Marketing Specialist - Ridgewood

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.

Compass seeks a Marketing Advisor to join the team that shapes all of our agents' marketing and branding projects from concept to execution. This team provides vital project management, strategic support, and empowers agents to achieve their marketing goals. You will deliver value that makes clients' marketing efforts more efficient, less time-consuming, and more impactful while collaborating with various stakeholders to create offerings and strategies that positively affect the agent experience on a 'big picture’ scale.

The official job title for this position is Marketing Advisor. This role is 100% in-office and will require weekly travel between our Ridgewood and Montclair offices in New Jersey.

At Compass You Will

• Provide guidance and outstanding client service to our customers (real estate agents) to guide their work from start to finish.
• Provide “surprise & delight” experiences for our customers, from personalized recognition notes to proactively crafting targeted marketing strategies.
• Develop an understanding and promote the value and application of our products, tools, and programs to our customers, both generally and in response to specific marketing needs.
• Thoughtfully analyze and optimize your customer’s marketing plans to help inform future strategies, exceeding agent expectations.
• Liaise between the company’s design team and agents to communicate and coordinate the delivery of larger projects and all associated materials (photography, copywriting, overall content development, etc), while establishing cohesion between the Compass brand and the marketing/advertising deliverables of our agents.
• Create strategic marketing plans in tandem with the Compass platform that will allow our customers to maximize the effectiveness of their budgets against tactics that will work toward achieving their marketing goals and grow their business; this includes branding, print advertising, digital, social, direct mail, video, paid media, etc.
• Move quickly to organize and assemble templated creative work such as print ads, brochures, and more utilizing InDesign.
• Cultivate relationships with your customers to provide a sense of community and culture.
• Learn the Compass advantage and be an advocate for our platform.
• Work with advertising and media vendors to secure agent advertising spend and budget allocations, as well as opportunities for the local Compass brand.
• Stay attuned to national and local real estate market trends & industry forecasts.
• Be a culture carrier who inspires and empowers those around you with a positive and constructive approach to creating and implementing change
• Deliver world-class client service while consulting with our customers daily to identify their marketing needs, build strategic marketing plans to guide them to success, and help execute to deliver on those needs efficiently.

What We Are Looking For

• Skilled communicator with great interpersonal skills; building and managing relationships with empathy while handling objections comes naturally.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, specifically InDesign.
• Passionate about the intersection of marketing and technology and you have the ability to speak to the benefits of it.
• Prior real estate industry experience preferred.
• Meticulous attention to detail, highly organized.
• Ability to work independently, taking ownership over your own accounts while working collaboratively in a team environment to drive best practices.
• Possess a deep understanding of marketing strategy and planning with the ability to identify the right tactics across a multitude of marketing channels.
• Comfortable with a fast-paced environment, evolving responsibilities, and wearing multiple hats.
• Excellent project management skills with a proven track record to meet deadlines.
• 2-5 years of marketing experience.

Compensation

The base pay range for this position is $45,500 - $68,200 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.

Perks That You Need To Know About

Participation in our incentive programs (which may include where eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, marriage leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.

Do your best work, be your authentic self.

At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world — a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.

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