Cengage Learning

Director, Demand Marketing (Remote)

Cengage Learning$138K — $179K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Ohio, US
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or related field; advanced degree a plus
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in demand generation or growth marketing
  • Proven experience in B to B demand marketing with a focus on senior partners
  • Strong background in delivering marketing-sourced pipeline and revenue goals
  • Deep understanding of multi-channel demand campaigns and conversion optimization
  • Proficient in analytics, KPIs, and decision-making based on performance metrics
  • Experience working within a matrixed or squad-based team and leading through influence

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategy development for acquiring new institutional customers
  • Create targeted GTM campaign strategies to drive revenue growth
  • Plan and execute multi-channel demand campaigns with measurable performance
  • Continuously optimize campaigns using behavioral and intent data
  • Align closely with Sales leadership for effective lead handoff
  • Collaborate with Product Marketing on audience-specific content creation
  • Innovate marketing tactics and integrate modern digital demand trends

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards package
  • Participation in discretionary incentive bonus program
  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement
  • Flexible work schedule options available
  • Employee engagement initiatives and culture-focused activities
Full Job Description
What you'll do here:

Customer Acquisition Strategy:
  • Lead the end-to-end strategy for building a robust pipeline of new institutional customers across prioritized product areas and customer segments.
  • Translate growth goals into targeted GTM campaign strategies that increase marketing-sourced pipeline, accelerate conversion, and support revenue growth.

Program Campaign Execution & Performance Optimization:
  • Lead the planning, prioritization, and execution of integrated, multi-channel demand campaigns including email, paid media, SEO, SEM, webinars, and third-party channels.
  • Use behavioral and intent data to continuously optimize campaign performance.
  • Identify and implement B to B customer-centric initiatives appropriate for a strategic enterprise buyer,.

Cross-Functional GTM Integration:
  • Align with Sales leadership to ensure seamless handoff of leads and high-impact follow-up motions.
  • Partner with Revenue Operations to forecast, track, and improve pipeline contribution and conversion rates.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Marketing to translate GTM messaging into compelling, audience-specific campaign content.
  • Coordination with Marketing Ops to ensure appropriate prioritization and execution

Audience Segmentation & Personalization:
  • Develop strategies for senior leader decision-makers, buying groups and enterprise buyer behaviors
  • Coordinate with analytics and digital leads to implement campaign logic and personalization strategies that improve engagement and conversion metrics.

Leadership & Squad Alignment:
  • Lead a team of marketing managers to accelerate our demand generation capabilities and build and implement a sophisticated, multi-channel B to B campaign.
  • Partner with campaign specialists aligned to demand efforts responsible for prioritizing initiatives, defining team workflows, and driving execution through collaborative leadership.

Innovation & Modern Marketing Tactics:
  • Embed testing, automation, ABM and intent-based targeting into campaign frameworks.
  • Stay current on digital demand trends and integrate guidelines into campaign execution.
  • Drive continuous innovation to improve lead quality, and conversion rates

Skills you will need here:
  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or related field; advanced degree a plus
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in demand generation or growth marketing, with a strong focus on acquisition strategies and pipeline development
  • Experience in B to B demand marketing, preferably with senior partners and complex sales.
  • Experience owning and delivering marketing-sourced pipeline and revenue goals
  • Deep experience with multi-channel demand campaigns, marketing automation, segmentation, and conversion optimization
  • Strong ability to partner cross-functionally across Product, Sales, RevOps, and Brand functions
  • Excellent analytical and decision-making skills; experience working with marketing and sales performance dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Experience working in a matrixed or squad-based team model, with the ability to lead through influence
  • Familiarity with key marketing platforms and tools (e.g., Salesforce, Google Ads, LinkedIn Campaign Manager etc.)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt messaging for the market and craft clear value propositions and calls to action
  • Self-starter approach with a passion for innovation, testing, and performance-based marketing execution
  • High learning agility for a market that in a state of change
  • Experience leading a team of marketers and coaching and guiding the team through campaign execution and their own career paths.


Compensation

At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy.

The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.

In this position, you will be eligible to participate in the company's discretionary incentive bonus program. This position's bonus target amount, which is not guaranteed and is dependent on individual performance and overall company results among other factors, is provided below.

25% Annual: Individual Target

$138,200.00 - $179,650.00 USD

About Cengage Learning

Cengage is an American educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education, K-12, professional, and library markets. It operates in more than 20 countries around the world. The company provides print and digital textbooks, instructor supplements, online reference databases, distance learning courses, test preparation materials, corporate training courses, career assessment tools, and other educational materials. Cengage was founded in 2007 as a merger between Thomson Learning and Gale. In 2018, the company filed for bankruptcy and emerged with a new ownership structure. Cengage has approximately 5,000 employees and generates over $1.5 billion in annual revenue.
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