Sr Communications Specialist
Ursus, Inc. · Sacramento, CA · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteMarketing$31–$34/hrContract
Location: Remote
Pay range: $31 - $34/hr • Duration: 4 months
Qualifications
- Experience executing funnel and lifecycle marketing campaigns, with an understanding of customer experience and how contacts move between stages.
- Hands-on experience in a marketing automation/email platform (Eloqua preferred, Marketo, Pardot, or similar considered), including campaign builds within pre-established templates and guidelines, including QA and testing.
- Working knowledge of audience segmentation and how data structures drive personalization and targeting.
- Familiar with managing lead qualifications against defined scoring and routing criteria; Salesforce experience preferred.
- Comfortable holding complexity across multiple concurrent, always-on campaigns, including contact suppression logic and avoiding cross-program conflicts.
- Ability to setup relevant tracking (UTM) as well as identify and report meaningful metrics and suggest optimizations to existing campaigns.
- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Communications, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years’ experience in related communications work for a variety of mediums and customizing content to targeted audiences.
- Project management experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work with individuals from all levels of organization.
- Proficient in word processing and desktop publishing applications.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of strategic and highly complex integrated communications programs across multiple external audiences.
- Develop and execute effective and integrated communication plans, including strategies and tactics across all channels, and leveraging all communication opportunities.
- Responsible for communication management for projects involving high priority, major company strategic initiatives and/or significant changes to existing marketing and communication strategies.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects, requiring outside resources and crossing divisions to produce the most effective communications.
- Responsible for strategic communication oversight and recommending ongoing enhancements for assigned audience, program(s) or channel(s).
- Serve as communication strategist and consult with corporate and division partners to develop strategies, key messages, and vehicles for communication to support corporate, division, and project objectives.
- Lead and/or participate in project meetings.
- Proactively and openly articulate ideas and concerns with both corporate and project stakeholders, while balancing the objectives of both groups.
- Evaluate the impact of different communication channels and messaging strategies to ensure effective communications.
- Serve as account manager between creative teams and business partners.
- Initiate and manage creative strategy work, including some direct content development.
- Understand and leverage communication touch points for assigned audiences and/or projects.
- Ensure market positioning and approved key messages are adhered to.
- Manage communication projects, including tracking, reporting status, project budgets and measurement of tactics.
- Analyze processes and strategies relating to increasing efficiency, quality, cost-control principles, workflow, accuracy and reduction of complex production processes and products, providing recommendations for improvement.
- Advise and recommend effective communication approaches.
- Write and edit copy for various communication pieces.
- Manage various communication processes and workflows.
- Working with manager, recommend tactical assignments of work for other team members to support strategic communication needs.
Benefits
- Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
- Full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.