7 Online Marketing Jobs for Graduates

As a new graduate, if you’re looking for a job in online marketing, there are a variety of careers you could choose. Whether you’re looking towards business and management or if your career goals are aimed more at the creative field, opportunities abound.

Whatever your focus is in marketing, there is something for you online.

Here are some of the best online marketing jobs that are available for graduates:

1. Content manager and strategist. This is a central role in many digital marketing agencies that touches on many different aspects of marketing. As a content manager, you’ll need to be able to create and/or edit SEO friendly content, manage a team of writers, and provide content for a diverse range of clients.
   • This role also requires you to build relationships and be creative, organized, and self-motivated.
   • The best in this field and love to write, love to do the research, and love the variety that goes with the job.
     • If this is you, contact us. We are always looking for passionate people who love what they do and are good at their jobs!
2. Virtual reality developer and editor. This is a fairly new field, and a growing one. If you are looking for a career that combines technology and creativity, and are interested in graphics and special effects, then virtual reality may be for you.
3. Search engine optimization / search engine marketing (SEO/SEM) specialist. This is an important role in online marketing, as it is your job to rank a client’s website as high as possible in the search engines by using a variety of techniques.
   • As search engine algorithms are always fluctuating, an SEO/SEM specialist will need to stay up to date with what is needed to ensure top rankings and a high return on the client’s investment.
   • This field attracts more analytical people. They will often work directly with the Content Manager and Strategist to help execute their plan.
4. UX designer. User Experience (UX) designers are responsible for the end-to-end development of websites and digital marketing applications. It is for this reason that they need a good technical background or alternatively have an excellent understanding of effective design.
   • UX designers need to understand a website in its entirety and be able to apply their marketing knowledge to its design. This means that they will need to understand the target audience as well as have an in-depth knowledge of the product or service being offered.
   • UX designers often work directly with the development team to insure their vision for the design of a website can be done in a cost effective manner.
   • The best UX designers know how to create an effective website design that appeals to the target market and how to drive conversions. High conversions make for an effective website.
     • If this is you, contact us. We are looking for passionate people who love what they do and are good at their jobs!
5. Email marketing specialist. An email marketing specialist will be good at copywriting, editing, and marketing as a whole. Email marketing is still one of the best ways to promote online, so if you can write persuasively, then you’ll be in demand in this industry.
   • Your job will be to take charge of email campaigns and to promote client offers, product launches, and PR activities to your client’s prospect and customer email lists.
   • The best email marketing specialists work with the client to better understand their product and target market to better craft emails that will appeal to them.
     • If this is you, contact us. We are looking for passionate people who love what they do and are good at their jobs!
6. Digital marketing expert. Your role as a digital marketing expert will mean that you’re well versed in strategic planning and execution of various online marketing techniques.  You will be responsible for online advertising (PPC) as well as creation of the ads. 
   • This person will often be either more on the creative site (ad creation) or on the analytics side (setting up of the ads, audience creation, ad optimization). It’s rare to find someone with both skills. Better to focus on what you are good at. 
     • If you are passionate and good at either the creative, or the analytical side, contact us. We are looking for passionate people who love what they do and are good at their jobs!
7. Analyst and AI specialist. This is an up and coming field that is unlikely to go away anytime soon. If you have a technical degree and a background in computer science, you may be able to score one of these positions where you can create systems to analyze data and machine learning.
   1. Being able to apply such data to a client’s online marketing strategy will be the icing on the cake!

If you are interested in any of the above jobs, but perhaps feel that you do not quite have the skills needed, then fear not: there are online courses (such as those offered here on Prebuilt Sites) that can help you achieve the additional skills you need.  

No matter which career path you choose, there is an opportunity for you to develop a career in online marketing that you can be proud of and can help you to earn a comfortable income.