Dow Jones

Director, Acquisition Marketing

Dow Jones$160K — $200K *
Business Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in B2B acquisition marketing or demand generation
  • Experience with multi-channel acquisition for subscription, SaaS, or media products
  • Strong knowledge of paid media, webinars, and funnel optimization
  • Budget and agency management experience
  • Analytical skills for measuring campaign performance
  • Ability to collaborate with Product, Sales, and Marketing teams
  • Excellent communication and project management skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement the acquisition marketing strategy for Enterprise Subscriptions
  • Manage integrated campaign planning across various channels
  • Define KPIs and reporting frameworks for acquisition performance
  • Oversee acquisition budget planning and investment strategy
  • Manage external agencies for media and digital programs
  • Collaborate with Product Marketing for campaign alignment
  • Partner with Sales and Sales Enablement for lead quality assurance
  • Optimize acquisition strategies based on performance metrics
  • Lead cross-functional campaign planning for consistency
  • Identify improvement opportunities through testing and optimization

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Retirement plan options
  • Wellness programs
  • Increased flexibility in work arrangements
  • Optional benefits tailored to diverse employee needs
Full Job Description
Job Description:
About the Role

The Director of Acquisition Marketing leads the strategy, planning, and performance of demand generation for Dow Jones Enterprise. This role defines how all acquisition channels, including paid media, owned channels, web, events, webinars, and partnerships, work together to drive pipeline growth, ensuring alignment with business priorities, sales capacity, and revenue goals.

The Director oversees integrated campaign strategy, budget allocation, agency management, and performance measurement across the acquisition funnel. This role partners closely with Product Marketing, Sales, and Sales Enablement to ensure campaigns, messaging, and targeting strategies are aligned to key industries, customer segments, and growth priorities.

You Will:
  • Develop and execute the acquisition marketing strategy for Enterprise Subscriptions.

  • Own integrated campaign planning across paid, owned, web, events, webinars, and partnership channels.

  • Define acquisition KPIs, reporting frameworks, and performance benchmarks tied to pipeline and business outcomes.

  • Oversee acquisition budget planning and channel investment strategy.

  • Manage external agencies and vendors supporting paid media, creative execution, events, and digital marketing programs.

  • Partner closely with Product Marketing to align messaging, positioning, and campaign execution.

  • Collaborate with Sales and Sales Enablement to ensure lead quality, campaign alignment, and effective follow-up strategies.

  • Optimize acquisition programs and channel mix based on lead quality, conversion, and ROI.

  • Lead cross-functional campaign planning and ensure consistency across customer touchpoints.

  • Identify opportunities to improve acquisition performance through testing, optimization, and process improvements.

You Have:
  • 12+ years of experience in B2B acquisition marketing, demand generation, or integrated marketing.

  • Experience leading multi-channel acquisition programs for subscription, SaaS, media, or business information products.

  • Strong understanding of paid media, events, webinars, digital acquisition, and funnel optimization.

  • Experience managing agencies, budgets, and integrated marketing campaigns.

  • Strong analytical mindset with experience measuring campaign and pipeline performance.

  • Proven ability to collaborate across Product, Sales, and Marketing teams.

  • Excellent communication and project management skills.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - Industries

Job Category:

Marketing & Product Management

Union Status:

Non-Union role

 

Base Pay Range: $160,000 - $200,000

We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

About Dow Jones

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world?s largest news gathering operations globally. It produces leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America?s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Factiva, Barron?s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.
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