Podium is a suite of messaging tools for local business. Using our platform, businesses of all sizes can connect with customers via text to do things like request payments, collect reviews, and sell products, in a modern, convenient way. Our work streamlining this process for local businesses has awarded us recognition on top industry lists, such as Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000 (#13), and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. For more about our product, watch this video. Podium has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture and was recently named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2021 (4 years in a row). We look for people who are curious, creative and work to be a little better every day. In our work together we embody our values: Be a founder, Murder drama, and Enjoy the ride.
Podium helps local businesses connect with their customers via text/SMS so they can request payments, collect reviews, make appointments, and sell products. We currently help over 100K local businesses thrive, but we are just getting started. With over 10 million local businesses in North America alone, we have a huge opportunity to significantly impact the lives of our customers. But we can’t do it alone.
We need someone who knows how to get the value of Podium into the hands of millions of potential customers. As VP, Growth for Podium you will build and lead a world-class team of growth marketers, responsible for online acquisition across digital, organic, web, and any exploratory channels in addition to building and optimizing self-serve acquisition. Partnering closely with product, brand, and the broader marketing team, you will be responsible for helping Podium dramatically increase the number of businesses we support.
What you will be doing;
- Partner with various cross-functional teams to scale, and optimize Podiums self-serve funnel
- Build and lead teams across web, conversion rate optimization, performance marketing, and SEO
- Experiment and test new methods of customer engagement and acquisition
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure ongoing cross-channel performance, education, testing results, best practices, and industry insights
- Partner with Data, Engineering, and Product to improve Podiums understanding of Paid and Organic performance and to unlock additional opportunities to scale
We are looking for someone who;
- Wants to help local businesses win
- An Innovator in the growth space
- Loves Experiments
- Hires & Develops A-Level talent
- Has scaled a growth organization, built and optimized self-service funnels, and driven customer acquisition previously
- Thrives on change
- Isn’t afraid to get dirty
If this is you, tell us about your greatest growth hack, and what about Podium you would fix first
Why Podium
- One of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces in 2021
- Once in a Lifetime Market Opportunity
- An opportunity to work on something that impacts your community, friends, and family
- Competitive Compensation, including equity, benefits, paid time off, etc.
Join Us!
Podium is an equal opportunity employer. Podium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.
