Sr. Digital Marketing Specialist – Paid Media, Performance & AI Search

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$71K/yr – $116K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Supports positioning Lurie Children’s as a leader in pediatric healthcare by managing and optimizing paid digital media efforts that highlight clinical expertise, services, and strategic priorities across consumer and referring audiences.
  • Oversees the planning, coordination, and performance monitoring of paid digital campaigns across channels such as paid search, paid social, and display, ensuring alignment with broader digital marketing goals and market trends.
  • Partners with external agency teams to align on paid media strategy, execution, optimization, budgets, and reporting, while contributing internal perspective on institutional priorities and performance needs.
  • Uses digital analytics, performance reporting, and AI-assisted insights to evaluate campaign effectiveness and identify optimization opportunities across paid media, SEO alignment, website UX, and conversion points.
  • Collaborates with internal web, content, SEO, and email teams to ensure paid traffic is supported by strong landing pages, clear messaging, and optimized user experiences.
  • Supports testing and optimization efforts—leveraging platform tools, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities—related to creative, messaging, targeting, website UX, and conversion pathways to improve engagement and patient volumes.
  • Serves as an internal digital performance resource, translating data and insights into clear, actionable recommendations that inform both campaign-level decisions and broader digital strategy.
  • Contributes digital marketing expertise to web strategy, campaign planning, service line initiatives, and cross-channel programs beyond paid media as needed.
  • Helps evaluate and responsibly adopt new AI-enabled marketing and analytics capabilities, partnering with internal teams and external agencies to assess value, limitations, and performance impact.
  • Tracks how AI tools are changing the way people search for healthcare information, and brings clear recommendations for how our paid, content, and SEO strategies should respond to stay visible and relevant.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field with a minimum of five years of experience in digital marketing, including significant experience supporting paid digital media initiatives. Experience in a healthcare or regulated environment is preferred.
  • Strong understanding of digital paid media strategy, including paid search, paid social, and display advertising, with experience collaborating with external agency partners.
  • Ability to analyze digital performance data and use AI-assisted analytics, automation, and predictive insights to guide recommendations, while understanding tool limitations and ensuring data accuracy and compliance.
  • Working knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO) principles, website UX best practices, and conversion optimization. Demonstrated understanding of how AI-driven search experiences are reshaping how patients, families, and referring providers find pediatric healthcare information, and how paid and organic strategies must evolve to maintain brand visibility and patient acquisition in this environment.
  • Uses AI-assisted marketing or analytics tools responsibly, with attention to brand standards, healthcare compliance, and human oversight.
  • Familiarity with generative engine optimization (GEO) concepts, including how to structure content, schema markup, and digital authority signals to improve institutional visibility in AI-generated answers and citations—with a particular understanding of how these dynamics apply to pediatric healthcare queries and patient decision journeys.
  • Experience using web analytics, advertising platforms, and reporting tools; Google Analytics (GA4), common paid media platforms, and AI-assisted marketing or analytics tools preferred.
  • Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and timelines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex digital, performance insights into clear, actionable guidance for non-technical audiences.
  • Proven ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and work effectively with external agency partners.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Employer paid group term life and disability
  • Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave
  • 403(b) with a 5% employer match
  • Various voluntary benefits:
  • Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability
  • Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage
  • Tuition assistance
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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is the largest pediatric healthcare provider in the region with a 130 year legacy of excellence. We are proud to serve as the pediatric teaching and research partner of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and are ranked nationally in all 10 pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report.

Founded in 1987
Chicago, Illinois, USA
7K employees (89 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$71K/yr – $116K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
64 (1% of company)
Median Tenure
8.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$14M
Last Raise
$3.7M
Grant, 5 months ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2025
    Grant
  • Nov 2024
    Grant • $3.7M
  • Sep 2019
    Grant • $250K

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
665.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$82.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38.5%
Direct
50.8%
Referral
8.5%
Social
1.1%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7K

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