Vice President, Marketing

USA

$125K/yr – $155K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own enrollment marketing strategy across domestic and international student journeys, turning multi‑channel demand into measurable enrollment growth.

  • Growth Ownership: Lead integrated marketing across awareness to enrollment with clear funnel metrics and executive visibility.
  • Data & Measurement: Strengthen analytics, attribution, forecasting, and reporting to guide spend and optimize ROI.
  • Cross-functional Alignment: Partner with Admissions, Brand Storytelling, and academic leadership to tailor messaging for undergraduate, graduate, online, and international audiences.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead an integrated marketing strategy aligned with the University’s mission, strategic priorities, enrollment objectives, and long-term institutional sustainability.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to the President and senior leadership on market trends, competitive positioning, prospective student behavior, emerging technologies, and growth opportunities.
  • Strong experience developing marketing strategies for both domestic and international student population.
  • Lead marketing across the prospective student journey (from awareness and inquiry through application, enrollment, start and retention) and understanding the complexity of the enrollment lifecycle.
  • Partner closely with Admissions to optimize and strengthen lead quality, nurture, re-engagement, conversion, and overall funnel performance.
  • Establish clear visibility into key performance measures, including inquiries, applications, registrations, starts, acquisition costs, conversion, and return on marketing investment.
  • Lead strategy and performance across paid media, search, social, SEO, content, email, CRM-supported nurture, retargeting, partnerships, and emerging channels
  • Build a rigorous test-and-learn culture across audiences, media, creative, messaging, offers, and conversion pathways.
  • Strengthen analytics, attribution, forecasting, and executive reporting so that investment decisions are grounded in credible, actionable data.
  • Partner with Brand Storytelling and institutional leaders to strengthen market positioning and communicate the distinctive value of an

Requirements

  • Experience in higher education required (with proven experience with education technology, consumer services, subscription businesses, marketplaces, and other sectors with complex, high-consideration customer journeys).
  • Significant progressive leadership experience in marketing, growth, customer acquisition, enrollment marketing, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-channel strategies tied to measurable business, revenue, customer, or enrollment outcomes.
  • Deep expertise in performance marketing, digital acquisition, analytics, attribution, conversion optimization, and customer journey strategy
  • Experience managing significant marketing investments and making disciplined resource allocation decisions.
  • Proven success leading and holding agencies, consultants, vendors, and strategic partners accountable for performance.
  • Strong analytical judgment and the ability to translate complex data into clear executive decisions and action.
  • Exceptional communication skills and the executive presence to work effectively with senior leadership and governance bodies.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and significant relevant experience.
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    Academy of Art University

    Established in 1929 by Sunset Magazine's creative director, Richard S. Stephens, Academy of Art University transforms aspiring students into professional artists & designers. He believed that aspiring artists, with proper instruction, hard work & dedication, could learn the skills needed to become professionals. He also believed students should be accepted into an art institution regardless of an art portfolio, and most importantly, an art education should be provided by professional artists.Academy of Art University fosters innovation through a faculty of current industry professionals, state-of-the-art facilities & curriculum in several areas of study. Graduates have been hired by companies like: Apple, EA, Nike, Pixar, Zynga & more. Through the dedication of current President Dr. Elisa Stephens & Chairman Emeritus Richard A. Stephens, Academy of Art University is keeping pace with emerging technologies & industry trends. The Academy has grown to over 18,000 students & is the largest accredited private art & design university in the nation. Academy of Art University continues its commitment to art & design while maintaining a strong connection to the passion of its founder.Majors: Acting, Advertising, Animation & Visual Effects, Architecture, Art Edu., Art History, Fashion, Fine Art, Game Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Arch. & Design, Jewelry & Metal Arts, Landscape Arch., Motion Pictures & Television, Multimedia Com., Music Prod. & Sound Design for Visual Media, Photography, Visual Dev., Web Design & New Media

    Founded in 1929
    San Francisco, California, USA
    2.6K employees (552 in marketing)

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    $125K/yr – $155K/yr

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    Vice President, Marketing

    Academy of Art University · USA