Marketing Manager
Opportunities like this don’t come by very often. And we’re not just saying that either! Imagine managing all of the marketing efforts in Australia for a fast paced, high growth and successful global start-up/rocketship like Vend!If you don’t know already, Vend was founded in New Zealand in 2010 and is an award winning, venture backed, cloud-based point of sale platform for retail.  We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software.  We’re shaking things up and pushing out innovations, creating huge demand for our SaaS solution all over the world. We love small business retail and the technologies that empower local retailers to compete with the big chains and restore delight to the neighborhood shopping experience.  Accordingly, we immerse ourselves in these worlds in our New Zealand headquarters and in all of our international offices, including Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin &amp; London.We’re looking for someone entrepreneurial, creative, and independent who can take ownership of existing marketing programmes and strategy in Australia, adapt them to the local market, and drive exceptional results for our largest export market. Your goals for marketing in Australia are simple: raise awareness of the Vend brand, acquire new customers through online and offline marketing, acquire and enable channel and reseller partners. To achieve this goal you'll need a mix of strategic thinking, combined with an ability to roll up your sleeves and execute when required. Initially you'll be managing a team of one, with opportunity to build your team and budget to meet the opportunities and pace of growth. You'll be part of a team of 20+ in our Melbourne office, and also be supported by an award-winning, high performance marketing team at HQ in Auckland, with other remote colleagues based in London, Toronto and San Francisco.You’ll have a great understanding of brand-building and PR, and ideally some existing media contacts, and relish the opportunity to position Vend as a thought leader for the SMB retail, mobile payments, e-commerce and cloud computing.You’ll be responsible for our event programme and Vend user groups on Vend’s behalf and you’ll be overseeing go-to-market campaigns with our strategic partners.  You’ll also market our software and APIs as a retail platform and nurture a thriving developer ecosystem that’s building powerful add-ons to Vend.  As we build our reseller channel of certified Vend experts in Australia, you’ll also be responsible for working closely with channel and sales teams to find innovative ways to build and enable our network of channel and reseller partners, and ensure our in-market sales teams have all the tools and resources they need to convert prospects into customers, and that our global marketing machine is finding and converting the right pipeline of leads for the local sales teams.
Title: Marketing Manager
Salary: None
Description: Opportunities like this don’t come by very often. And we’re not just saying that either! Imagine managing all of the marketing efforts in Australia for a fast paced, high growth and successful global start-up/rocketship like Vend!If you don’t know already, Vend was founded in New Zealand in 2010 and is an award winning, venture backed, cloud-based point of sale platform for retail.  We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software.  We’re shaking things up and pushing out innovations, creating huge demand for our SaaS solution all over the world. We love small business retail and the technologies that empower local retailers to compete with the big chains and restore delight to the neighborhood shopping experience.  Accordingly, we immerse ourselves in these worlds in our New Zealand headquarters and in all of our international offices, including Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin &amp; London.We’re looking for someone entrepreneurial, creative, and independent who can take ownership of existing marketing programmes and strategy in Australia, adapt them to the local market, and drive exceptional results for our largest export market. Your goals for marketing in Australia are simple: raise awareness of the Vend brand, acquire new customers through online and offline marketing, acquire and enable channel and reseller partners. To achieve this goal you'll need a mix of strategic thinking, combined with an ability to roll up your sleeves and execute when required. Initially you'll be managing a team of one, with opportunity to build your team and budget to meet the opportunities and pace of growth. You'll be part of a team of 20+ in our Melbourne office, and also be supported by an award-winning, high performance marketing team at HQ in Auckland, with other remote colleagues based in London, Toronto and San Francisco.You’ll have a great understanding of brand-building and PR, and ideally some existing media contacts, and relish the opportunity to position Vend as a thought leader for the SMB retail, mobile payments, e-commerce and cloud computing.You’ll be responsible for our event programme and Vend user groups on Vend’s behalf and you’ll be overseeing go-to-market campaigns with our strategic partners.  You’ll also market our software and APIs as a retail platform and nurture a thriving developer ecosystem that’s building powerful add-ons to Vend.  As we build our reseller channel of certified Vend experts in Australia, you’ll also be responsible for working closely with channel and sales teams to find innovative ways to build and enable our network of channel and reseller partners, and ensure our in-market sales teams have all the tools and resources they need to convert prospects into customers, and that our global marketing machine is finding and converting the right pipeline of leads for the local sales teams.
Requirements: Mid-Senior level experience, None education
Fraudulent: No