Tenure - Track Assistant Professor in Marketing

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Atlanta, GA

About the Marketing Area

The Marketing Area consists of eight tenure-track faculty members. In addition to Ajay Kohli, former Editor of the Journal of Marketing, the faculty includes current and former Associate Editors at the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, and Journal of Consumer Psychology. Faculty members have diverse backgrounds and pursue a variety of research interests, with a particular focus on the intersection of marketing and technology. They publish in the premiere outlets of marketing and adjacent fields, and their research has received numerous scholarly awards. For additional information about our faculty, please visit: https://www.scheller.gatech.edu

A successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit: https://usg.policystat.com/policy/19298143/latest

The Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia seeks applications to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Marketing area.

The primary duties will be to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, conduct impactful research, and provide service to the College, the Institute, and the profession.

The minimum requirements are a Ph.D. in Marketing or related areas (candidates must have their Ph.D. completed no later than their start date).

Student Success Criteria

The ability to teach and mentor a diverse student body

The ability to design and teach curricula that are responsive to a diverse student body

The ability to adopt teaching strategies that support the learning and success of all students

The ability to engage students in experiential learning activities and pedagogy that support success

Applications must include:

Resume and/or CV, including education, research interests/publications, work experience, and other relevant information

Cover letter

Research Statement

Teaching Statement

Three letters of recommendation emailed to recruit-marketing@scheller.gatech.edu.

Application materials should be submitted as .PDF files. Applications should be sent no later than September 30, 2026 for full consideration. Initial screening of applications will begin immediately.

A background check must be completed prior to beginning employment. Requests for information may be directed to recruit-marketing@scheller.gatech.edu. Correspondence should be addressed to the Area Chair, Samuel Bond.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.