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We believe in the power and joy of learning
At Cengage, our employees have a direct impact in helping learners around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
About the role:
Cengage is looking for Director, Marketing Technology & Data Operations to be a strategic, collaborative, and forward-thinking leader to build and scale our global Marketing Technology and Data function and team. Reporting to the VP of Marketing Operations, this role will define the vision, governance, and operating model for our marketing technology and data ecosystem, enabling marketing teams around the world to work more effectively, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and accelerate business growth.
You'll lead the strategy behind our MarTech portfolio—from roadmap planning and technology governance to vendor management, ROI evaluations, platform rationalization, AI innovation, and experimentation. Working across Marketing, Digital, IT, Procurement, Finance, RevOps, Sales, Security, and Legal, you'll help ensure our technology investments align with business priorities while creating a scalable foundation for the future.
You'll define the vision, strategy, and operating model for marketing data, building trusted, scalable data capabilities that improve decision-making, enable personalization and AI, strengthen measurement, and deliver greater business value.
As a strong people leader, you’ll lead, coach, and develop a global marketing technology and data team.
This is an opportunity for a leader and builder who enjoys solving complex business problems, influencing across organizations, and bringing structure, governance, and innovation to a growing enterprise marketing organization.
What you'll do here:
Develop the marketing technology strategy
- Define and own a marketing technology strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities and customer experience goals.
- Translate marketing and business needs into technology recommendations, investment priorities, and implementation plans.
- Partner with Marketing and cross-functional teams to define the future-state MarTech ecosystem and supporting architecture.
- Find opportunities to unlock new marketing capabilities, improve operational efficiency, and support business growth through technology.
Define marketing data strategy, governance & operations
- Establish the vision, governance, operating model, and roadmap for marketing data to improve quality, accessibility, compliance, and business value across the global marketing organization.
- Partner with Marketing, RevOps, Digital, IT, Analytics, Sales, and Data Engineering teams to align data requirements and use cases; define data platforms, standards, architecture, and integration strategies that enable personalized experiences, trusted reporting, AI, and advanced analytics.
- Lead data quality, stewardship, taxonomy, and master data management initiatives to ensure consistent account, customer, campaign, and performance data across the MarTech ecosystem.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to evolve marketing measurement by enabling scalable attribution, performance dashboards, experimentation, and actionable insights that support business growth and executive decision-making.
- Oversee marketing data operations, including data pipelines, integrations, privacy, governance, and operational processes that ensure reliable, secure, and compliant data management.
- Build a future-ready data foundation and team that accelerates maturity while reducing technical debt and operational complexity.
Build governance and operational excellence
- Establish governance processes for evaluating, selecting, implementing, and retiring marketing and data technologies.
- Create and maintain a comprehensive inventory of marketing applications, integrations, licenses, and business owners.
- Lead technology rationalization efforts to reduce redundancy, simplify the technology landscape, and increase platform adoption.
- Develop standards, policies, and operating procedures that improve consistency, scalability, and decision-making.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise governance processes including security, privacy, legal, procurement, architecture review, and software lifecycle management.
- Balance global standardization with regional business needs to support worldwide marketing teams.
Lead technology investment and vendor management
- Manage the intake, prioritization, evaluation, and recommendation process for new technology requests.
- Partner with Procurement and Finance to manage contracts, licensing, renewals, and annual spend forecasting.
- Build business cases and technical requirements that guide technology investment decisions.
- Establish vendor performance management through scorecards, business reviews, roadmap alignment, and strategic partnerships.
- Monitor platform utilization and recommend opportunities to optimize licenses, reduce costs, and improve adoption.
Drive innovation, AI, and experimentation
- Develop and implement the marketing AI roadmap in partnership with enterprise AI and technology teams.
- Identify, pilot, and scale AI-powered capabilities that improve marketer productivity, campaign performance, customer engagement, and operational efficiency.
- Champion experimentation by enabling testing frameworks, measurement approaches, and continuous optimization across digital marketing experiences.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovations that position Cengage for long-term success.
- Establish responsible governance for AI adoption, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives.
Partner across the business
- Build trusted partnerships with leaders across Marketing, Digital, IT, Procurement, Finance, Sales, Security, and Legal, and external vendors.
- Align cross-functional roadmaps, delivery timelines, and investment priorities across partner groups.
- Influence strategic technology decisions through data-driven recommendations and executive communication.
- Drive organizational adoption through enablement, change management, documentation, and standards.
Build and lead high-performing teams
- Lead, coach, and develop a global marketing technology and data team.
- Establish clear goals, development plans, and success metrics for team members.
- Recruit and retain top talent while building organizational capabilities for the future.
Skills required for this position:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in Marketing Technology, Marketing Operations, Data Operations, Digital Marketing, Business Systems, or related areas.
- Strong people leadership and coaching ability. Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams in complex enterprise environments.
- Experience leading enterprise MarTech and data strategy, governance, technology transformation, or digital capability programs.
- Strong understanding of modern marketing technology and data ecosystems, including CRM, marketing automation, web platforms, analytics, experimentation, digital asset management, customer data platforms, and AI-enabled marketing solutions.
