Zepzgroup

​​Senior Marketing Manager - Media & Partnerships

USA Full Time

About Zepz

Zepz powers two leading global remittance brands, WorldRemit and Sendwave, to build the next generation of cross-border payments. Serving over 9 million customers across 4,000 corridors, Zepz is transforming how money moves across borders by making it faster, safer and more convenient. Its innovative digital solutions are designed to break down financial barriers and expand access to better financial tools. Zepz operates across a broad global footprint, connecting the global north and south and enabling migrants to support loved ones, fuel local economies and build better futures.

Come join us!

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Our Commitments:

  1. Velocity - We are fast
  2. Outcomes - We work for our customers
  3. Integrity - We do the right thing
About the Role

As a Marketing Manager at Zepz, you'll be a key driver of our global expansion for the Sendwave and WorldRemit brands for the Philippines market. You'll work at the intersection of marketing, partnerships, and community engagement to help us quickly and efficiently launch new remittance corridors and services. This role requires up to 20% work on evenings and weekends to accommodate events and partners in different time zones. We believe in work-life balance and offer flexibility to manage your time.

How You'll Make an Impact

You'll lead the charge in securing high-reach media and online opportunities to accelerate our growth. Your day-to-day will involve:

  • Building Strategic Marketing Channel Mix: Creatively build a strategy that maximises the impact of our existing and future marketing channels to support the user acquisition, retention and volumes across both of our brands. 
  • Creating and managing channels:  Identify, negotiate, and manage key partnerships with public figures and media channels that are a part of the communities we serve . This includes influencers, TV, radio, PR, online platforms, and even offline channels like community events and billboards.
  • Being a Brand Representative: Represent the Sendwave brand confidently at large community events and during TV and radio appearances, generating positive sentiment and answering tough questions.
  • Driving Growth & Innovation: Build and test new user acquisition strategies. Past initiatives have included brand collaborations, phone campaigns, and producing educational content for social media.
  • Collaborating Cross-Functionally: Work closely with our Regional Managers and Product Marketers to align on strategy and ensure our efforts scale efficiently as we enter new markets.
What you’ll bring to the table and own :
  • Experience: 4+ years of experience in a fast-paced environment in a marketing role
  • Language Skills: Native-level fluency in both English and Tagalog.
  • Navigate Networks: You confidently find and engage with highly connected people to build relationships and land key partnerships.
  • Negotiate & Persuade: You can competently negotiate and persuade potential partners to explore unique, long-term partnership models.
  • Are a Project Owner: You have a proven track record of managing projects from ideation to execution, including analyzing results to find new opportunities.
  • Manage Complexity: You are comfortable juggling multiple projects at once and can effectively prioritize between different activities, from research and negotiation to serving as a brand spokesperson.
  • Are Culturally Adaptable: You can quickly absorb new cultural settings and understand how they impact strategy.
  • Play a key role in accelerating the growth of all sending markets to the Philippines across both of our brands - Sendwave and Worldremit 
Bonus Points
  • Familiarity with the diaspora communities we serve.
  • Experience in production, PR, sales, or business development.
  • Proven ability to meet aggressive numeric targets.

 

What you’ll get from us 

Please note that the benefits below will apply to permanent roles.  

We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. specifically:

  • Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance! 
  • Private Medical Cover: ​​You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.              
  • Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future. 
  • Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.
  • Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible. 

We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!  

Why choose Zepz? 

  • Our team of over 800 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.
  • We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
  • We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
  • At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose -  to continue to provide the best service to our users.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive. 

So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.