Content Marketing Lead, Patch Places

Communications and community building

£28-35k

Significant equity as an early stage employee

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

3+ days a week in office

High street community clubs

Job no longer available

High street community clubs

1-20 employees

HospitalityB2BFlexible workingNetworkingCommunity

Job no longer available

£28-35k

Significant equity as an early stage employee

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

3+ days a week in office

1-20 employees

HospitalityB2BFlexible workingNetworkingCommunity

Company mission

To create opportunity for people, work and communities on every UK high street. We create beautiful spaces for work, lifestyle, events and community gathering for a Work Near Home world of less commuting, more community.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

A strong creative pedigree, with a flair for new and creative communication (written or visual)
Curiosity and the ability to learn new things, particularly willing to experiment with other ways of achieving our overall growth aims
A natural interest in the measurement of success of your work

What the job involves

Build our audience, nurture our community and grow our brand as the first marketing hire
Build brand awareness through origination and management of social media content, with a mix of visual and written content
Grow a paid social activity through a test and learn strategy
Help the team develop a rhythm of original written content to define the post pandemic narrative towards Work Near Home
Own the newsletter, which goes to 1,000+ and growing signups all around the UK, and develop our comms with this group in general
Think strategically with both the Founder and Head of Product on how to manage both our national brand strategy (for Patch), and support our local communities (in each location)

Application process

The first step will be an informal call with our founder, for which no preparation is required
We will explain the background of the company, answer your questions and share details on how we will assess formally
These calls are taking place throughout February and March, and will be followed by a task, and meeting the team

Salary benchmarks

Our take

In the past, powerful working hubs and the innovation that these bring have been limited to major cities. However, the Covid Pandemic and the development of cheap digital tools has challenged this idea, with many people getting used to working from home for a considerable amount of time. This has made many people realise the cost of a commute to their finances, stress levels, schedules, and time.

Patch believes that the ‘central office’ is a 19th century technology. Whilst they can be great places for collaboration and relationships, they aren't needed all the time. Patch want to introduce a new category: Work Near Home. This concept is geared to the growing “hybrid working” movement, placing an emphasis on individual needs, empowering local networks, and enabling impact of technology for access to opportunity.

The company is establishing a decentralized workspace by building co-working clubs across commuter towns in the UK. They take empty local high street shops and under-utilised landmark buildings, and turn them into “collaborative cultural spaces”. Having raised seed funding from a number of leading U.K. angel investors, Patch are focused on opening more sites in the year ahead.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Aug 2022

$4m

SERIES A

Apr 2021

$1.1m

Total funding: $5.1m

Company benefits

24 days holiday + birthday + 8 days Bank Holidays
Flexible and remote working on a custom needs basis
Personal health and wellness budget
Cycle to work
Regular staff events
Private healthcare

Company HQ

Marylebone, London, UK

Leadership

Freddie Fforde

(Founder)

Previously Head of Operations at Movebubble, and Chief of Staff at OYO. Was part of the EF9 Cohort at Entrepreneur First in 2017.

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