U.S. News & World Report is a multifaceted digital media company dedicated to empowering every consumer, institution and government with data-driven insights and advice on relevant issues impacting the communities where they live, work and serve. We publish independent reporting, rankings, data journalism and advice that has earned the trust of our readers and users for 90 years. Our platforms on usnews.com include Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News and 360 Reviews.
We reach more than millions of people monthly during moments when they are most in need of expert advice and motivated to act on that advice directly on our platforms. Our signature franchises include our "Best" series of consumer guides on colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, diets, cars, financial services and more. These guides provide an easy-to-digest list for consumers to better understand and compare when making their decisions. We continue to publish annual guides of the authoritative Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings on our website and in print. And our U.S. News Live flagship conferences highlight important national conversations including Healthcare of Tomorrow and Healthiest Communities.
We believe in having a broad range of talent and backgrounds at U.S. News. We strive to maintain a welcoming workplace where everyone is given an opportunity to succeed and contribute to their fullest. Learn more about our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative.
Your role in helping us shape the future:
U.S. News empowers everyone to thrive. In this position you will have the opportunity to leverage your strengths and skills to excel at building a collaborative culture that fosters success and drives growth. You excel at both driving marketing strategy and executing at the tactical level. You will expect excellence and professionalism from your team in performance of their functions with the highest levels of integrity.
Are you up to the challenge?
Establish a marketing structure within U.S. News Education to lead demand generation. The marketing strategies would include:
Develop, execute, and measure the performance of best-in-class marketing campaigns including email nurture programs.
Identify opportunities for thought leadership through:
* Newsletters
* Webinars
* Social media
* Blogs
* Develop display advertising for U.S. News education solutions.
* Sponsorship opportunities for U.S. News education solutions.
* Lead our events/conference strategy and work closely with sales teams to plan and execute on pre-conference and post-conference marketing.
* Work closely with our PR, Social, and Product teams to maximize awareness of our marquee rankings launches.
Collaborate closely with Sales leadership to establish:
* Lead routing framework that includes establishing the definition of a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL).
* Create a lead scoring matrix.
* Automate the MQL alert and routing process in Zoho.
* Create marketing documentation.
* Train all members of the B2B Sales teams on processes.
Build an ROI framework for measuring impact of our marketing strategy:
* Develop a marketing attribution model in Zoho to track Marketing's impact by channel on pipeline and closed won business.
* Ensure Marketing provides ROI metrics on all campaigns and ties new business bookings back to marketing sourced opportunities.
* Establish quarterly goals and KPIs to measure marketing performance throughout the funnel.
* Report out on KPIs on a weekly basis to U.S. News education leadership to inform marketing resources.
Lead a cross-org marketing team and help establish best practices across U.S. News Education and subsidiaries/affiliates (CollegeAdvisor, TeenLife, etc.):
* Manage a team of 3 full-time direct reports who are marketing managers/coordinators of different business units.
* Help assign work and oversee a set of ~5 marketing independent contractors across social media, graphic design, and copy marketing.
* Work closely with GM and VPs of Sales to identify and execute on collaborative marketing campaigns that strengthen business synergies between U.S. News Education and its subsidiaries.
$57k-83k yearly est. 60d+ ago
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2026 News Intern
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Us News job in Washington, DC
U.S. News & World Report is a multifaceted digital media company dedicated to helping citizens, consumers, business leaders and policy officials make important decisions in their lives. We publish independent reporting, rankings, data journalism and advice that has earned the trust of our readers and users for 90 years. Our platforms on usnews.com include Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News and 360 Reviews.
We reach more than millions of people monthly during moments when they are most in need of expert advice and motivated to act on that advice directly on our platforms. Our signature franchises include our 'Best' series of consumer guides on colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, diets, cars, financial services and more. These guides provide an easy-to-digest list for consumers to better understand and compare when making their decisions. We continue to publish annual guides of the authoritative Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings on our website and in print. We believe in having a broad range of talent and backgrounds at U.S. News. We strive to maintain a welcoming workplace where everyone is given an opportunity to succeed and contribute to their fullest. Learn more about our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative.
Your role in helping us shape the future:
This is a great opportunity for an early-career journalist who wants a range of experiences at a national digital news outlet. You will learn: about our unique and highly respected brand of journalism; the tools and strategies that power a major media brand on the cutting edge of the information age; effective headline writing that maximizes SEO; and how to produce and illustrate articles in our content management system.
We're looking for someone to write items for newsletters and to report out rankings-related stories for our Best Countries and Best States sections. We also want someone who has strong social media skills, including making video content for TikTok and visually compelling posts for Instagram. Experience with data visualization and graphic design is a huge plus.
Are you up to the challenge?
* Write articles for certain "Best" sections. Conceive of and execute newsletter items.
* Perform fact checking and copy editing.
* Assist with launches, such as the Best Countries launch or the Best States launch, if they occur during your tenure.
* Research topics, interviewees, dates and other elements of newsletter content.
* Assist with article production through our content management system (CMS).
* Work closely with our data team to strengthen stories and potentially create data visualizations to enhance that work.
* Create and post videos and other content for social media posts.
* Actively and enthusiastically participate in trainings and team activities.
