Location: Elon Campus
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.
To Apply: To apply, visit: https://jobs.elon.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-of-marketing-elon-campus-north-carolina-united-states.
About Elon University
Elon University is a private university located in Elon, North Carolina. Elon has built a national reputation as the premier student-centered environment for experiential learning, with an emphasis on strong personal relationships between students and their faculty and staff mentors. Elon is ranked among the top 100 National Universities by U.S. News & World Report, with a #1 ranking for excellence in undergraduate teaching and #6 for innovation.
About 6,300 undergraduate and 800 graduate students come to Elon from 49 states and 50 other countries.
Elon's rigorous curriculum is grounded in the arts and sciences and complemented by nationally accredited professional and graduate programs. The 480 full-time faculty members teach in more than 70 undergraduate majors, along with numerous graduate programs in business, education, communications, health sciences and law.
The university includes 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 Health Sciences; and Elon University School of Law, which is located on a campus in downtown Greensboro, N.C.
Global engagement is central to Elon's student experience and the university is consistently ranked among the top programs in the nation for study abroad. In addition, 81 percent of students participate in service-learning, 87 percent of students complete internships, 59 percent of students hold at least one campus leadership position and 23 percent of students work with faculty mentors on undergraduate research projects.
Elon is a member of the Colonial Athletics Association and the Phoenix athletics program includes 17 intercollegiate men's and women's sports in NCAA Division I (FCS football). Elon also offers extensive opportunities in club sports and intramurals.
Elon's historic 690-acre campus in central North Carolina is designated as a botanical garden and includes the 56-acre Elon University Forest, a land preserve and natural area for scientific research; and Loy Farm, a center for environmental research and sustainability that includes a solar farm.