Digital Growth Manager

Full-time

Location: Zurich

Department: Marketing

Reports to: Head of Digital Growth

Job Overview:

The Digital Growth Manager will craft and execute holistic, cross-channel marketing strategies to fuel growth across multiple markets. In this role, you’ll blend strategic vision with hands-on execution, empowering local teams to achieve measurable results. You’ll uncover trends, challenge assumptions, and transform data into actionable insights that drive impact. If you thrive in the fast-paced creativity of a startup while embracing the complexity and opportunities of a global company—and if travel, education, and fresh ideas inspire you—this is the role for you. It’s your chance to innovate, collaborate, and leave a lasting mark.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Marketing Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor and a partner to local teams, to develop and implement comprehensive, cross-channel digital strategies to drive growth, based on specific local market needs and revenue goals. Provide frameworks to prioritize channels based on data, audience insights, and business objectives.
• Analytical Insights: Continuously analyze campaign performance to identify trends, anomalies, and growth opportunities. Apply critical thinking to question the "why" behind the numbers and provide actionable insights.
• Budget Optimization: Advise on effective allocation of marketing budgets to maximize cost-efficiency, ensuring high-quality lead generation and conversion rates.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Build strong relationships across departments (sales, product, brand, content, creative, etc. and local market teams), acting as a bridge to ensure a cohesive approach to revenue growth and ensuring alignment across marketing objectives, messaging, and execution
• Technology: Utilize marketing automation tools, CRM platforms, and analytics tools to measure performance, streamline workflows, and ensure integration between local and central marketing activities.
• Continuous Learning and Growth: Stay ahead of emerging trends, marketing strategies, and platform updates, and share best practices with teams. Cultivate a mindset of curiosity and innovation, driving a culture of experimentation and learning.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience: 5-7 years of experience in digital marketing, growth marketing, or a similar role with a proven track record of driving lead generation and revenue growth.
• Strategic Thinking: Demonstrated ability to think holistically about cross-channel marketing, prioritizing efforts based on data, audience behavior, and business goals.
• Analytical Mindset and Technical Proficiency: highly proficient in tools like Google Analytics, Excel, BI dashboards, marketing automation platforms, CRM and AI tools with a keen ability to spot trends, question data, and turn insights into action.
• Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to manage relationships with diverse stakeholders. Ability to present complex ideas in a clear, persuasive manner to influence decision-making.
• Service-Mindedness: A collaborative and solutions-oriented approach, with a strong commitment to supporting local teams and fostering their growth and success.
• Hunger for Learning: Passion for staying at the forefront of marketing trends and tools. Demonstrated curiosity and eagerness to experiment with new approaches.
• Project Management: Ability to juggle multiple campaigns and projects with competing deadlines while maintaining a focus on quality and results.

Why you will love EF Zurich!

Our Zurich Headquarters is located centrally in the heart of Zurich. Our office building is an architectural gem with an onsite gym for staff, and a brand new onsite Restaurant and Cafe/Bar, Lingo that both staff and guests can enjoy. Additionally, EF Zurich supports staff with the following benefits:

• Opportunities to visit our language campuses globally
• Tuition fee reimbursement for continued education
• Discounts on EF programs globally
• Personal Development Training Support, including Gallup Strength Finder training
• Team lunches, events and office Holiday Parties
• Free use of EF Hello: a premium Language Learning App
• And much more!

About EF Education First

At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.

Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://www.ef.com.

EF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions are subject to a criminal background and and/or reference checks, as applicable.