Marketing & Growth Manager

Challenge Success; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Challenge Success is seeking an experienced Marketing & Growth Manager to strengthen outreach, engagement, and demand generation among school and district audiences.

Reporting to the Director of Advancement and the Director of Educational Partnerships, you will translate priorities into content and targeted campaigns, while managing day-to-day marketing and growth activities and chasing measurable improvements in lead generation and nurturing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of marketing experience in K-12 or education sector.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Fluency with digital marketing and CRM platforms.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to move between strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• Translate organizational priorities into compelling content and focused marketing campaigns.
• Owner of day-to-day marketing and communications execution and optimization.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen effectiveness and implement measurable lead generation and nurturing.
• Test new approaches and use performance data to improve campaigns.
• Collaborate across teams with curiosity and initiative.

Skills

Marketing strategy

Content writing

Campaign management

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

CRM platforms

Email marketing tools

Analytics platforms

Job description

Challenge Success is seeking an experienced, hands-on Marketing & Growth Manager to strengthen how we reach, engage, and generate demand among school and district audiences.

Working under the strategic direction of the Director of Advancement and the Director of Educational Partnerships, this role will translate organizational priorities, research, thought leadership, and services into compelling content and focused marketing and growth campaigns. The Manager will own much of the day-to-day execution of Challenge Success’ existing marketing and communications efforts while identifying opportunities to strengthen their effectiveness and building a more intentional and measurable approach to lead generation and nurturing.

The ideal candidate brings strong K-12 marketing expertise, excellent writing and communication skills, fluency across digital marketing and CRM platforms, and the ability to move between campaign strategy and detailed execution. They are comfortable testing new approaches, using performance data to learn and improve, and working collaboratively across teams with curiosity, initiative, and an entrepreneurial mindset.

This role is approximately 60% marketing and communications and 40% growth, lead generation, and nurturing.