Marketing Lead

Jem

Cape Town

ZAR 400 000 - 500 000

Job description

Jem Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Join Jem HR, an early stage HR technology startup, as our lead marketer
Help us tell our story, generate leads, validate product market fit, and grow
Experienced founding team, well-funded and rapidly growing
Hybrid role based in Cape Town or Johannesburg

tl;dr

Join Jem HR, an early stage HR technology startup, as our lead marketer
Help us tell our story, generate leads, validate product market fit, and grow
Experienced founding team, well-funded and rapidly growing
Hybrid role based in Cape Town or Johannesburg

Details about us, the opportunity, and who should apply below

About Us

There are 2.7 billion frontline employees globally and an estimated 1.1 billion in developing markets. These employees do not use traditional digital channels like email or apps. Equally, despite making up 80% of the world's workforce, only 1% of existing enterprise technology caters for frontline, deskless employees. As a result, these employees are unengaged and disconnected from their employers, leading to low job satisfaction and low employee retention rates.

Enter Jem HR: Jem super-powers a businesses HR administration by focusing on digitally connecting the majority of an employer's workforce using the most used messaging app in the world - WhatsApp. By doing this, HR professionals are able to unlock employee engagement by offering the ignored and underserved deskless worker a suite of services specifically built for them.

Product

The Jem platform offers a range of services, from direct communication to payslip distribution and Earned Wage Access (EWA) advances. We've tailored our solutions to meet the unique needs of frontline employees who don't use email, don't engage with SMS, and don't download apps.

Click on this link for more information: https://www.jemhr.com/about

The Role

The Marketing team at Jem has gone through a few iterations of early mobilisation efforts, and we are now ready to begin building the foundations for the next 10 years.You will be the founding member of the marketing team, and will drive its development in the next phase of Jem's growth. As the founding member there is no playbook, and you will need to have a "roll up your sleeves" attitude from day one. You will have to combine science with magic as you experiment and iterate with a data driven mentality. You will need to be super close to our customers, understanding their problems and connecting the dots with our product team to make relevant content.

Your role will be broad, and at times deep, but you can expect to primarily be responsible for:

Working very closely with the Founders to constantly refine the Jem brand, value proposition, narrative and visual identity
Building and executing on a combination of Inbound Lead Generation and Account Based Marketing strategies that capture interest, nurture and ultimately convert leads in our ideal customer profiles
Bringing content across social media, video, long form blog, thought leadership, web and display advertising to life with a combination of in-house and freelance creatives
Creating, testing, and iterating marketing campaigns at the top and bottom of the funnel - with a focus on Google Ads, Meta Ads, Programmatic Display and LinkedIn
Nurturing the early Jem community of customers and prospects, executing eventing and relationship building activities that turn customers into advocates
Working with Product, Sales and Customer Success to develop and constantly refine sales and support enablement material
Building a team

More about You

Working at an early-stage startup is a different beast. If you are used to predictability, clearly established processes and working with big budgets and big agencies, this is not the role for you. If your first step in solving any problem is writing a brief for someone else to do the work, this is not the role for you. You need to be scrappy, a jack-of-all-trades and someone who gets their hands dirty. Specifically, you should possess the following experience, skills and talents:

You have worked as the first (or very early) marketer at an early-stage B2B startup before, and have grown it successfully into a 3-10 person team
You don't have to Google the terms "Account Based Marketing" and "Inbound Marketing". You have experience in developing ABM and Inbound strategies that have successfully nurtured and converted leads at scale
You know how to work with small budgets and small teams. Seeing these constraints as freeing, and an opportunity to be innovative and experiment quickly
You are as comfortable working with creatives to develop content that sticks out in the sea of sameness, as you are deep in Google Analytics data
You have significant experience running highly personalised and targeted paid media experiments and campaigns across Meta, Google and LinkedIn
Collaboration is central to everything you do, and you defer to an open, collaborative way of working with zero ego
You are an effective recruiter, team builder and natural leader

The Team

The Jem team is a rapidly growing, diverse mix of +30 humans working across the product, technology, sales, marketing, customer operations, strategy, finance and HR functions. As the Marketing Lead you will report into the Co-Founder and CEO and will be given ongoing strategic guidance by a fractional CMO with deep product, brand and performance marketing experience. On a daily basis you will need to be attached to the hip to product, sales and customer success.

Here's What You Might Find Exciting

Impact

80% of the world's workforce is deskless (they do not work at an office, or behind a desk). Yet only 1% of technology spend is allocated towards this massive employee base. Jem HR is one of only a handful of companies globally tackling this problem and trying to level the playing field.

Culture

We're on the ground floor of a rocket ship, and if you join Jem you'll have the opportunity to rapidly learn, sharpen and apply your skills, and help shape our products and future. Our culture is open, autonomous and output based.

Compensation And Benefits

Competitive salary
Monthly medical aid and internet contributions
22 days of annual leave
Hybrid work culture -offices in Cape Town and Joburg and mandate a minimum of 2 days per week in the office
Flexible work schedule - outputs based approach to work, with the flexibility to structure your time as you wish
Office tech - that will optimise your working environment. This can be used for your home or in-office working space
Free lunches on Jem three times a week

Recently Funded

We've raised money from great investors, including ones who've supported us before. We're happy to share more details during the interview process.

Joining our team

You will go through a rigorous process in which you will get to meet many people from our team, and we will get to know you, your work and your working style. Ideally, we'd love to work together on a small (paid) project before making a full-time offer, but if not possible, this won't be a determining factor.

To find out more about what we're doing and what it's like to work with us take some time to read through our careers page.

If you're up for an exhilarating and rewarding role in a vibrant, fast-paced environment, apply below.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time