Marketing Manager

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Columbia, MD
In-Office
90K-120K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Software • Cybersecurity
The Role
The Marketing Manager will drive awareness and engagement through content strategy, storytelling, and demand generation while collaborating cross-functionally to elevate IronCircle's brand.
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Marketing Manager 

IronCircle is looking for a creative and strategic Marketing Manager to help shape and elevate our brand in the rapidly growing EdTech space. This role is ideal for a marketer who’s passionate about transforming education through technology and crafting stories that inspire learners, educators, and partners alike.

The Marketing Manager is a full-funnel marketer responsible for driving awareness, engagement, and qualified pipeline across IronCircle’s core audiences. This is a hybrid role that blends content strategy, brand storytelling, PR/comms, and demand generation with a direct focus on revenue impact.

You will manage the full lifecycle of marketing: from positioning and content creation to campaigns, nurture, events, paid amplification, and performance tracking. You will help define and elevate IronCircle’s brand in the market while building repeatable demand programs that convert curiosity into conversations and conversations into customers.

This is a hands-on, builder-operator role ideal for a marketer who can write, create, launch, measure, and iterate.

About Us

With over 17+ years of experience, IronCircle is one of the leading global tech education, training, and service providers, sending thousands of learners to new and exciting careers, serving and developing tech-related ecosystems.

In 2018, IronCircle entered the US market via a university partnership model and has successfully partnered with colleges and universities to train the next generation of industry professionals. Unique to our program, TDX Arena is an AI-fueled, powerhouse learning platform that helps learners apply concepts learned in class to real-world situations.

With over 50,000 cybersecurity alumni worldwide, IronCircle is highly experienced at delivering the most effective accelerated cybersecurity training and educational programs.

Key Responsibilities

Brand and Messaging

  • Develop and maintain IronCircle’s brand story, tone, and narrative across all channels.
  • Tailor messaging for key audiences and stakeholders.
  • Create positioning frameworks, campaign themes, and unified value props.
  • Ensure brand consistency across web, sales collateral, email, social, and events.

Content Strategy & Creation

  • Own the content roadmap across formats: case studies, whitepapers, webinars, landing pages, sales decks, blog posts, video scripts, PR materials, etc.
  • Drive an always-on content engine across thought leadership, SEO, social, and lifecycle nurture.
  • Enable Sales with content that accelerates trust, proof, and conversion.

PR & Earned Media

  • Develop IronCircle’s external voice in cybersecurity education, workforce development, and AI-enabled learning.
  • Pitch stories to education, HR tech, AI, and cybersecurity press outlets.
  • Build relationships with national and trade media, analysts, and podcast hosts.
  • Support awards, speaking opportunities, and category leadership moments.

Demand Generation & Campaigns

  • Build and execute multi-channel demand campaigns (email, paid social, webinars, events, partner co-marketing, ABM, etc.).
  • Oversee nurture tracks and retargeting journeys that move prospects from awareness → evaluation → enrollment → advocacy.
  • Partner with functional leadership to automate scoring, routing, and reporting.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work closely with Sales to align messaging, campaign timing, and audience targeting.
  • Collaborate with Product and Curriculum teams to turn new features and programs into market content.
  • Support university and employer partnership teams with enablement assets, pitch decks, and event collateral.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Education, Business, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
  • 3–5+ years in B2B SaaS, EdTech, HR Tech, workforce development, or similar.
  • Proven track record creating content that drives revenue.
  • Hands-on experience running multichannel demand gen campaigns.
  • Excellent writing and storytelling ability to translate complex problems into crisp, compelling narratives.
  • Experience owning pipeline-aligned KPIs, not just brand metrics.
  • Ability to operate as a self-starter, creator, and executor.

Skills & Competencies

  • Deep understanding of the education technology landscape and learner engagement strategies.
  • Expertise in brand positioning, messaging frameworks, and storytelling for diverse audiences.
  • Strong analytical mindset—able to interpret learner and campaign data to drive decisions.
  • Proficiency in marketing and analytics platforms (e.g., HubSpot, Google Analytics, Salesforce, SEMrush, or similar).
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills.
  • Creative, curious, and passionate about advancing access to education through technology.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with partnership- or demand-generation marketing in EdTech.
  • Familiarity with LMS platforms, online credentialing systems, or B2B education solutions.
  • Ability to thrive in a mission-driven, fast-paced, and data-informed environment.

Our Offer

The estimated compensation range for this position is $90,000 to $120,000 annually, which includes base salary and potential bonus. Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and work location.

This position includes a competitive benefits package that is eligible for additional benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other incentive programs, consistent with company policy and applicable law.

Values

Passion is our driver.

Excellence is how we deliver.

People are our focus - learners and employees.

Change creates opportunity - we embrace change.

Learning never stops, and neither do we.

Your Success is our Success

If you're a driven, collaborative person who thrives on breaking new ground and inspiring others to do the same, you’ll feel right at home here. We’re looking for someone passionate, a high performer, and pushes boundaries in pursuit of something bigger.

You’re a self-starter with a “ready to make an impact on day one” mindset—confident in your ability to add real value from the start and grow with us over the long term. If that sounds like you, we think you’ll be a perfect fit.

At our core, we're more than just a company—we're a close-knit team on a mission to change lives through the power of education. We work hard, we play hard, and we deeply value each person’s contributions toward our shared goals. We can’t wait to welcome the next game-changer to our team. (Yes, we mean you.)

Equal Employer Opportunity (EEO) Statement

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, we comply with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

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The Company
HQ: Columbia, Maryland
515 Employees
Year Founded: 2025

What We Do

IronCircle is the leading AI-powered cybersecurity workforce platform for individuals, universities, and enterprise organizations.

Developed from the ground up with AI at its core, the platform provides an adaptive, hands-on proving ground that reflects the speed and complexity of today’s evolving threat landscape. It features immersive AI experiences designed to close critical gaps and build resilient cybersecurity teams. Through a unified platform experience, we ensure that every individual and workforce is ready for “what’s next.”

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., IronCircle is trusted by the world’s top organizations and universities, including the leading technology investor in North America, Francisco Partners, and the cyber investment juggernaut NightDragon.

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