WorkingLit is hiring a Marketing Manager!
We’re looking to hire our first full-time employee at WorkingLit, someone who can liaise between the publishers who use our software to run their business and the coders who are building it. We’re seeking an entrepreneurial spirit with equal passions for publishing and technology. An outgoing systems thinker with great marketing instincts. In any given day on the job you may be called on to write a compelling blog post full of personality, close a sale, teach yourself a new spreadsheet formula, and walk a poet through a CSV upload.
Who’s our ideal candidate? Maybe it’s you! Perhaps you’ve started a small press and ran every aspect of it, from acquisitions to ecommerce to accounting. Maybe you put yourself through publishing school with a work study job at the computer help desk. Or you were the top Girl Scout cookie sales person who went on to study information architecture and write novels.
WorkingLit is a SaaS (software as a service) company founded by Microcosm Publishing in order to help ourselves and fellow publishers succeed in business so we can focus on making great books. Our goal is to help raise the tide for independent publishers. We’re looking for someone to help grow our platform. Come grow with us!
Hours: This is a 32-40 hour per week position
Location: Remote, must be located in the US or able to work during US Eastern or Pacific time business hours. Desk space is available if desired in Portland, Oregon, but our whole team is remote.
Experience: Work experience in at least two of these areas is required: publishing or bookselling operations, b2b sales and/or customer service, marketing, and tech support.
Job duties
Core duties will include:
- Working closely with our executive team to hone our marketing, sales, and support strategy
- Marketing and promotion: Write and publish our newsletter and blog. Promote our work to media and podcasts, with some minor dabbling in social media as needed. Coordinating our presence at events. Determining marketing asset needs.
- Sales: Reaching out to potential customers, giving system walkthroughs, and collecting feedback. Managing our sales funnel automations. Strategizing new sales channels and partnerships.
- Support and education: Responding to customer inquiries, tracking support requests and recommending bug fixes and feature improvements. Writing and editing user documentation.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to:
- Express yourself with accuracy and aplomb
- Love solving problems in a quickly-changing environment
- Absolutely nerd out about spreadsheets and data
- Notice what needs to be done and come up with a plan for getting it done
- Work closely as a team with company leaders
- Quickly pick up new programs and systems, while also seeing them critically and offering structured feedback and top notch bug reports
- Find the simplest path to the goal
- Have robust time and task management systems and skills
- Enthusiastically speak about the product and ask people to subscribe and use it
- Work independently as part of a team
Pay and benefits:
Job structure, compensation, and benefits depend on the candidate’s strengths, experience, and location. Starting hourly base rate between $19.25 and $22.50, with pay and responsibilities evaluated regularly. Potential for equity and/or commission on sales.
Apply by 1/19/2025 by completing this application. No resume or cover letter is necessary.
We will respond to all applicants by 2/10/25.