Posted almost 4 years ago
**Description**
If you live somewhere in Europe and have a soft spot for bootstrapped, profitable tech startups with a meaningful mission and a global reach, and you would like to develop a small, super-capable marketing team in a fully remote work environment, you may like this extremely rare executive position at Drops.
**Company**
Drops’ goal is to revolutionise language learning. We are one of the top10 most innovative education companies according to FastCompany. Our flagship app has been in the Appstore for 3+ years, teaches 37 languages, was featured by both the App Store and Play Store multiple times - App of the Year in 2018 on the Play Store. We are a small, founder-led, remote team spread primarily across Europe. Though remote, we work synchronously, communicating via Slack, the G Suite, Github, and Monday. We want to be the no.1 app for vocabulary learning and we are getting there quickly with our current user base of 20* million, a monthly active of >1,500,000 and an average store rating of 4.7.
Website: http://languagedrops.com
**✨ What makes us different**
* We’re a small team. We optimise for impact, not headcount.
* We carefully consider tradeoffs in product, technology and processes that could lead to increased complexity.
* We use React Native on the frontend, hence we have no separate Android, iOS and Web team.
* We don’t believe in hierarchy. Autonomy, ownership and passion are the secret ingredients behind Drops. Clear, honest communication is the linchpin of our culture, success and independence.
# Responsibilities
* You’ll be a key member of a 4-person executive team working together to develop the overarching company and product strategies
* You’ll directly influence these strategies via your acute awareness of the competitive landscape, the EdTech industry, and adjacent industries important to Drops platform: gaming, productivity sw, corporated ed and edu B2B
* Based on these strategies and the company / product history, you’ll evolve the company ’s overarching narrative and develop a marketing strategy to bring that narrative to life.
* You’ll surface and champion business / marketing opportunities through a deep understanding of our products and their usage patterns.
* You’ll lead, mentor, manage the marketing team. You’ll be responsible for their effectiveness, well-being and development, and ensure that the team’s efforts align with our business’s and our users’ needs.
* You’ll recruit and onboard top talent as needed (contractors, agencies, and employees)
* You’ll make sure that the marketing aspects of the projects are getting done on schedule, that we’re making appropriate trade-offs.
* You’ll be in charge of developing our marketing culture and ensuring that it is effectively represented and integrated into broader company culture.
* Drops is an extremely collaborative company without the product / marketing divide that exists in many companies.You’ll be responsible for ensuring this collaboration continues between the marketing team and the rest of the company.
# Requirements
**Skills and experience. You have:**
Been a marketing leader in a global EdTech, productivity, or gaming B2C startup
Experience marketing both mobile apps and sw platforms
Hands-on core marketing skills: digital mkt, marcom, product mkt, brand development / storytelling, PR
Great people management skills
Great project management skills
Great negotiation and agency management skills
Hyper-growth start-up experience
Haven't spent your entire career in marketing (or if you have, you have earned a reputation as a bridge builder, working effectively across key functional orgs)
Worked effectively in a fully remote position and have managed fully remote employees
Accomplished big things with a small team
**Additionally skills a plus:**
B2B marketing
BD / partnership experience
Specific industry experience relevant to Drops
Kids B2C tech marketing experience
EDU industry experience
**Benefits**
* 🌍 All the perks of remote working
* 👥 An awesomely compact 22 person team
* 🧠 Yearly educational allowance
* 💪 Fitness allowance
* 💻 High-end Apple hardware and ergonomic accessories
* 🏖 30 days of holiday per year (including Christmas and other holidays)
* ✈️ Quarterly team gathering somewhere in the world (Amsterdam, Iceland, Lisbon and Budapest were previous locations)
#Location
- 🇪🇺EU-only