TDM Marketing Associate

Department: Marketing

Location: Portland, OR

Compensation: $85,000 - $95,000 / year

Description

Alta Planning Design seeks a Marketing Associate I (TDM Practice) for our Portland office. This marketing role is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience, apply with Alta today!

About Alta
Alta Planning Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling as the non-motorized transportation movement developed into a profession in the United States. We pioneered the field of active transportation, evolving our planning and design work into a visionary global practice that empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them to where they need to go.

Our core values and work bring about positive change by creating places that are geared toward moving people rather than cars, connecting community members to daily needs and human experience, and empowering every person to live an active healthy life. As a global leader in mobility innovation for over 27 years with over 225 staff, we are dedicated to connecting people to places by working across disciplines and scale to address social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

Day to Day

A typical day will be anything but typical. But it will likely involve collaborating with our smart and talented teammates who are leading up key programs and projects in Portland, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and beyond. This role will collaborate closely with our program managers and programs staff to orchestrate and execute marketing strategies that achieve key outreach and behavior change outcomes. Responsibilities include:

• Managing and leading from start to finish the execution of marketing projects and campaigns, including identifying and understanding target audiences, designing customer journeys, setting clear objectives, and planning and executing marketing campaigns.


• Serves as Project Manager on all sizes of projects, including project planning, staffing decisions, budget tracking, and invoicing.


• Demonstrating the ability to execute a variety of marketing strategies effectively.


• Maintaining and enhancing the brand for assigned programs and projects, particularly through brand management and full ownership of Quality Assurance & Quality Control (QA&QC) for all marketing and communications deliverables.


• Actively participating in project team meetings and marketing meetings, helping foster a collaborative team environment.


• Engage and manage other marketing specialists as well as external vendors, contractors, and partner agencies for specialized marketing services when necessary.


• Establishing and nurturing long-term relationships with clients, including understanding needs, expectations, and challenges, and ensuring they feel valued, understood, and supported.


• Leads proposal, interview, and negotiation efforts, with support from Principal(s). Is expected to participate actively in professional associations and conferences, and build client/contact network.


• Regularly communicating with clients through meetings, reports, and updates.

Actively engaging in continuous learning and integrating this knowledge into projects, including an understanding of emerging tools and techniques in the marketing field as they apply to our work. This involves attending trainings, workshops, and industry conferences as well as self-guided learning.

Qualifications

Required
This position requires a combination of skills, experience and education including, but not limited to:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, journalism, digital media, psychology, sociology or other related field; and


• Five or more years of full-time professional experience in a marketing or communications role


• Experience working for an agency, consulting firm, or similar multi-client environment is preferred

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:
We understand that job descriptions often demand excellence in every area, which is why we've thoughtfully divided our requirements into essential and desirable skills. This helps both of us determine if this role is the right long-term fit. Our ideal candidate will exemplify a "T-shaped" marketer's qualities, combining deep expertise and a proven track record in one to three key marketing areas with a broad understanding of additional marketing disciplines. This blend of specialization and versatility is crucial for crafting, managing, and optimizing effective strategies that resonate with our outreach and behavior change objectives.

Here's a look at what we envision for the person in this role:

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  Getting the Word Out: You know how to reach people and get them to take action, no matter the medium or character count. You have:
  
  
  
  • Strong communication skills, including verbal, written, and interpersonal
  
  
  • Experience creating messages for different audiences and varying mediums, including blogs, emails, press releases, websites, SMS, and more
  
  
  • Experience with coordinating and managing content and editorial calendars for use with social media, websites, email marketing, and other content distribution methods
  
  
  • Experience with coordinating public relations and media outreach for local and regional publications
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  


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  Collaborating with People: You thrive when working with others and don't hesitate to pitch in or step up as a leader when called on. You have:
  
  
  
  • Experience contributing to teams of all sizes
  
  
  • Experience working with a team of contractors and vendors
  
  
  • Experience with building and maintaining strong client relationships
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  


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  Crunching Numbers: You're not intimidated by data or spreadsheets. You have:
  
  
  
  • Experience monitoring and reporting on marketing analytics
  
  
  • Knowledge of statistics and data analysis
  
  
  • A strong understanding of how to maximize spending with paid advertising for optimal campaign performance
  
  
  • Experience with A/B testing and multivariate experiments (e.g., testing subject lines, call-to-actions, etc.)
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  


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  Managing Projects: Even if you have a lot on your plate, you have a good process in place to get work done. You have:
  
  
  
  • Strong skills in organizing, prioritizing, and producing several marketing tasks concurrently
  
  
  • Experience with building timelines and budgets and leading a team
  
  
  • Demonstrated quality control and quality assurance through project deliverables
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  


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  Working with Tools: You have in-depth knowledge of and experience with varying software, including:
  
  
  
  • Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
  
  
  • CMS websites (e.g., WordPress, Wix, etc.)
  
  
  • CRMs or contact database (e.g., Hubspot, Salesforce, Mailchimp, etc.)
  
  
  • Project management software to stay organized and productive (e.g., Asana, Wrike, Basecamp, etc.)
  
  
  • Automated marketing tools and concepts (e.g., Autopilot, Mailchimp, etc.)
  
  
  
  
  
  


• Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
  
  • Marketing analytics platforms and dashboards (e.g., Google Analytics or similar)
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Other Desired Qualities:

• Knowledgeable (or highly curious) about behavior change, sustainability, transportation, TDM, city planning, community development, economic development, or related


• Desire to positively affect the community, region, and environment


• Hands-on contributor


• Eagerness to build and refine your skill

What We Offer

Flexible Schedule
Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.

Compensation
The pay range for this job in Portland is $85,000-$95,000 annually. Placement within the range is based upon experience, skill-sets, and qualifications.

Benefits
Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:

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  Medical: PPO or HSA medical plans


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  Dental/Vision: PPO


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  Life Insurance: Alta pays 100% of the premium for life and AD&D, equal to your base compensation


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  401(k): Alta provides a match up to 3%


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  PTO: 21 days accrued annually to start


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  Holidays: 11 total company paid holidays


• Paid Parental Leave/Short-Term Disability


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  Additional Benefits: Wellness reimbursement up to $800 annually, Alta Gets Around benefit of up to $900 annually, 5-year travel award, and professional development opportunities