Marketing Associate Jobs in Normal, IL (NOW HIRING)

You will implement comprehensive ROI-focused B2B and B2C marketing strategies that span the channel gamut. Your time will be split:

• 10% analyzing and reverse engineering competitive user acquisition strategies
• 20% designing marketing strategies and their supporting materials
• 20% project managing resources to bring these plans to fruition
• 40% implementing and managing marketing strategies
• 10% staying abreast changes and innovations in the marketing landscape

Your job is to drive growth across our two business lines. In this role you will: 

• implement acquisition strategies using organic, earned, and paid channels like AdWords, Facebook, Outbrain, affiliate, and more
• continuously monitor and optimize our campaigns to ensure that we're constantly maximizing our ROI against market dynamics
• split-test and optimize ads, landing pages, and other collateral across our websites and advertising campaigns
• reverse engineer competitive user acquisition strategies using our in-house data and 3rd party best-in-class research tools
• negotiate with traffic sources to improve our ROI since performance often depends on media vendor relationships

Candidate need-to-haves:

• You have performance marketing experience in at least two of: search, affiliate, native, display, email, and social advertising.
• You know what the acronyms SEO, SEM, PPC, CTR, CPC, CPA, CPM, and eCPM mean without having to look them up.
• You're a marketing hustler with a "figure it out" and "get it done" attitude that can break through barriers to execute.
• You're analytical. You know your way around excel (including vlookups and pivot tables) and may have taken a few statistics and probability classes.
• You communicate very clearly in both spoken and written forms. You're concise, articulate, expressive, and appreciate good grammar whether you're brainstorming with the CEO on Slack or problem-solving with a partner via email.

Candidate like-to-haves:

• You've previously managed successful affiliate programs, preferably for downloadable / installable applications.
• You're somewhat technical. You understand pixel-based tracking and are comfortable messing with a little HTML and JavaScript.
• You've used Google Analytics, MixPanel, Heap, Full Story, or comparable behavior analytics tools.
• You've used Alexa, SEMRush, SpyFu, Moz, SimilarWeb, Ahrefs, or comparable marketing analytics tools.
• You are familiar with SEO best practices. You know the DO's and DON'Ts for ranking well.

Personal traits include:

• You're methodical, process-oriented, and are constantly thinking about ways to increase efficiency and generate leverage.
• You're ask for forgiveness, not permission, and respond well to direct feedback when you inevitably make a mistake.
• You know how to have fun, but can also very deeply focus. We're big fans of work-life balance which means knowing when to minimize distraction and hustle.
• You're progressive, inclusive, and egalitarian. You're cognizant of your ingrained biases and take steps to mitigate or dispel them.

Here are some characteristics we're looking for in our ideal candidate: technical, good communicator, helper, persuader, negotiator, adaptive, critical thinker, creative thinker, fast on your feet, detail oriented, quantitative, analytical.

• You're all about that start-up life. You're motivated by success and have an intrinsic bias towards taking action and ownership.
• You're logical, subscribe to rational thinking, and prefer making data-driven decisions whenever possible.
• You can naturally distill complexity. You break down complicated ideas into their fundamental components for analysis.
• You see both the forest and the trees. You can understand the implications of small changes to the big picture, and can also create a plan for bringing a big picture to fruition one task at a time.
• You understand the cost of indecision and can break through decision paralysis, even when faced with ambiguity.

You may be a good fit for this role if other positions of interest include: performance marketing, marketing analyst, technical marketing manager, user acquisition, growth hacking, enterprise marketing.

Fit matters a lot at a small, fast-paced company. We want to be sure this role is meaningful and fulfilling for you, value-adding for us, and fun for everybody. To that end, these are the steps in our mutual thorough interview:

1. Submit your resume (and optionally, a cover letter)
2. Answer some context-setting pre-screener questions
3. Hop on a short phone screen
4. Join us for an in-person interview and simulation or case study
5. Get to know us more casually in a social setting

We'll be measuring your proficiency in the skills mentioned above, your ability to work independently to solve problems through self-directed critical thinking, and an overall personality fit. We encourage you to apply and look forward to getting to know you!

For more information about our company and perks, click here. 

Please submit your resume in the form of a PDF. Thank you!

We're a bootstrapped, profitably growing, super scrappy startup focused on shaking up the data industry. We build world-class market research solutions that help our enterprise customers generate high-value insights from consumer behavior data.

Join us as we increase access data, reduce friction in its analysis, and lower the barriers to data-driven insights for all!

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

DDMR is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at DDMR via email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of DDMR. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by DDMR as a result of the referral or through other means. 

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