Head of Marketing - Mobile Apps

UK (Remote)

£70K/yr – £90K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and coordinate Twinkl Parents marketing across brand, product, and education ecosystems to drive awareness, trust, and retention with a parental audience.

  • Own end-to-end strategy and cross-channel campaigns aligned to five-year growth.
  • Align messaging with Global Brand and Education teams to ensure cohesive experiences from awareness to retention.
  • Shape lifecycle and CRM plans, measurement, and experimentation to lift long term value and short term acquisition.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the end-to-end marketing strategy for Twinkl Parents, ensuring it aligns with our five year business vision and customer growth ambitions.
  • Working closely with the Global Brand team, develop clear positioning and messaging frameworks that resonate with parents and reinforce Twinkl’s mission and values.
  • Ensure Twinkl Parents’ marketing activity is insight led, integrated, and cohesive across paid, owned, and earned channels.
  • Champion a joined up marketing approach across web and app, ensuring a consistent and effective experience from awareness through to retention.
  • Develop and deliver integrated, cross channel campaigns that drive awareness, trust, and emotional engagement with the Twinkl Parents brand.
  • Partner with Creative, Product, and Education teams to deliver storytelling moments that bring the brand proposition to life across digital, social, and experiential channels.
  • Oversee content, social, and influencer strategies that build community engagement and advocacy.
  • Ensure all marketing activity balances long term brand building with short term acquisition and engagement goals.
  • Work with B2B & B2C Educator teams to: Harness Twinkl’s established trust and penetration with teachers and schools in the UK to create powerful, cost-efficient acquisition loops. Develop innovative referral programmes and advocacy campaigns that connect teachers and parents, leveraging Twinkl’s 15+ years of credibility and reach within the UK education sector.
  • Collaborate with Brand, Product, and Education teams to amplify the Twinkl Parents proposition within the wider Twinkl ecosystem, positioning it as a natural extension of the Twinkl experience for families.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience (7+ years) in marketing leadership for an app-based consumer business, ideally within family, education, lifestyle, or mission driven sectors.
  • Proven success in developing and executing marketing strategies that drive growth, engagement, and retention.
  • Strong understanding of integrated marketing, spanning brand, digital, social, PR, partnerships, lifecycle, and performance.
  • Data driven decision maker with deep analytical skills and experience in marketing measurement and attribution.
  • Creative and strategic thinker with the ability to translate insight into inspiring campaigns and customer experiences.
  • Experienced people leader, skilled in developing and motivating high performing teams.
  • Excellent collaboration skills across Product, Data, and Creative disciplines.
  • Commercially astute and results oriented, balancing long term brand building with short term performance outcomes.
  • An adaptable, action-oriented marketer who’s as comfortable shaping strategy as rolling up their sleeves to make it happen.

    Benefits

    • A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before the process
    • Diversity, inclusion and belonging - our Employee Network Program includes working groups for LGBTQ+, People of Colour, Disabilities (visible and invisible), Women in Tech and Working Parents.
    • From day 1 - Westfield Health, 33 annual leave days per year (pro-rata) inclusive bank holidays, a "Me" day each year, a charity day each year, flexible working policy with opportunities to work from home and Twinkl subscriptions.
    • Quarterly company awards programme
    • Seasonal events
    • Referral scheme
    • Cervical and Prostate screening
    • Company sick pay after 3 months of service
    • After probation - cycle-to-work scheme
    • Long-term service reward - Life insurance, enhanced pension contribution, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced adoption pay and enhanced paternity pay, long service award, long service annual leave
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    Trusted by teaching communities worldwide, Twinkl provides instant access to a complete range of teaching, planning and assessment materials to support learning from birth. We have materials, created by specialists for:- - Ages 0 - 16- Planning and Assessment- Welsh, Scottish and ROI Curriculum- SEN- EAL- SLT- Teaching Assistants- Childminders - Home Educators- ParentsWe believe that every child should be loved and nurtured, as they are unique and special. That's why we believe so strongly in publishing the most engaging and inspiring materials.

    Founded in 2010
    Sheffield, England, GBR
    1.4K employees (848 in marketing)
    22% recommend to a friend
    16% CEO approval

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    6.2M
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    44.8%
    Direct
    28.1%
    Referral
    26.4%
    Social
    0.4%
    Paid
    0.2%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~1.4K

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    527 (37% of company)
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    7

    Funding

    Last Raise
    Private Equity, 3 years ago

    Funding History

    • Feb 2023
      Private Equity

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