Marketing Specialist

Position: Financial Technology Partners is seeking a Marketing Specialist as one of our first dedicated Marketing and Communications hire. This position will work directly with the Executive Leadership to support FT Partners across functions, teams, and issues.  The ideal candidate will have demonstrated interest and experience in brand optimization, marketing, internal and external communications, email marketing and social media.

Firm Overview

Financial Technology Partners is one of the most successful boutique investment banks on Wall Street.  Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in NYC and London, FT Partners has advised on some of the most meaningful transactions in the high-growth Financial Technology sector in recent years.  We offer a full suite of financial and strategic advisory services, including merger and acquisition advisory, private capital raising and capital markets advisory. The Financial Technology sector is a dynamic industry that encompasses the convergence of financial services and technology. We are a 200+ global firm that prides itself on having an extremely collegial and energetic culture. Every member of the organization is expected to meaningfully contribute to the firm’s success. Senior bankers at the firm are formerly of Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan, Evercore and Barclays.

FT is operating in a hybrid work from home model, three days in the office and two days from home. On the days that you are in the office, free lunch is provided!

Essential Functions: 

• Provide input and analysis on existing marketing methods and systems and design and implement short and long term strategies to optimize these efforts
• Manage and refine contact management strategy
• Assist in the identification, review, selection and implementation of new 3rd party email marketing and social media management tools
• Create engagement metrics and dashboards and monitor engagement across various marketing channels to refine marketing strategies
• Manage and oversee all externally facing social media outlets and marketing channels and collaborate with leadership to execute marketing strategies
• Coordinate across the Firm to develop and implement a consistent communications strategy, helping to craft content to ensure a consistent brand narrative for all external and internal audiences
• Manage media relations, including both proactive and reactive outreach, thought leadership, conference and sponsorship management and agency management
• Responsible for reviewing and ensuring consistency in all marketing collateral, including website, intranet, and other marketing materials to drive brand recognition and engagement
• Draft, review and edit all executive leadership communication to deliver important company messaging in a consistent and compelling manner
• Assist in external marketing events to ensure content, marketing message and branding are coordinated with corporate marketing guidelines and goals

Basic Qualifications: 

• Relevant years of marketing and/or communications experience required
• Experience in the financial industry preferred
• B.A. or B.S. required. A concentration in Marketing, Communications or Economics a plus
• Experience with marketing software, online tools and financial planning reports is ideal not required.
• Marketing using social media is a must
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, client focus and organizational skills
• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple engagements, prioritize and resolve complex problems and escalate as necessary, in a deadline-oriented environment
• Ability to manage up to executive management

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Relevant experience in employment law
• Strong quantitative skills and ability to work with numbers
• Strong people skills with proven ability to build strong working relationships with internal clients at all levels of management and work on cross-functional teams on complex deals

Communications Skills

• Exceptional writing and verbal communication skills, able to prepare high impact materials
• Participates effectively in both internal and external meetings 
• Maturity and poise to work directly with client executives

Team Player

• Team player who can contribute to building a positive team spirit, keeps commitments, inspires the trust of others, works with integrity and ethically, and upholds firm values
• Ability to perform under pressure, amid tight deadlines; can effectively prioritize and plan
• Collaborative across teams and levels, both internally and externally
• Understands coaching for long term development of self and others  

Why FT Partners?

• Managing Partner and Managing Directors formerly of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan
• Award-winning execution; Investment Bank of the Year / Boutique of the Year Awards (among many others)
• Executing both billion dollar and early stage / high-growth VC transactions
• Excellent career path, strong and competitive compensation
• Unparalleled deal flow with premier client base
• Access to world-class executives at high-growth companies
• Dominant footprint in the one of largest sectors: financial technology
• Top-notch financial sponsor relationships
• Close-knit, rapidly growing team 

Selected transactions include advising:

• Divvy's $2.5 billion Sale to Bill.com
• GreenSky’s $2.2 billion Sale to Goldman Sachs
• Forge’s $2 billion Merger with Motive Capital Corp.
• Truebill’s $1.3 billion Sale to Rocket Companies
• Revolut's $800 million Financing at a $33 billion Valuation
• Payrix’ ~$800 million Sale to FIS
• Cross River’s $620 million Series D Financing
• Velocity Global’s $400 million Series B Financing
• SpotOn’s $300 million Series F Financing at a $3.6 billion Valuation
• Neon’s $300 million Series D Financing
• Upgrade’s $280 million Series F Financing at a $6 billion Valuation
• Mambu’s ~$266 million Series E Financing at a ~$5.5 billion Valuation
• Newfront’s $200 million Financing at a $2.2 billion Valuation
• CloudWalk’s $150 million Financing at a ~$2.2 billion Valuation

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment: Financial Technology Partners is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. If you require reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact [email protected].