Digital & Data Operations Manager

PCMA; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

PCMA seeks a Digital & Data Operations Manager to own marketing data, analytics, tracking, and conversion optimization. The role improves MarTech ecosystem, marketing performance, and digital user experiences through data-driven decisions.

It bridges strategy and execution across data analysis, UX review, personalization, and audience targeting. You will analyze journeys across join, renewal, event registration, and education enrollment; run A/B tests; and build leadership dashboards.

Qualifications

• Experience translating business needs into measurable data requirements.
• Ability to coach teams on dashboards and actionable insights.
• Proven data governance across multiple marketing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Marketing and business units to translate strategy into data requirements.
• Interpret data, coach staff on dashboards, and act on insights for optimization.
• Maintain clean member data across systems with IT/CRM owners.
• Present findings to leadership in clear, non-technical terms.
• Design experiments and analyze results to improve journeys and conversions.
• Develop dashboards covering acquisition, renewal, and engagement KPIs.

Skills

Data analysis

Marketing analytics

A/B testing

Dashboards

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Google Analytics 4

UTM tagging

Tableau/Power BI

SQL

Job description

Position Summary

The Digital & Data Operations Manager is the operational owner of Marketing data, analytics, tracking, and conversion optimization.

Position Summary

The Digital & Data Operations Manager is the operational owner of Marketing data, analytics, tracking, and conversion optimization.
The role manages and provides recommendations and analysis to continuously improve PCMA's MarTech ecosystem, marketing performance, and digital user experiences through data.
It bridges digital strategy and execution, ensuring PCMA's digital experiences are intuitive, accessible, high-performing, and aligned with organizational growth and revenue objectives.
The work spans data analysis, user experience review, conversion optimization, marketing automation, personalization and audience targeting, by sector.

Essential Duties And Accountabilities

Actionable Insights

• Partner with Marketing Managers and Business Units to translate strategy into measurable data and reporting requirements.
• Serve as the marketing team's primary resource for data interpretation, coaching staff on reading dashboards and acting on insights.
• Work with IT and AMS/CRM owners to maintain clean, well-governed member and constituent data across systems.
• Present actionable findings and recommendations to marketing leadership and cross-departmental stakeholders in clear, non-technical terms.
• Work with the marketing team to build campaigns, turning audience insights into targeting, messaging, and measurement plans.

User Experience & Conversion Optimization

• Analyze member and participant journeys across join, renewal, event registration, education enrollment, and community participation to identify drop-off points.
• Design and run A/B and multivariate tests on landing pages, registration flows, and email campaigns; document results and scale what wins.
• Use behavioral data — funnel reports, heatmaps, session recordings — to recommend page, form, and checkout improvements.
• Help build new flows and automations across the member and participant lifecycle — onboarding, renewal reminders, registration follow-up, and re-engagement journeys.
• Track and report conversion rates for core association funnels (join, renew, register, enroll, give) and set improvement targets.

Analytics & Performance

• Monitor performance of membership, event, and education marketing campaigns against KPIs, and calculate ROI on marketing spend by channel, campaign, and audience.
• Track campaigns effectively end to end — maintaining UTM taxonomy, conversion tags, and source attribution so every campaign’s results can be measured and compared.
• Build and maintain leadership dashboards covering acquisition, renewal, registration pacing, and engagement.
• Segment members and prospects, delivering audience insights that inform targeting by sector, industry, and member type, as well as personalization and lifecycle campaigns.
• Deliver post-campaign and post-event analysis with clear recommendations for the next cycle.
• Apply AI-enabled tools to expand analytics capacity — predictive and propensity scoring, automated insight generation, content and audience testing — within approved data governance and privacy standards.
• Partner with various departments on reporting standards and optimization.