Audience & Marketing Manager

TED is on a mission to discover and spread ideas that spark imagination, embrace possibility and catalyze impact. Our organization is devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda. We welcome people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world and connection with others, and we invite everyone to engage with ideas and activate them in your community.

Job Overview

The Audience & Marketing Manager drives the strategy and execution of data-informed audience growth and marketing campaigns, with a focus on expanding and diversifying top-of-funnel audiences while deepening engagement in support of TED’s broader community goals.

Working cross-functionally across media, events, product, and business teams, they’ll develop and implement campaigns that drive discovery, foster meaningful engagement, and build long-term audience connection. This includes growing audiences for TED’s newsletters, events, digital platforms, and community offerings through channels like email, web, and social, as well as exploring more interactive, user-driven levers. Their work will inform retention and loyalty efforts, as part of TED’s objective to foster active participation and conversation around TED ideas, 

Beyond individual projects, the Audience & Marketing Manager will oversee the team’s broader campaign ecosystem — ensuring efforts are strategically aligned, well-coordinated and effectively resourced. Additionally, they will support and strengthen a culture of data-informed decision-making by shaping reporting, contributing to audience research, and translating insights into actionable strategies.

Audience & Marketing Strategy

• Develop and execute organic and paid strategies to drive awareness and engagement across TED initiatives, including TED.com, newsletters, events and new digital offerings.

• Partner with cross-departmental stakeholders and product owners to develop strategies that prioritize both new acquisition and sustained connection with existing audiences.

• Own and execute SEO and SEM strategies to increase discoverability and drive qualified traffic 

• Initiate new community-forward tactics to grow awareness and participation in TED programs

• Develop and maintain audience lists that can be utilized to drive full-funnel engagement across campaigns and initiatives

• Support TED’s larger brand and marketing goals by creating cohesive, unified approaches across all initiatives that highlight credibility and connection.

• Exercise the “art and science” mentality to spearhead new creative approaches, while leaning on performance data to optimize and evolve for campaign goals

Data + Insights

• Analyze campaign performance, uncover insights and identify areas to optimize messaging, creative, channels and targeting.

• Utilize a range of data points — behavioral data, survey feedback, social listening and competitive insights — to inform campaign strategies and ad development

• Inform the creation and refinement of data-backed audience personas

• Partner with TED’s Tech team to develop reporting structures that track engagement, loyalty and participation metrics.

• Inform organizational efforts to organize and systemize audience data to better understand and cultivate connection and long-term engagement.

Operations & Project Management

• Oversee and help to manage the team’s project roadmaps and deliverables

• Provide oversight around team’s intake process and feed into project decision-making

• Work closely with Brand Creative team to convey asset requirements, campaign approaches and timelines

• Manage relationships and nurture collaborations with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to ensure campaign, team and organizational success

• Provide copywriting and copyediting support as necessary

• Serve as additional support on ad building across Web and newsletters as necessary

Salary Range:  $80,000 - $94,000

Benefits

• Full health benefits (medical, dental, vision)

• Paid family leave

• Work-life balance is encouraged through our flexible paid time off. 

• Free OneMedical and SpringHealth membership for you and your dependents to address physical and mental well-being 

• 401k with match

Application deadline: May 9, 2026

TED Conferences LLC is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We invite all qualified candidates to apply online with their resume and cover letter.