2013-03-06

Does the thought of helping an exciting and innovative digital company to double (or more) in size over the next year set your heart racing? We provide SMB's with a design led, DIY website and shop builder on web, mobile and social. Want to work in central London for a fun and friendly company while leading a growing yet dynamic team? If so, read on...

About you

We’re looking for an exceptional, creative and digital savvy marketing director to drive and develop the Moonfruit brand and channel. You will take a genuine marketing lead, with responsibility for the direct management of our company's growth and consolidation over the next few years.
As an increasingly funded 'start-up' in its twelfth year, you will have an opportunity to work closely with our founders over the next phase of accelerated company growth. You'll be part of continuing to create an extraordinary company. You’ll be joining a brilliant team of people, with an in-house design team, an expert development team, plus customer service agents and a marketing team which keeps our community of SME customers supported and happy.

You:

have proven experience integrating creativity and analytical thinking.

enjoy working in an entrepreneurial and creative environment.

would need to be comfortable working with brand, designers and developers while still delivering on ROI.

are an agile and innovative senior marketeer who understands social media, content and digital channels.

will manage our digital media, PR and creative agencies plus internal marketing team and have proven experience in these areas.

will harness an online community and the value of our 500k small businesses!

are someone who would enjoy the challenge and opportunity of scaling a team, business and brand while keeping true to its values of design, collaboration, innovation and quality.

In addition:

We will be doubling the size of the Moonfruit team over the next 12 months.

Our growth has doubled every 2 years, over the next 12 months we'll be accelerating this rate with increased marketing budgets, additional products to increase average order value and product innovation.

Today 2/3 of our growth comes from advocacy through community and social. Our latest Moonfruit V6 (HTML5) product has just been released into beta. This means all site and shops built will be optimised to display on web, mobile or tablet.

You would be working closely with the Design Director of Moonfruit as well as the CEO and COO/CFO.

Skills/Qualifications:

6+ years relevant working experience

Results using PPC, SEO and content marketing channels

An understanding of social media in the widest sense

Data driven marketing methods and using data and analytics to inform strategy and campaign management

Proven results from creating and managing a marketing plan and budget

Product marketing experience

A hunger for responsibility and opportunity

An ability to hire, nurture and mentor a marketing team.

Graduate degree level education

Blue Chip and/or digital brand experience

About us

Moonfruit’s DIY website and shop builder provides everything you need to get a website off the ground, enabling people with no technical skills to set up their business, project or passion online. Our drag-and-drop editor is so easy to use that you can get a site up and running in minutes, curate it with total design control, and publish it across web, mobile, tablet and social. We’re a fast-growing technology company with legions of small and medium-sized business customers and believe passionately that good design is the key to delivering great user experiences.

Our users

Our website builder has been used to create just under six million websites over the last 12 years, by customers ranging from boutique clothing outlets and sports clubs to creative agencies and photographers.

Our culture

Based in central London’s creative district, we’re a relaxed office that likes to work hard and then socialise, from our International Food Day and Bring Your Brainchild to Work events, to the Summer Sports Day and 50s-themed Christmas bowling party. We’re passionate about our people, and our people are passionate about working for Moonfruit. Want to see what we got up to last year? Check out our Moonfruit 2012 Retrospective here.

The Marketing Team

The growing team consists of a content editor, content and social media execs and a PR/Comms Manager.  We are also recruiting for a Campaign Manager.  The team is expected to grow alongside the development team and works closely with the Design team to manage the brand and online content. The team works closely with best of breed digital marketing, brand/design and PR agencies.
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Salary and benefits: Competitive salary according to qualifications and experience. Moonfruit offers generous benefits including discretionary annual bonus, private health care, pension scheme and 25 days holiday.

Contact: Send your CV and a letter explaining how you meet the above criteria to jobs@moonfruit.com

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