About Vendr
Founded in 2018, Vendr is transforming the way companies buy and sell software. Today, thousands of companies leverage Vendr to buy software. For buyers, Vendr is a no-brainer because we help buyers get the lowest price, fast. For sellers, it’s a no-brainer, too – helping sellers find their next customer, fast. As Vendr becomes the new-age way to buy software, we need your help in helping us attract millions of software buyers to Vendr, and thousands of sellers.Headquartered in Boston with a second location in Charleston, and a team of over 150 employees, we are on a mission to create the “buy button” for software. If you’re eager to innovate, tackle interesting challenges, and make a significant impact, we want you to join us. Join Vendr’s pioneering team and help us drive this paradigm shift.
To pull this off, we are looking for a VP/SVP of Marketing, with a focus on growth and marketplaces.
This role will report to our Founder & CEO, Ryan Neu, and will be expected to curate a unified customer experience that fuels the Vendr marketplace as a leading software buying destination for SMB and midmarket companies.
You will create a program that demonstrates expert-level analytics and insights into the customer journey from beginning to end linked directly to our developing ICPs. You will be responsible for creating frameworks to align against these customer journeys to increase the velocity of marketplace transactions driving revenue and gross merchandise value (GMV).
Role:
- Acquisition: Drive qualified web traffic to Vendr using a mix of paid and organic channels and ensure conversion into marketplace requests (“private offers”) and signups for Vendr’s freemium platform.
- Lifecycle: Nurture users and subscribers with email marketing and other lifecycle content.
- Expansion: Drive account-based initiatives to accelerate our growth within our customers’ organizations. Develop and execute growth strategies that convert additional personas within an organization.
Responsibilities:
- Strategy: Accountable for defining and executing an omnichannel marketing plan, segmentation, and modeling
- Growth: Oversee the execution of growth marketing strategies, ensuring that our marketplace offering reaches and engages the target audience effectively. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement marketing campaigns that drive user acquisition, engagement, and retention.
- Product Marketing Management (PMM): Develop and articulate Vendr’s marketplace value proposition. Ensure alignment with the overall marketing strategy, create compelling messaging and positioning that resonates with target customers, build effective lifecycle campaigns that successfully nurture existing customers for continued engagement, and partnership with product and engineering teams to ensure marketing reflects the product experience.
- Design: Create visually appealing and effective marketing collateral, website design, and in-product experiences that enhance user engagement and brand perception.
- Content & Communications: Develop and execute comprehensive communication strategies that include PR, content marketing, and social media to build and maintain Vendr’s brand presence in the market. Ensure consistent and compelling messaging across all channels.
- SEO & SEM: Develop and execute SEO and SEM strategies that improve organic search visibility and drive paid search performance. Optimize on-page and off-page SEO efforts, manage PPC campaigns, and continuously refine keywords and ad copy to maximize ROI.
- Collaboration: Partner with Finance, Product, Engineering, and GTM executives to define, evolve, and communicate the marketing plan and performance to goal as market dynamics evolve to ensure alignment of goals, objectives, and strategies with direct and indirect revenue plans.
- Reporting: Regularly monitor, analyze, report, and present on campaign and KPI performance, regional success, deliverables, and programs among teams and executives.
- Leadership: Lead from the front as both a strategist and an executor. Guide and mentor a high-performing marketing team.
- Operations: Manage the marketing technology stack, as well as the marketing budget, goals, and KPIs to achieve customer and transaction growth targets.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related fields; MBA preferred.
- A minimum of 10 years in pivotal marketing roles and 5 years of marketing leadership
- Experience with marketplaces and preferably within the software industry.
- Proven success in growth marketing and marketplace-focused roles
- An analytical acumen complemented by the ability to distill data into actionable strategies.
- A comprehensive grasp of user funnels, onboarding schematics, and retention blueprints.
- Proficiency with contemporary marketing tools and technologies.
- Stellar communication and partnership skills.
- Innate leadership with a penchant for nurturing and inspiring teams.
- Experience with marketing automation and sales automation/CRM (Salesforce) reporting and campaign features and marketing intelligence tools; opportunity to build out and implement foundational growth stack beyond the foundational ops layer.
#LI-REMOTE
The estimated base salary range for this position is $240,000 to $292,500.
Vendr provides an estimate of the compensation for roles that may be hired as required by state regulations. Compensation may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, individual candidate experience, skills, and qualifications. Additionally, Vendr leverages current market data to determine compensation, therefore posted compensation figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. The salary, other forms of compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Vendr reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
At Vendr, we believe that great talent comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. If you’re passionate about what we do and think you’d be a great fit, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t precisely match every requirement or if you feel as though your experience exceeds what might be listed. You might be the perfect candidate for this or other roles.
Why Vendr:
- Competitive Compensation: We offer a highly competitive salary and benefits package.
- Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career advancement opportunities.
- Innovation-Driven Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Flexible Work Environment: Enjoy the convenience and work-life balance that comes with remote work.
- Inclusive and Diverse Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.
Vendr is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. While we are interested in qualified applicants who are permanently eligible to work for any employer in the United States, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship for employment visas at this time.
To all recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
What We Do
Vendr is forever changing B2B SaaS sales by empowering companies to purchase SaaS without friction. The Vendr platform offers both a web dashboard and a people-powered service to enable the world’s fastest-growing companies to revolutionize the way they buy and renew SaaS — with fair pricing, compliance, and way less time.
Why Work With Us
We have created the category of SaaS buying and are leading it with little competition in sight. Our culture is rooted in kindness as a competitive advantage and we have grown substantially in the past year, even during COVID-19.
Gallery
.jpeg)
