Vinny Lingham’s Blog

During my recent trip to Cape Town, I was invited to the SABC Africa studios for a special segment on small businesses and website building. Here is the video:

Vinny Lingham discusses SynthaSite on SABC Africa from Vinny Lingham on Vimeo.

We have a new job opening in our San Francisco office here at SynthaSite. We’re growing really fast (we have over 30 people in the company now) and we need a dynamic, multi-skilled individual to join a great team, based in SOMA, San Francisco (sorry, no Visa sponsorships possible). You must be US based and be eligible to work for a US employer.

Retention Marketing Manager

Company:

SynthaSite’s vision is to enable anyone, anywhere to publish their own website. We’re a venture-backed start-up who recently raised our series A funding, released a beta product into the market and are ready to take the world by storm. We’ve grown rapidly over the past 6 months and need superstars to take us to the next level.

Position:

We’re looking for a ridiculously talented Retention Marketing Manager to lead our email and website marketing efforts. In this role, you’ll be responsible for both setting the strategy and running the day-to-day execution of our email and website marketing programs. If you’re right for this job, you’ll have strong email and website marketing experience and be looking for a place where you can use those skills to build a new program from the ground up. You’ll want to make a difference. If this sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Location:

San Francisco, CA

Reporting:

The Retention Marketing Manager will report directly to the Vice President of Marketing.

Key responsibilities:

* Email Marketing: Define, plan and execute SynthaSite’s email marketing strategy
* Website Management: Own the SynthaSite website, optimizing it for customer retention and monetization as well as working with the Acquisition Marketing Manager to drive conversion of new visitors to the site
* SynthaSite Blog: Own the SynthaSite blog. Define the messaging and collect content that will speak to the needs of our customer base
* Creative Direction: Work closely with creative team to develop marketing materials for email newsletters and the website
* Planning: Work with the VP of Marketing on quarterly and annual plans

Qualifications:

* 3+ years of related experience with email marketing
* Experience managing a marketing budget and preparing plans and forecasts
* Experience working with Graphic Designers to produce high-performing creative assets
* Strong analytical and quantitative skills
* Entrepreneurial drive

Compensation:

SynthaSite is prepared to offer an attractive compensation package, including a competitive base salary, health and vacation benefits, and company shares.

SynthaSite is an Equal Opportunity employer. Personnel are chosen on the basis of ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, in accordance with federal and state law.

I did a podcast at Web 2.0 with Brad over at Technology in the Arts. Jason Fried from 37Signals is also on the podcast. Have a listen here.

I’m with the SynthaSite team out here in New York - there is about 8 of us here running the SynthaSite booth at the Web 2.0 convention. I’ll personally be at the booth this afternoon and tomorrow - stop by and say hello!

I’ll be joining Widgetbox for their Custom Gallery Webinar today. I’ll be discussing how SynthaSite has successfully integrated the Custom Gallery solution and how it’s really added a lot of value to our offering.

Widgetbox’s Custom Gallery products let anyone create a fully customizable widget gallery for their website from the largest selection of widgets on the web. Join our web seminar to learn about the different gallery solutions we offer and get tips on how to make the most of your own Custom Gallery.

See a demo our newest feature: Custom Gallery Express, the fastest and easiest way to personalize any website with a gallery of your personal or favorite widgets.

Hear from our guest Vinny Lingham, CEO of Synthasite, about Synthasite’s experience adding a Custom Gallery to their site.

If you’d like to join me, please register here