VP, International Marketing & GTM

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$360K/yr – $420K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Squarespace seeks a senior marketer to lead international expansion, including market-entry strategies and cross-functional alignment. The role emphasizes data-driven market research, localization, and building high-performing teams across new countries and languages. Candidates should have 15+ years of marketing experience, experience launching in new markets, and strong collaboration with agencies and creative teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create high-impact local channel strategies and execute holistic marketing plans in partnership with marketing channel owners and agencies
  • Evaluate, plan and launch Squarespace’s entry into new countries and languages, including leading market research and product/market fit tests
  • Craft tailored product positioning and messaging that will resonate with key audiences
  • Determine the optimal team structure, including potential agency partners, and grow the team for success in new markets
  • Drive growth and impact across all major international KPIs: customers, revenue, conversion, marketing ROI, LTV, and retention
  • Contribute to the Product roadmap for each country and language by providing insights, market research, and data to drive prioritization
  • Maintain current knowledge of local cultural trends and media consumption patterns

Requirements

  • 15+ years of broad-based marketing experience, ideally in consumer tech or a closely related industry
  • Proven success launching products in new markets without an existing presence
  • Experience building and leading a high performing marketing team
  • Collaborative approach, with experience influencing cross-functional teams in a complex organization
  • Experience managing agency partners
  • Deep knowledge across digital and traditional marketing channels
  • Deep understanding of marketing measurement across: conversion lift studies, MTA (multi-touch attribution) and MMM (media mix modeling)
  • Market research experience, and the ability to apply both qualitative and quantitative insights for maximum impact
  • Experience working collaboratively with internal and external creative teams and owning the briefing and review processes
  • Understanding of localization and how cultural perspectives influence go-to-market plans
  • Comfort navigating through ambiguity in a dynamic environment

Preferred

  • Language ability in Spanish, French, or German is a plus

Benefits

  • A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums
  • Fertility and adoption benefits
  • Access to supplemental insurance plans for additional coverage
  • Headspace mindfulness app subscription
  • Global Employee Assistance Program
  • Retirement benefits with employer match
  • Flexible paid time off
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave and family care leave
  • Pretax commuter benefit
  • Education reimbursement
  • Employee donation match to community organizations
  • 7 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
  • Dog-friendly workplace
  • Free lunch and snacks
  • Private rooftop
  • Hack week twice per year
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Squarespace

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Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity, and creating and managing social media presence with Unfold. Our team of more than 1,700 is headquartered in bustling New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland and Aveiro, Portugal, and coworking spaces in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia. For more information about our company culture, visit www.squarespace.com/about/careers. If you are a customer that needs help, we invite you to browse the extensive collection of guides in our Help Center: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us. For more personalized support, you can email our award-winning Customer Support team anytime or live chat here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/p/contact. Please remember Squarespace will never solicit your personal banking information or ask you to transfer money in connection with a job offer or interview. We also won’t reach out to you directly via phone or SMS without your permission or knowledge. For information about how to apply for our open roles, visit our Careers page at https://www.squarespace.com/about/careers. If you’ve received a suspicious communication about a potential career opportunity with us, please report it here https://www.squarespace.com/hr-inquiries. To report a possible scam on LinkedIn, please head to: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-RPS

Founded in 2003
New York, NY, US
1.9K employees (352 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
44.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.1M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26.4%
Direct
53.3%
Referral
18.8%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
191 (9% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
5.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$578.5M
Last Raise
$300M
Post IPO Secondary, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2023
    Post IPO Secondary
  • Mar 2021
    Series Unknown • $300M
  • Dec 2017
    Secondary Market • $200M

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