About the Role
Blue Education seeks a Growth Marketing Lead to establish its UK market presence, build brand awareness, credibility, and audience engagement. This hands-on role involves developing positioning, creating content, testing channels, and building a repeatable marketing engine, with an initial focus on content, community, and brand-led growth.
Responsibilities
- Build and execute Blue Education’s UK growth marketing strategy, focusing on brand awareness, content, community, and audience growth.
- Develop clear positioning and messaging for Blue Education’s expertise, services, and technology-enabled products.
- Build and manage a repeatable content engine for parents, students, schools, and education partners across channels like LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Search, and email.
- Produce high-quality content including short-form video, social media posts, thought leadership articles, campaign copy, landing page content, email content, and educational materials.
- Utilize AI tools for content ideation, copywriting, scripting, design, video editing, repurposing, localization, and performance analysis.
- Test various messages, content angles, formats, audiences, and channels to identify market resonance.
- Build relationships and credibility with audiences such as parents, students, schools, educators, counsellors, creators, and sector partners.
- Manage freelancers, editors, designers, creators, KOLs, or agencies as needed, while remaining involved in execution.
- Collaborate with the leadership team to translate business priorities into marketing campaigns and content initiatives.
- Track performance across content, audience growth, engagement, qualified inquiries, booked calls, conversion indicators, and channel learning.
- Develop workflows, templates, and operating processes for efficient scaling of marketing output.
- Contribute to defining the future of Blue Education’s marketing function.
Requirements
- Approximately four to six years of experience in growth marketing, content marketing, brand marketing, community marketing, social media marketing, or a related field.
- Proven experience in building awareness, audience, or community for an early-stage company, new product, or new market.
- Strong hands-on content creation skills across written, visual, and short-form video formats.
- Solid understanding of UK-facing digital channels including LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Google/Search, email, and webinars.
- High comfort level using AI tools for content creation, copywriting, ideation, design, editing, research, and workflow efficiency.
- Ability to translate complex subject matter into clear, engaging, and credible content.
- Good commercial judgment and understanding of marketing's contribution to audience growth and commercial opportunity.
- Strong written English and ability to produce persuasive, audience-appropriate marketing copy.
- Good creative and visual judgment, especially for social and video content.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving marketing environment.
- Effective management skills for freelancers, creators, agencies, or KOLs.
- High ownership mentality and willingness to be hands-on with execution.
Skills
- Growth marketing
- Content marketing
- Brand marketing
- Community marketing
- Social media marketing
- Content creation (written, visual, short-form video)
- AI tools for marketing
- Digital channel management (LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Google/Search, email, webinars)
- Messaging and positioning development
- Performance tracking
- Freelancer/agency management
- SEO
- Landing pages
- Email marketing
- Marketing automation
- Creator partnerships
- Influencer programs
- Community initiatives
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- £55,000–£70,000
Benefits
- Performance-related bonus
- Performance-based equity options
- Private medical insurance
- Paid annual leave and public holidays
- Professional development support
- Access to leading AI and marketing tools
- Budget for content production, campaign testing, creators, events, and marketing platforms
About the Company
- Blue Education's mission is to empower students towards academic excellence and personal growth, helping them achieve their dreams of attending prestigious universities.
- The company provides comprehensive, personalized, and culturally sensitive tutoring services for international students.
- Core values include Excellence, Diversity and Inclusivity, Individualised Approach, Global Perspective, and Continuous Learning.
- Blue Education aims to build greater awareness and trust in the UK market through established education services and emerging technology-enabled products.
