Job Description
Padlet is building software for a good education. A good education is one that inspires curiosity, creativity, and community. Our software enables that through visual content creation and collaboration in millions of classrooms worldwide.
We can all agree that Christianity is a great product. It’s 2000 years old and brings spiritual fulfillment to over 2 billion people worldwide. But it wasn’t Jesus who took Christianity to the masses. It took someone like St Paul to make it a thing. His thirteen letters (tailored, by the way, to each recipient) were instrumental in forming the Christian identity and early Christian communities.
Moral of this (slightly irreverent) story? Marketing is important, no matter how good a product is. People don’t just see a product and magically know how to use it to make their life better. Someone needs to teach them.
We are looking for an exceptional marketer to spread the gospel of Padlet. This is a full time, in-person role in a new office we are opening in Seoul.
Responsibilities
Write blog posts, flyers, and other marketing materials to inform users about our latest and greatest launches.
Create how-to videos to show how best to use our products.
Manage social media accounts and communities so people don’t think we are anti-social (we are; we just don’t want people to think we are.)
We’re a small team. People wear many hats. We may ask you to write non-marketing stuff. E.g. it would have been nice to have had some help writing this job description.
Qualifications
Be high integrity.
Have a sense of duty.
Respect people.
Be exceptional at everything the job requires you to do.
Bonus: have a good sense of humor.
About Padlet
Vision: Every child in the world will grow up with Mickey Mouse and Padlet.
Product: We are making the default way of collecting and sharing thoughts on the Internet. People love the product.
Impact: We have 40 million users, making Padlet one of the most used apps on the planet.
Money: We are venture backed AND fiscally responsible. We are built to last one hundred years.
Badassery: We are only 60 odd people. That’s over half a million active users per person.
Joys of marketing at Padlet
We don’t do clickbait.
We ship. Your work will not be stuck in purgatory for years.
Your work will have a tremendous impact on global education.
Every artist craves an audience. You’ll start with 40 million.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously.
Sorrows of marketing at Padlet
CEO has very strong opinions about marketing and can often be incorrigible.
Work can be chaotic. “Change of plans. Let’s do this instead.” is not uncommon.
We have a tendency, sometimes, to spend a lot of time on trivial details.
Some people you‘d be working with
Gerard Searchfield: Insists that wallabies and kangaroos are different animals, artificially inflating the biodiversity of his homeland. Will notice a 1px misalignment from 18 feet away.
Julia Carnes: Everybody agrees Julia is the friendliest person they’ve ever met. Until game night. Then God help them. Even State Farm denies coverage for any damage sustained during Catan with Julia Carnes. Our resident wordsmith, videosmith, and sometimes blacksmith.
Benefits
Medical and dental insurance for you and your family.
Stock options.
Catered lunches and dinners. Military grade snacking.
20 vacation days. Plus sickness and bereavement days for when life happens.
Parental leave.
All the gadgetry you need, including a new phone every year.
Badassery budget to level up.
Special time to join
Because we’re small, we move fast. And because we have tremendous traction, your work will impact millions. This combination of speed and impact is rare and quite satisfying.
