Sr Manager, Digital Marketing & Content Strategy

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$128K/yr – $173K/yrSenior Level15+ years expOther

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive HGA’s firmwide digital marketing and content strategy across web, social, video, email, and paid channels to support eight markets and growth.

  • Own the annual editorial calendar and cross-channel content governance aligned to firm strategy.
  • Must-have: 15+ years in digital marketing/content strategy with multi-channel leadership in professional services.
  • Standout: Direct management of a digital and content team and HubSpot as core platform.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and execution of HGA’s firmwide digital marketing and content strategy across web, social, video, email, and paid channels.
  • Establish a cohesive national content strategy with adaptable frameworks that support planning and distribution across HGA’s eight markets.
  • Ensure digital programs support the full client journey—from brand awareness and thought leadership through ongoing engagement.
  • Incorporate targeted lead capture and nurturing strategies to align digital engagement with business development priorities.
  • Partner with Brand, Communications, Business Development, and Market leadership to ensure digital strategy supports firmwide priorities and growth initiatives.
  • Own the development and ongoing management of HGA’s annual editorial and content calendar, setting strategic themes, priorities, and cadence.
  • Ensure editorial programs support the firm’s strategic plan, growth priorities, and the go-to-market strategies of HGA’s eight markets.
  • Establish governance models and planning processes that align content development, review, and distribution across teams.
  • Partner with Market leadership and Business Development to identify priority topics, campaigns, and thought leadership opportunities.
  • Set editorial direction and content standards across written, visual, and video storytelling, ensuring consistency with HGA's brand voice, values, and positioning.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, journalism, digital media, or a related field.
  • Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in digital marketing, content strategy, or integrated marketing roles, ideally within professional services or complex, matrixed organizations.
  • Demonstrated experience leading digital marketing and content strategy across multiple channels, including web, social, email, video, and paid media.
  • Proven people management experience, with the ability to lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary digital and content team.
  • Strong editorial judgment and storytelling skills, with experience translating complex or technical subject matter into clear, compelling content.
  • Experience overseeing website strategy, content governance, and digital platform maintenance.
  • Hands-on experience with marketing automation platforms, preferably HubSpot, including email marketing, segmentation, workflows, and performance reporting.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and apply insights to improve content and campaign performance.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with comfort partnering across disciplines, offices, and leadership levels.
  • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Preferred

  • Hands-on experience with marketing automation platforms, preferably HubSpot, including email marketing, segmentation, workflows, and performance reporting.

Benefits

  • at HGA, you’ll do the best work of your career. We design with impact by diving deep into the people and passions that shape every place.
  • Empathy fuels us, curiosity drives us, and meaningful work leads to innovation.
  • We celebrate individuality, embrace flexibility, and thrive together in the office three days a week.
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HGA

4.3 Glassdoor

HGA is a national interdisciplinary design firm committed to making a positive, lasting impact for our clients and communities through research-based, holistic solutions. We believe that great design requires a sense of curiosity—forming deep insight into our clients, their contexts, and the human condition. We are a collective of 1,000 architects, engineers, interior designers, planners, researchers, and strategists. Our practice spans multiple markets, including science and technology, corporate, cultural, education, local and federal government, and healthcare. HGA’s work has received numerous awards throughout our history—from our own industries, as well as those of our clients. Equally as meaningful to us is the shared impact we create with our clients through purposeful design that speaks to the human experience. #HGA #HGADesign

Founded in 1953
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2K employees (458 in marketing)
83% recommend to a friend
85% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
97.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.7%
Direct
56.1%
Referral
4.9%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
81 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
4.8 years
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