Manara (YC W21) Looking out for Head of Marketing (Backed by Stripe, Reid Hoffman)

Manara

Connecting prime Center East expertise to global tech jobs

Join straight with founders of the finest YC-funded startups.

Laila K.

Relating to the role

About Us

Manara is a social affect startup whose mission is to release human doable and diversify the global tech sector while uplifting the economies of the Center East & North Africa (MENA), with a focal level on Palestine and women folks. The plight has the most practical doubtless early life unemployment on this planet (greater than subSaharan Africa) no matter high levels of tertiary education. Girls folks are significantly impacted: in Palestine, 52% of computer science students are ladies folks, however 83% of them finish up unemployed.

We skedaddle an fully a long way-off resolution to call the finish computer scientists within the plight, train them easy pass interviews, vet them, and attend them bag extraordinary jobs (whether a long way-off or on-save of residing). It works: at Google 71% of our referrals in our final batch were employed. Nonetheless we don’t finish at job placement. Our imaginative and prescient is to originate the finish tech expertise community within the MENA plight and enhance them at every stage in their lifecycle to attend them reach their needs.

You might perhaps be pleased heard about us beforehand: Dalia’s story went viral on Hacker Files in March (https://files.ycombinator.com/merchandise?id=26251143) and Samah’s went viral on LinkedIn in September (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/change/urn:li:assignment: 6838879791165263872/)

Our crew beforehand labored at Google, Upwork, Nvidia, and Gaza Sky Geeks. Our investors encompass Stripe, Y Combinator, Seedcamp, Reid Hoffman, Paul Graham, and Jessica Livingston.
We operate fully remotely with hubs in Berlin, Palestine, and the San Francisco Bay Utter.

Relating to the Role

We are attempting to bag a Director or Head of Marketing who has expertise building and executing a model advertising and marketing diagram. Reporting straight to the CEO, you are going to be responsible for establishing and declaring all our advertising and marketing channels, with a resounding focal level on storytelling and occasions.

For this role, you are going to focal level on two main client groups: increasing the volume of hiring partners (in Europe, the US and the Center East) and rising our expertise community within the Center East and North Africa (with a focal level on ladies folks engineers).

Some attributes we’re attempting to bag:

Resourceful Leadership: we decide any individual who is ready to bewitch the lead, assemble decisions and bag solutions. You might perhaps possibly be ready to make a decision out watch over and motivate a crew of freelancers.
Trace-focused Storyteller: From social media, to occasions, to PR, storytelling is the backbone of Manara’s model and proper writing and dialog skills are a must want to excel in this role.
Multi-channel Marketeer: Whereas storytelling is your backbone, we would admire any individual who isn’t paralyzed to soar into paid advertising and marketing, partnerships and other styles of advertising and marketing to amplify our model.
Development-minded: We are a social affect startup, no longer an NGO. We want you to operate like a prime startup leader, while declaring 100% dedication to our social affect.
Crew participant: We are a minute however mighty crew and decide on any individual who brings the identical “leave your ego at the door” attitude. You roll up your sleeves to attain the unglamorous work or enhance a crew member when wanted.

Some prime-notch skills to be pleased (however please don’t rule your self out when you don’t be pleased them!)

Fluent English: reviews & social media should always be revealed in English
Skills with advertising and marketing and assemble tools like: Figma or Sketch, SendGrid, Salesforce, Zoom Webinar, and others.
Fluent in social media advertising and marketing across Instagram, Twitter, Fb, and LinkedIn
PR networks in Europe or the Center East & North Africa

Knock our socks off:

Fluent Arabic or French: when you don’t focus on these, you’ll organize other resources to post reviews & social media in these languages too
Smitten by social entrepreneurship: with a various curiosity in ladies folks’s careers & doable, and Palestine and the broader MENA plight
Ability industry expertise: you’ve got prior exposure to & expertise within the expertise industry, significantly engineering

Utility Course of

Please share one belief to attract more expertise from MENA to Manara, or one belief to attract more hiring partners in Europe to rent this expertise.

Why you must unruffled be a a part of Manara

We don’t finish at job placement. Our imaginative and prescient is to originate the finish tech expertise community within the MENA plight and enhance them at every stage in their lifecycle to attend them reach their needs: easy web a promotion, turn correct into a supervisor, be the first girl engineer on a crew, etc. The community is pushed by a tech product that facilitates connection, shared learning, and motivation.

Our crew beforehand labored at Google, Upwork, Nvidia, and Gaza Sky Geeks. Our investors encompass Stripe, Y Combinator, Seedcamp, Reid Hoffman, Paul Graham, and Jessica Livingston.

We are entirely a long way-off, with clusters of workers in Berlin, Palestine, and the SF Bay Utter.

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