TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.
The Marketing Lead is the primary strategic partner to the Regional Marketing Director (RMD) and drives marketing execution across the full ecosystem of centralized capabilities: Production, Paid Media, Social, CRM and Lifecycle. This role translates strategy into integrated campaign plans, owns the campaign calendar, and is the day-to-day marketing contact for station leadership across the portfolio.
Responsibilities:
- This person excels at navigating complexity, building stakeholder trust, and leading integrated work across multiple teams and markets.
Strategic & Campaign Leadership
- Develop the campaign brief for each initiative — translating RMD strategy into an integrated plan with clear objectives, target audiences, key messages, channel mix and success metrics — and submit to the RMD for approval before execution begins.
- Own the regional campaign calendar and integrated delivery timeline; ensure all campaigns are planned, resourced and launched on time and to spec.
- Lead campaign development and execution, coordinating across Production, Paid, Social, CRM, Lifecycle and other centralized capabilities.
- Direct Marketing Specialist to initiate campaign setup in monday.com; confirm boards are complete with the right assignments, timelines and deliverables.
- Collaborate with Production through the creative development process — bring the audience, brand, and business context to concept development and scripting.
- Hold creative and strategic standards across all campaign deliverables; ensure every asset is on-brand, on-message, and built to perform.
- Drive clarity and prioritization across a complex portfolio of concurrent campaigns; make informed trade-offs and escalate strategic conflicts to the RMD as needed.
Station Partnership & Communications
- Serve as the day-to-day marketing partner to station general managers, news directors and content leaders across the region.
- Communicate campaign plans, status, and results clearly to station stakeholders; manage expectations, align on priorities and surface issues early.
- Maintain the continuity and market context that allow centralized teams to move fast and with credibility in each market.
Campaign Performance & Team Development
- Establish measurement frameworks for campaigns; track and report performance against objectives for the RMD and station leadership.
- Apply audience data, ratings, digital analytics and market feedback to sharpen campaign strategy; translate performance patterns into recommendations that improve future planning and strengthen the team's overall approach.
- Model campaign management discipline, strategic thinking and stakeholder communications; raise the overall capability and consistency of the marketing team.
Requirements:
- 5–7 years in marketing, integrated campaign management or brand strategy — media, broadcast or a fast-moving content environment strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to lead integrated campaigns across multiple markets, channels and stakeholder groups simultaneously.
- Outstanding written and verbal communications skills; comfortable translating complex strategy into clear stakeholder-ready messaging and creative briefs.
- Strong command of campaign planning, prioritization and project management; experience with monday.com, Asana or similar platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate across paid media, social, CRM, content and other marketing channels toward shared campaign outcomes.
- Familiarity with audience research, ratings, digital analytics and performance measurement in a media or broadcast context.
- Comfortable operating in a 24/7 news-driven environment with fast-moving priorities, breaking news demands and tight timelines.
- Must be willing to travel to markets within the portfolio when needed.
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, journalism or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.
Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.
* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.
EEO statement:
TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email [email protected]
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Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments, ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers.
Skills Required
- 5-7 years of experience in marketing, integrated campaign management, or brand strategy
- Experience leading integrated campaigns across multiple markets, channels, and stakeholder groups
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Experience translating complex strategy into stakeholder-ready messaging and creative briefs
- Strong campaign planning, prioritization, and project management skills
- Experience with monday.com, Asana, or similar project management platforms
- Ability to coordinate paid media, social, CRM, content, and other marketing channels
- Familiarity with audience research, ratings, digital analytics, and performance measurement
- Ability to work in a 24/7 news-driven environment with fast-moving priorities and tight timelines
- Willingness to travel to markets within the portfolio when needed
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, journalism, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience in media, broadcast, or a fast-moving content environment
TEGNA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about TEGNA and has not been reviewed or approved by TEGNA.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision options are complemented by company-supported mental health care and telemedicine, with HSA-eligible plans available. Resources such as Spring Health and Teladoc extend accessible care to employees and families.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with dollar‑for‑dollar match on the first 4% and immediate vesting is offered broadly, including to part‑time and temporary staff. This structure provides straightforward access to retirement savings from day one.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave covers at least six weeks for all parents and 12 weeks at full pay for birth mothers. Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility benefits support multiple paths to family building.
TEGNA Insights
What We Do
As one of the most geographically diverse broadcasters in the U.S., TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) is an innovative media company that serves the greater good of our communities. Across platforms, TEGNA tells empowering stories, conducts impactful investigations and delivers innovative marketing solutions. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA is the largest owner of top 4 network affiliates in the top 25 markets among independent station groups, reaching approximately 39 percent of all television households nationwide. TEGNA also owns leading multicast networks True Crime Network and Quest. TEGNA Marketing Solutions (TMS) offers innovative solutions to help businesses reach consumers across television, digital and over-the-top (OTT) platforms, including Premion, TEGNA’s OTT advertising service. Across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, TEGNA's stations have over 31 million social followers. In everything we do, we are driven by our strongly held values and our stated purpose to serve the greater good of our communities. TEGNA produces trusted, impactful and innovative content across platforms. We tell stories that matter, are an advocate for those in need and help bring positive change to our communities. Our award-winning journalists have been recognized with numerous national honors including Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont, George Foster Peabody, George Polk, Walter Cronkite and Emmy awards.
