Senior Brand Manager (Freelance), Otta
Freelance role for 3/4 months
Awaiting salary
£400 - £450 per day
1 day a week in office (Old Street)
The better way to find a job in tech
Otta Certified
Job no longer available
The better way to find a job in tech
21-100 employees
Otta Certified
Job no longer available
Awaiting salary
£400 - £450 per day
1 day a week in office (Old Street)
21-100 employees
Company mission
Our mission is to become the best platform for candidates and companies to find each other. We’ve merged with Welcome to the Jungle, and share a common vision of the need to reinvent the candidate job search experience and make job search less soul-crushing.
Role
Who you are
- You have a previous track record in a brand management role, operating in a fast-paced environment and interacting with multiple stakeholders
- You are a strategic thinker with strong project management skills and have worked on a major rebrand.
- You have built brilliant creative campaigns that have had a demonstrative impact
- You are able to tell brand stories and effectively communicate our unique offering to both agencies and internally to ensure we have strong brand alignment
Desirable
- You have worked in a branding agency environment previously
What the job involves
- As a talented and inspiring UK Senior Brand Manager, you will report directly into our VP Brand & Creative based in Paris and ensure that our brand remains recognisable and exciting for job hunters and companies
- Working closely with the whole Marketing department (Creative Studio, Product Marketing and Growth Marketing), as well as with cross-functional teams (Product, Business, Media…), you will have the opportunity to define the strategy of our company’s key brands, develop creative campaigns that make us stand out and work with an extensive network of external partners
- Here’s a snapshot of your focus areas for the next 4 months:
- Campaign Development: Build briefs to create flagship and always-on communication initiatives, lead production and media activations across all relevant channels (PR, social, paid media, events, partnerships, etc.), ensure that our brand is presented consistently across all touchpoints
- Run tenders to find our next PR Agency & Media agency for the UK market
- Drive the agencies on strategic, budget aspects as well as the operational execution (PR & Media agencies)
- Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Drive alignment with internal teams (Marketing, Media, Business, Product, Tech…), identify a network of partners / agencies / freelancers / etc. that can support the execution of your strategy, drive and challenge them autonomously to reach your goals
- Reporting & Analysis: Research and track key metrics to assess our brand health, proactively identify opportunities, measure the effectiveness of your strategy and report on its successes
- Support internal teams: Supervision of messaging, visuals, storytelling, and all assets produced by and for other teams in order to ensure coherence with current brand guidelines and positioning
Application process
- Exploratory call with Kate (UK Talent Acquisition Partner), to understand your motivations, experience to date, & answer any initial questions you have (30 mins)
- 2nd stage video interview with Alice (VP of Brand & Creative), to discuss the scope of projects you've worked on and your project management and branding experience & answer any further questions you might have (45 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Looking for a job is a frustrating experience. It’s incredibly hard to find a good match. Job adverts lack useful information like salary and diversity data. Companies sometimes never respond. Otta was created in 2019 to make finding a job in tech less soul crushing.
In January 2024, Otta merged with Welcome to the Jungle. Our ambition is to become a global leader in the world of work, and help candidates and companies find each other through our job matching, recruiter solutions including employer brand, and media.
Otta and Welcome to the Jungle both believe in a future of work based on the power of matching. Both companies share the same DNA that disrupts market conventions and are obsessed with helping people find exciting and meaningful work.
Insights
Most candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
62% female employees
280% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"We've all had terrible experiences when trying to find a new role - it's at best tolerable and at worst utterly soul destroying. Because of Otta's..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Aug 2020
$2.9m
SEED
Total funding: $24.1m
Company benefits
- 24 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- In addition, we have a winter break where the office closes from 25 December to 1 January, so everyone can recharge
- We are trialling a 4 day week from June to December 2024, so everyone gets every Friday off
- £1,000 self-care allowance to spend each year on your wellness or personal development
- Universal parental leave - 13 weeks' full pay, 13 weeks' half pay, 13 weeks' statutory pay (if you have been with us for at least 6 months), 13 weeks' unpaid (optional)
- Health insurance with AVIVA, including dental and optician cover
- Breakfast, snacks and drinks at the office every day
- Lunch at the office every second Wednesday
- Cycle-to-work scheme with GCI (no £1,000 limit)
Company values
- Candidates first — Otta was started to make job search less soul crushing. Our main focus is meticulously crafting the best experience for candidates
- There for each other — Startups are hard, but more enjoyable when working with great people. We are supportive and generous with our time, whether it's giving feedback or brightening up someone's day
- We challenge because we care — We believe challenge allows us to reach new heights. From personal development to product design, we challenge because we care about each other and Otta’s success
- What’s the return? — We like to make a lot happen with a little. Doing this requires an evaluation of return on investment, and discipline to work on the problems that will have the biggest impact
- What would it take to learn faster? — Speed of iteration typically beats quality of iteration. We move fast when it helps us learn faster - we feel safe taking risks, finding smart shortcuts, or shipping experiments
- What could exceptional look like? — Our standards are high, and there are moments where it's worth pushing them further. We're comfortable asking hard questions to explore how to make something exceptional
Company HQ
Finsbury, London, UK
Founders
Jeremy Cledat
(CEO of Welcome to the Jungle)Previously work in venture capital firms for 6 years, then created Welcome to the Jungle in 2015.
Caroline Fischer
(Country Manager of Otta)Grew her career in commercial, operational and leadership roles in tech companies - big and small - in London.
People progressing
Abby joined Otta as a Business Operations Associate and was promoted to Customer Success Lead after 7 months. She is now Head of Commercial Operations.
Sarah joined Otta as a Finance Lead and was promoted to Head of Finance after one year with the company.
Diversity & Inclusion at Otta
Claudia Gallon (People Partner)
- Though we’re quite early in our journey, our employees are starting to roll out initiatives that help us to better understand and empathise with each other and the world around us. We collect meaningful data in our onboarding survey, conduct privilege awareness workshops as part of employee onboarding, and anonymise tasks during interview processes to eliminate bias. Diverse employees make for an inclusive product.
- We’re committed to a feedback-driven and transparent culture, as we work to make Otta a workplace where everyone feels welcome and all voices are heard. An environment where conversations between socially different people are seen as opportunities to learn, anticipate alternative viewpoints, and generally grow our business.
- We’re continually iterating our product to do better. We collect meaningful diversity data from companies to inform candidates about gender split, we create transparency through sharing salary ranges, we donate to social mobility causes every time someone secures a new role through Otta. And there is so much more to come. We’re thankful for the opportunity to listen to and learn from our candidates.
- Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are integral to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. Our Women’s Group, LGBTQIA+ Group, Disability Group, and Black Employee Network provide vital support and advocacy, creating spaces for connection, growth, and empowerment. Through these ERGs, we celebrate diversity and ensure every employee can bring their whole self to work.
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