VP Marketing
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Marketing
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Executive
Industry: Financial Services
Function: Marketing
Company profile: Want to build a 21st century financial service?We're convinced that that there is a need for innovation in financial services and that current banks will not be the ones providing this. Instead this innovation will come from companies like TransferWise and we're on a hunt for great minds who think like we do.
Description: TransferWise is the clever new way to move money between countries. We've been going through a growth spurt recently - we've grown the business 10x in the past 12 months. And we don't intend to stop here. There is a gargantuan opportunity for building financial services that consumers care about and that deliver beyond expectations. We've been growing largely thanks to word of mouth and our service is highly praised by its customers (see #URL_52759560942065fbfc367cadd21d665f03350d4b43b44b1c28df81a518d77dad#). Now we're busy scaling ourselves to become a global leader in the space.Why TransferWise? We're seeing that there's a huge opportunity to rebuild financial services. The level of service offered by banks is completely unsatisfactory. We started by re-building one very specific service where we saw an opportunity to make a change. While we still have a very long way to go with money transfer we do think there's much more to be done in financial services in general. We're a small, international and agile team with a goal of flipping a gazillion dollar industry on its head and taking power away from banks and the establishment.We're looking for a an experienced leader to join us and help to build out our global marketing function. We expect the person to come with highly relevant experience having built fast growing teams and achieved scale previously.TransferWise is revenue generating and well funded by Sir Richard Branson, Peter Thiel, IA and Index Ventures. We're a team of 50 people today, growing to 150. Our focus for the next 18 months is growth, growth, growth.RESPONSIBILITIESBuilding a world class team internationally - strong talent agenda and high performance cultureHelp our international rollout - we have customers all over Europe today, but really we're just focusing on the UK so far, next up is real international focusManage the mix of inbound, performance and brand marketing to accelerate our growth beyond word of mouthBusiness development - develop partnerships with other leading brands that help out distributionBuilding a global trusted brand for financial services - trust is everything in our businessWork closely with product development and engineering, foster a culture of quick iterations and rapid testing
Requirements: Highly relevant sector experience: consumer marketing in financial services or e-commerceObsessively focused on activities that drive growthHave worked across multiple growth generating channelsHave built trust in challenger brandsUsed to working a low margin environmentDemonstrable track record of developing strategies and turning them into resultsInternational experience by having worked/lived on multiple continents to have first Hand experience with culture and approachPeople management and leadership - have built large teams before in fast growing businessesEntrepreneurial, hands on and proactive
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