Tuesday, May 13, 2014

[KITlist] Partner Marketing Associate (SF Bay Area, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: jobs@startgrid.com

Startgrid is an online collaborative community for entrepreneurs, bringing people together to test, share and grow ideas that will change the world. Our free community is a place for entrepreneurs, advisors, investors, mentors, and others passionate about supporting ideas. Entrepreneurs use the tools we provide to collaborate with trusted experts and friends, have discussions, gather feedback, get advice, and meet people who can help them take their idea further and be by their side every step of the way to success

Startgrid builds its community by partnering with incubators, accelerators, co-working facilities and other organizations that serve entrepreneurs. These partners help Startgrid drive adoption and Startgrid, in return, helps their client entrepreneurs scale their companies.

Position Summary:
We are looking for a dynamic and self-motivated Partner Marketing Associate to help drive user acquisition through our partners. Reporting to the Vice President of Marketing, the Partner Marketing Associate will help develop and execute highly effective partner marketing programs designed to create vibrant communities within the partner�s ecosystem. As one of the primary contact for Startgrid partners, the Partner Marketing Associate will be responsible for helping to increase Startgrid�s user penetration and ensure partners hit their acquisition and engagement metrics.

Responsibilities:
� Assist in the creation of annual regional marketing plan, identifying priority areas/partners and strategies to achieve market penetration goals
� Collaborate with partners to develop and execute partner marketing programs designed to drive user acquisition and engagement
� Develop partner communication, joint collateral, webinars, tools, and other content required for successful launch of programs and ongoing partner account management, working with Product and Marketing teams
� Build and manage partner promotional calendar
� Attend partner events representing Startgrid
� Be one of the primary point of contact for partners, including solving and synthesizing feedback on product or technical issues
� Advocate for partners within Startgrid
� Provide input to partner and user performance metrics and develop and maintain dashboard to measure success
� Identify and help implement process improvements and more efficient ways to work
� Help manage regional marketing budget

Required Skills and Experience
� Minimum 3-5 years of relevant work experience in partner or channel marketing, partner account management or product marketing roles (social networks or consumer web preferred)
� Proven track record of successfully executing high-impact marketing programs with partners
� Excellent project management capabilities, demonstrated in a past work experience
� Customer focused
� Demonstrated ability to perform well in a start-up or small, fast-paced, dynamic environment
� High energy, self-starter with strong initiative and problem solving skills
� Collaborative team player who works exceptionally well across functional groups
� Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
� Candidate must be willing to travel (~30%)
� Experience with Salesforce.com a plus
� Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Management, Marketing or a related field required

Please send responses to jobs@startgrid.com.

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