Vp Marketing

Yousign is a **leading European SaaS player in the e-signature space**, mainly active in France, Germany, and Italy. Having anticipated the shift towards paperless long before any European competitors, **Yousign helps thousands of sales, purchasing, HR, legal, IT teams to digitalize and automate their contract processes.** Founded in 2013 by Luc Pallavidino and Antoine Louiset, Yousign has more than 10 000 customers, 3M+ monthly signers, 180+ employees, growing at a x2.5 rate YoY, **making it the most performing e-signature scale-up in Europe.** After a successful seed round in 2019 with eFounders, one of the best SaaS seed investors in Europe, **the company just closed a $35M Series A round, led by Lead Edge Capital**, a tier-1 US based growth investment firm (Algolia, Blablacar, Asana, TransferWise, Toast,...) to support its ambition of becoming the dominant European player in its category. **Role & Opportunity** Reporting into Alban Sayag (co-CEO), your role as VP of Marketing will be, among other things, to lead all marketing and growth activities for all markets (France, Germany, Italy and more to come). In addition, you'll be a member of the Executive Committee and will participate actively in the definition of the overall company strategy. Through your exposure to similar hyper growth businesses, you will build strong ties with all management layers. **Marketing Team Organisation (total of 14 people)** - **The Demand Generation team**, composed of Paid Acquisition and Inbound Managers, in charge of generating high quality leads to the Sales Team. - **The Brand team, **composed of Communication, Content and Social Media managers, in charge of positioning Yousign as a top of mind brand. - **The Self-Serve Business & Growth team** (under creation), in charge of running the entire self serve business of the company and especially driving high volume acquisition of very small companies with low ARPA at a competitive CAC. The Marketing team is expected to grow in line with Yousign's organic/external growth and geographical expansion. For the right entrepreneurially-minded leader, there will be a huge opportunity for impact by setting up best-in-class working practices. As the manager of the Marketing organisation, you'll have to support: - **Business Growth**: strengthen our demand engine and drive pipeline for our Sales teams. - **Branding**: bring Yousign to the next level and boost our employer brand. - **Revenue**:develop Yousign's self-service business model and increase the MRR from that stream. **Key Responsibilities** **Strategies and leadership: - Build and own the BtoB marketing strategy by analysing the existing and improving upon them, - Develop a powerful organisational structure, processes, and a collaborative culture that emphasises achievement of both short - and long-term business objectives, - Effectively manage and optimise budgets and track performance of activities to evaluate ROI, - Work on the implementation of transversal processes with the different teams (Sales, Design, Product, etc.), - Participate in the development of the Yousign's strategy as an ExCo member, - Nurture a strong partnership with other Executives (such as the VP Sales, CPO, CTO) to constructively partner and contribute to corporate and business goals and objectives (OKRs), - Develop Yousign's "Self-Serve" stream. **Communication**: - Develop and supervise strategic communications to improve Yousign product and brand awareness, - Work with the ExCo to identify internal and external communication opportunities, and execute them efficiently with your team, - Be the point of contact for all media enquiries and interactions that help promote Yousign, - Build an ARR Self Serve forecast, get it approved by the ExCo and the Board and report on its execution, - Build a pipeline forecast along with the Sales Team and report on its execution. **Team empowerment: - Forecast hiring needs for the global Marketing department, - Reorganise the team whenever you see some room for efficiency improvements, - Guide managers in hiring, leading and developing their teams - nurturing them into top performers. **Key Requirements**: - You have at least 8 years of experience in leading Marketing role, - You have a prior experience in the B2B SaaS domain as a member of the leadership team, - You have already been working in an international start-up/scale-up environment with a focus on SMB sales, - You have an extensive knowledge in growth and lead generation, - You are comfortable with carrying ARR targets, - You are highly analytical, with the ability to quick spot inefficiencies, compare data from different sources, and find solutions, - You have an established track record of good business judgement, - You have a strategic mindset, with ability to make complex decisions, - You have prior success in mentoring, coaching and developing human capital in your team, - You demonstrate outstanding communication skills: you have