Whitney Museum of American Art

Director, Marketing and Media Strategy

Whitney Museum of American Art$130K — $140K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree a plus.
  • 5-7 years in marketing leadership with an integrated marketing function.
  • Proven experience in audience strategy and segmentation for attendance/demand targets.
  • Demonstrated command of forecasting attendance and connecting marketing to outcomes.
  • Experience managing operating budgets.
  • Team leadership experience, including managing managers.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with CMO and Finance to engage marketing and audience inputs.
  • Set and execute integrated multi-year and annual marketing and media strategies.
  • Write integrated marketing briefs for use internally and by agencies.
  • Maintain a dynamic audience segmentation framework with specific goals.
  • Lead media strategy covering paid media, search, social, SEO/AEO.
  • Implement access-and-growth campaigns for free-admission programs.
  • Expand outreach to younger, local, Spanish-speaking, and Latinx communities.
  • Oversee institutional digital marketing strategy.
  • Support earned-revenue growth in attendance, membership, retail, and dining.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, 403(B) options
  • Generous PTO benefits
  • Commuter benefits for parking and transit
  • Admission to renowned museums locally and nationally
  • Pet insurance and discounted Citibike memberships
Full Job Description
Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), the Director of Marketing & Media Strategy leads the Museum's integrated marketing and media strategy-centering audiences alongside art and artists and growing and sustaining ambitious attendance and audience-driven revenue goals. The Director, Marketing & Media Strategy owns the connection between attendance forecast, audience segmentation, marketing activity, and attendance outcomes: closing the loop between what the Museum projects, whom it targets, and the results it achieves.

Responsibilities
  • Partner with CMO and Finance to support marketing and audience inputs.
  • Set and execute the integrated, multi-year and annual marketing and media strategy.
  • Write integrated marketing briefs for internal and agency use.
  • Maintain a dynamic segmentation framework and set audience-specific goals.
  • Lead media strategy and buying with expertise spanning paid media, search, social and SEO / AEO.
  • Lead access-and-growth campaigns for the free-admission programs.
  • Expand reach to younger and local communities and Spanish-speaking and Latinx audiences.
  • Oversee institutional digital marketing strategy.
  • Support earned-revenue growth across attendance, membership, retail and food & beverage.

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree a plus.
  • 5-7 years in marketing leadership, including ownership of an integrated marketing function.
  • Proven experience in audience strategy and segmentation, with direct accountability for attendance or demand targets.
  • Demonstrated command of attendance or demand forecasting, and of the attribution that connects marketing activity to outcomes.
  • Experience managing operating budgets.
  • Team leadership experience, including managing managers.

Compensation & Benefits
  • Compensation of $130,000-$140,000 per annum
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, 403(B) elections
  • Generous PTO benefits
  • Commuter benefits - parking and mass transit
  • Admission to world-renowned museums across the city and nationally
  • Pet insurance and discounted membership for Citibike

If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply. We are dedicated to considering a broad array of candidates. Whether you're new to arts and culture administration, returning to work after a gap in employment, simply looking to transition, or take the next step in your career path, we will be glad to have you on our radar. Please use your cover letter to tell us about your interest in the arts and culture space and what you hope to bring to this role.

About Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as the Whitney, is an art museum in Manhattan. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a wealthy and prominent American socialite and art patron after whom the museum is named. The Whitney focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American art, with a collection of over 23,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and new media. The museum's permanent collection includes works by Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andy Warhol, among others. The Whitney also hosts temporary exhibitions, performances, and educational programs for adults and children.
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