Paragon One
Professional experiences for any student
Content Marketing Director
About the role
Paragon One (www.ParagonOne.com) connects large numbers of students to employers through industry relevant projects called Remote Externships. We make it easier for students to build professional experiences while also engaging with company employees. For enterprise customers who need to scale and engage their early talent pipeline, Paragon One’s platform saves companies like Facebook, PwC, Hewlett-Packard, National Geographic, Snapchat, and Cargill time and money while helping them increase brand engagement and achieve DE&I targets. Paragon One has served thousands of students with externships. Paragon One was founded by a team out of MIT and backed by YCombinator, Foundation Capital, University Ventures, and Learn Capital.
We are looking for a strategic content marketing leader who combines a product mindset with business development and marketing experiments.
Ideal candidates will have a combination of branding, marketing, and content development skillset in addition to a strategic mind and creative problem solving ability. We seek aspiring leaders who are passionate about solving extremely hard problems in the education-to-workforce movement.
Competitive startup salary with equity.
#####Responsibilities
Drive Paragon One's enterprise content marketing plan and content calendar.
Coordinate growth experiments and campaigns between product, sales, and marketing.
Oversee website.
Oversee development of newsletter, thought leadership, whitepapers, and sales enablement materials.
Manage team of outsourced content writers as editor-in-chief.
Manage public relations agency.
Drive content marketing strategy.
#####Skills and Experience
Grit and perseverance to tackle the hardest problems.
6+ years of branding, content, and marketing experience.
Strategic thinking and problem solving skills.
Exceptional writing and editing skills.
Collaborative teamwork and multitasking skills.
Understanding of B2B marketing strategies.
#####Media
Yahoo! Finance TV clip: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6797983228197257216/
Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annaesakismith/2021/10/04/how-college-students-who-build-employability-can-win-the-race-to-land-internships
HP extern highlight video: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paragon-one_hp-hptechventures-work-activity-6856711255571390464-NV75/
Why you should join Paragon One
Paragon One makes it easy for students to build professional experience with Remote Externships -- industry relevant projects that scale between companies and students. Paragon One’s platform saves companies time and money while helping them increase brand engagement and achieve DE&I targets. Unlike traditional recruiting or workforce platforms, Paragon One is turnkey – we do the heavy lifting of engaging more student talent at the top of the funnel so companies can focus on building. In 2021, Paragon One is reaching thousands of students and hosting remote externships for Facebook, PwC, Pfizer, National Geographic, HP, Snapchat, Cloudflare, and The Nature Conservancy.
Paragon One is backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Learn Capital, and University Ventures.