- Deep expertise in marketing data strategy, governance, and operations, with a proven ability to build trusted, scalable data foundations that enable measurement, AI, personalization, and business growth.
- Experience developing technology roadmaps, governance frameworks, and portfolio management practices.
- Experience evaluating technology investments, managing vendors, and leading software selection processes.
- Strong business sense with the ability to translate business objectives into technology strategies and investment recommendations.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
Preferred:
- Experience developing AI strategies, piloting AI capabilities, or scaling AI adoption within marketing organizations.
- Experience implementing experimentation, optimization, or personalization programs.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and enterprise project governance.
- Experience supporting global marketing teams in B2B SaaS or EdTech organizations.
- Master's degree or equivalent combination of advanced education and relevant experience.
Join us at Cengage, where your expertise will build the future of learning and help millions of learners achieve their dreams!
Cengage is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals. Our job applicants are considered regardless of any classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.
Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at accommodations.ta@cengage.com.
About Cengage
Cengage, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Compensation
At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy.
The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.
In this position, you will be eligible to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program. This position's bonus target amount, which is not guaranteed and is dependent on individual performance and overall company results among other factors, is provided below.
- 25% Annual: Individual Target
- $138,200.00 - $221,100.00 USD
Director, Marketing Technology & Data Operations
We believe in the power and joy of learning
At Cengage, our employees have a direct impact in helping learners around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
About the role:
Cengage is looking for Director, Marketing Technology & Data Operations to be a strategic, collaborative, and forward-thinking leader to build and scale our global Marketing Technology and Data function and team. Reporting to the VP of Marketing Operations, this role will define the vision, governance, and operating model for our marketing technology and data ecosystem, enabling marketing teams around the world to work more effectively, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and accelerate business growth.
You'll lead the strategy behind our MarTech portfolio—from roadmap planning and technology governance to vendor management, ROI evaluations, platform rationalization, AI innovation, and experimentation. Working across Marketing, Digital, IT, Procurement, Finance, RevOps, Sales, Security, and Legal, you'll help ensure our technology investments align with business priorities while creating a scalable foundation for the future.
You'll define the vision, strategy, and operating model for marketing data, building trusted, scalable data capabilities that improve decision-making, enable personalization and AI, strengthen measurement, and deliver greater business value.
As a strong people leader, you’ll lead, coach, and develop a global marketing technology and data team.
This is an opportunity for a leader and builder who enjoys solving complex business problems, influencing across organizations, and bringing structure, governance, and innovation to a growing enterprise marketing organization.
What you'll do here:
Develop the marketing technology strategy
- Define and own a marketing technology strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities and customer experience goals.
- Translate marketing and business needs into technology recommendations, investment priorities, and implementation plans.
- Partner with Marketing and cross-functional teams to define the future-state MarTech ecosystem and supporting architecture.
- Find opportunities to unlock new marketing capabilities, improve operational efficiency, and support business growth through technology.
Define marketing data strategy, governance & operations
- Establish the vision, governance, operating model, and roadmap for marketing data to improve quality, accessibility, compliance, and business value across the global marketing organization.
- Partner with Marketing, RevOps, Digital, IT, Analytics, Sales, and Data Engineering teams to align data requirements and use cases; define data platforms, standards, architecture, and integration strategies that enable personalized experiences, trusted reporting, AI, and advanced analytics.
- Lead data quality, stewardship, taxonomy, and master data management initiatives to ensure consistent account, customer, campaign, and performance data across the MarTech ecosystem.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to evolve marketing measurement by enabling scalable attribution, performance dashboards, experimentation, and actionable insights that support business growth and executive decision-making.
- Oversee marketing data operations, including data pipelines, integrations, privacy, governance, and operational processes that ensure reliable, secure, and compliant data management.
- Build a future-ready data foundation and team that accelerates maturity while reducing technical debt and operational complexity.
Build governance and operational excellence
- Establish governance processes for evaluating, selecting, implementing, and retiring marketing and data technologies.
- Create and maintain a comprehensive inventory of marketing applications, integrations, licenses, and business owners.
- Lead technology rationalization efforts to reduce redundancy, simplify the technology landscape, and increase platform adoption.
- Develop standards, policies, and operating procedures that improve consistency, scalability, and decision-making.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise governance processes including security, privacy, legal, procurement, architecture review, and software lifecycle management.
- Balance global standardization with regional business needs to support worldwide marketing teams.
Lead technology investment and vendor management
- Manage the intake, prioritization, evaluation, and recommendation process for new technology requests.
- Partner with Procurement and Finance to manage contracts, licensing, renewals, and annual spend forecasting.
- Build business cases and technical requirements that guide technology investment decisions.
- Establish vendor performance management through scorecards, business reviews, roadmap alignment, and strategic partnerships.
- Monitor platform utilization and recommend opportunities to optimize licenses, reduce costs, and improve adoption.
Drive innovation, AI, and experimentation
- Develop and implement the marketing AI roadmap in partnership with enterprise AI and technology teams.
