Director of Demand Gen

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Gembah empowers and enables product innovation. We are democratizing and demystifying the product creation process by helping entrepreneurs, e-commerce sellers, and small-to-midsize businesses research, design, and manufacture products.

At Gembah, we understand that retaining the resources required to successfully create and launch a new product is a significant challenge for most businesses. From research and design to sourcing and vetting overseas manufacturers, there are countless hurdles on the path to bringing a new product to market.

Gembah’s end-to-end solution was created with these challenges in mind. Our team of experts is an extension of our clients’ teams, guiding them step-by-step, regardless of where they are along the process. Our internal team is comprised of a diverse group of product specialists. In addition, Gembah works with an exclusive network of vetted factories across the world. Today, Gembah has offices in the United States, India, Brazil, and China, with remote teammates across the world.

We are looking for a Director of Demand Generation to accelerate growth for our demand generation activities across all channels. In this role, you will help grow business by driving and nurturing inbound digital marketing leads and by leading and managing a sophisticated lead qualification process. 

You will develop, manage and support the end-to-end acquisition strategy to drive quality leads for our sales organization through thoughtful, optimized programs across all digital media channels. You will be responsible for inbound lead development with a focus on making demand generation programs and their execution a success. This includes qualifying and guiding leads to the sales team and providing them with the tools necessary to close new business. 

This role is highly collaborative, requiring proactive and frequent communication with product and sales. The qualified candidate must be an energetic, enthusiastic and communicative self-starter, with proven sales and marketing experience.

What you’ll be doing

  • Manage and continuously refine our demand generation model to provide visibility to the business on pipeline forecast by channel and campaign, considering channel velocity, conversion, and campaign costs.
  • Generate qualified leads across existing and new sources and channels and improve conversions to opportunities. 
  • Provide direction on compelling, targeted marketing campaigns that successfully engage entrepreneurs and businesses, generate and accelerate pipeline/opportunities.
  • Work closely with the marketing team to incorporate content, SEO/SEM, social, website, events, and more, into cohesive integrated campaigns.
  • Own and manage our marketing automation, paid advertising and SEO resources. Create and maintain metrics on campaign effectiveness and business impact and generate insights from the data to continuously improve campaign strategies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or work equivalent
  • 5-7+ years of experience in marketing strategy and execution
  • 3 years working in demand generation 
  • 2 years working directly with or as a part of a sales team 
  • Ability to track and manage leads in Salesforce, Sugar or other CRM tools
  • Knowledge and experience with marketing automation tools and features/functionality
  • Knowledge of growth marketing and hacking strategies
  • Excellent networking and communication skills, both verbal and written 
  • Strong attention to detail, time management, and decision-making skills 
  • A proactive, self-directed approach and the ability to learn quickly with limited instructions
  • A high sense of urgency, strong initiative and the ability to multi-task

Our team loves working at Gembah because...

  • Gembah was built by co-founders with a vision to democratize product entrepreneurship globally. Our business model is incredibly sustainable and Gembah has customers ranging from solo entrepreneurs to product startups and product enterprises. Venture-backed, we have the funding to invest in fast growth
  • We are still a small but fast-growing, dynamic, and passionate team headquartered in Austin, with team members throughout the world. We give our employees a lot of responsibility and ownership of their work. You will have fun at work while engaging in challenging projects.

Perks

  • Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependent(s)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Unlimited vacation policy
  •  Generous Stock Options Packages for the right candidate
  • Virtual and in-person social events

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
    • JavaLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
    • IllustratorDesign
    • InVisionDesign
    • SketchDesign
    • SolidWorksDesign
    • TrelloManagement

Location

Gembah is located in an office community of creatives in the eclectic East Side of Downtown Austin, next to restaurants, bars, Brew&Brew & Whole Foods

An Insider's view of Gembah

How does your team reward individual success?

Everyone at Gembah is quick to celebrate individual successes, from all levels of the company. Formal recognition is given at company all-hands, shout-outs are always present during meetings large and small, and there is a lot of appreciation expressed on a daily basis within and across teams. You definitely feel the love here!

Phinam

Sr Software Engineer

What does your typical day look like?

Each day is completely different. Some days are spent working internally to improve the team’s operations and other days are spent talking to clients all day about project updates. Some days are just spent solving problems and creating solutions - never a dull week!

Arwa

Design Project Manager

What are some things you learned at the company?

I've learned more in the last seven months than I have at any job I've worked. Every single person at this company has had to prove themselves to be a very quick learner in order to keep up with the pace of things in this crazy and complex industry. The collaboration with other teams, process building, and constant feedback drive a lot of learning!

Ben

Account Executive

What is your vision for the company?

Human beings are creators by nature. It’s what separates us from all the other species on the planet. Gembah's mission is to bring that power back to creators and innovators anywhere, and truly democratize product innovation. Everyday our awesome customers are bringing us new exciting product ideas that we help them bring to life!

CEO and Co-founder

CEO and Co-founder

What are some social events your company does?

Gembah is an extremely social company; there’s not a single person I wouldn’t want to be friends with outside of work. We go to happy hours, dinners, cooking classes, axe throwing, etc. If it’s fun, chances are we’ll go at some point. This company really does feel like a family

Ryan

Account Manager

What are Gembah Perks + Benefits

Gembah Benefits Overview

We provide a flexible and truly global diverse work environment. Our US team works directly with our teams in China, Mexico, India and Vietnam. We recognize holidays from all our offices and celebrate our diverse cultures. We celebrate diversity and work actively to build a diverse and inclusive company and society.
We're very passionate about our mission to democratize product innovation, and enable people of all walks of life, anywhere in the world, to bring their product ideas into reality, and achieve financial independence by building their own product business.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We select nonprofits every quarter and then organize our employees to help with different events or tasks as needed.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
We allow our employees to work remotely and the hours that fit them the best as long as it does nto negstively impact their team or the company overall.
Remote work program
More than half of our team work outside of Austin, and in Austin have a flexible office policy. Everyone is welcome to work in to the office whenever they want, but nobody is required to.
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
We are part of Recode The Quo, a local organization that is focused on helping technology startups build an internal playbook for diversity and inclusion.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
We actively seek out diverse candidates and strive to hire diverse whenever possible. Out of our close to 100 people, 48% are non-white, and 31% are female.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Our benefits options include HSA and FSA options.
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
All employees participate in our stock option incentive plan. At Gembah we see everyone as an integral part of our success so everyone should share in the financial success of the company.
Performance bonus
Gembah offers performance based compensation for employees that meet and exceed their metrics
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We have a no policy PTO policy. We trust our employees to manage their time off so that it doesn't negatively impact their team and the company overall. The same is true for our parental leave policy.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
We offer paid sick days for up to two weeks per year for all employees.
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Gembah hosts at least 1 company outing per year
Free snacks and drinks
Unlimited Snacks and Coffee
Company-sponsored happy hours
We organize happy hours several times per quarter at some cool spot that allow us to socialize and where everyone feels welcome, whether they drink alcohol or not.
Onsite office parking
Pet friendly
We allow our employees to bring their pets to work as long as they can manage them and ensure it's not a negative impact on other employees.
Home-office stipend for remote employees
We pay for employees to set up their at home office and pay for reasonable expenses associated with that.
Professional Development Benefits
Promote from within

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