Marketing Manager

Responsibilities

• Own the awards program calendar from category planning through the ceremony: book the venue, manage the run of show, and wrangle sponsors and winners
• Represent FLX Local Media at chamber mixers, festivals, and grand openings across the region
• Build and hold the schedule for two properties on overlapping calendars, each with printing deadlines, ballot windows, and sponsor commitments
• Write and edit the magazine copy and the publication's features, and commission photography
• Keep the community events calendar accurate and current
• Own the social accounts for both properties and set the tone
• Work with our Director of Sales to shape sponsorship tiers and content partnerships, and make sure what we sell is something we can deliver
• Use AI tools to move faster on drafting, research, editing, and first passes

Qualifications

• You get energy from people. This job puts you in front of business owners, winery managers, chamber directors, event committees, photographers, and sponsors most weeks
• You are organized in a way other people can see, and can keep a dozen people on schedule without nagging them
• You can write real sentences about real places, not marketing copy that says nothing
• You are comfortable owning something. Nobody is going to hand you a weekly task list
• You already use AI tools in your work and can show us how
• A driver's license and a vehicle you are willing to put miles on
• Helpful but not required: experience in events, publishing, tourism, hospitality, or local media; photography or design skills; WordPress; and knowing the Finger Lakes and the people in it