Marketing and Engagement Coordinator

Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 650 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm’s core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth.

Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.

The Marketing and Engagement Coordinator provides day-to-day support across the department's content, design and digital marketing functions. This is a position focused on execution and coordination, offering the opportunity to build foundational skills in legal marketing across multiple channels. The Marketing and Engagement Coordinator helps keep the Firm's website, intranet and marketing assets accurate and up to date, assists with routine content and design requests and supports the team's project management needs.

This position maintains strict confidentiality in all client and firm matters and serves as a reliable, collaborative partner to colleagues across the department.

The Marketing and Engagement Coordinator can be located in the Chicago, New York or Washington D.C. office. Katten offers a hybrid work model, allowing the flexibility to work both on-site and remotely on a regular basis (Katten Flex).

include, but may not be limited to, the following. Other duties may be requested and/or assigned. Essential functions are primary job duties that an individual must be able to perform successfully with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Write, update, edit and publish attorney biographies and other basic content on the Firm's website and intranet.
• Track the status of associate bios — identifying missing or incomplete bios and following up with stakeholders to obtain drafts.
• Coordinate and help execute the Firm's regular social media attorney engagement efforts.
• Maintain the department’s marketing asset and reference material libraries, including stock imagery, design templates, style guides, best practices and training materials.
• Create basic graphics to support content and social media efforts.
• Draft and maintain process documentation as directed — for example, documenting the process for creating a new associate bio.
• Follow established processes to gather basic web and social engagement metrics for reporting purposes.
• Copyedit and quality-check assigned content to ensure accuracy, clarity, and adherence to the Firm's editorial standards and style guides.
• Track subscription and technology renewals, marketing deadlines, and project documentation to help keep the team organized.

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Journalism, English, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field.
• Zero to two years of professional or internship experience in marketing, communications, or a comparable environment; experience in a legal or professional services setting is a plus.
• Strong writing, editing and proofreading skills, with attention to grammar, style and brand voice.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to track deadlines, manage marketing calendars, and maintain organized project documentation.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and follow up professionally with attorneys and colleagues.
• Proficiency in MS Office; working knowledge of, or ability to quickly learn, content management systems and social publishing tools.
• Familiarity with design tools such as Canva; willingness to produce basic graphics and marketing materials.
• Ability to occasionally retrieve and distribute…