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Senior Specialist, Digital Marketing

SHRM · Alexandria, VA · 1 wk ago
Marketing$83k–$98k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Digital Campaign Execution & Optimization
    • Partner with the Paid Media team to plan, execute, and optimize integrated digital campaigns across email, paid search, paid social, display, and web channels.
    • Build, test, deploy, and optimize campaign assets within enterprise marketing automation platforms and SHRM's marketing technology ecosystem (Adobe, Marketo, Salesforce).
    • Design and run A/B and multivariate tests across campaign assets — emails, campaign landing pages, and ad creative — and apply learnings to improve engagement and conversion.
    • Monitor, analyze, and report on campaign performance using web and marketing analytics tools, partnering closely with Business Intelligence (e.g., Customer Journey Analytics, GA4), to translate data into actionable insights and recommendations.
    • Serve as a trusted marketing partner to internal business units (e.g. CID (Center for Inclusion & Diversity), CEO Academy and SHRM Linkage), translating business objectives into strategic marketing plans, creative briefs, and integrated campaigns with minimal direction.
    • Support account-based marketing (ABM) programs with targeted digital activation across channels.

Marketing Generalist & Internal Client Support

  • Develop compelling marketing content across multiple digital formats—including email, landing pages, social media, campaign messaging, and sales enablement materials—ensuring alignment with brand standards and audience needs.
  • Manage multiple concurrent marketing initiatives from concept through execution, balancing competing priorities while consistently delivering high-quality results.
  • Apply strategic marketing fundamentals — audience definition, positioning, messaging hierarchy, and channel selection — to shape campaigns before execution begins.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

  • Leverage AI and automation tools to increase speed, scale, and quality of marketing execution.
  • Provide guidance and informal mentoring to team members by sharing digital marketing best practices, campaign strategies, and platform expertise.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Creative, Content, Paid Media, and Analytics teams to ensure integrated, on-strategy execution.
  • Identify opportunities to improve marketing processes, workflows, campaign performance, and technology utilization through continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Stay current on emerging digital marketing trends, technologies, and best practices, recommending new approaches that enhance campaign effectiveness and customer engagement.

Education & Experience Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field preferred or relevant equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
  • Experience: Five (5) or more years of progressive experience in digital marketing, campaign management, or a related marketing role.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise marketing automation platforms (e.g., Adobe Journey Optimizer, Marketo, HubSpot, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar); ability to quickly learn and execute within AAA's Adobe/Salesforce stack.
  • Demonstrated experience developing, writing, and optimizing digital marketing content across multiple channels and audience segments.
  • Experience utilizing marketing analytics and campaign performance data to optimize marketing strategies and improve business outcomes.
  • Experience supporting multiple stakeholders or internal clients in a matrixed organization preferred.
  • Certifications: Adobe certification (Journey Optimizer, Marketo Engage) preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  • Advanced knowledge of digital marketing channels, including email, paid search, paid social, display advertising, web, and marketing automation.
  • Proficiency with marketing automation platforms, CRM integration workflows, and campaign QA.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret campaign performance data and translate findings into actionable recommendations (GA4, Journey Analytics and campaign reporting).
  • Excellent writing and editing skills across formats and audiences; strong command of brand voice.
  • Strong understanding of audience segmentation, positioning, messaging strategy, and customer journey development.
  • Comprehensive understanding of the customer lifecycle and the role digital marketing plays in building awareness, generating demand, nurturing prospects, and driving retention.
  • Thrive in fast-moving environments; manages competing priorities and short timelines with composure.
  • Strong project management and communication skills; builds trust quickly with internal clients.
  • Demonstrated curiosity, adaptability, and continuous learning mindset, with the ability to leverage emerging technologies, to improve marketing effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Ability to effectively leverage artificial intelligence (AI) tools and technologies to streamline workflows, enhance productivity, and improve overall work quality.

Physical Requirements

  • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  • Frequent use of hands and fingers for typing, handling documents, and using office equipment.
  • Occasional standing, walking, bending, and reaching.
  • Able to lift and carry up to 30 pounds as needed.

Work Environment

  • Hybrid Schedule (3 Days In-Office/2 Days Remote)
  • This position follows a hybrid work schedule, with Tuesday through Thursday in office and Monday and Friday remote.
  • Employees must be available during standard business hours, with core hours beginning between 8:00–9:00 a.m. and concluding between 5:00–6:00 p.m. local time.

Travel

  • Occasional 0 – 10%

Hiring Range

  • $83,000 to $98,000 per year

Benefits

  • Professional growth and development
  • Health, dental, vision, well-being, health savings, flexible spending, retirement, open leave, and annual discretionary bonus and incentives

EEO Statement

  • SHRM is an equal opportunity employer (Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran).
  • We do not sponsor applicants for work visas.

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