About this Role
AboveBoard is an executive hiring platform inclusively unifying executives from underrepresented backgrounds to board and full-time opportunities at today’s leading high-growth organizations.
We are dedicated to diversifying executive leadership.
Our platform removes the limits of traditional executive search by both extending companies’ networks to include more diverse talent while providing executives transparent access to career-aligned opportunities. More than 35,000 executives and 600 companies are already using our platform.
AboveBoard is actively assisting another business to find its next Vice President of Marketing.
About the company
We're filling a big need for a writing assistant that's built ground-up for the needs of professional users and teams. Writing really is the last unstructured business process. Our roadmap is an exciting combination of deepening functionality for team leaders and extending functionality for end users — helping them be more effective and efficient in their writing.
Traction and backing
- Our customers include Twitter, Intuit, UiPath, Pinterest, and InVision. It's a great community of writers, content strategists, copyeditors, and editorial leaders. They are a true community and the content vanguard. We have an NRR of +130%, early cohorts are at 200%+ NRR, and we're just getting started.
- Our funnel is large and growing fast (+1M visitors/month, thousands of weekly trial starts). This is important, as you'll have nearly instant feedback on the messaging you'll be building or the growth experiments you'll be running.
- We're backed by the best funds in the game and a world-class group of founders, operators, and angels (read about our Series A here)!
Why it's the perfect time to join
- We're 30 people. There's a lot of room to contribute and grow an enduring SaaS company. You will have unquestionably made it happen.
- We have strong PMF. We have strong DAUs and deep usage. People spend hours in our product. The work you'll do will have a direct impact on some of the top companies in the world — as well as users who depend on us to sharpen their writing.
- Build it, nail it, scale it. We're at 'nail it.' If you like helping turn dirt paths into smooth roads, now is the perfect time to join. We've grown 5x and are running fast towards aggressive — and achievable — milestones.
About this role
We’re looking for an experienced VP of Marketing who will be a key member of our leadership team. Reporting to our CEO, you will manage and grow our tight-knit marketing team, with a priority being to grow awareness while growing the team. The ideal candidate is passionate about supporting the company’s vision to help our customers write better and faster and is excited about championing AI-assisted content to our market. We’re looking for an inspiring leader who has high-growth B2B SaaS marketing experience, can create a performance-driven culture, build processes to deliver results, and coach all levels of marketing professionals to develop in their careers.
Your responsibilities
Leadership:
- Lead by example: as you scale the team, be able to take on keyboard-level execution responsibilities and set high-caliber expectations
- Work cross-functionally to ensure Sales, Customer Success, Operations and Engineering leaders support marketing team goals while establishing processes to ensure coordination across the revenue cycle
- Create a marketing team culture that is positive, motivating, and performance-driven
- Communicate with charisma: this is an evangelical sale, and we are looking for a leader who helps us build a new category
Manage and grow the marketing team:
- Recruit, hire, and develop top-decile marketing talent (±10 Marketing hires in the next 12M)
- Manage daily and weekly initiatives to ensure the team is tracking to their quarterly OKRs
Numbers you’ll own:
- Team Trial starts
- Self-service ARR
- Sales-assisted pipeline
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