step into the work yourself when needed.
  • Use registration pacing, funnel performance, historical trends, and campaign results to identify risk and opportunity, then pivot messaging, targeting, channel mix, timing, or spend.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
  • 7-10 years of experience in integrated marketing strategy and execution, with meaningful experience marketing B2B events, conferences, trade shows, or similarly deadline-driven offerings.
  • A proven track record of independently owning multichannel marketing strategies and measurable outcomes, not just executing individual tactics.
  • Experience using audience research, first-party data, personas, segmentation, and/or customer behavior to inform strategy.
  • Strong analytical skills: able to interpret registration and campaign performance across channels, explain the "why" behind the numbers, and make a recommendation. Comfortable with Google Analytics and Excel charts and pivot tables.
  • Strong messaging and writing judgment. Able to draft and edit copy across email, social, web, and ads and give useful feedback to writers and creatives.
  • Experience managing multiple clients or complex stakeholder groups with competing priorities, budgets, and deadlines.
  • Strong client presence and communication skills, including leading planning conversations and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Fluency with email/CRM platforms such as HubSpot, Constant Contact, or Mailchimp, plus working knowledge of organic social and website/CMS workflows.
  • Experience planning, evaluating, and optimizing paid media across platforms such as Google, LinkedIn, and Meta. Comfortable directing media partners and working in-platform when needed.

Preferred

  • Agency, association, nonprofit, professional services, or events industry experience.
  • Experience with event registration data, registration pacing/forecasting, lifecycle marketing, or conversion optimization.
  • Experience contributing to new business pitches, scopes, or strategic marketing frameworks.
  • Experience mentoring coordinators or junior marketers. This role has no direct reports at hire, but leadership and future people management are expected as the team grows.
  • Familiarity with SharePoint, Figma, Teamwork, and other collaboration/project management tools.
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Smithbucklin

For 75 years, Smithbucklin has been a trusted steward for our association, society, and community partners, deeply vested in each one’s purpose, goals, values, and long-term success. From our very beginning, we’ve helped associations reimagine what’s possible. The talent and passion of our people complement the volunteer leaders we work alongside. We join in their journeys and empower them along the way. Working together, our innovative solutions nurture growth, advance missions, and achieve lasting impact.

Founded in 1949
Chicago, IL, US
710 employees (95 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$110K/yr – $120K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($115K) is in line with the median base salary for Senior Marketing Manager roles in the United States ($115K).

Senior Marketing Manager median pay in the United States

$116K/yr

Most pay falls between $98K and $143K. Based on 223 salaries.

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
18.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
19.5%
Direct
66.3%
Referral
10.8%
Social
3.2%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~704
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Senior Marketing Manager

Smithbucklin · District of Columbia, USA · Hybrid