Who We Are
At Entrepreneur First (“EF”), we believe that a small number of exceptional people will have an extraordinary impact by creating the technology companies which shape the future in ways we cannot yet imagine. We also believe that for many of these individuals, entrepreneurship is not an obvious or entirely legible career path.
We exist to identify, and amplify the impact of, these individuals. We do this via our unique approach to company creation, which sees us identify and work with outliers before they even know they’re outliers, right through to the day they prove it. We call this Talent Investing.
The companies built at EF are now worth over $10bn. They include Tractable (a computer vision unicorn), Magic Pony Technology (AI, acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m), La Vie (foodtech), Kinetix (creator tools), Neoplants (biotech) and many more.
EF is funded and backed by some of the world's best founders and investors, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo) and Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind). We’re looking for the next generation of Talent Investors to join us, and enable the world’s most exceptional people to fulfil their potential.
The Role
In this role, you’ll lead Entrepreneur First’s marketing activities in France, building our brand as a beacon for exceptional emerging talent and positioning our programmes to attract the most ambitious among them.
You’ll partner with our talent investors team to uncover insights about our target audience at different stages of their career journey and how to reach them, tailoring our communications across owned, earned, and paid channels.
In addition to EF’s own narrative, you’ll get to work alongside and tell the stories of our founders and their companies, placing you at the forefront of technological innovation across multiple industries.
You’ll also get to work closely with marketers from other EF sites abroad (UK, Germany, India and US) and our Global Marketing team.
What You'll Do
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Create and execute a content marketing strategy to generate compelling content to increase brand awareness, drive leads, and engage our community.
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Craft and organise events that help to build the EF brand and drive engagement with prospective candidates, alumni, and other key audiences.
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Design and manage a communications plan leveraging different strategies (content, digital marketing, events etc) to reach and engage exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds.
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Measure the impact of marketing activities, focusing on driving quality over quantity for our candidate pipeline.
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Own EF’s media strategy in France, building relationships with key outlets and managing our PR agency to drive share of voice and relevancy.
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Identify opportunities to reinforce the EF brand throughout the candidate, cohort, and alumni journeys.
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Authentically build an influencer network; putting EF into the heart of conversations so that others are telling the EF story and amplifying the messaging.
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Drive visibility for our portfolio companies amongst seed and later stage investors.
About You
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0-4+ years of marketing experience in a communications / advertising agency, digital media or startup ecosystem organisation.
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Strong creative judgement and demonstrated experience in building brands both offline and online and / or creating new content from scratch (articles, videos etc).
- Experience planning and delivering events.
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Excellent analytical skills with an ability to track the return of activities to customer engagement and brand impact.
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French native only (C2 level) & exceptional written and verbal communicator in French and English with the ability to write and translate content from English to French.
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Proven organisational and project management skills, comfortable juggling both time-sensitive deadlines and longer term initiatives.
What We Offer
EF champions diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment in which a wide variety of backgrounds thrive. We do not tolerate discrimination of any nature, including but not limited to: discriminating on the basis of race, colour, religion, culture, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, disability, or marital status.
