Marketing Coordinator at BookRenter.com in San Mateo, CA

About Us:

At BookRenter we’re dedicated to making education more affordable by allowing students to rent textbooks for up to 75% off the retail price. Our innovative pricing and operating systems provide students with the best price, highest quality books, and most flexible rental experience available today. Currently offering more than 5.5 million titles and serving thousands of students on over 5,000 campuses, Launched in 2008, we’re one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley, growing at over 725% annually. BookRenter is a privately held company located in San Mateo, CA and is funded by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Position Summary:

At BookRenter, we’re dedicated to making education more affordable. We are agile, entrepreneurial, and constantly learning. As a startup, we are open and collaborative, but as a four-year-old 100+ person company, we have a track record of success and a growing business. As a Marketing Coordinator, you’ll have an opportunity to work with every area within the marketing discipline including, online advertising, SEO, SEM, Email, Social Media, On-Campus Marketing, and Market Research.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Execute marketing programs based on direction and guidance from the marketing discipline lead. 
• Compile reports on competitive positioning, marketing, and social media campaigns. Provide findings and actionable insights to the team.
• Be the expert on students as consumers; understand their online shopping behaviors and what drives their purchase decisions. 
• Own multi-channel reporting, update reports on a weekly basis, provide a high level overview of results.
• Conduct research and analyze customer and partner feedback and make recommendations. 
• Support Social Media Manager in creating content & monitoring social media channels.
• Manage fulfillment of prizes and rewards for marketing campaigns.
• Create and distribute coupon codes to partners and affiliates.
• Assist with creating marketing emails and other collateral, QA as needed.

Minimum Requirements:

• 0-2 Years of Experience in Marketing. College Hires welcome
• Degree in Marketing, Business or related field
• Passion for marketing and demonstrated track-record of marketing during internships or leadership experiences
• Self-starter who is results-driven and highly motivated to learn and contribute to the team's success
• Highly analytical able to gather insights from data and proposing recommendations for change
• Proven track record in performing well in a fast paced environment and organizational skills to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines effectively
• Strong communications and writing skills with a creative flair
• Design skills preferred
• Sense of humor absolutely required

Perks:

This position offers competitive salary, benefits, and the chance to improve the lives of millions of students.