SEO Manager

About Airblack

Airblack is India’s largest online skilling academy, helping people become micro-entrepreneurs or get flexible opportunities through innovative “do-it-together” (DIT) courses.

In three years, Airblack's beauty academy has trained over 35,000 students in 200+ cities as Makeup Artists, helping them start their businesses as freelancers, studio owners, or earning influencers. We have also forayed into hospitality and culinary and helped over 500 bakers launch a baking business with our Certified Professional Baking Course

Airblack is backed by marquee investors such as Info Edge Ventures, Elevation Capital, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Blume Founders Fund, Better Capital and Mars Shot Ventures. We have also been recognized by the Beauty & Wellness Sector Skill Council & Skill India as a government-certified beauty skilling partner. Airblack has also been recognized by Forbes as a “Select 200” company with global business potential.

Who are we looking for?

At Airblack, we're entering a path of exponential growth, aiming to grow our revenue tenfold within the next two years while bolstering our profitability. In this pivotal phase, we seek a dynamic Performance Marketer responsible for planning, implementing, and optimizing high-performing advertising campaigns across various online channels, including Google Ads and Meta Ads, to increase company sales and brand awareness. This role requires a combination of analytical, creative, and strategic thinking to develop scalable and efficient campaign structures.

The ideal candidate would be driven by a blend of creative problem-solving and analytical prowess and thrive in a high-ownership environment. If this sounds like you, we would love to meet you.

What would you be doing?

• Performance Marketing: Develop, execute and manage lead acquisition for the Airblack inside-sales team by efficiently planning, executing and scaling up performance marketing campaigns on Facebook, Google and other digital media platforms
• Perform daily account management, check campaign performance, and adjust bids to enhance campaign efficiency.
• Optimize performance across ad channels by testing and tuning ads, keywords, and bid strategies.
• Analytics & Instrumentation: Contribute to the analytics muscle of the Growth function with in-depth data analyses and set-up tech instrumentation to scale operations
• Experimentation & User Insights: Deliver continuous user insights, solutions discovery and experimentations across both 0-to-1 and scale-up revenue initiatives
• Go-To-Market Operations: Execute end-to-end operations on GTM, leads CRM and revenue optimization initiatives.
• Creative Strategy: Be a creative powerhouse in acquisition advertising by ideating and producing best-in-class video and static ad properties, user communications and landing pages
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with the Growth, Design, Brand, Tech, Product and Inside-sales functions to advance cross-function revenue and profitability goals.
• Key Ownership: Own key metrics like ROAS, CAC, Lead Conversion % and Revenue

What makes you a suitable candidate?

We would love to hear from you if you meet the qualifications below:

• Experience: 1+ years in digital performance marketing with a high-growth startup preferably in the education / ed-tech space
• Understanding of custom audiences and lookalike audiences.
• Ability to generate and install the Facebook pixel, and Google Analytics.
• Strong understanding of bidding techniques (AutoBid, CPC, CPM, oCPM)
• Expertise in creating ads and ad copies.
• Education: A bachelor's degree in any discipline is required from a tier 1 college
• You have managed upwards of 20 Lakhs in ad spending
• You are a marketing geek and can come up with creative ideas at scale
• You are thoroughly data-driven in decision-making; with good Excel skills. Experience in SQL is a bonus!
• You have a proven track record of taking high ownership and willingness to execute hands-on when needed
• You have a knack for driving 0-to-1 rapid experimentation initiatives and 1-100 standardized operational initiatives

Why should you join Airblack?

• Empowering Entrepreneurs: We cultivate a culture of entrepreneurship where individuals are employees and owners of their work.
• Experimentation & Build: Our Growth team fosters a culture of rapid experimentation, freedom to fail & iterate, and owning scale-up through process building.
• Unrestricted Autonomy: When confronted with a challenge, you have the authority to take charge, exhibiting determination and resilience to overcome obstacles and ultimately succeed.
• Drive for Success: Embrace challenges head-on, applying your skills and expertise to accomplish tasks precisely and excellently.
• Thriving Market Opportunity: Join us on an exhilarating journey as we pioneer India's inaugural platform for passion skills, offering a unique and vibrant market to shape and build upon.
• Work with a stellar team: Great missions require great people - and we are fortunate to have some of the smartest and nicest people support us in our journey. Our team comprises ex-entrepreneurs, VCs, and operators from places such as Goldman Sachs, Paytm, Oyo, Bain & Co., BCG, Urban Company, top IITs and universities such as DU and NIFT.

