Penske Media Corporation

PMC: Director, Growth Marketing

Penske Media Corporation$140K — $160K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in CRM, lifecycle marketing, audience engagement, or related digital marketing roles
  • Proficient in email marketing strategies and execution; knowledge of SMS and web push notifications
  • Experience managing complex, multi-brand marketing initiatives
  • Ability to work at both strategic and tactical levels
  • Strong background in data segmentation, testing, and engagement optimization
  • Proven track record of collaborating with creative teams on marketing material
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, collaborative media or consumer brand setting
  • Familiarity with Zeta Global preferred

Responsibilities

  • Own the customer contact strategy with a focus on email marketing and newsletters
  • Develop frameworks for contact cadence, targeting, and audience journeys across multiple brands
  • Optimize over 200 newsletter programs with brand and creative teams for maximum engagement
  • Expand marketing strategies to include SMS, notifications, and social media targeting
  • Advise brands on best practices for audience engagement while balancing portfolio governance
  • Work with creative teams to refine email templates and messaging systems
  • Use analytics to identify opportunities for improving audience engagement metrics

Benefits

  • PMC-Paid Healthcare with no contributions from employees
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
  • Employee Assistance Program and Life Insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave and disability benefits
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching
  • Company discounts on various services including Pet and Home Insurance
  • Flexible Vacation Policy that adapts to employee needs
Full Job Description
PMC: Director, Growth Marketing

This role will help shape how we engage audiences across 20+ brands and 200+ newsletters, with primary focus on email, while expanding strategy across SMS, browser notifications, and audience activation into paid social.

This is a highly cross-functional role for a strategic operator who can set direction, build trust with brands, and also roll up their sleeves to help teams execute. The right candidate brings strong experience in CRM/contact strategy, understands editorial and audience growth environments, and is comfortable partnering directly with brand and creative teams to improve performance, including hands-on work around email template exploration and optimization. Experience with Zeta Global is strongly preferred.

As PMC values in-person collaboration and team cohesion, employees work onsite 4 days a week and 1 day remotely with a focus on maintaining a vibrant and inclusive culture.

Responsibilities
  • Own customer contact strategy across PMC's portfolio, with emphasis on email marketing and newsletter programs
  • Develop scalable frameworks for contact cadence, segmentation, targeting, messaging, testing, and audience journeys across 20 brands
  • Partner with brand, editorial, audience, and creative teams to optimize 200+ newsletter programs for engagement, retention, and conversion
  • Expand channel strategy beyond email to include SMS, browser/web notifications, and audience extension into paid social targeting plans
  • Create recommendations for how owned-channel engagement signals can inform downstream paid and performance marketing strategies
  • Advise brands on lifecycle and contact best practices while balancing portfolio-level governance with brand-level nuance
  • Work directly with creative teams to evaluate and improve email templates, modular design systems, and message presentation
  • Use data and testing to identify opportunities in open rate, click-through rate, conversion, retention, and overall audience engagement
  • Establish testing roadmaps and measurement frameworks across channels and brands
  • Help standardize best practices, playbooks, and operating rhythms across the portfolio
  • Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and platform partners to maximize the value of Zeta Global tools and capabilities

Qualifications
  • 5-7 years of experience in CRM, lifecycle marketing, audience engagement, contact strategy, or related digital marketing roles
  • Strong expertise in email strategy and execution; familiarity with SMS and browser/push notification strategy
  • Experience managing or advising complex, multi-brand or multi-business-unit programs
  • Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels
  • Strong background in segmentation, testing, personalization, and engagement optimization
  • Experience partnering with creative teams to improve templates, messaging systems, and campaign effectiveness
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative media or consumer brand environment
  • Experience with Zeta Global strongly preferred
  • Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills

Nice to Have
  • Media, publishing, newsletter, subscription, or audience development experience
  • Familiarity with mapping owned-channel engagement to paid audience activation
  • Experience building cross-brand governance models without over-centralizing execution

A good faith estimate of the salary range is $140,000 - $160,000 upon hire + Bonus. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. If you have more or less experience than specified on this job posting, please apply and list your salary expectations.

If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors).

It's all About You...

PMC's comprehensive benefits package is thoughtfully designed to support every aspect of your life, empowering you to thrive both personally and professionally. We offer PMC-Paid Healthcare with no employee paycheck contributions on medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. PMC also offers Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care & Commuter), an Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability, Paid Parental Leave, and a 401(k) Retirement Plan with an Employer match. Employees are also eligible to take advantage of company discounts and perks including Pet Insurance, Home & Auto Insurance, Mortgage discounts, and a variety of other savings on wellness, lifestyle, and financial essentials. As part of PMC's dedication to consistently meeting employees' needs, we have launched a new Flexible Vacation Policy.

At PMC, we believe working in a highly collaborative, office-first environment fosters real-time communication, spontaneous idea sharing, and stronger interpersonal relationships that drive innovation and team cohesion. PMC prioritizes in-person collaboration and does not offer remote-only roles.

About Penske Media Corporation

Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is a digital media and publishing company that owns and operates a portfolio of brands across multiple platforms, including Variety, Rolling Stone, Deadline Hollywood, WWD, and Robb Report. PMC was founded in 2003 by Jay Penske and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company has offices in New York, London, and Hong Kong. PMC's brands cover a range of topics, including entertainment, fashion, beauty, music, and technology. PMC also owns a number of events and conferences, including the Variety Entertainment Summit and the WWD Beauty CEO Summit.
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2003

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