Marketing Associate 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:

We are looking for a detail-oriented administrative support resource to help drive efficiency across our team and run with various data driven and marketing focused projects.  The ideal candidate will be instrumental in gathering, analyzing, and presenting data to the internal team as well as executing on marketing campaigns for the college stores themselves.  This role will also be responsible various ad hoc projects related to driving more traffic to the BookRenter platform and ultimately helping college stores increase their market share.  In this position, you need to thrive in an environment where you’re given a task and can use your creativity and skills to figure out a way to get the job done.   

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the BookRenter sales team to manage and track stores contracts
• Manage the execution of email campaigns to the college stores
• Coordinate with external vendors on key tasks – for example, the delivery of marketing materials for stores
• Pull reports to monitor college store performance and highlight both positive and negative trends
• Research and present competitive store information
• Gather feedback and maintain the calendar of B2B and B2C activities for stores and their customers 
• Provide administrative support including coordinating meetings, taking notes on action items, and summarizing next steps

Minimum Requirements:

• Solid Microsoft Office skills including expertise in Excel
• Experience with marketing automation tools
• Working knowledge of Salesforce.com a plus
• Technical aptitude (for learning SQL)
• Excellent prioritization and organizational abilities
• Very strong attention to detail and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile, passionate startup environment
• Self-driven to achieve goals; high energy level is essential; dedicated work ethic a must.
• Positive, can-do attitude and sense of humor required
• Must be located in the Bay Area.

Perks:

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