Sr. Manager, Media & Influencer Marketing

Description

Hi, We’re AppFolio.

We’re innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We’re more than just a software company — we’re a cloud-based powerhouse that creates products to make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing the way people do business, and we want your ideas, your enthusiasm, and your passion to help us keep on innovating.

We love where we work, and you can, too.

What We’re Looking For

The Sr. Manager, Media and Influencer Marketing will design and implement comprehensive customer advocacy and influencer programs and deliver an integrated social media and PR strategy that produces measurable results, drives amazing experiences and deepens our partnerships. This role is responsible for the program strategy and day-to-day management of all influencer partnerships and customer advocates to ensure ongoing, strategic collaboration, tracking and measurement of mutually beneficial opportunities such as PR opportunities, content, speaking engagements, social media engagement and industry education. Our mission is to harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing and amplify the impact of happy customers, employees and engaged influencers.

This role will manage the Social Media and Advocacy Specialist and work closely with Content, Product Marketing, PR, Creative Services, Customer and Value Added Services, Loyalty + Services, Sales + Sales Enablement.

What You’ll Do

• Build, grow and manage a comprehensive customer advocacy program and partner with successful customers to: speak with and for us, write content and blog posts, share stories, UGC and references: provide constant, ongoing awareness and drumbeat of customer wins/successes
• Identify more effective strategies for embedding customer advocacy into other cross-functional areas including demand creation and customer lifecycle marketing
• Educate key internal partners (e.g. sales, customer success, program managers) about the availability and deployment of customer advocacy and influencer assets and interactions
• Develop and implement an influencer program strategy that includes employee, customer and industry influencers to drive growth, engagement, brand awareness and relationship building
• Maintain customer advocacy and influencer tools, documentation and database
• Research and collaborate with marketing team members to identify new advocates and influencers to grow the programs
• Match advocates and influencers with opportunities to share their stories, provide industry education and thought leadership in a variety of ways (speaking at events, developing content) through strong relationship building
• Develop a comprehensive social media strategy and grow and nurture a community of folks that engage with us on our digital channels – prospects, employees, customers, partners, thought leaders, media, etc.
• Leverage social media channels to engage customers, share customer voice, and support customer community efforts
• In collaboration the the PR team, develop and oversee a media strategy that drives consistent cadence of stories and media pitches to amplify our customer stories and partnership
• Track and measure program KPIs and regularly present on program performance and areas of opportunity to optimize
• In partnership with Product, manage our Customer Advisory Board program to inform our product roadmap and offerings
• Think creatively to define programs that surprise and delight customers and industry influencers
  
  

Must-Haves

• BA/BS degree
• 7+ years of experience in marketing communications + SaaS marketing
• Ability to comfortably oversee multiple project workstreams and scopes of responsibilities, both managing upwards, downwards, and with cross functional partners
• Exemplary communication and presentation skills with the ability to speak confidently in small or large groups at various levels
• Strategic and persuasive, with an eye for memorable storytelling and a proven track record of articulating strategies and programs plans to gain stakeholder buy in and alignment
• Broad understanding of the influencer marketing space and advocacy programs with a passion for networking and building relationships with other people
• Creative thinker with an entrepreneurial spirit and strong implementation ability
• Positive attitude and a great sense of humor
• Excellent project management, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Highly motivated, resourceful problem-solver with the ability to lead and interact effectively with cross-functional teams
  
  

Our Story

AppFolio (NASDAQ: APPF) was founded in 2006 with the mission to revolutionize vertical industry businesses by providing great software and service. Our easy-to-use, cloud-based software helps our customers more effectively market, manage, and grow their businesses. Our software solutions exist in the real estate vertical, including AppFolio Property Manager and AppFolio Investment Management.

To find out more about what AppFolio has to offer, check out appfolioinc.com/careers.

Statement of Equal Opportunity

At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.