Elon University

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Assistant Professor of Marketing

  • Elon Campus, North Carolina, 27244
  • Academic Affairs
  • Faculty Full-Time

The Department of Marketing invites applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor of Marketing position starting in the Fall of 2027. We seek candidates who are effective teachers, scholars, and mentors to teach undergraduate and graduate courses across the marketing discipline. Typical teaching loads for junior faculty are five courses per year with class sizes ranging from about 20 to 33 students and two to three preparations per year. Successful candidates will embody the following characteristics:

  • Is passionate about teaching marketing courses to undergraduate and graduate students, and has a proven record in teaching excellence;
  • Has a vibrant research stream that is interesting to both academics and practitioners, and a proven ability to publish peer-reviewed academic journal articles (articles for practitioner audience, peer-reviewed books, teaching cases, and other teaching materials are also valued);
  • Has an earned doctorate from an AACSB-accredited university. ABD will be considered with assurances of completion before the position start date; and
  • Will be an engaging and helpful colleague who is committed to the success of Elon University.

 About the School: The AACSB-accredited Martha and Spencer Love School of Business has emerged from a time of dramatic growth to become a leader in business education. Our faculty are both dynamic teachers who promote engaged learning and leading scholars who publish their work in top journals. To support our teacher-scholar-mentor mission, we provide extensive teaching and research development programs, including pre-tenure sabbatical, summer and academic year grants to support research or teaching innovations, course releases, funds for conference travel, and extensive teaching support (e.g., workshops, consultants, focus groups, communities of practice). The LSB is housed in the Koury Business Center and Sankey Hall, which feature state-of-the-art classrooms, multiple student engagement areas, the LaRose Digital Theatre, the Chandler Family Professional Sales Center, the Reed Finance Center, the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Organizational Analytics, the Center for Financial Literacy, and the Porter Family Professional Development Center. In 2026, Poets and Quants ranked the school’s undergraduate program #33 in the nation.

About the University: Elon University is a nationally recognized leader in engaged, experiential learning that prepares graduates to be creative, resilient, ambitious and ethical citizens of our global culture.

At Elon, more than 7,000 students learn through hands-on experiences and close working relationships with faculty and staff whose priorities are teaching and mentoring. The curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts and sciences with emphasis on global experiences and career development. More than 80 undergraduate majors are complemented by professional and graduate programs in law, business, education and healthcare.

Elon is ranked among the best national universities by U.S. News & World Report, with a No. 1 ranking for excellence in undergraduate teaching for five consecutive years. In addition, Elon is the only university recognized in the Top 10 of all eight categories of programs that enhance the student experience, including internships, learning communities and first-year experiences.

Elon’s academic divisions include Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences; the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business; the School of Communications; the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education; the School of Engineering and Computing; the School of Health Sciences; and the School of Law, with programs in Greensboro and Charlotte, North Carolina.

To Apply: Please submit a letter of interest; curriculum vitae; research statement overviewing your achievements and research pipeline; teaching statement including examples of how you engage students; summary of teaching evaluations; and a list of three references at https://jobs.elon.edu. Review of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. A clear background check is a prerequisite for this position.

Candidates who have experience working with a diverse range of people are encouraged to identify their experiences in contributing to a climate of inclusivity in their cover letters. Elon is a dynamic private, co-educational, comprehensive institution that is a national model for actively engaging faculty and students in teaching and learning in a liberal art based residential campus. To learn more about Elon, please visit the University website at www.elon.edu.

Elon values and celebrates the diverse backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and perspectives of our community members. As an equal opportunity employer, decisions related to hiring, compensating, training, evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees. We examine our unconscious biases and take responsibility for always striving to create an inclusive environment that makes every candidate feel welcome. At Elon we strive to follow our mission, where our employees are empowered to respect human differences, have a passion for lifelong learning, an emphasis on personal integrity and an ethic of service.

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