Are you a creative thinker and a team player?
Do you bring passion and dedication to your work? If you are motivated to be part of an exceptional team then we’d love to hear from you.
Seeking Director of Marketing & Business Development (Remote)
About Kirschbaum Development Group
We are a team of experts that provide web application development, staff augmentation, and technical consulting services to businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies. We are a people-centric company with a deep commitment to the communities we serve. We’re not your typical tech company, and we think you’ll love working here.
What is Important to Us?
We are a team of highly skilled and capable people. Aside from will, dedication, and ambition, our biggest asset is our ability to learn and grow.
Customers don’t hire us because we have all the answers. They hire us because we can quickly find effective and innovative solutions.
We embrace modern technology as well as tried and true practices and principles from the past. We bring cautiousness and stability to our work.
We are honest, hardworking, and passionate. We value people and relationships over processes and tools. We view ourselves as master crafters who
respect and honor the importance and significance of what we do.
We believe that happy people make better decisions, write better code, and make great products. Team members will stay with us longer when they feel
valued, feel like what they do matters, and feel like they have a say in the process.
We value personal and professional growth and prefer to work with people who have shown they will be invested in and committed to their own growth as individuals and professionals.
Job description
We are seeking an innovative and talented Director of Marketing & Business Development to join our leadership team and execute a variety of new
and ongoing initiatives. The successful candidate will play a critical role in growth and stability, and will have plenty of opportunities for
advancement over the coming months and years.
This role will report directly to the Head of Operations. It’s important to note that while we may end up hiring additional marketing team
members in the future, the successful candidate will be capable of executing on their responsibilities without an advanced support team.
The ideal candidate will be tech savvy, have a vision for simple and clean design aesthetics, and have excellent communication and writing skills.
We are looking for a candidate who is highly organized, self motivated, and a proven problem solver. Attention to detail is critical in this role.
This is a full-time remote position. Candidates must be able to work primarily between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).
We offer great benefits
Work from anywhere
Great work life balance
Competitive salary
Company computer
Paid vacation
Budget for books/conferences
Paid holidays
Year-end bonus
Health, dental & vision insurance
Paid open-source time
401k with company match & profit share
Maternity / paternity leave
Responsibilities
- Ensure our online presence accurately represents what we do and clearly conveys our value proposition to potential clients, partners, and the development community.
- Create, manage, and measure content marketing campaigns that are exciting and attract both existing and new audiences; leveraging articles, podcasts, videos, infographics etc.
- Promote our open source and community contributions / involvement, including creating campaigns and initiatives that drive engagement and interaction.
- Identity new ways to engage with and support the developer community.
- Leverage social media to promote our brand, attract followers, and accurately represent who we are and where we are going as a company.
- Increase organic traffic and the quality of sales leads.
- Leverage paid advertising (Adwords, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc) and develop a system for generating highly qualified leads on demand.
- Help manage conferences and retreats (minimally 1 - 2 times per year) to ensure the success of our initiatives.
- Help implement and manage new CRM system.
- Work with the sales team to continuously optimize our sales strategies and systems, and help track opportunities.
- Work with the recruitment team to help optimize our recruiting messaging, strategies, and systems.
- Help foster and communicate our unique culture so that we can continue to build a reputation that attracts great partners, and compels insanely capable people to come work for us.
- Help to research, develop, and market new service offerings, new business relationships, and new product ideas.
- Embrace an evidence-based data-driven approach to making recommendations, solving problems, and improving processes.
- Help with business administration tasks as needed.
- Handle confidential and non-routine information with absolute discretion.
Qualifications
- Demonstrate that you have the relevant experience to deliver on the responsibilities listed here or show that your aptitude and innovative abilities will allow you to get there quickly.
- 5+ years relevant professional experience in a content marketing role.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to identify and edit compelling content.
- Excellent sense of clean, well balanced, and modern design. You don’t have to be a designer (although that would be great); you just need to be able to think like one and be able to create images with direction.
- Exceptional attention to detail and high level of focus while multitasking competing priorities.
- Excellent research and analysis skills.
- Must be team oriented, flexible, open-minded, and conscientious.
- Quick to learn new skills and technologies.
- Experience with web analytics tools and SEO.
- Experience with paid advertising campaigns (google, LinkedIn, twitter, facebook, etc.).
- Experience working with CRMs and Marketing Automation platforms (Hubspot, Activecampaign, Marketo, Infusionsoft/Keap, etc.)
- Basic understanding of HTML and CSS.
- Experience working with sensitive and confidential information.
- Experience with some or all of the following: product development, innovation, SaaS products, UX.
