Leadership Now Project

Leadership Now Project is seeking a creative, execution-oriented Marketing & Audience Engagement Manager to help grow and engage our external audience across digital channels.

This role is ideal for someone who understands how to translate ideas and timely conversations into compelling newsletters, social content, audience campaigns, and digital engagement strategies. The right candidate will combine strong editorial instincts with hands-on marketing execution and a working knowledge of paid and targeted digital outreach.

The position will work closely with Leadership Now’s communications and executive teams to support organizational visibility, audience growth, event promotion, and member engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Social Media & Content Execution (40%)

Manage day-to-day execution of Leadership Now’s external social media channels, including LinkedIn, Substack, Instagram, and emerging platforms.
Test and refine post structure and assets
Draft, schedule, and publish social content tied to events, rapid response moments, research, media coverage, and organizational priorities
Repost Leadership Now member content (working in tandem with our membership lead)
Support live event social coverage and real-time amplification during major convenings and briefings
Maintain content calendars with Director of Content and coordinate approvals across teams
Help translate longer-form reports and events into compelling digital content and audience-friendly formats (creating graphics to A/B test)

Newsletter & Audience Engagement (20%)

Support execution of external newsletters and email campaigns
Format newsletter copy, headlines, calls to action, and audience updates
Assist with audience segmentation and list management efforts
Track engagement metrics including open rates, click-through rates, subscriber growth, and content performance
Support promotion of Leadership Now events, initiatives, and announcements across owned channels
Assist with newsletter production, scheduling, testing, and quality control

Website & Content Publishing (20%)

Own news content on the Leadership Now website (WordPress): publishing blog posts, member spotlights, press items, and op-eds
Manage the monthly insights and homepage featured rotation
Apply basic on-page SEO and improve organic discoverability of reports, Business Plan for America and other policy content
Repackage long-form reports and events into web and social assets working with product leads for those items
Triage and route inbound website requests in coordination with the operations team

Paid & Targeted Marketing Support (10%)

Support targeted audience outreach and paid social campaigns
Assist with audience targeting, A/B testing, reporting, and campaign optimization
Work with external partners on digital advertising execution
Monitor performance metrics and identify opportunities to improve reach and engagement
Support experimentation with new audience growth and engagement strategies

Marketing & Communications Support (10%)

Help maintaining marketing calendars and campaign timelines
Support promotion for events, virtual briefings, reports, and organizational initiatives
Identify opportunities to repurpose long-form content into digital and social assets
Assist with light graphic coordination and content packaging as needed

Qualifications

5–7 years of experience in marketing, audience development, communications, media, digital strategy, or related fields
Strong writing and editing skills with the ability to adapt tone across platforms
Experience executing social media and newsletter initiatives for a brand, media organization, nonprofit, or mission-driven company
Familiarity with digital marketing and paid audience targeting strategies
Experience with email marketing platforms, social scheduling tools, and analytics dashboards
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Comfortable working in fast-paced, news-driven, or politically adjacent environments
Interest in business leadership, current events, public policy, media, or civic engagement
Comfort with digital tools like LinkedIn ad manager, Riverside, Claude and Canva

About Leadership Now Project

Leadership Now Project is a membership organization of business leaders committed to protecting democracy as a foundation for a thriving economy and political stability. Founded in 2017, Leadership Now Project is a national organization, with 400+ members in over 30 states and chapters in nine. We draw on extensive business and alumni networks to take action — investing in leaders, influencing policy, responding to risks, and partnering to drive solutions.

The Leadership Now Project believes that diversity is an asset.

We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people we can find. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by law.

Location

Hybrid role with 3 days in NYC preferred, 100% remote a consideration for Denver based candidates

Start Date

Summer 2026

Reports To

Director of Content Marketing

Compensation

$80K–$100K, depending on experience

Additional comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, and TK weeks PTO.

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