Remote Digital Marketing Strategist (1099 Role)

MTR Marketing is in search of a talented and experienced Digital Marketing Strategist with the drive and determination to achieve our clients’ business growth goals. You will identify needs and new opportunities and aspire to solve marketing and business challenges with best practices and outside-the-box ideas. If you’re a tech-savvy trendsetter who has innovative ideas to improve customer experience, we would like to meet you. For this position, you should be both analytical and creative; be comfortable working solo as well as with a team.

As a Strategist, you are responsible to ensure our clients’ business goals are met. This will begin with you collaborating with their marketing executives to define SMART goals and then developing the roadmaps, strategies, and plans to achieve them. You will work with our cross-functional team to turn those strategies into action and then report on their outcomes to show ROI.

You will be developing and nurturing relationships with clients and team members alike, educating and leading them as you enable them to work together to create magical marketing experiences for our clients’ customers.

You are the leader who ensures we deliver results to our clients. You are accountable for ensuring that clients are offered the plans that can make the most impact toward achieving their goals. Your main areas of responsibility are: goal-setting, defining roadmaps, reporting on metrics, and achieving business results.

Responsibilities (Tasks Associated with the Role)

• Work with clients to understand and/or develop their buyer personas, ideal client profiles, core messaging, brand house, customer journey, competitive ecosystem, current marketing activities audit, and overall marketing plan.
• Present strategic recommendations, campaign ideas, opportunities, and tests to expedite time to value, using all necessary tools and channels
• Proactively manage the profitability and growth of your accounts
• As-needed, assist with consulting needs for prospects
• Stay informed on trends, news, development, and competitors; and educate your clients and your team
• ALWAYS have your clients’ best interest at heart: participate in discussions, bring ideas, celebrate wins, learn from failures together in this spirit.
• Strategic, CMO-level marketing tasks as assigned, possibly including: budgeting and ad-spend recommendations, marketing plans, roadmaps, customer journey mapping, content gap analysis, competitive ecosystem research, playbooks, editorial calendars, ABM plans, lead scoring, and more.

Results (Expected Accomplishments)

• Each client has at least one SMART goal we are tracking toward
• Client goals are reported on and plans are adjusted regularly
• Positive feedback from clients and team members
• Project team feels supported
• Account growth and client retention

Scorecard (Metrics)

We will be regularly tracking these KPIs:

• Client goals set and achieved
• Client satisfaction
• Team approval

Requirements (Expected Proficiencies)

SCHEDULE & SETUP

• Flexible working schedule, but must be available during US business hours, Monday through Friday.
• Working and reliable internet service, computer, and quiet work-conducive environment

CHARACTERISTICS

• Reliable and self-motivated
• High-level English communication and empathy skills.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: passion to help businesses succeed through digital marketing, dedication to continuous improvement, reliance on facts and faith, thoughtful risk-taking, and rolling up your sleeves and getting it done.
• People Person: A relationship builder who connects with people and fosters those connections.
• Trusted Advisor: Accountable, responsible, and delivers on promises … every time.
• Highly developed self-awareness, leadership skills, and technical aptitude.
• Grit: really care about growing the clients’ business and doing what it takes to get there.
• Proven ability to self-motivate and emotionally self-regulate even during times of pressure and stress.
• Expert creative problem-solver with the ability to work both strategically and tactically.
• Impatient and imperfect – a need to make things happen quickly and make progress at the cost of perfection

EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years in a client-side digital strategist, CMO, or Marketing VP role (agency experience considered, but not required)
• Well-versed in the ever-changing digital marketing ecosystem.
• Strong understanding and advanced experience of marketing toolstack, including HubSpot
• Proven ability to prioritize and focus on what matters.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment and prioritizing shifting deadlines
• Experience leading in a client-centric manner that will grow the account and inspire the internal team
• Experience educating, mentoring, and inspiring others: team members and clients
• Experience with understanding technical jargon and communicating with both technical and non-technical team members and clients

**No Recruiters**

Please, no agencies or recruiters. We’re happy with our hiring process.

MTR (in a nutshell)

MTR Marketing is a full-service digital agency with many services, but only one deliverable: results. Organizations that need to grow and believe in customer-centricity rely on MTR’s expertise in the realms of business and marketing strategy, content and design, SEO and PPC, and much more.

Experts in all things HubSpot and education-as-marketing, we move audiences to act with research-backed creative and engaging digital experiences, then we follow through to nurture those leads with marketing automation and sales enablement. We achieve results with marketing that makes the difference.

What’s it like to work at MTR Marketing? Simply put, we work with respect, momentum, curiosity, and a lot of heart. Our values guide the way we work with clients and with each other. We believe in balance. We’re an agency of self-starters, committed to results. And above all else, we’re good humans who want to be around other good humans.

We aim to create a diverse and inclusive community where every team member feels comfortable doing their best work every day. Join us!

This job description is not all-inclusive and certain activities, duties or responsibilities may be required of the team member as needed.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract

Pay: $60.00 – $80.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

Application Question(s):

• If your client is a well-funded startup in the web security space and needs to educate their audience because a solution like theirs has never existed before, what do you recommend?
• Which industries are you most experienced/comfortable in? Are there industries you do not want to service?

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Preferred)

Experience:

• Digital marketing leadership: 7 years (Required)
• remote work: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote