Digital Marketing Specialist, Salt Lake City, UT

Digital Marketing Specialist

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:
Professional 306

Pay Range: $62,100.00 - $93,200.00

The Digital Marketing Specialist will be responsible for managing and executing paid online media (including social, video, display, paid search, etc.), optimization of those media activities, and reporting on performance KPI's and goals. The Digital Marketing Specialist will consult with the Media Manager to align the strategy and plan for their assigned audience, as well as implement tactics against those plans to achieve and surpass WGU's full funnel market engagement goals.

The Digital Marketing Specialist will have at least 1-2 years of hands-on digital marketing experience with a track record of achieving excellent results in highly competitive markets by leveraging their advanced digital marketing skillsets. Favored candidates will possess a strong understanding of all areas considered digital marketing, primarily for display and video across major display and social platforms.

Responsible for creating and managing paid video, display, and paid search (Google Ads, You Tube, Facebook, and Linked In) campaigns for specific college audiences and degree programs. Responsible for optimizing and testing ad performance on a granular level.

Develop recommendations for new campaign, audience, and messaging approaches that align with the WGU media KPIs.

Partner with internal teams to implement and execute campaign testing.

Conduct bid management analysis and adjustments based on data. Manage and maintain campaign budget tracking and optimizations. Assist in report building, report development, data analysis and reviewing analytics for key opportunities. Responsible for providing data insights and actions for formalized reporting.

Request creative as well as assist in ideation of creative concepts and messaging along with the internal WGU creative teams. Implement and manage audience nurturing lists and strategies across multiple digital marketing channels. Assist and collaborate in media planning recommendations. Manage 3rd party media relationships with digital and social partners.

Demonstrates experience and knowledge of digital marketing in social media, display channels, and paid search.

Experience with daily account management across Google Ads and Social platforms.

A self-starter that can get the job done without constant supervision.

Proficient in Microsoft Excel. Data, analytics, and developing reports should be exciting to you.

Extremely organized when dealing with a large number of ongoing projects.

Excellent communicator; able to thoughtfully prepare and present reports to other team members, and sr. leadership.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 1-2 years of active management of digital campaigns (social, display, remarketing, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Google or…