Position Summary

As we pursue our mission to combat climate change through healthier buildings, we seek a key contributor to the Creative Services team at Sparkfund as a Senior Manager, Content and Marketing.

The Senior Manager, Content and Marketing is ready to make a big impact on a small team and wants to be part of an evolving organization. This position requires a self-motivated, influential and high-performing individual who helps design and implement content, web, and marketing strategies across programs, products and services areas, and other end-to-end initiatives. This position will report to the Director, Brand Strategy and Marketing and will work in partnership with multiple disciplines across a highly matrixed organization and will collaborate with teams to drive business results and deliver best-in-class collateral. This is an exciting, fast-paced position in the booming clean energy industry with the opportunity to work on the full breadth of marketing and campaign activities at one time.

In partnership with the Director, Brand & Marketing, this position will determine campaign goals, KPIs, and company-wide collateral needs. As a seasoned writer, editor, and marketer, the Senior Manager, Content and Marketing is skilled at providing fair and constructive feedback to the team, leveraging expertise to help us all improve our skills and develop team processes. The role will work with teams across the organization to plan, manage, execute, and collaborate on a wide range of deliverables, including product and program collateral (one-pagers, product explainers, training and sales decks, case studies), website strategy (SEO, web copy, editorial calendar, landing pages), press releases, branded and owned content, social and digital content, etc.

Key Responsibilities

Collateral Development

• Develop content and marketing material. Owning the end-to-end process, including SME interviews, research, outlining, writing, and editing.
• Drive the collateral development process, including managing milestones and ensuring client ready deliverables.
• Provide expert editorial feedback, including copy edits.
• Contribute to the brand style guide and design systems for products, programs, and service offerings.
• Write with a consistent and compelling voice and tone across complex product and business topics.
• Coordinate different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop necessary program and product collateral, contributing suggestions and acting as a resource to help team members deliver best-in-class material.
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of integrated marketing programs and apply those strategies across internal and external campaigns.

Website Content Management

• Own website strategy and development, including processes, editorial calendars, web copy, content, landing pages, SEO strategy, etc., to turn it into an asset for the company.
• Partner with the Director of Brand Strategy and Marketing, agencies, and internal teams to ensure the website is a key component of the rebrand launch, and go-to-market, marketing campaigns, thought leadership, communications, and broader digital strategies.
• Develop KPIs, and regularly report on successes, areas for improvement, leads, and user engagement.

Process and System Design Support

• Identifies and uses scalable frameworks (e.g., matrixes and other structured documentation) to solve structural problems with program, product, and marketing content.
• Contribute to the design of content solutions to improve systems, overcome technical constraints, and reduce content debt.
• Think holistically to identify opportunities for the Creative Services team around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries.
• Leverage frameworks, modularity, localization, reuse, and related concepts to execute content and marketing at that scale.

Messaging and Value Prop Support

• Communicate compelling rationale and narratives to team and stakeholders. Actively seeks diverse feedback on work and anticipates feedback to address it proactively.
• Tailor communications (content focus, style, format, etc.) for different audiences as appropriate.
• Build an understanding of current business processes, objectives, and challenges to suggest solutions and improvements.
• Collaborate with the Brand & Marketing Director to identify high-impact opportunities using a combination of data analysis, user research, competitive analysis, gap analyses, benchmarking, and content audits.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• At least five years of professional experience.
• Experience project managing integrated marketing campaigns, product marketing collateral, website strategy and web content management, preferably in the clean energy industry.
• Demonstrates strong listening and information-gathering skills for defining deliverables, needs, and outcomes.
• Experience supporting cross-organizational teams to help meet or exceed pipeline and revenue goals.
• Demonstrated skills in positioning and differentiating products and services.
• Proficient in Google Suite applications, CRM and web content management.
• Experience with marketing analytics, social media platforms, and other web tools.
• A skilled verbal and written communicator with a high degree of empathy.
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Excited to learn new things, curious about the world, and, above all, a critical thinker.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Ideal candidate has energy industry experience. If the candidate does not have the experience, the expectation is they will take a proactive approach to immerse themselves in the industry with the support of the organization.
• Agency marketing experience.
• Ideal candidate possesses three years of experience in B2B & B2B2C content marketing and communications.