Senior Marketing Associate

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The role / Position overview

Senior Marketing Associate, Americas – FT Professional

FT Professional, a division of the Financial Times, licenses FT content to organizations around the world, with clients in corporate, finance, government, professional services and education. The Senior Marketing Associate, Americas will be responsible for handling marketing activity to support brand awareness, lead generation and customer engagement in the Americas region.

The role also supports the Marketing Manager, Americas, with broader company-wide initiatives focused on the US growth market. This is a cross-functional position that blends account-based marketing, email campaigns, events, advertising, and sales enablement across a variety of sectors.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to the planning, execution, and optimization of high-impact marketing campaigns that align with FT Professional’s strategic goals and audience needs in collaboration with the Marketing Manager, Americas

• Build strong working relationships with key partners, especially sales and customer success teams in the Americas, and marketers globally

• Complete full-funnel campaign activities including building audiences, copywriting, collaborating with design, booking ads, handling partnerships, and deploying emails

• Maintain and localize website landing pages and other digital assets for regional markets

• Run participation in events and webinars: lead generation strategy, logistics, promotional materials, and outreach

• Work with the sales development team to qualify senior-level leads from campaigns and events

• Use Marketo and Salesforce to automate marketing processes and track campaign performance

• Foster effective communication within FT using both digital and in-person tools

• Analyze marketing effectiveness and find opportunities to optimize efforts and improve processes

• Support cross-functional US growth initiatives within FT Professional and wider FT teams

Required skills / experience

Essential:

• Solid understanding of core marketing principles and tactics

• B2B marketing experience, particularly digital and event marketing

• Strong data and CRM experience, including analysis and planning

• Consistent track record working with sales teams to align marketing efforts

• Excellent project management skills; deadline and budget driven

• Experience working with vendors and producing marketing collateral

• Clear communicator and effective team collaborator

• High standard of quality and attention to detail

Preferred:

• Background in the media or publishing industry

• Experience with Salesforce and Marketo

• Additional language skills are a plus

What’s in it for you? Our benefits

Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave, health coverage, 401k and company match, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here.

We’ve embraced a 50% hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging in-person camaraderie and peer learning. Additionally, we are open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests for all roles where feasible.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, email [email protected] and a member of our team will be happy to help.

Further information

A reasonable estimate of the salary range for this role is $70,000–$75,000. To ensure pay fairness, the successful candidate will be offered a salary within the estimated salary range based on a number of considerations including but not limited to: skills; experience and training; certifications; and other business and organisational needs. The disclosed range estimate is for our NYC office and has not been adjusted for other locations.

Use of AI in the application process
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Candidates should be aware that the use of AI throughout the application process may be supervised to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process for all.