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Tenure-Track Advertising Faculty Position in Strategic Communication Media & Data Analytics

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, US
Full-time

Description

The Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty member in Advertising at the rank of assistant professor to begin in Fall 2025.

The School of Advertising & Public Relations is housed within the , which is ranked #2 in Communication and Media Studies in the United States and #4 in the QS World University Rankings.

Moody College includes programs in Communication Studies, Journalism and Media, Radio-Television-Film, and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.

The candidate should be focused on the areas of media, data analytics, AI, and / or computational methods. The ideal candidate will be able to teach across various media management courses including Media Planning, Digital Metrics, Advertising Intelligence, Media Management, and Advanced Research Methods.

Experience in the advertising or media industries is preferred but not required.

The candidate should have a research program that displays excellence in applying advertising, strategic communication, and communication theories in the study of media and analytics.

Research topics of interest for this position include interdisciplinary research areas such as human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, machine learning, B2B brand and demand analytics, social media listening, and related developments.

In addition to teaching large undergraduate lecture classes and web-based courses, the candidate should be able to teach and advise graduate students at both the Masters and Doctoral levels.

Faculty have access to pre-and post-award external funding support and this faculty is expected to join the Nelson Center for Brand and Demand Analytics as a faculty affiliate.

The Center offers undergraduate and graduate certifications in brand and demand analytics to all advertising and public relations students, and the Center works alongside industry partners to develop student skills as well as job placement.

The Center functions as a centralized home for student and faculty research.

Additionally, UT Austin offers faculty opportunities to be involved in interdisciplinary Grand Challenges such as Planet 2050, Good Systems (AI for Good), and Whole Communities, Whole Health.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. at the time of the appointment. The applicant's Ph.D. must be in advertising / communication or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Professional experience working in advertising, such as within agency, corporate / in-house, or media agency settings or consulting with strategic communication functions / agencies.
  • Experience collaborating across disciplines, especially in areas where communication intersects with other fields like business, psychology, sociology, or technology.
  • Actively engage in research and scholarly activities that contribute to the academic excellence of the department.
  • Ability to work closely with the professional community to provide students both theoretical and practical exposure to advertising or strategic communication.
  • 30+ days ago
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