Senior Marketing Lead, UKI, Northern Europe & MEA

London, UK (Remote)

£122K/yr – £152K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and coordinate regional growth across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa by drafting integrated 3-year plans, aligning cross-functional roadmaps, and measuring ROI against local nuance and global strategy.

  • Growth orchestration: plan and budget across markets, then track impact with a shared measurement framework.
  • Local authenticity: push for genuinely local work and clear market nuance to keep campaigns personal.
  • Campaign execution and leadership: drive end-to-end marketing activity, manage agencies, and align brand storytelling with regional leadership.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop 3-year growth plans for current and prospective users in each market; collaborate across functions to create an integrated roadmap, budgeting, and measurement plans that deliver on the strategy.
  • Partner with the Airbnb internal creative and third party agencies, ensuring optimal resourcing, timely briefings, contracts, payments and a deep understanding of the brand and business opportunities, challenges and plan.
  • In partnership with other marketing stakeholders, develop and deliver the EMEA marketing strategy, balancing alignment with global strategy and regional opportunities.
  • Be the relentless advocate for authentic local work to ensure all marketing activities feel local and personal; articulate market nuances for teams less familiar with the region.
  • End to end execution and monitoring across all global and local marketing campaign activity & scaling strategy.
  • Manage agency partners and work with cross-functional teams including regional business leadership, PR, media, product, performance marketing and customer experience, comms & policy.
  • Define business challenges and strategies to drive growth, nurture a high-performing in-house marketing team.
  • Work with Brand Strategy Lead and Regional Marketing Director on building brand positioning and story.

Requirements

  • 12+ years in a marketing role, preferably with experience at a fast paced startup or technology company
  • Experience working across UKI, Northern Europe & MEA and ideally the EMEA Region, with deep insights and understanding of the UK consumer
  • Creative and analytical thinker with proven ability to champion world class creative marketing programs that deliver results
  • An integrated marketing mindset with experience in amplifying campaigns across paid, owned and earned channels
  • Solid business acumen to understand key business and consumer levers that unlock growth
  • Experience managing agencies and large, multinational teams internally
  • Solid knowledge of finance and accounting; ability to manage budgets including forecasting, actualizing and accruing
  • Willingness to regularly travel internationally
  • Record of success in leading teams, measurement of ROI, and accountability for results
  • Resilence & ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills; able to articulate a vision, strategy and idea clearly and succinctly
  • The ability to work at both strategic and tactical levels
  • Appreciation for design and a passion for Airbnb

Benefits

  • The base pay range shown below is annualized, is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
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Airbnb

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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays, experiences and services that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

Founded in 2007
San Francisco, California, USA
64K employees (7,318 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
85M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.8%
Direct
65.5%
Referral
2.6%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~64.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,349 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
15.5 years
Median Tenure
4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

Funding

Total Funding
$6.4B
Last Raise
$1B
Debt Financing, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2020
    Debt Financing • $1B
  • Apr 2020
    Private Equity • $1B
  • Dec 2019
    Secondary Market • $25M

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