Chief Marketing Officer

Join Bright Network as our Chief Marketing Officer 

Are you a driven, high-performing marketer looking for your next challenge? If so, we would love to talk to you! 

Bright Network is a market leading data and technology platform that is building the workforce of tomorrow. We’ve already signed up 900,000+ members, are working with 300+ of the world’s biggest companies, have launched into our second territory and raised £10M+ of venture of capital. We're now on the hunt for a brilliant Chief Marketing Officer so we can go to the next level! 

We believe that 'talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not’. Our marketing team plays a core role in empowering the next generation with the insights, advice and guidance to connect them with leading employers like Amazon, Google, HSBC and many more. 

As our Chief Marketing Officer, you’ll be influential in leading the business through an exciting three-year growth phase, shaping and executing our marketing strategy across both the digital platform and Technology Academy arms of the business. You’ll lead our high-performing marketing team, inspiring them to drive forward innovative campaigns, stories and customer experiences that spread the Bright Network word and maximise our brand reach - making a lasting impact on both future generations entering the workplace, and organisations hiring the best and most diverse talent. 

What does this look like in action? 

• Join Bright Network’s Executive team, shaping and executing our long-term marketing strategy across our vast B2B & B2C audiences at scale 
• Represent marketing at board level, providing strategic input on Bright Network’s ambitious growth plans and wider business strategy (ensuring goals and objectives for the marketing team support these) 
• Collaborate with the leaders of our three business units (Digital Platform in both the UK & Germany + our Technology Academy) to ensure the marketing team supports them in achieving their respective commercial, brand & growth targets – adapting your approach to each business unit depending on their maturity & needs 
• Ensure a strong, bold and unified brand story is clearly articulated across our different audiences leveraging our 10-year track record in the market to continue building our presence and reputation across the industry through a clear PR & communications strategy 
• Leading conversations and market-disrupting initiatives through expert thought leadership 
• Leverage an in-depth knowledge of our customers to effectively partner with leaders across Product, Technology & Commercial in ensuring our B2B & B2C customer lifecycles are optimised 
• Take full accountability for performance of the marketing team – building & leading a high-performance team, enabling their continuous growth & development to deliver bigger, better & bolder marketing campaigns 
• Review, iterate and implement the marketing decision-making systems, tools & processes - developing industry leading insight capability for marketing and product decisions 

Does this sound like you? 

• You’re an experienced CMO or marketing leader with a proven track record inspiring high-performing marketing teams to deliver against ambitious targets in high-growth environments (ideally VC/PE backed businesses) 
• You’re an empowering, intelligent, results-oriented and inspirational leader, confident in your ability to bring the best out those you work with, enabling them to deliver their best work 
• You know that working in a fast-paced environment means getting hands on – you're willing to muck in to help your teams be successful, but know when to step back to ensure there’s always an eye on the bigger picture 
• You’re daring and experimental in your approach to marketing – you prefer going big and failing, to staying safe and never learning 
• You’re a strategic thinker – unafraid to challenge the status quo & those you’re working with if it means getting the right outcome for the business & our customers 
• You’re analytical & confident in your ability to use data to track and continuously improve marketing results 
• You’re confident communicating at board level, as well as inputting into overall business-wide strategy, direction & decision-making 
• You take a business-first approach and feel confident balancing the representation of the marketing function with wider strategic priorities 
• You embody Bright Network’s core values of growth mindset, will to win and trusted to deliver, and feel passionately about our mission to build the workforce of tomorrow 

If your experience sounds a little different to this but you still think the role could be a good fit, get in touch as we’re very open to the right profile! 

What's in it for you, as our future CMO? 

• Join the Executive team of a high-growth business - with a recent £5m funding round, you’ll play a pivotal role in helping us execute our three-year strategy 
• We’ve gone global – with a 10-year track record in the UK market, we’re now in our second year of expansion in Germany 
• A product that’s genuinely loved by its customers – a market-leading product with CSAT of 8.4
• An incredible & values-driven company culture - we consistently score an average of 4.1 out of 5 in our team engagement surveys proving how much our team love working here 
• Join a high performing-team – we hold a high bar when hiring so that you’ll only work alongside exceptional colleagues, to help you achieve incredible things 
• An exceptional benefits package including: unlimited holiday, flexible working options & "work from anywhere" policy, £50 monthly wellbeing budget, enhanced pension contribution through Aviva, private healthcare plan with Bupa, enhanced parental leave, regular team socials and company events, & more! 
• Lastly, (but by no means least!), you’ll be driving forward our mission - upskilling the next generation of future talent and connecting members with opportunities they otherwise simply wouldn’t have access to 

Key details 

• Location: Liverpool Street, London (with hybrid-working) & occasional travel to Edinburgh to collaborate with our Tech & Product teams 
• Remuneration: Highly competitive & dependent on experience 
• Start date: ASAP 
• Reporting line: CEO & Founder 

Interview process 

• Intro call with our People team 
• Introductory chemistry meeting with our CEO & Founder 
• Competency interview with another member of our Executive team 
• Panel half day – including a presentation, values & culture interview & opportunity to meet the team 
• Final round interview with a member of our board  

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Commitment: 

Equal opportunities for all is a core part of what we do at Bright Network. To this end, we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and endeavour to run a fair and equal hiring process at all times. We assess and recruit candidates based on competency and potential, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability status.  

To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, please click here.