Fast Facts

WGU is seeking a Manager for Marketing Automation and Content Strategy to lead communication strategies that enhance student engagement and optimize marketing campaigns. The ideal candidate will foster collaboration across teams to drive the effectiveness of outreach initiatives.

Responsibilities: Lead and optimize marketing communication campaigns, develop analytics for KPI tracking, and manage team projects while ensuring effective student engagement through tailored outreach strategies.

Skills: Expertise in content strategy, customer journey optimization, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication abilities; experience with marketing automation tools (especially Marketo) is required.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of content strategy experience, including 3 years in a leadership role and 2 years in marketing automation.

Location: Salt Lake City Office, United States of America

Compensation: $75900 - $125300 / Annually

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Management_Executive 605Pay Range: $75,900.00 - $125,300.00

Job Description

The Marketing Automation Manager, Content Strategy guides the direction and purpose of marketing automated communication for WGU. As a leader within the Lifecycle Communications team, this role works as a strategic partner to stakeholders within the marketing team, representing the entire university.

This role seeks to understand the content and messaging needs of individual groups and define, research, and develop communication strategies for those needs. This team leadership position requires a master collaborator and team player, with skills to bring people and projects together for optimal outcomes. The role leads the way in creating compelling communication journeys that excite and engage our students at all phases in the Student Lifecycle.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Design and Optimize outreach campaigns to shepherd students through meaningful communication journeys.
• Develop and maintain reporting and analytics for team KPI's and campaigns.
• Use analytics to further refine and optimize campaigns.
• Take ownership of campaign outcomes and their KPIs.
• Work with internal teams to A/B test and optimize customer experience and conversion rates.
• Develop and deploy dynamic (behavior- and event-triggered) communications via email and other channels that work together as a cohesive strategy.
• Collaborate with the marketing team and internal clients to determine and develop campaign assets that will generate the strongest results.
• Create and optimize marketing campaigns across multiple channels (email, browser notification, SMS, others).
• Experiment with new technologies and leverage personalization to create a journey that resonates with each customer.
• Manage an Email Marketing team; Responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees in the department, function, or office
• Responsible for managing projects involving delegation of work and review of others’ work products.​
• Demonstrate the WGU leadership principles in all aspects of service to students, employees, and partners of WGU.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Content Strategy: Demonstrate expertise in developing effective content strategies. Provide on-going refinement of strategies based on outcomes.
• Customer Journeys: Thorough understanding of customer journeys, funnels, and fly-wheel methodologies, lead scoring, and how those can be implemented through automation.
• Audience Understanding: Learn each of our student audiences and how to effectively communicate with them to increase their conversions and decrease the times to those conversions.
• Communications: Be an excellent written and verbal communicator, able to work with other teams and leaders as a representative of our whole team and department.
• Creative: Willing and able to collaborate with others to brainstorm and implement new better ways of communication.
• Analytical: Driven by understanding metrics, what they mean, and how to continually improve.
• Versatile: Able to take on multiple projects, in varying domains, while leading through regular change.
• Enthusiastic: Ambassador for improving our communications with our students and their experience.
• Flexibility: Able to adjust to changing projects and continue to drive results.
• Agility: Thrive in a fast-moving position that uses a light-weight process to create impact.
• Innovator: Willing to try new ways to solve problems, with a keen sense finding long and short team solutions.
• Ability to understand and identify underlying business needs and problems in order to help deliver lasting solutions in a short timeline.

Job Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in related field.
• 3-5 years Content Strategy experience
• 3 years of leadership experience managing people and projects
• 2 years Marketing Automation experience (Marketo preferred)
• Understanding of marketing platforms (Content Management Systems, Forms, A/B Testing Solutions, Databases, Analytics etc.).
• Experience with Adobe Analytics a plus, but not required.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Position & Application Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.