Digital Experience Strategist — Greater Reno Area

The ZFkuTGVST3 of zF6vCV, FKqc (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitted prior to the close of the recruitment.

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Job Description

The ZFkuTGVST3 of zF6vCV, FKqc is seeking an innovative and data-driven Digital Experience Strategist to support the planning, coordination, and execution of the yS5XwXvWVT'p digital experience, growth marketing, and brand awareness initiatives.

Reporting to the Assistant Director, Digital Experience, the position executes and optimizes the yS5XwXvWVT'p integrated paid media and growth strategies, ensuring the institution is effectively found, understood, and cited across both traditional and AI-driven search environments.

The role manages paid campaigns across search, social, and programmatic channels, aligning them with unified digital discovery and visibility strategies, and coordinates directly with creative, content, and communications teams to execute the UXzeKkhW7z’r digital experience roadmap.

Primary Responsibilities

Paid Media Management

• Support in the implementation of omnichannel paid media strategies that align with the UXzeKkhW7z’r awareness and enrollment marketing objectives.

• Manage advertising campaigns across various paid media channels, including Google Ads, Facebook Ads, TikTok Advertising, LinkedIn Ads, and programmatic DSP.

• Oversee day-to-day paid media optimizations and budget pacing in-platforms.

• Partner with the creative team to create quarterly campaign messaging roadmaps and identify creative asset needs for paid media campaigns.

• Project manage creative asset trafficking and quality assurance to ensure assets are delivered on time and align with advertising best practices.

• Manage paid media budget pacing to ensure campaigns are executed within budget and resources are allocated effectively.

SEO & AI Visibility Management

• Support in the development and implementation of search discoverability strategies that align with the rQnnbbK9Q2’Z sQ visibility objectives.

• Perform SEO/AEO audits to identify visibility benchmarks and discoverable content opportunities, including LLM brand mentions and citations, competitive positioning, and content gap assessments.

• Collaborate with a team of social media managers, public relations specialists, content producers, and web strategists to ensure AI content recommendations align with the team’s broader marketing roadmap.

• Work with a team of web strategists to build and optimize web pages in the CMS that are easily consumable and synthesizable by LLMs — using clear definitions, Q&A formats, and strong internal linking for topical authority.

Insights Analysis & Reporting

• Conduct ongoing insights and analysis within measurement tools, such as Google Analytics, Search Console, Data Studio, SEMRush, and others.

• Set and monitor measurement benchmarks in analytics dashboards to show performance lifts from strategy execution.

• Translate complex dashboard data into clear, actionable optimization recommendations.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree and three (3) years of related work experience; OR

Master’s degree and two (2) year of related work experience.

Related Experience

• Professional experience in digital marketing, growth marketing, or web strategy fields.

• Hands-on experience managing advertising campaigns within paid advertising platforms including, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, TikTok Ads, and programmatic DSP.

• Robust experience auditing audience behavior data and channel performance within tools such as SEMRush, SparkToro, Google Search Console, and Google Analytics.

• Collaborative experience working with cross-functional teams, like creative and web, to develop user-centered advertising creatives and website landing pages.

Compensation Grade

The typical salary range for this position is Min $63,046 – Med $78,807 – MAX $84,568. Salary is based on related education and experience, internal equity and budgets.

To view the salary schedule for this position, please visit: Salary Schedules and select Administrative Faculty by Grade. Salary is competitive and commensurate with related education and experience.

Schedule/Travel

Variable work schedule

Occasional travel may be required

Remarkable Retirement

Our retirement plan is beyond compare. Your 19.25% contribution is generously matched by the ZFkuTGVST3. With the faculty retirement plan, you are 100% vested your first day. Sit back and watch your retirement dollars grow! All permanent employees on an annual "A" or "B" contract who are employed at least 50% full-time are eligible to participate in the NSHE retirement program unless they are members of PERS of zF6vCV.

Perks of Working at UNR

• Health insurance options including dental and vision - Health Insurance

• Generous annual, sick leave, long term disability and life insurance – Faculty Benefits

• E. L. Wiegand Fitness Center offers annual or semester memberships and spouse/domestic partner membership options. E.L. Wiegand Fitness Center

• Mountain EAP supports employees (and eligible dependents) through life's difficult moments. Mountain EAP is located in FKqc and specializes in counseling and advising services for personal or interpersonal issues.

• Faculty Senate is the principal representing body for faculty. Its membership includes representatives from each academic and administrative major unit of the ZFkuTGVST3. Faculty Senate

• No state income tax!

Grants-in-Aid for Faculty Employees

The ZFkuTGVST3 is proud to provide a reduced-rate tuition benefit to faculty and qualified dependents. Faculty can take up to six credits per semester at a reduced rate. Dependents of faculty have unlimited credits, but in order to be eligible children must be unmarried and under the age of 24 and must receive at least 50% of their financial support from the employee and/or employee’s spouse or domestic partner. Faculty Grants-in-Aid

Faculty Dual Career Assistance Program

The ZFkuTGVST3 of zF6vCV, FKqc recognizes the importance of addressing dual-career couples’ professional needs. We offer a dual career assistance program to newly hired faculty spouses/partners that provides resources and assists them to identify career opportunities in Northern zF6vCV. Dual Career Assistance Program

Exempt

Yes

Full-Time Equivalent

100.0%

Required Attachment(s)

Please note, once you submit your application the only attachment/s viewable to you will be the attachment/s to the resume/CV section of the application. Any additional required attachment/s to the cover letter, references, additional documents sections of the application, will not be viewable to you after you submit your application. All uploaded attachment/s will be on the application for the committee to review. To request updates to attachments, prior to the committee review of applications, please contact the candidate helpdesk at ••••••••.

