Director of Marketing
Description
At Podia, weâre building the best creator platform on the planet. Our goal is to make the most creator-friendly platform to help people build their websites, run their communities, and sell their online courses and digital products.
Podia is a fully remote company, has helped creators earn hundreds of millions since 2014, and is adding thousands of new creators every week.
Because of the number of people we reach, we run an integrated approach to marketing that uses major announcements to build excitement, then channels that excitement to get eyes on things that contribute to the long-term success of our creators (like community, access to consultants, or content). We choose projects that directly tie to new business, churn, product activation, and other key components of our success.
And we want you to help.
Your job as Podiaâs director of marketing will be to drive the core growth engine of the business.
This is not your typical marketing role. You wonât be trying to prove 5% improvements across 8 different channels. You wonât be pumping more and more money into ads to hit a monthly target. You wonât be churning out SEO content or gated ebooks. Instead, youâll be hunting for Podiaâs biggest growth opportunities, regardless of what channel they can be found in.
The right person for this role is a generalist and an ongoing student of marketing. You may have come up through content, product marketing, or growth, but your focus is on finding the bottlenecks of growth and tackling them with whatever tools you have at your disposal.
With that said, here are a few of the ongoing marketing practices you might get involved in:
Content. After shifting to a freemium model, Podiaâs content focus has changed. With free accounts the key driver of top-of-funnel leads, thereâs less pressure on content to generate leads and more opportunity to drive revenue with a targeted approach to content.
Lifecycle/In-app. Podia has some lifecycle in place for free/paid users, inactive users, and people who take actions in the app â but thereâs substantial opportunity to get more sophisticated.
Community. Podiaâs Creator Community has several thousand members and is more active than most SaaS communities. But the nature of the creator market means thereâs still a ton of opportunity to grow.
Affiliates/Partnerships. The affiliate program relaunched last year and has grown quickly. Partnerships with other creator companies have recently begun and are showing promise.
Campaigns/Programs. Podia runs programs that are just cool. Our philosophy (more on this below) is to use big moments to get the attention that leads to long-term systemic improvements â and that means youâll have a ton of freedom to come up with creative campaigns that lead to more impact than the sum of their parts.
Itâs a big role and youâll wear a lot of hats, but itâs also a role with basically unlimited opportunity to affect the growth trajectory of an already growing company. Youâll start with a small team, and work with the VP of marketing, the marketing team, and the rest of the company to make things that matter to creators.
If youâre still interested, letâs dive in.
Why this is a dream marketing opportunity
Podia has been growing organically for the last six years, and in June 2022 switched from a free trial to a freemium business model.
Since June, weâve added tens of thousands of creators and continued to invest in freemium. Weâre growing, but there are opportunities to grow faster and better, and you could be part of making it possible for anyone to become an online creator.
From a marketing perspective, Podia has grown through a few key channels:
Content. Content marketing was the first major investment Podia made, and thereâs a strong base of traffic to Podiaâs site as well as a YouTube channel with over 25,000 subscribers.
Affiliates. Podia affiliates drive people to Podiaâs free plan, and a recently revamped affiliate program has been scaling quickly.
Word of mouth. Creators talk to each other a lot. A combination of feeding word of mouth (via our overall approach to marketing) and revamping our pricing/packaging to make Podia more accessible has led to rapid growth.
Recently, Podia has been investing in integrated campaigns that launch major programs. In 2023, Podia is awarding creator fellowships every month of the year â and application to those fellowships is part of how we drive our users to our other work (like the multi-thousand person creator community, a user-generated advice library, customer research surveys, or Podia-created courses about how to succeed as a creator).
Part of our marketing philosophy is that we use big moments to improve the performance of systems. Actually, here. Just take a look at all four principles of our marketing:
Build systems that target our core growth model and gather steam over time
Use big moments to improve the performance of systems
Go for high upside
Get attention without fighting for attention
All of this is to say â you will have major marketing moments to build excitement for your campaigns. Your teamâs work will be seen by hundreds of thousands of creators. Youâll have opportunities to work on unorthodox, outside-the-box campaigns, and creativity is strongly rewarded. Podia values quality, and youâll have the opportunity to do incredible work.
Itâs also to say â this isnât your typical marketing role. All the marketing we do is integrated (no silos). You wonât be creating a content mill that churns out SEO content. You wonât put together campaign assets and then just hand it off to another team (or let them sit unpromoted on a website). You wonât have channel-by-channel âstrategiesâ â it will be your job to work with the VP of marketing and determine your teamâs contribution to the businessâ overall growth strategy.
For the right person, this could be a dream job. Youâll have a ton of creative freedom and youâll work on things that are just straight up cool.
At the same time, the role isnât for everyone. Marketing at Podia isnât a service organization, and thereâs no paint-by-numbers. There are no traffic targets, SEO (outside of targeted opportunities) isnât the top priority, we arenât putting a bunch of money into ad spend, and youâll spend just as much time working on integrated marketing campaigns as you do on individual channels. This also isnât a purely managerial role â the person who succeeds in this position will blend management, coaching, and getting things done.
As a company, we value running towards the most important problems over solving the problem that happens to match the tool we have in our hands right now. We like to think all this is a bit unusual, and that also means you wonât be limited by some of the usual blockers:
If youâve ever been asked to do marketing for a product that isnât very good, or is in a ânice to haveâ market, you know how hard it is to watch customers slip away for yet another month of flat growth.
At Podia, our NPS is in the 99th percentile for internet companies. Our customers love us, weâve helped many of them become successful, and your hard work wonât go to waste.
The creator market isnât going anywhere. More and more people keep joining the creator economy, and Podia is there to tap into the demand. Creators need a platform to run their business, and thatâs what we give them â a must-have product in a high-growth market.
