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This Position
We are looking for a highly motivated individual to "own" our content marketing program and be responsible for developing and executing an effective content strategy that will drive awareness and demand for our offerings.
This role will be leading high-profile content marketing campaigns including developing creative strategy, positioning, and key creative materials while also both collaborating and spearheading campaign management and execution across all platforms. This role will also be responsible for our blog and putting in place an SEO strategy that will drive increased traffic to our website.
Responsibilities
- Provide compelling content to support our demand gen activities
- Develop an insights based, multi-format (e.g., blogs, newsletter, case studies, articles, videos, webinars, interactive tools, infographics) content strategy that creates emotional connections with sellers and drives measurable results throughout the seller lifecycle from awareness to retention.
- Create ad manage a long-term editorial calendar and content production pipeline
- Provide copywriting support to the company as required.
- Supervise multiple internal and external resources, vendors, agencies and freelancers in the development of assets and campaign activations
- Write compelling briefs with clear project requirements for all stakeholders and functions
- Own Pipe17 blog including keyword strategy, ideation, cadence, proofreading, copy-editing, publishing and collaboration that result in measurable increases in SEO performance.
- Integrate a test and learn approach to the content strategy and prioritize emerging channel experimentation in partnership with Marketing Analytics and Data Science
- Monitor media, seasonal, cultural, and competitor trends to recommend out-of-the-box, differentiated ideas to help our brandstand out
About You
The successful candidate possesses a balanced blend of strategic and analytical thinking, excellent time management, strong understanding of ecommerce merchants, marketing acumen, and cross-functional project management skills and outstanding copywriting and editing skills.
You bring a combination of content optimization across long-form (ebooks, reports, whitepapers, solution briefs) and short-form (blogs articles) content, and the mindset of working hands-on with external entities to scale up our content offerings.
You look at the Demand Gen strategy holistically, understand how content drives engagement, and can align the content strategy accordingly. You are the type of person who wants to be a part of a cross-functional team with a strategic mindset to enable marketing, business development, partners and product teams as we work together to achieve our aggressive goals.
The most important quality is attitude. You must have an entrepreneurial spirit, a growth mindset, are curious and able to pick up and implement new ideas and appreciate working on a 'no-drama' team that values and rewards achievement.
If you fit the description of what we are looking for and want to get in early to a high-potential startup in one of the hottest market spaces in the industry, then we would like to hear from you.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in B2B SaaS content marketing delivering content for email, display and ABM campaigns
- Ecommerce market experience preferred.
- Strong, demonstrated passion for writing and storytelling
- Experience successfully working in an early stage startup
- Experience working with CMS. Wordpress experience preferred.
- Understanding of organic & paid social media
- Growth mindset, with a data-first approach
- Good attitude for getting your hands dirty. This is not a self-contained role - you will be asked to help in many sections of the business such as call tracking, backend reporting, social media/SEO management.
- Strong communication, presentation skills and positive team collaboration is a must
Compensation (US FTE)
- Competitive salary
- Great healthcare + dental + vision coverage
- Retirement plan
- Pick your own equipment. We'll set you up with whatever Apple laptop + monitor combo you want plus any software you need.
- Unlimited vacation policy. Plus we require you to take at least 2 weeks off each year. We see most employees take 4 weeks off per year. This isn't a vague policy where unlimited vacation means no vacation
About Us
Pipe17 is a venture funded software startup headquartered in Seattle, WA with a significant presence in the San Francisco Bay area.
We offer an innovative SaaS platform for ecommerce operations that automates management of order, inventory and product flows between 100+ ecommerce applications. Using Pipe17 our customers grow faster and serve their customers better all while reducing operational costs.
We are a solution business with innovative technology that is 10-100X faster than competitors. Selling both direct and through a growing network of partners, we are growing fast with many happy customers.
Pipe17 is backed by GLP Partners, a leading investor in the ecommerce logistics space. We recently raised a large round of capital to fund our growth, which you can read about here.
