Marketing Assistant

Our company is looking to hire a marketing assistant who will be working closely with our marketing team to develop and implement marketing plans and strategies for our brand. As a successful hire, you will be tasked with helping identify marketing trends and opportunities for growth, as well as creating marketing materials such as white papers, case studies, and blogs. You will be giving presentations about our ongoing campaigns and provide administrative support to our marketing and sales teams.

Prior work experience in administration and marketing is a required. Effective written and verbal communication skills and a high level of attention to detail are both important keys to success in this role.

Culture fit matters to us and we know it matters to you. How do you know if you're a cultural fit?
This is what we value and expect as a team.

1. Always create value. Work to provide leadership. Eliminate dangers, focus on opportunities and provide strategies and your capabilities to the team, and provide confidence to your team by creating certainty and partnership. Be alert, curious, responsive & resourceful.
2. Take initiative. Look for ways to be proactive. Solve problems, make improvements, propose ideas.
3. Focus on results. Always keep your eye on the bigger picture and the desired end result, not just the time and effort required.
4. Have an ownership attitude. Take full responsibility for your projects, your communication and your actions.
5. Be in alignment. Find out the overall goal or desired result and do what you need to do to align with it.
6. Be a partner. Value and respect others' talents and goals as well as our own. Go beyond your job description. Focus on contribution and not your status.
7. Take action. Whenever possible, make things happen. Don't wait for others to make the first move.
8. Be open. Be receptive to new ideas and initiative. Prepare and plan for change. Go outside of your comfort zone. Pay attention to patterns and anticipate what's coming next.
9. Communicate. Learn how others like to communicate. Close "open loops" and let others know when tasks are done and what happened.
10. Learn how to handle strong emotions. Have confidence and stay calm when dealing with emotionally charged situations. These are normal in an entrepreneurial organization. Focus on the positive. Manage your emotions. Don't take it personally.
11. Have patience and compassion. Look at the situation from the other person's point of view. Recognize that it takes time to change habits.
12. Don't give up. Learn to see mistakes and breakdowns as learning opportunities.

Did that list excite you? Then keep reading.

Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with the marketing manager, internal teams, clients and partners on marketing strategy.
- Helping identify marketing trends and key opportunities for innovation.
- Learning and working with various types of software for digital marketing.
- Working closely with sales and marketing department.
- Creating marketing materials such as white papers, case studies, and presentations.
- Copywriting for blogs and social media posts.
- Creating talking points and/or writing scripts for content creators
- Giving presentations.
- Maintaining a marketing database.
- Providing administrative support to the marketing and sales team.
- Preparing, formatting and editing a range of documents.
- Understanding company product and brand.
- General office duties.
- Creating and interpreting a variety of reports.
- Organizing market research.
- Analyzing questionnaires and other forms of feedback.
- Managing and updating social media accounts.
- Possible graphic design and video editing

Marketing Assistant Qualifications/Skills:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- High level of organization and attention to detail
- Comfort with multi-tasking in a deadline-driven environment
- Understanding of basic business and marketing concepts
- Excellent time management skills
- Outgoing personality with strong interpersonal and social abilities
- Ability to spot emerging trends
- Familiarity with social media, social networking, email marketing and search engines
- Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Strong writing and copy-editing abilities

Education and Experience Requirements:
- 1-3 years experience in marketing or equivalent education
- Proficiency with Google Drive (Sheets, Docs, Forms, Etc.)
- Demonstrated experience with social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest)

Preferred Experience :
- Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere) a plus
- Experience with Canva a plus
- Graphic Design experience a plus
- Video Editing experience a plus
- Photo editing experience a plus