Head of Marketing Full Time

watchTowr

Hello, let us introduce ourselves!

We are watchTowr, a VC-backed cyber security startup helping organisations continuously discover vulnerabilities in their Internet-facing attack surface. Cyber security veterans and technical experts, we are obsessed with building impactful technology for some of the world’s most targeted organisations.

With experience informed by years of simulating sophisticated cyber attacks against some of the world’s largest organisations, our mission is to enable organisations to continuously discover exploitable vulnerabilities and weaknesses in their external attack surface – with cutting-edge technology.

As a team, we’re leveraging data to build the future of security testing – in our Continuous Automated Red Teaming and Attack Surface Management technology. Put simply – if there is a way to gain access to the organisation, it is our responsibility to find it before attackers do.

We are a young, high-energy and high-performing team delivering world-class technology to global enterprises, banks, insurers and more. We are in a high and aggressive growth phase of our journey, and are excited to continue adding colleagues to join our phorce of nature.

Our vision for offensive security is continuous.

But what’s the role?

We are looking for an ambitious Head of Marketing with cyber security industry and early stage startup experience to work with our business and commercial teams to establish a global, world-class marketing function.

Sounds great – what will I do?

• Define your vision for our marketing and PR strategy, and set clear goals and a roadmap for success.
• Continue to strengthen the watchTowr brand as an authentic, credible cybersecurity industry leading organisation.
• Design marketing activities and strategy in collaboration with the commercial/sales team.
• Execute the full spectrum of marketing activities across demand generation, brand management, content creation, product marketing and partnership marketing.
• Build a world-class marketing engine – design the functions and team you want to build, and then execute – recruiting, on-boarding, empowering, and mentoring team members to deliver outstanding results.

Sounds perfect to me, what specifics are you looking for?

Core Skills

• You have 5+ years of B2B/enterprise tech marketing experience, in a fast-pace environment where you played a pivotal role.
• You have experience in the cyber security industry, specifically with vendor product marketing or security consultancy marketing.
• Your marketing efforts have been focused on senior stakeholders (CXO) inside regional and global enterprise organisations.
• You understand the difference between delivering an outcome, and selling features
• You have built a global marketing strategy – not regionalised or localised someone else’s strategy, but built.
• You’ve worked in startup environments before, and don’t rely on teams elsewhere to accomplish your goals.
• You understand the differentiation of marketing activities needed to support direct sales, and partner/channel sales.
• You have experience rapidly building highly effective and high performing teams, that rally around a shared mission.
• You can lead, and execute yourself – we want you to own the function, and build the business case to expand the function.

Advantages

• You’ve been an early stage member of a startup previously
• You thrive with empowerment and autonomy to fulfil your responsibilities in the best way you see fit.
• You continuously learn – whether it be the latest and best way of solving a programmatic challenge or diving headfirst into cyber security.

What’s in it for me?

• Meaningful mission – the work we do materially prevents our clients from being breached.
• Competitive compensation – we believe that hard work, skills and ambition should be fairly compensated.
• Meaningful role in a company – You will be a key and early contributor to a fast-growing cyber security business that helps protect some of the world’s largest enterprises.
• Endless opportunities – we are in a high-growth phase of our journey, and plan to promote from within as we scale.
• Work with cyber security experts – we are solving cutting-edge industry-wide cyber security challenges with some of the world’s most advanced organisations.