AdElement is an online advertising startup based in Pune. We do AI driven ad personalization for video and display ads. Audiences are targeted algorithmically across biddable sources of ad inventory through real time bidding. We are looking to grow our teams to meet the rapidly expanding market opportunity.

Job Description

In this role you will be responsible for setting up, managing and optimising video advertising campaigns You should be extremely organised and will leverage checklists to ensure that nothing is forgotten and will strive for zero errors. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, demanding, metric driven, entrepreneurial environment with limited supervision

Required Skills

• Self-motivated with the ability to take initiative and great attention to detail
• Excellent Experience with Microsoft Office tools
• At least 2 Years of Digital Marketing experience 
• Attention to detail, Excellent organisational and communication skills
• Experience with the programmatic display or video marketing.
• Experience with Campaign optimisation and reports handling
• Proven sales and client service track record
• Familiar with marketing tech-related issues and responses

• Experienced working with Video serving tech. (Adtelligent, Cedato, etc)
• Experience with Tag Integration (VAST/VPAID)
• Experience with relational satabases like MYSQL
• Familiarity with Data Analytics and tools like Python/ NumPy

Experience

• 2-5 years

Education

• UG - B.Tech/B.E.; PG - M.Tech/ MSc, Computer Science, Statistics, Maths

Job Responsibility:

• Manage digital advertising campaign activities: Setup, traffic, manage and optimize online ad campaigns, campaign modification as per request, campaign scheduling, targeting and monitoring its performance.
• Day to day campaign optimization by focusing on conversion and other performance metrics.
• Reporting of the campaign performance metrics on timely basis to various stakeholders.
• Sustaining present clients for further business opportunities.
• Shall take lead in achieving monthly delivery target on existing publishers
• Strategizing execution of different campaigns across various verticals.
• Interaction with agencies/ad networks to plan and run campaigns.

Job Requirements:

• Prior experience of managing CPL/CPI/CPR/CPT/CPS Campaign Delivery & Optimization in US/RU/CA/UK/UAE/SA/JP/KR preferred.
• Working knowledge of tracking platform (hasoffers, affise etc)
• Excellent English Communications skills – written & verbal.

You will be our first marketing hire, and will be responsible for laying the foundation of our marketing DNA described above.

• Conceptualize from scratch our multi pronged marketing strategy - SEO (blog, newsletter), social media (linkedin, twitter), community, education (webinars, podcasts), partnerships etc
• Understand our user/buyer persona, empathize with them, conceptualize relevant content topics, and work with content writers to push high quality content on various platforms
• Identify the right keywords for Zenskar to optimize on - both head, and long tail
• Iterate to figure out the correct tone for our social media communication, and build relevant audience on social platforms
• Reach out to industry influencers, collaborate with them and organize webinars, podcasts etc with the intent to establish Zenskar as an authority in the industry
• Create a vibrant community of our user and buyer persona, with the intent to help solve the problems they face on a daily basis
• Hire as the team grows and mentor junior folks

Desired Candidate Profile

• MBA from Tier-1 colleges (IIMs, XLRI, SPJain, FMS etc)
• Min 7 years of marketing experience. Out of 7 years of Marketing experience, minimum 3 years in handling brand profile
• E-comm, Health Tech, Ed Tech, Fin Tech, FMCG, Telecom background preferred
• Expertise in running ATL / BTL led marketing campaigns
• A go-getter with ownership and commitment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work cross-departments to achieve results    

Job Description for Marketing Manager:

Must have experience with an IT Service Based Company

Mandatory Skills: PPC, Google paid campaign

Exp -4-6

Budget- 6-7lpa

• Managing all marketing for the company and activities within the marketing department.
•  Developing the marketing strategy for the company in line with company objectives.
•  Coordinating marketing campaigns with sales activities.
• Experienced in handling multiple ad campaigns over google, Linkedin, and social accounts
•  Overseeing the company’s marketing budget.
•  Creation and publication of all marketing material in line with marketing plans.
•  Planning and implementing promotional campaigns.
•  Manage and improve lead generation campaigns, measuring results.
•  Overall responsibility for brand management and corporate identity Preparing online and print marketing campaigns.
•  Monitor and report on the effectiveness of marketing communications.
•  Creating a wide range of different marketing materials.
•  Working closely with design agencies and assisting with new product launches.
•  Maintain effective internal communications to ensure that all relevant company functions are kept informed of marketing objectives.
•  Analyzing potential strategic partner relationships for company marketing.