Community & Partnerships Manager
Location
Brooklyn, NY | United States
Job description
Marmalade is a new way to search the internet's best brands. We’re building a community of shoppers, brand founders, and tastemakers around the excitement of discovering and recommending products from small, mission-driven, digitally native, & founder-led brands. That's where you come in!
The Community & Partnerships Manager will drive our efforts to grow a highly engaged and active community of users on Marmalade. You will use your strong creative instincts and experience with community building to develop strategies to motivate users to engage with our platform, and you’ll leverage your excellent communication skills to build partnerships that foster organic growth. This opportunity is for someone who is excited to make an impact at an early-stage startup and learn a lot along the way!
Requirements
Who You Are:
- You have experience growing and engaging a community online
- You can leverage strong communication and storytelling to drive partnerships and generate buzz
- You have excellent written and verbal communications skills
- You are a creative thinker and problem-solver who brings ideas to the table and has the execution skills to see them through
- You consistently focus on results and are always improving processes
- You are self-sufficient, resourceful, and comfortable working independently
- You thrive working in a fast-paced, remote startup environment
- You are culturally aware of consumer trends
What You’ll Do:
- Your core focus: Develop strategies and initiatives to drive user engagement on the Marmalade platform; promote core behaviors that create social proof and community on the platform.
- Research and propose solutions for what will motivate our audience to participate
- Drive scale for our partnerships and build brand engagement and affinity through community relationship building; ensure smooth execution of all brand marketing partnerships
- Build and own relationships with our communities of influencers, brands, founders, and tastemakers, maintaining engagement across groups as they scale
- Blend creative ideas and execution skills to reach new audiences and grow our community: develop community-building initiatives and activations, including IRL events, digital campaign moments, PR initiatives, and more
- Partner with our content team to plan and execute new creative partnerships and campaigns
- Manage weekly analytics, providing results that track against KPIs
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in Community, PR, Communications, or Influencer Marketing roles
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Experience growing and engaging an online community of influencers and tastemakers; if this doesn’t describe you, we’re interested in how you have crafted compelling stories to drive buzz, engage audiences, and get them to take action
- Experience using various channels to drive organic awareness and growth, including social media
- Bonus: experience and familiarity with the DTC brand space
- We are prioritizing candidates based in NYC and LA; candidates must be located in US time zones and authorized to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Health Insurance: Marmalade Covers 90% of the monthly premiums for our medical, visual, and dental health care plans
- Retirement Savin gs: Marmalade offers 401(k) accounts and matches a portion of your contributions
- Paid Time Off: 15 days of PTO per year
- Stock options: driving success has its rewards and for this role that means equity!
- Fully remote work
Salary range: $75k–$85k, depending on location and experience
Our culture is such that we value constant learning and growth, solution-oriented thinking, and kindness to each other. This is a great opportunity for someone who prefers the faster pace and complex problem solving of an early startup environment, and who is eager to take ownership of an important part of the business.
This role reports to our Co-Founder & CMO, Jaclyn Grauman.
If you join our team, you will be one of the first ten full-time employees at a seed-stage Public Benefit Corporation. You will be building things and learning every day. And you will partner with teammates who are passionate about applying their decades of combined expertise to revolutionize the way we shop.
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