Jobs at Crain Communications

Supports budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, variance analysis, management reporting, KPI dashboards, and business analysis across multiple brands and corporate functions. Partners with business leaders on ROI analyses, profitability assessments, scenario planning, and strategic decision support. The role also improves reporting processes, reconciles data from multiple systems, and supports ad hoc financial modeling and cross-functional initiatives.

Reports on how AI, digital platforms, and changing consumer behavior are reshaping marketing. Breaks news, develops original stories, produces investigative and explanatory journalism, analyzes data and documents, and translates complex technology developments for marketing professionals. Covers brand and agency technology adoption, AI search, major platforms, technology spending, measurement, privacy, workforce changes, and business consequences. Collaborates with editorial, audience, data, visual, and social teams across newsletters, events, reports, trackers, and other products.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of platforms and data products supporting audience intelligence, personalization, content operations, and business decision-making. Partner with engineering, data, editorial, and business teams to improve data quality, governance, workflows, recommendation systems, and AI-powered tools. Lead discovery through launch, define success metrics, conduct experimentation, and communicate product priorities and outcomes.

Manages the end-to-end billing process for advertising products, including reviewing contracts, processing order changes, preparing invoices, validating revenue and delivery, reconciling sales reports, maintaining records, and researching discrepancies. Coordinates with sales, fulfillment, finance, and customers to ensure accurate order-to-cash execution and timely issue resolution. The role also manages shared customer requests and supports sales reporting in a hybrid Detroit office environment.

Report on oil and gas industry developments, breaking news, and enterprise analysis; build sources; track filings, markets, M&A, policy, and technology; publish digital-first content, newsletters, and multimedia; collaborate with editors and participate in events and industry initiatives.

Plan and execute integrated B2B marketing campaigns across events, awards, subscriptions and partnerships. Develop strategy, messaging and creative briefs; manage campaigns across email, web, social, digital advertising and print; collaborate cross-functionally; analyze performance and optimize using marketing technology and analytics; improve processes through automation and AI-assisted tools.

Cover U.S. shale and upstream M&A with breaking news, exclusive reporting, data-driven analysis, and source cultivation. Track operators, transactions, production and financial metrics; analyze SEC filings and earnings; publish digital stories, newsletters and multimedia; collaborate across editorial, events, and audience teams; represent the outlet at industry events.

Build and expand proprietary institutional mandate databases and survey datasets, design AI-assisted workflows to monitor unstructured sources, produce data products and analytical briefs, collaborate with editorial and technology teams, and surface trend signals and story leads for institutional investors and asset managers.

Lead and grow advertising and sponsorship revenue through strategic sales, client relationship management, team leadership, and cross-product collaboration. Represent the brand at events, travel to meet clients and offices, and work flexible hours to support business needs.