Digital Marketing Manager
Mystic Seaport Museum | Marketing and Communications
Reports to: Vice President of Marketing and Communications • Mystic, Connecticut (hybrid)
We are looking for a digital-forward marketing manager who can step in and own the work that keeps things moving: the website, our marketing automation, and the projects that carry campaigns from idea to live. This is a hands-on, do-it-and-ship-it role for a capable generalist, the kind of marketer who is comfortable with almost any tool and quick to learn the rest.
The salary range for this position is $70,000 to $80,000.
About the Role
Twelve months from now, the person in this role will have taken full ownership of the Museum’s website and marketing automation, become the steady hand who keeps every campaign on track, and earned the trust of the marketing team and colleagues across the Museum. You will also manage and develop one direct report. We are looking for someone who can be relied on to carry work independently and do it well.
What You’ll Do
Requirements
What We’re Looking For
Required
Three to six years of marketing experience, with hands-on work across the website, email automation, and project management. A digital-forward generalist, not a single-channel specialist.
Experience coordinating external vendors or agencies and holding their work to a standard.
Working comfort with analytics and reporting, including GA4 and Google Tag Manager.
Adaptable and a fast self-teacher: comfortable with a wide range of tools, or confident you can learn what you do not already know. You can point to times you taught yourself a new platform under real deadlines.
A clear communicator who is self-directed and resourceful, comfortable being the hands-on owner without a large team to lean on.
This position will have one direct report. Readiness to manage and develop a direct report. Whether or not you have managed before, you are ready to lead one team member well.
Preferred
Experience with Prospect2 (or ActiveCampaign), Donate2, ClickUp (or similar project management software), WordPress
Working knowledge of SEO fundamentals.
Experience in a nonprofit, cultural, membership-based, or other mission-driven organization.
Direct experience supervising, managing, or formally mentoring a team member.
Comfortable using AI-assisted marketing tools to work faster and smarter.
Compensation and Benefits
Mystic Seaport Museum is the nation’s largest maritime museum. Founded in 1929 to gather and preserve the rapidly disappearing artifacts of America’s seafaring past, the Museum has grown to become a national center for research and education with the mission to inspire an enduring connection to the American maritime experience.
The Museum’s grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic River in Mystic, CT and include a recreated 19th century coastal village, a working shipyard, exhibit halls, and state-of-the-art artifact storage facilities. The Museum is home to more than 500 historic watercraft, including four National Historic Landmark vessels, most notably the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan, America’s oldest commercial ship still in existence.
With a full-time staff of 150 that swells to 350 during the summer season, the Museum hosts over 250,000 visitors annually. Mystic Seaport employs a diverse staff of scholars, librarians, historic interpreters, educators, scientists, musicians, and skilled artisans.
A stroll through the historic village transports visitors back to the mid-1800s where they can experience firsthand from staff historians, storytellers, musicians, and craftspeople just what life was like to earn one's living from the sea. In the Henry B. du Pont Preservation Shipyard, they can watch shipwrights keeping the skills and techniques of traditional shipbuilding alive as they restore and maintain the Museum’s watercraft collection.
The Museum’s 41,000 sq. ft. Collections Research Center (CRC) offers access to more than 2 million artifacts and is also home to the G.W. Blunt White Library, a 75,000-volume research library where scholars from around the world come to study America’s maritime history.
For more than 80 years, visitors, students, and scholars have turned to Mystic Seaport to preserve and interpret America’s maritime experience. The Museum’s commitment to that mission is as strong as ever.
