Job Description
Marketing Executive
Location: Finstock, Oxfordshire with hybrid working available
Term: Full-term, Permanent
Salary: £25000 - £30000 pa
We are looking for a Marketing Executive with experience in the music, tech or software industries to join the Sonnox team in Finstock, Oxfordshire.
Sonnox, part of the Focusrite Group, is an established, award-winning audio plugin and software company based in rural Oxfordshire. Since 2007, we’ve continued to obsess over creating the best, most innovative products to supplement and enhance Digital Audio Workstations such as Logic, Ableton, ProTools, Studio One and Cubase.
Our customers range from grammy-winning professionals to bedroom hobbyists, from the most prestigious recording studios, film production houses, games manufacturers and global broadcasters to music producers, engineers, and mastering facilities.
We are a small, dynamic, motivated team passionate about audio and related technology, looking for a talented and self-motivated marketing executive to join us.
Your responsibilities will include:
Social Media Management
- You will work with support, sales and marketing colleagues to develop social media strategies to increase brand awareness and customer engagement.
- Regularly edit, re-purpose and publish text, image and video content
- Engage with individuals daily, with the ultimate goal of turning followers into customers and customers into advocates
- Have excellent communication skills and express our company’s views creatively
Marketing Administration
- You will work with your marketing colleagues to help maintain and grow industry relationships with third parties, such as publishers, journalists and influencers.
- Submit new products for review and ensure that our partners can access the relevant installers and have applicable licences
- Assist your sales and marketing colleagues with processing invoices, tracking expenditures and estimating prospective budgets
Content Editing
- Assist your marketing colleagues in producing, editing and optimising newsletters and product copy
- Edit written, recorded and filmed interviews into engaging content that can be used as short-form content on social media platforms and long-form content on our website.
- Previous marketing experience in music, tech or software industries or previous experience working for a marketing agency with a range of responsibilities
- Creating, managing and growing online communities
- Campaign creation and management using email marketing services
- Experience with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects)
Desirable Experience:
- Previous marketing experience in music, tech or software industries or previous experience working for a marketing agency with a range of responsibilities
- Creating, managing and growing online communities
- Campaign creation and management using email marketing services
- Experience with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects)
Desirable Skills:
- A musician with an understanding of music technology and the related industries
- Ability to think outside of the box, particularly
- Proven ability to multi-task whilst maintaining a keen sense of detail
About Us
Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.
The Focusrite Group trades under eleven established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research and Sonnox. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including three Queen's Awards for Enterprise, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.
The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.
We’re a growing family. A rapidly growing, global family. But a family nonetheless. Fundamentally, we’re focused on providing opportunities for everyone and anyone to enjoy creating music. Our six brands,Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM, Martin Audio and Ampify, come together around a common mission to remove barriers to creativity. For musicians struggling to capture their sound, to enabling some of the greatest shows on earth.
Focusrite is The Interface Company. That’s what it does. More people record and listen to their productions through Focusrite than any other interface brand. Behind this hard-earned position is more than 30 years of experience in creating the highest-quality audio products for every customer market, from budding songwriters to commercial facilities.
We’ve always had a focus on customer care, and pride ourselves in really understanding the wide array of customers we serve. As Focusrite products become integrated into an ever-increasing number of professional facilities around the world, Focusrite Pro was borne out of the desire to better serve the needs of these commercial operations.
From the ubiquitous Launchpad 8 x 8 grid behind over a billion YouTube views, to our synthesisers used to create the signature sounds behind a constantly evolving and enchanting new musical landscape, the Novation brand continues to play a huge part in shaping the music and art of tomorrow.
Born out of talent from Novation and based in Tileyard, Kings Cross, Ampify holds true to our fundamental purpose, creating cool music-making apps that bring the life-enriching experience of music making to a larger audience than ever before.
ADAM Audio continues to change the game of professional monitoring, their ranges of respected monitors and subwoofers the recipients of rave reviews and appreciation from audio experts and recording engineers worldwide.
Martin Audio enjoys an international reputation for supplying award winning, Patent protected professional loudspeaker systems across the spectrum of live sound and installation applications. It is now also the recognised global leader in optimised line array technology.
Music has always been an exciting thing to be involved with, and that’s not about to change. We embrace its evolution, and that means being open to new ideas. Our whole business is structured to let everyone contribute and be heard at all levels, and we make sure it’s a fun place to work.
Benefits include company pension, employee share scheme, life insurance, private healthcare, employee purchase scheme, free breakfast and lunch, company hack-days, lunch and learns from across the business and external visits – we’re all about innovation, fresh thinking and creating awesome music making experiences for our customers.
We work hard. We are professional. And we play hard too. We select really, really talented and passionate people. And we absolutely love our work. So if you think you can bring something new to the mix, we look forward to hearing from you.
Focusrite is an equal opportunity employer, we are company of employees spanning a wide range of diverse backgrounds and we acknowledge that embracing our diversity is one of the keys to our future success.