Integrated Campaign Strategist

Project Management Institute; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Project Management Institute is seeking an Integrated Growth Marketing Strategist to own end-to-end activation across email, web, social, paid media, and content. This senior contributor drives growth by aligning lifecycle insights with cross-channel plans and guiding channel owners and agencies to deliver integrated campaigns.

You'll focus on performance, audience segmentation, and optimization, translating business objectives into unified activation strategies while partnering with product

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field.
• 8–10 years of integrated marketing, growth marketing, or performance marketing.
• Experience owning paid media strategy and planning, not only coordinating.
• Proven track record driving growth across the customer lifecycle.
• Experience managing agency relationships at a strategic level.
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment with senior stakeholder visibility.
• Familiarity with marketing automation, CRM, analytics dashboards, and PM tools.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end cross-channel activation strategy across paid, owned, and earned channels.
• Translate lifecycle objectives into an integrated activation plan with audience segmentation.
• Direct channel owners and agency partners in executing the strategy.
• Identify opportunities for personalization and audience relevance.
• Set and own performance goals for activation and growth campaigns.
• Monitor business performance and drive optimization recommendations.

Skills

Cross-channel activation

Email marketing

Paid media strategy

Lifecycle marketing

Audience segmentation

Agency management

Campaign optimization

Data analytics

Executive communication

Growth marketing leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field

Tools

Marketing automation platforms

CRM systems

Analytics dashboards

Project management tools

Job description

What You’ll Bring To The Role

Campaign Activation Strategy & Channel Design

Are you a dreamer, innovator, thinker and a do-er who believes in contributing to something that makes difference?

Make an impact. Join PMI.

How will you make a difference to PMI?

PMI is looking for an Integrated Growth Marketing Strategist to own the end-to-end, cross-channel activation strategy, bringing email, web, social, paid media, and content together into one cohesive approach rather than separate channel plans.

This role maintains a strong understanding of business performance, customer behavior, lifecycle trends, market dynamics, and seasonal opportunities to proactively identify and recommend initiatives that drive growth. The Strategist defines how audiences are reached and activated across the full channel mix, how channels and formats work together to achieve campaign objectives, and how performance is measured and optimized holistically.

With a deep understanding of both B2B and B2C audiences, the Strategist translates business and growth objectives into integrated activation strategies and provides clear direction to channel owners and agency partners for execution.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with direct accountability for growth and activation performance. The Strategist works closely across Marketing and other key functions to connect campaign performance to measurable business outcomes across the full customer funnel.

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• Own the end-to-end, cross-channel activation strategy for integrated campaigns — treating paid media, email, web, social, and content as one holistic system rather than separate channel plans.
• Translate campaign and lifecycle objectives directly into a single, integrated activation plan — defining channel mix, format investment, and audience segmentation across channels, rather than aggregating plans built independently by channel owners.
• Direct channel owners and the agency in executing against the strategy; incorporate their channel-specific expertise and ideas into the strategy without ceding ownership of it.
• Identify opportunities for personalization, segmentation, and audience relevance across the full activation plan.

Paid Media Strategy & Agency Oversight

• Set paid media strategy and activation design — platform selection, format strategy, targeting approach — for campaigns executed by the agency.
• Review and approve agency media plans against activation strategy and growth goals; provide strategic direction and briefs, not just timeline coordination.
• Hold the agency accountable to performance and strategic fit, partnering on in-flight optimization and test-and-learn/new-channel pilots.

Growth & Performance Goal Ownership

• Maintain a strong pulse on overall business performance, audience behavior, market dynamics, and seasonal or cultural moments to identify and recommend campaign initiatives and optimizations that can drive growth, engagement, conversion, or lifecycle impact.
• Set and own performance goals for campaign activation and growth marketing — conversion, funnel/pipeline impact, channel efficiency (e.g., CAC, ROAS, cost-per-conversion), and lifecycle impact.
• Proactively track and report on activation and growth performance; drive optimization recommendations rather than only summarizing results after the fact.
• Partner with Product Marketing, which owns product performance and usage metrics, to maintain a shared view of business impact from awareness/activation through product adoption.

Cross-Functional & Executive Coordination

• Serve as the central strategic lead across dependencies, roles, and timelines for integrated campaigns.
• Facilitate campaign kickoffs, checkpoints, and retrospectives; represent activation strategy and growth performance directly to senior stakeholders, including CMO/VP-level review of media plans and channel investment.
• Partner with Regional Marketing to align global and regional execution requirements.

Operational Excellence & Process Leadership

• Define and evolve the operating model, templates, and workflows for activation strategy and growth performance — not only apply existing ones.
• Ensure campaign documentation is clear, accurate, and consistently maintained across a broader and more complex set of workstreams.
• Identify and lead process improvements that reduce friction between strategy, channel owners, and agency execution.

Role Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field.
• 8–10 years of experience in integrated marketing, growth marketing, or performance marketing, including direct ownership of paid media strategy and planning (not solely coordinating with a paid media function).
• Proven track record of driving strong campaign performance across the end-to-end customer lifecycle, directly contributing to business performance and growth.Demonstrated experience setting and being accountable to growth/performance targets, not only reporting on channel activity.
• Experience managing agency relationships at a strategic level — briefing, directing, and holding agencies accountable to performance — rather than coordinating deliverables and timelines.
• Comfortable working in a matrixed, cross-functional environment with senior stakeholder visibility.
• Familiarity with marketing automation platforms, CRM systems, analytics/performance dashboards, and project management tools.
• Activation Strategy Ownership: Designs channel-agnostic activation strategy — not just coordination — across paid, owned, and earned channels.
• Business & Customer Acumen: Demonstrates strong curiosity about broader business performance, customer behavior, and audience needs, understanding how to build effective growth strategies across both B2B and B2C contexts.
• Paid Media & Performance Marketing Acumen: Deep fluency in paid channel formats, targeting, platforms, and performance metrics (CAC, ROAS, conversion).
• Growth Goal Ownership: Sets, owns, and is accountable for growth/activation performance targets.
• Agency Strategic Management: Directs and holds agency partners accountable at a strategy level, not only an execution level.
• Cross-Channel Judgment: Understands how channels work together and makes format/investment tradeoffs across them.
• Executive Communication: Clearly represents strategy and performance to senior stakeholders, including CMO/VP-level review.
• Analytics Literacy: Interprets performance dashboards and translates data into optimization decisions.
• Content & Messaging Awareness: Ensures narrative consistency across all campaign components.
• Adaptability: Comfortable working in fast-paced, dynamic environments with shifting priorities.
• Proficiency in PMI's business language (English).
• Some travel, possibly up to 15%, conditions permitting. Requirements include ability to travel nationally and globally and may occur over weekends or holidays.

What you can expect from us

We value and nurture an environment of inclusivity and diversity, and a culture of communication and collaboration. Your health, safety and well-being come first, and we believe that you should have time for your work, but you should also have time for you.

Join Us And You’ll Get

• an excellent total package, with compensation and benefits based upon your geographic location.
• skill development opportunities, to help you grow now and into the future.
• access to a global network, to enrich your professional experience.
• flexible options to help balance work time and your time
• award and bonus opportunities.

The salary offer will be based on several factors, including the candidate’s demonstrated skills, qualifications and relevant experience.

Let’s help make the world work better for everyone.

Project Management Institute, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.