Sr Digital Marketing Strategist

Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

$80K/yr – $100K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive multi-channel digital marketing leadership for client accounts, translating roadmaps into quarterly plans and budgets.

  • Own multi-channel programs spanning SEO, paid media, CRO, email, and analytics.
  • Must-have: 5–7+ years in agency digital marketing leading multi-channel initiatives.
  • Standout: Budget ownership and cross-functional collaboration with Designers and Developers.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as strategic lead for client accounts; run discovery, align business goals to channel strategy, and translate roadmaps into clear quarterly plans and budgets.
  • Build and lead programs across defined core service offerings.
  • Present strategy, performance, and next-best actions to executive and practitioner stakeholders; convert insights into prioritized backlogs.
  • SEO: drive technical/site architecture improvements, content strategy, internal linking, schema, and E-E-A-T; collaborate tightly with dev on tickets and QA.
  • Paid Media: plan and manage budgets across Google/Microsoft Ads and LinkedIn (and Meta when relevant); build measurement frameworks; enforce naming conventions and QA.
  • CRO/UX: define hypotheses, implement A/B tests, reduce friction, and improve conversion rates for lead gen and e-commerce (including checkout performance).
  • Email/Automation: design nurture flows, re-engagement sequences, and lifecycle programs (HubSpot preferred).
  • Analytics: own KPI frameworks, dashboards, and attribution views (GA4, GTM, Looker Studio). Ensure compliant tracking (Consent Mode v2, privacy basics).
  • Performance Management: Create benchmarking and forecasting models; set targets for traffic quality, cost per acquisition, pipeline/revenue contribution, and ROAS.
  • Run ongoing experimentation and “tighten the loop” on insights to actions: weekly optimizations, monthly analysis, quarterly strategy resets.
  • Collaboration & Process: Partner with Project Management to maintain scope, cadence, and quality; document assumptions and risks early.
  • Write SOW inputs (goals, deliverables, hours) and collaborate with Sales on renewals and expansions.
  • Contribute to internal core processes, QA checklists, and center-of-excellence standards.
  • Identify opportunities to standardize, template, and improve digital marketing process to increase team scalability and consistency.
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August Ash

August Ash helps companies systematize success and engineer growth by connecting strategy, marketing, sales, and technology with digital marketing and custom web development solutions.

Founded in 1999
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
21 employees (7 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.7%
Direct
44.3%
Referral
10%
Social
9.8%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~21

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (19% of company)