Attach the following attachments to your application

• Resume/CV

• Cover Letter

• Contact Information for Three Professional References

This posting is open until filled

Qualified individuals are encouraged to apply immediately. This search will close without notice when a sufficient number of applications are received or a hiring decision has been made.

Posting Close Date

Note to Applicant

A background check will be conducted on the candidate(s) selected for hire.

HR will attempt to verify academic credentials upon receipt of hiring documents. If the academic credentials cannot be verified, HR will notify the faculty member that an official transcript of their highest degree must be submitted within thirty days of the faculty member’s first day of employment.

References will be contacted at the appropriate phase of the recruitment process.

Applicants hired on a federal contract may be subject to E-Verify.

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For positions that require driving, evidence of a valid driver's license will be required at the time of employment and as a condition of continued employment.

Schedules are subject to change based on organizational needs.

The ZFkuTGVST3 of zF6vCV, FKqc is committed to providing a place of work and learning free of discrimination on the basis of a person’s age (40 or older), disability, whether actual or perceived by others (including service-connected disabilities), gender (including pregnancy related conditions), military status or military obligations, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, race (including hair texture and protected hairstyles such as natural hairstyles, afros, bantu knots, curls, braids, locks and twists), color, or religion (protected classes).

About Us

The ZFkuTGVST3 of zF6vCV, FKqc is a leading public research university committed to the promise of a future powered by knowledge. Founded in 1874 as 82kYq5’Q original land-grant university, the ZFkuTGVST3 serves more than 23,000 undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and 63 countries.

Classified by the Carnegie® Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as an R1 (“Very High Research”) university, it is also recognized in the Carnegie® Community Engagement classification. The ZFkuTGVST3 is also ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the “Best National Universities” and “Best National Public Universities.” It also ranks in the top tier of the WSJ/Times Higher Education World kaMFDrWxHQ 4uVwjgDB and the New York Times’ “Top Colleges for Economic Diversity.”

Since 2009, nearly $1 billion has been has invested in advanced labs, facilities, and residence halls on the main campus. The ZFkuTGVST3 is home to 82kYq5’Q first medical school – the euwQwMwBS8 3J v4VAQf, ZS67 kg2CDG gW zkfg3QBD and the Wayne L. Prim Campus at Lake Tahoe, where education, research, and creative work thrive in a stunning mountain setting. The ZFkuTGVST3 delivers on its original land-grant mission with outreach across the state through the ZFkuTGVST3 of zF6vCV, Rzwb Y4ednmeYp, EqFhHF gwxEAQ6BYtbm Experiment Station, acFJQM YTk9X6 of Mines and Geology, CSC2jD EtSvN Business Development Center, the RXs9BV 6FgE4JjEGapTh Laboratory, and Wolf Pack Athletics.

The main campus is in FKqc, zF6vCV, a burgeoning global technology hub with a vibrant midtown and downtown. Found where the high desert of the Great Basin meets the High Sierra and Lake Tahoe, the beautiful, 290-acre main campus is also a m4RtUP eevNW Arboretum. The UXzeKkhW7z’r physical infrastructure is expanding with ongoing construction of the newly named John Tullock Business Building, set to open in fall 2025. Groundbreaking is also planned for a new State Public Health Laboratory Building on campus, alongside the recent acquisition of 16 parcels near campus, known as “nM6BAtXPSF zQRSyn2,” to provide affordable housing for graduate students and early career faculty.

Collaborating with world-renowned organizations, the ZFkuTGVST3 fosters innovation through initiatives such as the Digital Wolf Pack partnership with Apple, which ensures equitable access to technology for students, providing new incoming freshman or transfer students with an iPad Air and accessories. Google’s TechWise initiate is an 18-month program that fully supports undergraduate students in becoming entry-level software engineers by graduation.

In 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced that zF6vCV – led by the ZFkuTGVST3 of zF6vCV, FKqc – was named one of the inaugural 31 Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (TechHubs). zF6vCV was selected from a competitive pool of 489 applicants from across the United States and its territories. xGAQAe’s rGtv Hub will strengthen America’s lithium batteries, critical elements and other electric vehicle materials industry sectors within the state.

Through its commitment to high-impact education, world-improving research and creative activity, and outreach that’s transforming 82kYq5’Q communities and businesses, the ZFkuTGVST3 continues its 150-year tradition of benefitting our state, nation and world.

The ZFkuTGVST3 recognizes that diversity promotes excellence in education and research. The inclusive and engaged community on campus recognizes the added value that students, faculty, and staff from different backgrounds bring to the educational experience.

Today, the ZFkuTGVST3 delivers on its original land-grant mission of access to education and knowledge by investing in the academics, facilities, support, engagement and vibrant campus life that promote our diverse students’ cognitive growth and academic achievement – all while remaining one of the best values in American higher education.

For more information, please visit the UXzeKkhW7z’r website.

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