Growth Marketing Director
PMC
New York, NYThis is a Full Time Job
PMC: Director, Growth Marketing
This is a highly cross-functional role for a strategic operator who can set direction, build trust with brands, and also roll up their sleeves to help teams execute. The right candidate brings strong experience in CRM/contact strategy, understands editorial and audience growth environments, and is comfortable partnering directly with brand and creative teams to improve performance, including hands-on work around email template exploration and optimization. Experience with Zeta Global is strongly preferred.
As PMC values in-person collaboration and team cohesion, employees work onsite 4 days a week and 1 day remotely with a focus on maintaining a vibrant and inclusive culture.
Responsibilities
• Own customer contact strategy across PMC’s portfolio, with emphasis on email marketing and newsletter programs
• Develop scalable frameworks for contact cadence, segmentation, targeting, messaging, testing, and audience journeys across 20 brands
• Partner with brand, editorial, audience, and creative teams to optimize 200 newsletter programs for engagement, retention, and conversion
• Expand channel strategy beyond email to include SMS, browser/web notifications, and audience extension into paid social targeting plans
• Create recommendations for how owned-channel engagement signals can inform downstream paid and performance marketing strategies
• Advise brands on lifecycle and contact best practices while balancing portfolio-level governance with brand-level nuance
• Work directly with creative teams to evaluate and improve email templates, modular design systems, and message presentation
• Use data and testing to identify opportunities in open rate, click-through rate, conversion, retention, and overall audience engagement
• Establish testing roadmaps and measurement frameworks across channels and brands
• Help standardize best practices, playbooks, and operating rhythms across the portfolio
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and platform partners to maximize the value of Zeta Global tools and capabilities
Qualifications
• 5–7 years of experience in CRM, lifecycle marketing, audience engagement, contact strategy, or related digital marketing roles
• Strong expertise in email strategy and execution; familiarity with SMS and browser/push notification strategy
• Experience managing or advising complex, multi-brand or multi-business-unit programs
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels
• Strong background in segmentation, testing, personalization, and engagement optimization
• Experience partnering with creative teams to improve templates, messaging systems, and campaign effectiveness
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative media or consumer brand environment
• Experience with Zeta Global strongly preferred
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
Nice to Have
• Media, publishing, newsletter, subscription, or audience development experience
• Familiarity with mapping owned-channel engagement to paid audience activation
• Experience building cross-brand governance models without over-centralizing execution
At PMC, we believe working in a highly collaborative, office-first environment fosters real-time communication, spontaneous idea sharing, and stronger interpersonal relationships that drive innovation and team cohesion. PMC prioritizes in-person collaboration and does not offer remote-only roles.
Salary/Benefits
$140,000 - $160,000 /year USD
Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role.
Benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care & Commuter)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with an Employer match
Perks
• Company discounts
• Pet insurance
• Home & auto insurance
• Mortgage discounts
• Savings on wellness, lifestyle, and financial essentials
• Flexible vacation policy
Additional Information
Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is a leading global media and information services company that attracts a passionate monthly audience of over 500 million people through its award-winning content. Since its founding in 2004, PMC has been a pioneer in digital media, owning more than 300 live events and reaching audiences across all screens. The company is known for its comprehensive and ambitious daily news coverage delivered by its journalists and creators. PMC's iconic media brands include Variety, Rolling Stone, The Verge, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, WWD, SHE Media, Robb Report, Deadline, Eater, Sportico, ARTnews, Fairchild Media, VIBE, IndieWire, SB Nation, ARTFORUM, POPSUGAR, Gold Derby, BEAUTY INC, Art in America, Punch, and The Dodo. PMC also hosts significant cultural and live events such as the Golden Globes, SXSW, Academy of Country Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Dick Clark's New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, American Music Awards, and Latin Music Week. Additionally, it operates Luminate, a premier music and entertainment data and analytics company. PMC and its subsidiaries are co-headquartered in New York and Los Angeles, with offices in 14 countries worldwide.