If youâve been stuck marketing a âboringâ (or worse) product, you know how hard it is to wake up and fake enthusiasm about what youâre selling.
Podia gets emails from creators every day. Every single day there's a creator using Podia to earn their first dollar online. Youâll never doubt that your work matters, because every day youâll see more creators sharing how much they love Podia.
We have customers all over the world â people who are starting side hustles or starting business or quitting jobs because of the income they make from Podia.
If youâve ever been frustrated by following the âplaybookâ or trying to hit âŚquestionable⌠KPIs, you know how it feels to have your creativity limited.
Weâre not interested in a cobbled-together playbook of âbest practicesâ or arbitrary goals. Everything we do at Podia starts with the creator and continues to the business â we want to do what works, and that means looking past playbooks to find the real levers for growth.
In this role, youâll work with the VP of Marketing to write a new playbook and run with it.
If youâve had to share results with other departments (or get sucked into enablement, or deal with fire drills when other teams donât hit their goals), you know what itâs like to do everything right and still feel like things went wrong.
Podia is 100% self-serve. There is no sales team. Marketing finds and converts the entire pipeline, and the recent switch to a freemium model means the pipeline is full and growing.
If youâre still excited after reading that, letâs get into the details.
Requirements
Weâre looking for someone with:
The drive to hunt down every opportunity to grow the business. Improving the messages in our lifecycle marketing? Capturing high-intent search traffic via new comparison pages? Revising our top help docs? Generating UGC through the community? Reviewing the messages in in-app onboarding? You can help across every channel, and the right person for this role is eager to roll up their sleeves and get to work on whatever area of the business is the biggest opportunity right now.
An eye for great messaging. Across every channel, the message matters. The right person for this role knows how to create a message that resonates, and they know how to incorporate that message into all the marketing a company does. The right person for this role is a really excellent writer.
The drive to keep learning. You are a student of marketing, and you seek out every opportunity to learn more about your craft.
A love for digging into what creators need. We do a lot of customer research (dozens of interviews, transcript analysis, surveys, etc.), and your job is to understand both what creators want to hear and what they need to hear, so that you can help them be more successful.
A creative mind for distribution. Email, social, SEOâŚthose are only starting points. Youâre always thinking about how to get more eyes on your work by tying it to larger campaigns, involving other companies/creators, making it more interesting, and generally finding new ways to be found.
Writing and coaching skills. This is a player-coach role that will involve both managing and execution.
At least 4 hours overlap with US Eastern Time
Years of experience isnât the most important criterion, but you probably have 8+ years of experience in a content, product marketing, or growth role and a few yearsâ experience as a people manager
We get hundreds of job applications for every open role. If youâd like some tips on how to stand out, read this thread by our COO, Len Markidan
Itâd be REALLY great if you also:
Have created and/or sold an online course, membership, coaching service, or download
Have worked with digital creators
These are nice-to-haves, but not requirements. Donât be discouraged if they donât apply to you. If youâre confident youâre otherwise perfect for this role, please apply!
Benefits
Hereâs what youâll get if you join Podia:
Competitive compensation. We want to hire the best people, and weâre ready to pay for them. We use a standardized salary scale set at the 90th percentile of US salaries for each roleâregardless of where you are in the world đ°
Ultimate flexibility. We try to have some overlap time every day, but outside of that, work whenever and wherever you work best đşď¸
Extreme autonomy. No micromanaging here. After onboarding, youâll be given high-level direction and then left to solve it the way you feel is best. đ
That said, the rest of the team is always ready to lend a handâor even an ear if you just need to bounce some ideas đĄ
Youâll be working with a diverse team from a range of countries and backgrounds. We work hard to make Podia an inclusive workplace for everyone đ
We have a rapidly growing base of passionate customers. Your work will be seen and appreciated by many people â¤ď¸
Great benefits including three weeks paid vacation (plus another week during the December holidays), sabbaticals every three years, professional development credit, paid family leave, a new laptop every three years, and more âşď¸
401(k) match, covers 100% of health insurance premiums and 80% for dependents (US-based employees) đ
(Paid for) annual retreats to spend time with the team and have fun together âď¸
Sound like you? Want to be part of a smart, nimble, motivated team working hard to build something big?
Named one of the âBest Remote Companies to Work For in 2022â by We Work Remotely, weâve been around since 2014, have the greatest customers in the world, and a team that will stop at nothing to help our creators win. If this sounds like something youâre interested in, weâd love to hear from you! đŁ
About the hiring process:
Interested in joining our team? Great!
Weâll begin reviewing applications immediately, and continue to review them as they come in. There's no benefit to applying in the first five minutes, and we'd rather you take your time. We heavily weigh the answers to our application form rather than data from LinkedIn or resumes. We typically reduce the candidate pool down to a small handful who move on to a small test project.
The project phase is a short paid test project, run very much like something you could expect to do if you were hired for the role. Weâll give you a week to complete the project, but expect that youâll only need ~4 hours.
Weâll review the test projects, provide feedback in a single revision round for promising projects, and then based on the results of the revision round, select candidates to go on for an interview.
Youâll have four total interviews over Zoom, including:
The VP of Marketing (Hiring manager)
The COO
The content team
The CEO
The last interview will be with Spencer, our CEO, who can answer any questions you have about the broader goals and workings of the company.
After that, we'll decide on our final candidates and ask for professional references from both a previous co-worker and a manager. We'll reach out to those references to set up a brief 10 minute call or email.
Finally, all going well, we'll make a written offer to the successful candidateđĽł
Weâre looking forward to chatting đ
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