Head of Marketing, EMEA
Head of Marketing, EMEA
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Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from nontraditional backgrounds historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.
About Handshake
Handshake is the leading early career platform connecting talent with opportunity. Our mission is to democratize access to meaningful careers by helping students and graduates discover and launch careers theyll love regardless of where they come from or who they know. We partner with thousands of employers and educational institutions to create a more inclusive and efficient job market and were just getting started!
Following our rapid growth in the U.S. were scaling our presence across Europe. With a growing team an expanding customer base and increasing brand recognition in the region this is a pivotal moment for Handshake EMEA and marketing will be at the heart of what comes next.
Why Were Hiring
Until now our EMEA growth has been largely salesled. As we continue to expand were looking for a strategic commercially minded Head of Marketing to be the first dedicated marketing leader in the region. This role is a unique opportunity to build our EMEA marketing function from the ground up shaping the strategy driving demand enabling the sales team and delivering measurable business impact.
Youll join the EMEA Leadership Team and report directly to the Managing Director for EMEA playing a critical role in accelerating our gotomarket efforts and helping us reach the next stage of growth.
What Youll Do
- Build the strategy: Define and execute a regional marketing strategy that drives awareness generates qualified pipeline and supports revenue goals
- Drive demand: Launch highimpact campaigns and programs that fill the funnel and create commercial opportunities for our sales team
- Enable sales: Develop positioning messaging content and tools that help our gotomarket teams win in a competitive market
- Lead the team: Manage and develop a small team of four ensuring clarity accountability and a strong performance mindset
- Partner crossfunctionally: Collaborate with Sales Customer Success Product and Global Marketing to create alignment and scale what works
- Show quick wins: Balance longterm strategic bets with scrappy nearterm tactics to drive visible progress early on
- Represent marketing at the leadership table: Bring a commercial and datadriven voice to EMEA leadership discussions
What Were Looking For
- Strategic operator: Youre a senior marketer who can see the big picture and execute against it. You know how to build marketing strategies that deliver measurable results
- Commercial mindset: Youre laserfocused on pipeline and revenue. You understand what sales needs to succeed and can design marketing that supports them
- Builder energy: Youve built or rebuilt marketing functions at early or midstage startups ideally in fastgrowing B2B SaaS businesses
- Leadership experience: Youve led and grown marketing teams before creating clarity alignment and impact
- Scrappy and handson: Youre comfortable rolling up your sleeves whether its launching a campaign testing a new channel or jumping into analytics
- European market expertise: You understand the nuances of marketing across multiple countries in EMEA; fluency in German or French is a plus
- Strong communicator and collaborator: You know how to influence align stakeholders and work crossfunctionally in a fastpaced environment
Why Join Us
At Handshake youll be part of a missiondriven company making a meaningful difference in the world of work. In EMEA youll have the rare chance to build something from the ground up with the backing of a proven business a talented team and strong market momentum.
Youll shape the future of our marketing efforts in the region work closely with senior leaders and see your work translate directly into business growth.
What we offer
At Handshake well give you the tools to feel healthy happy and secure.
Benefits below apply to UK employees in fulltime positions.
- Equity and ownership in a fastgrowing company.
- 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for nonbirth giving parents.
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision policies including LGTBQ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.
- Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual 1500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
- Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.
- Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.
- Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for officebased employees).
- Free lunch provided 3x a week across all offices.
- Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.
- Pension Scheme: Handshake will provide you with a workplace pension where you will make contributions based on 5% of your salary. Handshake will pay the equivalent of 3% towards your pension plan subject to qualifying earnings limits.
- Up to 25 days of vacation to encourage people to reset recharge and refresh in addition to 8 bank holidays throughout the year.
- Regular offsites each year to bring the team together opportunity to travel to our HQ in San Francisco.
- Discounts across various high street retailers cinemas and other social activities exclusively for Handshake UK employees.
Looking for more Explore our mission values and comprehensive US benefits at is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation please let your recruiter know during initial communications.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
