Manager, Audience Insights
- Employer
- The Washington Post
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Closing date
- Aug 18, 2021
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- Industry
- Media / Journalism / Advertising
- Function
- Management, Program Manager
- Hours
- Full Time
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
Job Details
The Audience Insights Manager will use audience and consumer data to tell compelling stories that will inform Washington Post digital advertising sales strategies. This role will work closely with our research, data and analytics team to understand Washington Post audience data and consumer trends and turn that data into powerful marketing messages. The right candidate will be able to understand and interpret these data points and trends, pull out meaningful analysis and coach their direct reports to communicate effectively to our sales and marketing teams.
Responsibilities include:
- Parse large amounts of data, from multiple datasets, into succinct and actionable insights.
- Support sales & marketing teams with audience data to pitch our clients as well as to inform our creative & media recommendations on The Washington Post consumer across all our product portfolio
- Leverage 1st and 3rd party data to uncover insights relevant to specific advertiser categories (i.e. technology, finance, CPG) and individual brand partners.
- Work closely with our centralized research, data and analytics teams to identify consumer trends that impact our brand partners.
- Update and package monthly and quarterly reports on content performance and audience trends both within The Washington Post properties and across advertiser categories.
- Surface impactful or compelling results from internal custom research studies to highlight new and emerging consumer trends and sentiments that present value for marketers.
- Harness the power of data to generate narratives around our audience, their mindset, interests, goals and needs.
- Use insights to position The Washington Post as a critical destination for influencers within specific industry sectors - combine proprietary and syndicated tools with industry data to tell the story.
- Manipulate and combine audience segment data to create reader profiles that go deeper than standard demographics - bring our audience to life.
- Retroactively and proactively use insights to prove hypotheses and position The Post in the context of world events, issues, topics, media habits or news cycles.
- Create a ‘newsroom' of real-time insights that can be used by sales and marketing for ongoing sales outreach and external thought-leaderships comms.
- Collaborate with our creative team to generate content and consumption insights both pre and post-sale. Help lead the transformation of post-sale content insights to go beyond one-dimensional metrics such as CTR or dwell time - help our brand partners understand how their custom content was consumed, used, considered and paint a picture of the user.
- Identify and recommend external insights tools that might bolster our ability to tell stories with data - such as social listening, industry/sector reports or media consumption tools.
Requirements include:
- Minimum of Bachelor's Degree; MBA or Master's Degree preferred
- At least 5-8 years of experience working in content marketing and/or editorial role, either at a media organization or content team in a consumer-facing company
- Demonstrated leadership skills with strong analytics and problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational, creative problem-solving, communication and presentation skills
- Proven ability to lead cross-departmental teams through collaboration to achieve results
- Manage several projects simultaneously, while being accurate, detail, solution and delivery oriented
The Post strives to provide its readers with high-quality, trustworthy news and information while constantly innovating. That mission is best served by a diverse, multi-generational workforce with varied life experiences and perspectives. All cultures and backgrounds are welcomed.
The innovation doesn't end in the Newsroom - dozens of teams power The Washington Post. We are now hiring the next innovator - how will you Impact Tomorrow?
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Company
Thank you for your interest in a career with The Washington Post. We invite you to review all of our open positions to find the one that's right for you. We look forward to receiving your resume!
Since it first began publication more than 130 years ago, The Washington Post has grown into one of the most storied and respected news organizations in the world. A subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, today's Post is the indispensable guide to Washington. In print, we enjoy the highest penetration of any major metropolitan newspaper in the United States. On the web, we have the third largest news website with 17 million unique visitors each month, and have recently launched a celebrated news app for the iPad. We serve Washington in all media, on any platform, including paid products, events, and tailored content.
More broadly, The Washington Post Company delivers quality products to today's students, readers and viewers. What unites our company is the immediacy of our products and services, created by teachers and tutors at Kaplan; reporters and editors at our media properties; and associates at Cable ONE.
Washington Post Media views its employees as its most valuable asset and provides a comprehensive benefits package to promote healthy and balanced lives at work and at home. We offer competitive salaries, opportunities for training and career advancement and an outstanding, progressive benefits package including:
Health and dental benefits
Flexible healthcare and dependent care spending accounts
401(k) and company-funded cash balance plan
Life and disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Adoption assistance
Domestic partner benefits
Employee assistance program
Employee referral program
- Website
- https://careers.washingtonpost.com/
- Location
-
1301 K Street, N.W.
Washington
DC
20036
US
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