Driving traffic and conversion for an e-commerce business β paid media, email, on-site merchandising, retention campaigns. The job lives at the intersection of marketing and revenue, with weekly numbers that immediately show whether your decisions worked.
The job sits at the intersection of paid media, email, on-site experience, and retention β and the performance numbers come back fast. You're driving traffic to a store, converting it, and keeping customers coming back, with weekly metrics that show exactly whether your decisions worked. That tight feedback loop is energizing if you like data; it can be stressful if you prefer longer horizons for measuring results.
Day-to-day work spans channel strategy, creative direction, and campaign execution β sometimes all in the same afternoon. You're briefing paid media on audience targeting, reviewing email flows for a promotion, and checking on-site conversion data simultaneously. In smaller teams, you're doing more of the execution yourself; in larger ones, you're coordinating specialists while owning the strategy and the number.
Revenue accountability is what separates this role from brand or content marketing. Your campaigns are measured against revenue, ROAS, customer acquisition cost, and lifetime value β not engagement rates. When a campaign underperforms, the analysis is expected quickly, and the next decision has to come from that analysis rather than from instinct.
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View all Marketing roles βDriving traffic and conversion for an e-commerce business β paid media, email, on-site merchandising, retention campaigns. The job lives at the intersection of marketing and revenue, with weekly numbers that immediately show whether your decisions worked.
Median pay for an E-Commerce Marketing Manager is about $81K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $46K to $148K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Speaking, and Persuasion.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 3% through 2034, with roughly 1.1 million people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include E-commerce Marketing Coordinator, Marketing Director, and Sales Operations Manager (Sales Ops Manager).
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