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Associate Director, Brand & Planning

Noodle

Remote, US

Remote

Full-time Exempt

Calm

Summary

Responsibilities

Oversee a team of Coordinators managing day-to-day projects and ensuring timely delivery of assets and campaigns.
Manage a small portfolio of partner accounts and special project initiatives.
Develop standardized processes and expectations for the Coordinators to drive operational efficiency.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
6-8 years of relevant experience, preferably within the higher education marketing sector.
Previous management experience required.

Work-Life Balance Benefits

4 weeks paid vacation + 10 paid holidays + paid sick leave.
Work from our beautiful NYC office OR the comfort of your home office.
Access to mental health services like Ginger and Talkspace.

Benefits

Great compensation package!
401K + match, bonus potential, and equity opportunities.
Annual education stipend for lifelong learning.

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Full Details of Job Post

Noodle is higher education’s leading strategy, services, and technology partner. We develop infrastructure, provide life-changing learning experiences, and grow the awareness of and the enrollment in some of the best academic institutions in the world. Our vision is “to empower universities to change the world.” We achieve this vision by offering our university partners various products and services that help them be more resilient, responsive, efficient, and interconnected.

We are seeking a highly collaborative, organized, and proactive Brand & Planning Associate Director to lead a team of Coordinators who support the student lifecycle for our university partnerships.

As part of our Strategy & Planning team, the Associate Director, Brand & Planning will be responsible for overseeing a team of Coordinators who manage day-to-day projects, including coordinating timelines, tasks, and workflows. The Associate Director will partner with our Strategy and Planning leads to align on strategic priorities across partners, and collaborate cross-functionally with our Account Management and Project Management teams to lead the Coordinators to provide excellence in brand management and project planning support.

As our Associate Director, Brand & Planning, you will:

Coach and manage a team of Coordinators responsible for monitoring project timelines, schedules, and workflows to ensure timely delivery of assets and campaigns – collaborating with multiple stakeholders to translate scopes of work and annual plans into accurate project builds in Wrike, and working with internal team members and vendors to adhere to schedules
Manage a small portfolio of partner accounts and/or special project initiatives first-hand
In partnership with our Project Management team, develop standardized processes and expectations for the Coordinators to drive operational efficiency across all accounts
Ensure an outstanding external partner experience, and internal stakeholder experience, by coaching Coordinators to: effectively assist in the creation and coordination of briefs; serve as the initial reviewer for marketing assets to check for typos, brand consistency, and content alignment; prepare files and communications for review and approval processes; manage event support and coordination of recruitment deadlines; and organize website maintenance and content updates
Coach Coordinators to monitor milestones and performance across multiple projects to ensure timely, high-quality delivery and identify risks, issues, and dependencies, and collaborate with the Project Management team for effective risk management and mitigation
Organize and lead team meetings, as well as cross-functional internal meetings, to align teams and departments against a unified plan - fostering collaboration and ensuring that action items/tasks are properly documented in the project management system
Provide guidance to Coordinators in the review of internal performance dashboards, and the creation of partner-facing reports, leveraging an understanding of marketing and enrollment cycles to identify potential risks and opportunities to support partner-facing conversations
Develop frameworks and templates to support Coordinators in the delivery of draft presentations, reports and asset reviews, ensuring partner communications are standardized, consistent, well-informed, concise, and grammatically correct.
Collaborate with internal departments to develop a standardized file archive structure for Coordinators to store client artifacts, ensuring they are available to partners as needed

You have:

Bachelor's degree required
6-8 years of relevant, previous experience, preferably within the higher education marketing sector
Previous management experience required
Previous experience in marketing account management strongly preferred
Understand tech and interdepartmental dependencies
Strong writing and communication skills
Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
Great attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership over project outcomes
Experience reviewing marketing content
Familiarity with Wrike is a plus
Ability to delegate and follow up with partners, colleagues and vendors in a positive effective manner
Working knowledge of Google Workspace (Docs, Slides, Sheets)
Ability to work effectively in dynamic, rapidly changing, team-based environment
Ability to lead through influence in a matrix organization

Noodle Benefits:

Work from our beautiful NYC office OR the comfort of your home office!
Great compensation package!
401K + match, bonus potential, and equity opportunities
Tools you need on us! Mac is our computer of choice
Our insurance plan offers medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability coverage, plus supplementals for all employees and dependents
Paid Parental Leave
Pre-tax commuter benefits
4 weeks paid vacation + 10 paid holidays + paid sick leave
Access to mental health services like Ginger and Talkspace
Annual education stipend for lifelong learning
Growth - we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees can be themselves and grow within and around the company

$75,000 - $85,000 a year

At Noodle, we hire people who will help us change the future of online education. Even if you don't think you check off every bullet point on this list, we still encourage you to apply! We value both current experience and future potential.

Noodle is committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone. We value and celebrate our differences because those differences are what make our team shine. We hire great people from different backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes us stronger as a whole. Women, people of color, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, and members of other underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Noodle is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against candidates on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status.

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