Head of Growth and Marketing (VP Marketing) at Tellus - Tellus｜Meet.jobs

Who We Are

Tellus is a fintech company that is unlocking the value of real estate. We’re innovating at the intersection of the personal savings and mortgage lending markets. We help renters become homeowners and we’re on a mission to wean people off of credit cards. Your Tellus credit score is based on your good financial behaviors like paying rent on time and saving money regularly. Our super-wallet app provides savings, investment and asset management features that accelerate wealth creation for everybody - you never earn less than 3% APY on idle money - and we deliver joy and delight through our Boost rewards system. We are VC-backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

Tellus was founded in 2016 by two Stanford and Berkeley grads as a real estate management and data company. Today we are a team of 30+ seasoned operators, engineers, personal finance geeks and product imagineers with a home base in Silicon Valley and a team distributed around the country and the world – allowing a work culture that encompasses a diverse global perspective. Our revenue has grown about 900% YoY since launch and we have powerfully positive unit economics on every user acquired. We are proud of the impact we are already having and we are just getting started.

Our Core Values

We pursue excellence together –– we take risks and learn from mistakes; we are committed to improving outcomes with each iteration.
We operate with integrity –– we take ownership and are accountable to ourselves, our teammates, and our customers.
We have a bias for action –– when we discuss a course of action, we may disagree, but we always commit to executing together as a team. We are proactive –– not reactive.

The Opportunity

As the VP/Head of Growth & Marketing, you will lead the strategy, and implementation of integrated multichannel marketing programs that support business objectives and help drive revenue and growth. Responsible for marketing strategy, planning, execution, and measurement for all programs related to digital marketing, lead generation, and content marketing.

• Identify “what good looks like” for our marketing and growth organization, from hiring to promotions to ads and partnerships.
• Work across our product management team, customer success and support teams, and the rest of staff to ensure that our brand and our stories we tell are building trust and moving our company forward
• Contribute to shaping the strategic direction of our organization
• Have a passion for selling and an ability to close
• Thrive in a wide range of complex situations (e.g. rapid scaling, uncertainty, interconnectedness)
• Promote best-practices and show a commitment to marketing excellence through hands-on action

What we’re looking for

• We are looking for a person of high integrity and character, a supportive teammate, and a player-coach with strong communication and collaboration skills that finds satisfaction in mentoring your peers and sharing knowledge gained.
• This executive should be comfortable knowing that you will lead a small team as we're still an early-stage startup. Everyone wears many hats, every cycle brings new challenges, and your sphere of influence is wide. You love the variety and don't want to be shackled to a single project for years.
• You have a strong bias towards action and move swiftly and thoughtfully to create impact. You are a problem solver, a systems thinker and shaper, and seek out opportunities to challenge yourself and your colleagues. You love to dive into complex engineering problems and understand the importance of alignment and accountability as a member of a fast-paced, cross-functional delivery team.
• You have strong communication and collaboration skills. You are a problem solver willing to get your hands dirty. You understand the importance of alignment and accountability as a member of a fast-paced, cross-functional team.
• You should be well-versed in all things people management. You’ve hired bar-raising individuals, developed, and promoted high-performers, composed teams for optimal delivery, and led teams with high morale and engagement.
• Track record of strong customer obsession: you enjoy obsessing over getting the customer experience right
• You are a builder-- you like to invent on behalf of customers. You are comfortable working with ambiguity.
• Demonstrated a work history of earning trust with your direct team and stakeholders: you listen, you are inclusive, you treat others with respect, and you are willing to be vocally self-critical.

Minimum Requirements:
Applicants that do not meet the below criteria will not be considered.

• Minimum 7+ years of digital consumer marketing experince. At least 2+ years experience marketing mobile products.
• 5+ years finding valuable opportunities for organic, viral and paid customer acquisition.
• 5+ years reporting on core metrics of every communication and campaign with the ability to analyze campaign performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Experience growing an early-stage high growth company
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting to large groups and executive teams.
• Direct experience supporting complex workforce footprints - across geographies and worker types.

It would be nice for you to have:

• Experience delivering technology within a Finance/Banking/FinTech environments
• Experience within a start-up or scale-up

Additional Skills:
User Experience (UX) Design, SEO/SEM, Product Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Public Relations, Market Research, A/B Testing, Digital Marketing, Marketing Management, Google Analytics, Growth Hacking, Google Adwords, Marketing Automation Platforms

Compensation:
Salary plus equity package
Salary and equity are negotiable.