Senior Marketing Manager

Were a global team of over 400 people working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers builders and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases search streaming and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.

The Role:

We are seeking an experienced hands-on Senior Marketing Manager to join our London team. The ideal candidate is a proactive do-er and starter-finisher who consistently raises the bar. This role requires a leader who can effectively navigate a complex matrix-style organization to own and drive marketing initiatives from conception to successful completion.

What Youll Do:

• Integrated Campaign Management: Design execute and manage end-to-end integrated marketing campaigns to create measurable demand for both our Sales-Led Growth (SLG) and Product-Led Growth (PLG) motions.
• Brand & Campaign Launch: Take a leading role in the creation strategy and launch of new high-impact campaigns as part of our evolving Brand 2.0 initiative.
• Developer Audience Marketing: Serve as the subject matter expert for our developer audience. You will be responsible for ensuring all content campaigns and messaging are authentic meaningful and resonate deeply with highly technical users.
• Content & Scalability Strategy: In collaboration with product and sales teams develop and execute a content creation strategy. A key focus will be to innovate and build scalable mechanisms for content and social media specifically by leveraging AI or creating new more efficient processes.
• Channel & Agency Management: Oversee all paid media strategy execution and optimization. You will manage our agency relationships to ensure peak performance ROI and alignment with campaign goals.
• Data-Driven Optimization: Own all campaign data with a sharp focus on Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and other key performance metrics. You will be responsible for continuous data-informed optimization and reporting on business results.

What Were Looking For:

• Experience: 5-8 years of proven experience in a marketing role.
• Persona: You are a bar-raiser with a proactive hands-on mentality. You own projects from start to finish and are driven to see them succeed.
• Collaboration: You have demonstrated experience navigating complexity and working effectively within a cross-functional matrix-style team environment.
• Integrated Marketing (Expert): Deep demonstrable experience in creating managing and measuring complex end-to-end integrated marketing campaigns.
• Developer Audiences (High Proficiency): A strong verifiable background in and comfort with marketing to technical developer-focused audiences.
• Content Strategy (High Proficiency): Proven skills in developing content strategies and creating content tailored to a specific technical audience.
• Scalability & Innovation (Proficient): You are an innovative thinker who actively looks for ways to build scalable systems. We are specifically looking for someone who has experience leveraging AI in a marketing context or has a history of creating new scalable mechanisms.

Amazing! Whats next:

If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours send us your resume and well get in touch!

Global Benefits:

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aivens equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave as well as Personal Time)
• Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.

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Required Experience:

Manager