Marketing Associate
RapidSOS is hiring! Join a rapidly growing advanced emergency technology start-up in solving one of the greatest challenges of our generation:
- The Challenge: 911 was built 50 years ago for a landline system and has seen limited change since. The result is 250M 911 calls a year are managed with essentially voice only. Watch John Oliver discuss the challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XlyB_QQYs
- RapidSOS Tech: Partnering with Internet of Things (IoT) companies and the public safety community, RapidSOS provides a rich data link to public safety, sending lifesaving data to aid in emergency response
- Media/Awards: Won most major start-up awards (including Start-Up of the Year by CTA/CES & Top Innovation of 2015 by MIT) and featured across national media (WIRED, WSJ, TechCrunch, NYT, Time, Newsweek, etc.)
- Team: MIT, HBS, Stanford, Wharton, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Argonne & Oak Ridge National Labs, Bell Labs, venture capital, over 40 tech start-ups
- Investors: $32M of capital raised from preeminent global investors including several top VCs, Microsoft, and former leadership of Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Lucent, Raytheon, and three former FCC Chairmen
What this role is about:
The Marketing Associate will play an integral role in helping the Company achieve its goals by assisting the Head of Marketing to develop and implement the marketing and communication strategy for the entire organization. The Associate will work across teams at the organization and have a hand in multiple cross-functional projects at one time.
What We Offer
- The chance to work with a passionate team on solving one of the largest challenges globally
- Competitive compensation
- Dynamic, fun work environment with a highly talented team
- Flexible startup work environment and a fun atmosphere
- Rapid growth opportunities
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across business units such as engineering, design, media communications and business development to ideate and execute marketing activities
- Work with marketing team members to create compelling content across variety of channels, including but not limited to RapidSOS social media outlets, blog posts, newsletters
- Create compelling narratives and track user flows based on strategic priorities and tactical plans
- Strategize for new video projects and work directly with Media Communications Producer to write scripts, plan filming logistics, and edit projects
- Plan logistics for conferences (largest 911 industry conferences, IoT conferences, etc.)
- Work closely with PR agency and partner companies to execute on press and media strategy
- Analyze user conversion behavior across website, email, paid and organic search, using Google Analytics to determine areas of efficacy and improvement
Requirements
- Graduated from a Bachelor’s degree program
- Excellent writing skills
- Experience managing projects varying in scales
- Able to speak to internal and external stakeholders
- Strong work ethic and ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Fluency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint and Google Productivity Suite
- Comfortable working with quantitative data
- Highly self-motivated with tons of initiative
- Have tenacity to overcome obstacles and to independently and confidently problem-solve your way to the desired outcome
- Ability and appetite to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Marketing experience strongly preferred
- Experience with Google Analytics, Adobe Suite, and HubSpot is a plus
If you're curious to learn more about RapidSOS, you can check out our full press list!
RapidSOS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.