Digital Marketing Manager

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ABOUT PAYSCALE

Payscale is the pioneer of compensation intelligence, helping organizations make smarter pay decisions that drive business performance. For more than 20 years, Payscale has combined trusted market data with AI-powered technology to deliver actionable insights that turn pay from a cost into a catalyst for growth. The Payscale Intelligence Cloud portfolio of solutions — Ascent, JobNav, and Paycycle — empower top companies and businesses like Cintas, Leidos, Chipotle, Ohio State University, and TJX Companies.

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Job Summary

Payscale is looking for a Digital Marketing Manager who lives and breathes website performance. This is a hands-on role that owns how our marketing website attracts visitors, engages them once they arrive, and converts them into pipeline — through search strategy, performance monitoring, and AI-accelerated analysis.

You will be the primary owner of top-of-funnel web performance — turning search, traffic, and engagement data into insights, prioritizing the highest-impact optimizations, and using AI tools to move faster than manual analysis allows. You're equally comfortable auditing technical SEO, diagnosing why a page underperforms for a specific traffic source or persona, and using AI to accelerate both.

This is a growth-oriented web performance role for someone who wants to own outcomes across the full attract-engage-convert arc.

What You'll Do

• Attract — Search & Visibility
• Own on-page and technical SEO strategy across payscale.com http://payscale.com: keyword strategy, content structure, internal linking, site health
• Own our approach to AEO — how Payscale content shows up in AI-driven answer engines and adapt strategy as search behavior evolves
• Track rankings, organic traffic, and share of voice against competitors; surface clear, actionable insights regularly
• Partner with content, product marketing, and web teams so new pages are built with search visibility in mind from day one

Engage & Convert — Site-Wide Performance & CRO

• Monitor the performance of key landing pages across the site regulalrly, segmented by traffic source, persona, and campaign
• Identify underperforming pages and diagnose the cause — messaging mismatch, wrong audience fit, friction, or technical issue
• Own a CRO testing roadmap, including hypothesis creation, A/B and multivariate testing, statistical analysis, and rollout of winning variants
• Work directly in Webflow to implement data-driven tests, updates, and optimizations
• Continuously optimize conversion paths across the site, contextualized by campaign, offer, channel, and page type

Measurement, Reporting & AI-Accelerated Analysis

• Own web analytics and reporting for site-wide performance (GA4 + GTM)
• Build and maintain dashboards tracking traffic, engageme

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its offered to you and your family

• 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations
• Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment

Equal Opportunity Employer

We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.

We know the confidence gap https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-confidence-gap/359815/ and imposter syndrome https://fortune.com/2024/06/21/high-functioning-achievers-imposter-syndrome-career-ladder/ can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.

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