- Identify, pilot, and scale AI-powered capabilities that improve marketer productivity, campaign performance, customer engagement, and operational efficiency.
- Champion experimentation by enabling testing frameworks, measurement approaches, and continuous optimization across digital marketing experiences.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovations that position Cengage for long-term success.
- Establish responsible governance for AI adoption, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives.
Partner across the business
- Build trusted partnerships with leaders across Marketing, Digital, IT, Procurement, Finance, Sales, Security, and Legal, and external vendors.
- Align cross-functional roadmaps, delivery timelines, and investment priorities across partner groups.
- Influence strategic technology decisions through data-driven recommendations and executive communication.
- Drive organizational adoption through enablement, change management, documentation, and standards.
Build and lead high-performing teams
- Lead, coach, and develop a global marketing technology and data team.
- Establish clear goals, development plans, and success metrics for team members.
- Recruit and retain top talent while building organizational capabilities for the future.
Skills required for this position:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in Marketing Technology, Marketing Operations, Data Operations, Digital Marketing, Business Systems, or related areas.
- Strong people leadership and coaching ability. Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams in complex enterprise environments.
- Experience leading enterprise MarTech and data strategy, governance, technology transformation, or digital capability programs.
- Strong understanding of modern marketing technology and data ecosystems, including CRM, marketing automation, web platforms, analytics, experimentation, digital asset management, customer data platforms, and AI-enabled marketing solutions.
- Deep expertise in marketing data strategy, governance, and operations, with a proven ability to build trusted, scalable data foundations that enable measurement, AI, personalization, and business growth.
- Experience developing technology roadmaps, governance frameworks, and portfolio management practices.
- Experience evaluating technology investments, managing vendors, and leading software selection processes.
- Strong business sense with the ability to translate business objectives into technology strategies and investment recommendations.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
Preferred:
- Experience developing AI strategies, piloting AI capabilities, or scaling AI adoption within marketing organizations.
- Experience implementing experimentation, optimization, or personalization programs.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and enterprise project governance.
- Experience supporting global marketing teams in B2B SaaS or EdTech organizations.
- Master's degree or equivalent combination of advanced education and relevant experience.
Join us at Cengage, where your expertise will build the future of learning and help millions of learners achieve their dreams!
Cengage is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals. Our job applicants are considered regardless of any classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.
Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at accommodations.ta@cengage.com.
About Cengage
Cengage, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Compensation
At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy.
The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.
In this position, you will be eligible to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program. This position's bonus target amount, which is not guaranteed and is dependent on individual performance and overall company results among other factors, is provided below.
- 25% Annual: Individual Target
- $138,200.00 - $221,100.00 USD
H-1B News & Publishing Job Roles in Ohio
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Search News & Publishing Jobs in OhioNews & Publishing H-1B Sponsorship Jobs in Ohio: Frequently Asked Questions
Which news and publishing companies in Ohio sponsor H-1B visas?
Ohio's largest H-1B visa sponsors in news and publishing include Gannett-affiliated titles, Advance Local's Cleveland.com, and Cincinnati Enquirer parent Gannett. Public broadcasting organizations such as ideastream Public Media and WOSU Public Media at Ohio State University have also filed Labor Condition Applications for specialized roles. Sponsorship is most common for roles in software engineering, data analytics, digital audience development, and newsroom technology rather than general reporting.
Which Ohio cities have the most news and publishing H-1B sponsorship jobs?
Columbus leads Ohio for news and publishing H-1B activity, driven by its concentration of digital media operations, university-affiliated public media, and technology-focused editorial teams. Cleveland follows closely, anchored by Advance Local's regional digital hub and public media organizations. Cincinnati's legacy newspaper infrastructure and growing digital operations make it the third-largest market for sponsored roles in the state.
What types of news and publishing roles typically qualify for H-1B sponsorship in Ohio?
H-1B sponsorship in Ohio's news and publishing sector is concentrated in positions that require at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related specialty field. Qualifying roles commonly include software engineers building editorial platforms, data journalists and analysts, UX designers for digital news products, audience analytics specialists, and advertising technology engineers. General staff reporter or copy editor positions rarely meet the specialty occupation threshold required by USCIS for H-1B classification.
How do I find news and publishing H-1B sponsorship jobs in Ohio?
Migrate Mate aggregates news and publishing positions in Ohio that come from employers with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application filing history, so you can filter specifically for companies that have sponsored roles in this industry and state. You can also cross-reference employer names against OFLC Wage Search to review past LCA certifications by occupation and location, which helps confirm whether a specific Ohio media company has actively sponsored H-1B workers in relevant roles.
Are there Ohio-specific considerations for H-1B sponsorship in the news and publishing industry?
Ohio's news and publishing market is heavily regionalized, meaning most H-1B sponsorship activity comes from a small number of large media groups with centralized HR and legal resources capable of managing the petition process. Smaller independent outlets and community news organizations rarely have the infrastructure to sponsor H-1B petitions. Candidates targeting Ohio should focus on employers with established corporate structures and a documented history of LCA filings, which indicates familiarity with the sponsorship process.
What is the prevailing wage for H-1B news & publishing jobs in Ohio?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.