Senior Communications Manager, Vendr
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SaaS buying platform
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SaaS buying platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To change how companies find, buy, and manage SaaS.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in a similar role
- An ability to set and communicate and execute against a strategy
- A willingness to be hands on, creating content and managing the day to day of our social and PR programs
- A proven track record of successfully PR and AR programs at high growth companies
- Experience managing and hiring a team
- Great execution and project management skills
- Crisis management and journalist relations, a plus
- Excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment; start-up experience preferred
What the job involves
- Develop our quarterly and annual PR strategy to deliver brand and product messaging to our target audience through earned media
- Drive our organic social media strategy to engage our community, build relationships with influencers, and expand our audience
- Support internal evangelists and senior executives as amplifiers of our brand with content, training, media opportunities, and more
- Partner with our community manager to drive engagement to and within our owned community
- Participate in analyst relations in partnership with product marketing
- Work closely with customer advocacy to identify customers and partners to bring into media opportunities to reinforce our story with their voice
- Share industry news, trends, coverage, and competitor announcements to stakeholders to help inform our strategy
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
For enterprises, purchasing software is often a drawn-out and expensive process involving multiple stakeholders and salespeople. Vendr has built a platform that allows businesses to purchase software using software. The aim is to make enterprise software purchases as easy as consumer product purchases.
It's a lucrative business, not just because of the proliferation of B2B SaaS tools, but also because of the revenue potential: Vendr charges its customers between 1% and 5% of its software spend that it manages. This model works for Vendr and its customers, as the latter will typically save significantly more than this by using Vendr.
Vendr has already supported an impressive set of customers, including Canva, Grammarly, GitLab, Brex, HubSpot and InVision. An example of its commitment to improvement is in the launch of Vendr 2.0, that combines its SaaS purchasing and management products to give enterprise customers enhanced visibility into software purchase and use, allowing them to reduce overspend and purchase better software faster and cheaper.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$150m
SERIES B
Feb 2022
$66m
LATE VC
Total funding: $282m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental & vision: We offer competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance which includes 100% employer paid premiums and an HSA contribution.
- Time off & hybrid work: We encourage flexibility and rest, including unlimited PTO, a WFH stipend, the option to work from our Boston and Charleston offices whenever, an annual company-wide week-long shutdown in July, 12 paid company holidays, and more.
- Mental health & wellbeing: The wellbeing of our team is critical to our success, which is why we offer a wellness/gym reimbursement, a paid Calm app subscription, virtual “Wellness Wednesday Yoga” sessions, and more.
- Parental leave: We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family.
- Retirement planning: We want planning for the future to come easy so we provide a 401k with a 4% match.
- Growth & development: You'll have access to an annual education reimbursement, success guides, and our manager training and enablement program.
- Culture & workplace: We are a remote-first company and love to get together for in-person events to strengthen relationships.
Company values
- Kindness-as-a-Service: We strive to be friendly, generous, candid, and considerate in all of our interactions, specifically those that can evoke a lot of emotion, like a negotiation. We keep others top of mind with everything we do, and we believe it is unkind to sugarcoat truths.
- Create fair playing fields, everywhere: We believe that opportunity is abundant, as long as we create a world in which everyone plays by a fair set of rules. We believe in identifying what playing fields are unfair, and working to change them. When the fields are fair, excellence becomes clear – and clearly rewarded.
- V is for velocity: Our bias is always toward speed in the right direction. We prioritize shipping over polishing. We know that the best way to move fast is for everyone to feel ownership and autonomy over their work.
- Pursue truth: We care more about what is right than who is right. We have the curiosity to want to seek out truth. We pride ourselves on being data-informed and work to share data wherever and to whomever it may help.
Company HQ
Back Bay East, Boston, MA
Founders
Ryan Neu
(CEO)Prior to founding Vendr, Neu was head of Enterprise Sales for InVision and Director of SMB Sales for HubSpot.
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