Product and Growth Marketing Manager
National Restaurant Association · Chicago, IL · Yesterday
HybridMarketingFull-time
Responsibilities
- Product Marketing & Subscriber Growth
- Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for RestaurantOwner.com products, services, and enhancements.
- Define positioning, messaging, value propositions, and competitive differentiation.
- Partner with Product Management to drive product launches, adoption, engagement, and retention.
- Support customer segmentation, pricing, packaging, promotional, upsell, and cross-sell initiatives.
- Lifecycle Marketing & Optimization
- Lead marketing support for onboarding, engagement, retention, renewal, and win-back programs.
- Develop and optimize automated customer journeys across digital channels.
- Maintain key performance metrics including acquisition, conversion, retention, churn, and customer lifetime value to identify growth opportunities.
- Use customer research, feedback, and insights to improve growth and customer experience.
- Partner with Product Management to execute integrated, cross-channel marketing campaigns for product, program, or service launches.
- Partner Solutions Portfolio (30%)
- Lead marketing support for Healthcare HQ and strategic partner products, including UnitedHealthcare, Teladoc, Optum Perks, HealthMarkets, and future partner programs.
- Develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns, co-branded materials, content, webinars, and promotional assets.
- Create marketing playbooks and co-marketing resources for State Restaurant Associations and strategic partners.
- Monitor campaign performance and identify opportunities to increase partner engagement, product adoption, and growth.
- Workforce Development Initiatives (20%)
- Support marketing strategies and campaigns for workforce development programs, workshops, training events, and educational initiatives.
- Aid in program positioning, marketing strategy, campaign planning, and promotional execution.
- Develop communications, success stories, and promotional assets to increase awareness, participation, and program impact.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to expand program reach, engagement, and adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field required.
- Minimum of 5-10 years of experience in product marketing, growth marketing, lifecycle marketing, demand generation, subscription services, and/or product-led growth environments.
- Familiarity with the Education, Training, and Certification industry is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated experience growing a subscription, membership, SaaS, or recurring revenue business through customer acquisition, engagement, retention, and customer lifecycle strategies.
- Experience developing go-to-market plans and executing integrated, cross-channel marketing campaigns for product, program, or service launches.
- Strong understanding of customer lifecycle marketing, conversion optimization, retention, renewal, and customer growth strategies.
- Knowledge of the Hospitality and Restaurant industry is a plus.
- Familiarity with GA4, Pendo, Keap, MemberGate, Marketo, and other marketing automation and customer engagement platforms is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to leverage data and insights to drive decision-making and optimize marketing performance.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Outstanding project management capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple cross-functional initiatives simultaneously.
- Hands-on capability to develop marketing assets, including presentations, product demos, eBooks, videos, customer communications, and event or webinar content.
- Creative problem solver who can generate innovative marketing ideas and effectively partner across teams to drive execution and business outcomes.
- Experience and confidence in presenting to internal and external audiences and influencing stakeholders across multiple functions.
- Proven ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in support of business growth objectives.
- Strong analytical, project management, and communication skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including outstanding healthcare coverage (medical, dental and vision), competitive salaries, generous vacation and leave time, a matching 401(k) plan, corporate discounts and memberships, learning and tuition assistance, and more.