Job Description

Position Summary:
VirTra is seeking a Marketing & Media Specialist to lead and execute B2B marketing initiatives, enhance brand awareness, and drive engagement across digital platforms. This role is responsible for content creation, public relations, media outreach, and website management, ensuring alignment with VirTra’s overall marketing strategy.

The ideal candidate is a creative and strategic marketer who understands both digital and traditional media, is proficient in content creation, and has experience in B2B marketing, particularly in the technology, law enforcement, or defense sectors.

Essential Functions:

• Create and schedule social media posts across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn
• Manage social media advertising campaigns and analyze performance metrics
• Increase brand awareness, interaction, and engagement
• Manage and report performance on paid media campaigns: Google Ads, LinkedIn, and other digital platforms
• Implement SEO, SEM, and website optimization
• Develop and execute marketing communication projects including videos, brochures, website content, advertising, PR, email marketing, social media, trade shows, and other promotional programs 
• Maintain and update marketing collateral
• Wrote and storyboarded scripts for product demonstrations, corporate branding , and promotional material
• Manage and update VirTra’s website
• Manage marketing automation tools (HubSpot, Salesforce, GA4) to track, nurture, and analyze leads
• Perform market research and provide recommendations to optimize marketing efforts
• Develop and distribute press releases to promote VirTra’s latest news, product launches, or industry insights
• Coordinate client and news reporter interactions
• Contact media (if needed) regarding customer stories
• Develop pre-event and post-event marketing plan
• Manage and log time worked daily by project code
• Provide miscellaneous support to other departments as needed
• Performs other duties as assigned or needed

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Communications, Business, or another technical field
• 3 years’ experience in marketing, communications, and/or a related field
• Must excel at written and verbal communication with the ability to take technical details and convey them in a meaningful way to a varied audience
• Demonstrated creativity in developing written and visual content to build customer awareness
• Must be proactive in coordinating with internal resources to see assigned tasks / projects through to completion
• Flexible and organized; able to handle multiple priorities under changing requirements
• Intermediate Proficiency with basic graphic design using Adobe InDesign or another Creative Suite application
• Advanced Proficiency in all Microsoft Office, including Teams
• Knowledge of video production with regard to storytelling with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) (Salesforce.com preferred) and Marketing Automation (HubSpot preferred) Software tools

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Frequently, the employee will be required to stand, walk, use hands or fingers, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. 
• Ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies up to 25 lbs. and to sit and work at a computer for upwards of 4 hours at a time.

 
Additional Requirements, if any:

• Full-time position consisting of 40+ hours per week; normal hours of operation are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. This position may require additional hours and/or weekend work due to special projects or deadlines.
• Pre-employment drug test and background check required.

 

Why Join VirTra?

VirTra is a leader in law enforcement and military training simulation technology, providing cutting-edge solutions to prepare professionals for real-world challenges. Our team is passionate about safety, training, and innovation, and we’re looking for a Marketing & Media Specialist to help share our mission with the world.

VirTra is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

 

About VirTra, Inc.:

VirTra creates intense, immersive training solutions that keep law enforcement officers safe, prepared and armed with excelled skills. We are a meticulous in assuring every aspect of each scenario is the highest quality for maximum realism and learning. This attention to detail is found in every true-to-life scenario, curriculum, recoil kit and electronic device train your team to the highest level of preparedness.

Job Tags

Full time, Local area, Flexible hours, Weekend work, Monday to Friday,

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