About PerkSpot

We work with many of America’s best employers to bring the best perks and discounts to millions of employees. These exclusive savings are a great recruitment and retention tool that allows their employees to take advantage of unique opportunities and feel great about their company.  We help employees from 400 companies like Starbucks, Walgreens, Reddit, Southwest Airlines, McDonald’s and Abbott to save on everything from gym memberships and tickets to electronics, new cars, and travel.

About the Role

This is a new role for us, born out of our growth and a desire to improve the caliber and consistency of communications with our clients and their employees.  You will control the way employers and their employees connect with our brand through our products, online marketing efforts, content creation, social media, and offline outreach. This is a hands-on role: contribute tangibly as you also lead strategically.

The actual budgets for campaigns are relatively small, but the campaigns work in concert with the communication channels our clients/employers use to reach with their employees, so a creative grassroots approach will come in handy. We don’t have a big play in social media since most of our programs are privately branded and offered to the employers we represent, but there’s still work to be done, particularly with some of our new initiatives that are coming this year.

Qualifications

• Online User Engagement: user experience, conversion and analysis
• Corporate Communications and Promotion: working with clients to promote programs to their employees
• Hands-on Know-How: the ability to carry-out the work of your team in one or more areas such as Adobe products, content creation, HTML, expert data analysis, or stuffing envelopes.
• Expert level project management skills, particularly related to campaigns and events
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Email Marketing highly desirable, though you’ll be in good hands with your team
• Online Marketing experience including SEO, SEM and social media
• Editorial, Content Creation and Copywriting proficiency: you will have a good team, but you should be able to lead well
• Public relations experience highly desirable.
• Tradeshow experience highly desirable

A Month in the Role

In the past month in this role, you probably would have:

• For new Fortune 500 clients, developed an employee awareness and engagement program through fliers, electronic announcement and other promotions, which our Account Management team can roll-out.
• Collaborated with executives from McDonald’s to develop a nationwide program to raise awareness for crew members in their restaurants nationwide.
• Collaborated with your team of email marketing experts on new experiments designed to boost the effectiveness of our communications to employees.
• Developed a new outbound marketing campaign to reach new prospective Fortune 500 clients through a combination of direct mail, email, online response and sales collateral.
• Refined our social media strategy and guidelines.
• Developed new materials for our Merchant Relations team, helping them attract new retailers to the program, bringing perks and discounts that will delight our users.
• Developed product strategy for, theLoop, our weekly content guide on how to excel in the 21st century workplace.
• Collaborated with a cross-functional team to conduct user testing to improve the usefulness of our service in various industries including manufacturing, retail, healthcare, finance and technology.
• Participated in product development research to continue building services that our employers and their employees love.
• Guided the creation of industry related blog posts to improve SEO and help leverage content for the Sales and Accounts teams.
• Planned a Google Adwords campaign to improve clickthrough rates, traffic, and conversions to the PerkSpot marketing site.
• Most of all, you would have brought your skills to bear for many of America’s best-loved brands, for millions of people.

Our Company Culture

We’re a team of twenty people working out of our office in Chicago’s downtown River North neighborhood. We dress how we like, stock a good beer selection, boast unlimited vacation days, and house a crazy collection of vintage vinyl. Most of all, we dig good people with lots of energy and enthusiasm. We’re always on the lookout for people that mesh well with the way we work, particularly those who possess the rare blend of being smart, hungry, and humble.

We’re proud of our leadership position in the industry, but we’re committed to doing more – developing better products, reaching more employers, and getting more employees engaged with our platform.

Our company was founded by good people with great vision, and we carry on the work they started. As we enter our tenth year, we’re proud that our company has never grown this fast, operated this well, or had this much to look forward to. We take risks and we don’t always get it right, but we win a lot. Winning together feels great.

The Interview Process

Please submit a resume and cover letter, outlining how your qualifications align with the position. Expect to hear back from us within two days if we feel you’re a good fit. We’ll schedule an initial phone call or in-person meeting. There will be an in-office interview with the executive team and CEO. References will be contacted. Finalist will be back to meet with others on the PerkSpot team. Offer.

Benefits

PerkSpot offers the full suite of benefits you’d expect from a profitable, established company.  We offer complete health and dental insurance, and 401K program, as well as fully-funded disability coverage. We have in-office bike storage and a shower on-site. We offer an open time-off policy. The beer is usually free, and we’re pretty obsessive about our coffee.