Head of Marketing & Communications

Moodle with us!

We're the world's most popular learning platform and we’re on a mission to empower educators to improve our world.

We are growing fast and are now searching for a Head of Marketing Communications to lead our Marketing Comms strategy and teams through this exciting phase and beyond! Fully flexible and working from anywhere in the UK or Europe, this is a brand new leadership role that will be integral to our ongoing success.

Find out about your new workplace

Moodle is the world’s most trusted online learning solution. The engine of our ecosystem is Moodle LMS, the secure and customisable open source learning management platform used by over 300 million learners worldwide. Developed in conjunction with our community, Moodle LMS is complemented by an ecosystem of products including Moodle Workplace and a network of partners and services providing hosting, customisations and support. We also teach and support educators to create effective online learning experiences and share open education resources. Collectively, we empower educators to improve our world.

We’ve built a passionate team of hard-working and driven people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education - yes, these are our company values!

Find out more about us on moodle.com

What your new job can look like

Reporting to the Global Head of Services, this brand new role will see you expand upon our existing marketing comms framework to support our growing product and services businesses. As a highly experienced senior leader, you will be balancing the creative with the commercial, to work with the team in crafting compelling brand messaging and achieving value-driven, customer centric solutions that deliver exceptional commercial outcomes and growth.

With the pace of Moodle, no two days will ever be the same! But most days will involve a mix of:

• Establishing and implementing innovative long term and short term marketing strategies that support Moodle’s mission and goals

• Leading a high performing global team that promotes innovation and creativity to drive commercial success for Moodle and our partner network
• Empowering your team to deliver on marketing and comms plans to grow and enhance the Moodle brand
• As a critical thinker with a keen creative eye, creating your own ‘playground’, becoming a driving force behind a culture of creativity, experimentation and learning within the marketing and communications function
• Building and maintaining strong relationships across the organisation, particularly with the Services and Product teams
• Actively participating as a member of the management team, collaborating with your peers in the development and achievement of Moodle’s goals.

Requirements

We'd love to meet you

Especially if you can talk to us about your:

• Extensive experience at a senior level in the development of creative, innovative, customer driven brand and marketing strategies, ideally within the technology sector
• Outstanding leadership, communication, interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills including a strong ability to work effectively across a variety of stakeholders
• Experience leading a high performing marketing team as a coach and mentor, that thrives in an environment of working to team member strengths, and building on them
• A hands on approach to driving marketing and comms plans and strategies - you aren’t afraid to ‘get your hands dirty’ and deliver across all channels (e.g. digital, email, lead nurturing, and whatever else comes down the line)
• Ability to collaborate with others in a diverse global structure, and build strong relationships with your stakeholders
• Experience with Moodle, Open Source Software or the Education / Ed Tech industries will be highly regarded.

Benefits

What's in it for you?

We’ve already talked about the importance we place on achieving our mission to empower educators to improve our world, our passion for our values and some of the cool things we are doing as a company.

So what about this?!

• Expand your career and help us drive marketing comms strategies for our global product and services operations

• Take on a genuinely flexible distributed role, working from anywhere in the UK or Europe
• You’ll have a globally focused role, interacting with team members from over 25+ countries around the world and counting

• You can flex both your your innovative and commercial muscle, helping us build the Moodle reputation and reach
• We’ll provide you with a fantastic range of benefits, focusing on work-life balance, wellbeing (and of course education!)

If this sounds like a great fit for you

• Click on the following link to apply
• Add your resume and anything else you'd like to add…
• Press send.

Moodle is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Moodle is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Moodle are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Moodle will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Moodle encourages applicants of all ages.