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Associate Director, Performance and Digital

Auckland, Auckland, nz💼 Full-time💰 $134,900–$134,900🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Set the strategic and operational agenda for university-wide performance marketing and digital capabilities to drive student acquisition and conversion.

Role type

Senior leadership performance marketing and digital director

Builds

Connected digital experiences across the prospective student journey, including paid digital channels, web platforms, and marketing automation

Domain

Higher education / Digital marketing and performance

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Performance marketing strategy, paid search and social, programmatic advertising, marketing technology stack ownership, analytics and attribution, team leadership, digital transformation, data-driven decision making

Preferred skills

Scaling acquisition programs, building in-house capability, change management, experimentation and CRO

Technologies

Marketing automation platforms, paid media channels, analytics and attribution tools

Responsibilities

Setting performance marketing strategy across paid digital channels, driving acquisition and conversion across the student recruitment funnel, providing strategic leadership for web and digital platforms, building advanced measurement and ROI frameworks, establishing enterprise-level governance for digital investment, leading and growing a high-performing team, running experimentation and customer-journey optimisation programmes, managing agency and platform partnerships

Seniority

Senior leadership, strategy & mentorship

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