* Assist with research or administrative tasks as needed.
$33k-43k yearly est. 35d ago
2026 Editorial Intern
Us News 2.9
Us News job in Washington, DC
U.S. News & World Report is a multifaceted digital media company dedicated to helping citizens, consumers, business leaders and policy officials make important decisions in their lives. We publish independent reporting, rankings, data journalism and advice that has earned the trust of our readers and users for 90 years. Our platforms on usnews.com include Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News and 360 Reviews.
We reach more than millions of people monthly during moments when they are most in need of expert advice and motivated to act on that advice directly on our platforms. Our signature franchises include our 'Best' series of consumer guides on colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, diets, cars, financial services and more. These guides provide an easy-to-digest list for consumers to better understand and compare when making their decisions. We continue to publish annual guides of the authoritative Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings on our website and in print. We believe in having a broad range of talent and backgrounds at U.S. News. We strive to maintain a welcoming workplace where everyone is given an opportunity to succeed and contribute to their fullest. Learn more about our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative.
Your role in helping us shape the future:
We are looking for a motivated journalism student who's interested in learning about consumer advice editing. You will learn about our unique and highly respected brand of advice journalism; the tools and strategies that power a major media brand on the cutting edge of the information age; how to edit content for clarity, style and flow; SEO best practices; and how to produce and illustrate articles in our content management system.
The role will be primarily to assist with developing story ideas, updating existing stories, outreach to experts, editing articles, creating video and graphics for social media, and fact-checking. For the right intern, bylined writing opportunities are also possible.
Are you up to the challenge?
* Help research and write advice-oriented content and articles.
* Perform fact checking.
* Identify and catalog articles that need to be updated.
* Update, edit and optimize older stories.
* Create videos and other multimedia products for social media.
* Actively and enthusiastically participate in trainings and team activities.
* Assist with research or administrative tasks as needed.
$38k-49k yearly est. 41d ago
Director / Vice President, Sales
Us News 2.9
Us News job in Washington, DC
U.S. News & World Report is a multifaceted digital media company dedicated to empowering every consumer, institution and government with data-driven insights and advice on relevant issues impacting the communities where they live, work and serve. We publish independent reporting, rankings, data journalism and advice that has earned the trust of our readers and users for 90 years. Our platforms on usnews.com include Education, Health, Money, Travel, Cars, News and 360 Reviews.
We reach more than millions people monthly during moments when they are most in need of expert advice and motivated to act on that advice directly on our platforms. Our signature franchises include our "Best" series of consumer guides on colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, diets, cars, financial services and more. These guides provide an easy-to-digest list for consumers to better understand and compare when making their decisions. We continue to publish annual guides of the authoritative Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings on our website and in print. And our U.S. News Live flagship conferences highlight important national conversations including Healthcare of Tomorrow and Healthiest Communities.
In 2014, U.S. News released Hospital Data Insights (HDI) aperformance assessment and peer benchmarking solution that enables Chief Quality Officers and care delivery teams at health systems to benchmark their hospital's performance and improve clinical quality through a much deeper analysis of the data underpinning the Best Hospitals rankings and ratings. HDI allows health systems to analyze the metrics within each year's methodology for quality improvement, strategic planning, and competitive analysis.
We believe in having a broad range of talent and backgrounds at U.S. News. We strive to maintain a welcoming workplace where everyone is given an opportunity to succeed and contribute to their fullest. Learn more about our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative.
Your role in helping us shape the future:
U.S. News empowers everyone to thrive. In this position you will have the opportunity to leverage your strengths and skills to develop and implement a data-driven commercial strategy that will enable the HDI team to meet and exceed sales and revenue goals. You will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive sales and go-to-market strategy where you'll understand customer needs and create and implement commercial plans to achieve it. Partnering closely with cross-functional partners to inform and elevate HDI's brand and product in key markets.
The ideal candidate will excel at building a collaborative sales culture that fosters success and drives growth. You will expect excellence and professionalism from your team in performance of their functions with the highest levels of integrity.
Are you up to the challenge?
Strategic Leadership:
* Develop and implement a national sales strategy that is aligned with the company's overall business objectives.
* Set ambitious sales targets and ensure their achievement through effective planning and execution.
* Leads the Go-To-Market strategy and helps drive the tactical marketing plans.
* Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and industry developments to identify opportunities and threats.
* Stay updated on industry trends, market conditions, and competitive landscape to inform sales strategies.
Team Management:
* Lead, mentor, and inspire a distributed team of sales professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and high performance.
* Establish clear goals and performance metrics for the sales team, regularly reviewing and providing feedback to ensure continuous improvement.
* Promote a culture of accountability, integrity, and excellence within the sales organization.
Sales Operations:
* Partner with relevant stakeholders to ensure the optimization of sales processes, tools, and technologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
* Collaborate with operations and cross-functional teams, including marketing, product, and technology, to ensure alignment and drive customer satisfaction.
* Monitor sales, pipeline, and revenue targets leveraging the CRM solution.
Customer Focus:
* Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers, partners, and stakeholders.
* Ensure the sales team delivers exceptional customer experiences, addressing client needs and concerns promptly and effectively.
* Leverage customer feedback to refine sales strategies and improve product offerings.