Print Marketing Director

EF Education First Ltd.; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts on EF programs for Staff, &c

Free use of EF Hello app

Tuition Reimbursement for continued Ed

Referral Bonus for staff hires

Discounts with EF travel partners

15% off on-site Kita

And much more!

Job summary

EF Language Abroad is seeking an experienced Print Marketing Director to lead Language Abroad's annual offline marketing programme across multiple markets, during a maternity cover from Nov 2026 to Aug 2027. You will own direction, budget, resources and delivery, managing up to 10 staff and collaborating with global teams, printers and suppliers.

The role includes spearheading AI-enabled content production workflows, ensuring on-brand, timely, and high-quality output across brochures, magazines,

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading multi-market print, publishing or editorial programmes.
• Experience managing budgets, suppliers, deadlines and stakeholder priorities.
• Experience introducing AI/automation and data-driven publishing workflows.
• Ability to translate new processes into clear standards and training.

Responsibilities

• Print programme leadership: set priorities, scope, milestones and quality.
• Market and stakeholder management: set deadlines, localisation and changes.
• Budget, suppliers and production oversight: contracts, volumes and schedules.
• People and team management: lead up to 10 people, allocate capacity.
• AI & automation oversight: define templates and content flow for automation.
• Quality Assurance: manage approvals and print readiness.

Skills

Print marketing

Leadership

Budget mgmt

Stakeholder mgmt

AI automation

Team leadership

Localization

InDesign automation

Tools

InDesign automation

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Print Marketing Director to join our in-house creative studio and lead Language Abroad's annual, multi-market offline marketing programme during a period of maternity cover from November 2026 - end of August 2027.

In this role, you will

own the direction, prioritisation, budget, resourcing and successful delivery of offline projects for Language Abroad, EF's language and cultural immersion programs.

Managing a team of up to 10, and working with creative teams, global markets, stakeholders and suppliers, you will ensure that work is delivered to the required standard, budget and critical deadlines. Projects include, but are not limited to: brochures, flyers, magazines, supplementary materials, OOH as well as adhoc offline requests for 45 global markets.

A key part of the role will be to spearhead a new, AI-enabled process for content production for a more structured and automated workflow.

Your Key responsibilities will include:

Print programme leadership:

• Set priorities, scope, ambition and quality standards across brochures/magazines and other print materials.
• Lead the integrated project plan, key milestones and critical production dates.
• Lead decisions when timing, cost, quality and stakeholder expectations conflict.

Market and stakeholder management:

• Set clear expectations around deadlines, localisation, approvals and content changes.
• Lead stakeholder reviews of content and resolve conflicting requirements or escalations.
• Lead trainings for markets on the requirements to participate in the production process, coordinate orders, stock levels, global launch dates, software/tools training, and ensure local market teams understand production constraints.

Budget, suppliers and production oversight:

• Lead the overall printer and supplier strategy in partnership with the Print Production Manager.
• Manage contracts, quotes, paper orders, volumes, production schedules, deliveries, customs processes and delivery risks.
• Ensure production starts to time with content, creative, technical and commercial requirements finalised.
• Protect key timing windows and lead recovery plans when delivery is at risk.

People and Team Management

• Manage a team of up to 10, allocating capacity across projects and requests.
• Identify and resolve resource risks across copywriting, design, photography, editorial and production.
• Own the programme-level risk position, particularly around localisation, amends, printer capacity, paper availability, missing approvals and staffing.

AI & Automation oversight:

• Work with editorial, creative, production and relevant technical partners to define templates, content fields, data structures, prompts, rules and approval stages.
• Identify opportunities to automate content drafting, adaptation, versioning, localisation and the flow of approved text into brochure layouts.
• Establish quality-control, version-control and approval processes to ensure that AI-assisted content is accurate, on-brand and aligned with product information.
• Train and support copywriters, designers and other team members in the new workflow, including how to build and maintain files correctly for automated content flow.
• Lead adoption of the process and ensure it improves efficiency without compromising editorial quality, creativity or accountability.

Quality Assurance

• Manage final approvals and sign off at key stages throughout the project from stakeholders, and markets all the way to printer softproofs and okay-to-print.
• Press-pass at printers across productions.

What we're looking for:

• 8+ years' experience leading complex print marketing, publishing, editorial or creative production programmes, navigating multi-market environments.
• Extensive experience managing brochures, catalogues, magazines, annual reports, or similar high-volume print materials from scope through to delivery, in education/travel/retail/publishing.
• Experience managing budgets, suppliers, production deadlines and competing stakeholder priorities.
• Experience managing editorial workflows, substantial localisation, approvals, version control, print production and supplier relations.
• Experience leading teams, planning capacity and managing temporary or project-based resource.
• Experience introducing AI, automation, structured content or data-driven publishing workflows; experience connecting content to layouts or InDesign automation would be highly valuable.
• Ability to translate a new process into clear standards, training and practical team adoption.
• Confident negotiating with senior stakeholders, markets and suppliers.
• Calm, decisive and commercially aware, with strong judgement under pressure.

We are a global, mission driven company, our goal? Open the world through education and cultural exchange. We are an International team, with an international audience, and have opportunities to work across regions. Other benefits include:

• Discounts on EF programs for Staff, and Staff Friends and Family for all EF Programs
• Free use of EF Hello: a premium Language Learning App
• Tuition Reimbursement for continued Education
• Referral Bonus for all referred staff hires (equivalent for 500 USD)
• Discounts with our global hotel and travel partners
• 15% off our on-site Kita
• And much more!

This role is fully in-office.Our onsite policy enhances collaboration, company culture, and faster decision-making. Working together in person fosters creativity, spontaneous idea-sharing, and stronger team connections, which we believe is essential for success.

At EF Language Abroad we are dedicated to our mission of opening the world through education, harnessing the power of language learning to deepen the connection between people across the globe.