Marketing and Strategic Growth Expert

We’re NextWaveSTEM®, a TechEd company that has created a one-stop STEM solution that provides standards-supported curriculum, teacher professional development, STEM kits as well as STEM instructors to K-12 schools. Courses include drone technology, robotics, 3-D printing, artificial Intelligence, and other emerging technologies. WE’RE GROWING FAST!

Over 500 schools across 22 states and 100,000 students have taken NextWaveSTEM® courses and we’re excited to be offering fun hands-on STEM classes to even more students in the following years nationwide. NextWaveSTEM® is an award-winning comprehensive solution for STEM education that includes project-based curricula with corresponding course kits, professional training, and ongoing support for educators.

NextWaveSTEM is looking for an experienced Education Marketing Expert to help build brand awareness, tighten the customer journey, and ultimately help grow/scale the organization by building demand for our solution.

Areas you will be working on include:

Lead Generation 

  • Social Media Management and Blog Posts

  • SEO ranking & organic lead generation

  • Bulk email outreach while maintaining domain reputation 

  • Build and manage affiliate relationships including resellers

  • PR management and Outreach

  • Content Creation (inc. product and sales collateral) & Videos

Internal 

  • Website Development and Maintenance

  • Team Communications

  • Research and Market Analysis

  • Collaborate with operations and sales teams and identify marketing opportunities

Marketing to existing customer base

  • 100-day onboarding strategy- write marketing pieces such as success stories, testimonials, and social media posts and collaborate with the school on other marketing opportunities to increase our brand awareness showing the effectiveness of our program

  • Email marketing with new announcements and features 

Skills needed:

  • Team player with strong written and verbal communications skills

  • Graphic design using Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

  • CRM/HubSpot marketing tools experience

  • Squarespace or a similar website builder expertise 

We are looking for a well-rounded individual who is able to work in a collaborative startup environment!

Location: Chicago Preferred (open to Remote)

W2 - Full-time employment opportunity 

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