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Jonas Software

Long-term ownership of vertical software

Vice President of Marketing

Marketing Generalist & ManagementPosted on Nov 13
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of B2B marketing experience in software or technology.
  • Demonstrated, quantifiable results in pipeline, revenue, conversion, or retention attributable to the candidate's work, including strategic initiatives taken from plan to completion.
  • Experience personally building demand-generation programs and pipeline attribution in a marketing automation platform and Salesforce or comparable platforms.
  • Ability to write, build campaigns, operate a marketing automation platform, and analyze data hands-on.
  • Ability to make decisive, data-backed recommendations and own decisions within the candidate's authority.
  • Ability to learn complex enterprise software well enough to demonstrate it and model customer return on investment.
  • Practical use of generative AI tools in production work, including building or deploying AI workflows or agents and demonstrating measurable gains in speed, quality, or results.
  • Experience leading a brand refresh, repositioning, major launch, or rebuild of a marketing function.
  • Experience running conferences as measured investments with return-on-investment goals.
  • Experience with a marketing automation platform, Salesforce or comparable customer relationship management platform, a website content management system, and web and campaign analytics.
  • Ability to drive cross-functional work remotely across locations and time zones.

Responsibilities

  • Own Marketing's annual plan, budget, vendor management, and weekly and monthly operating rhythm.
  • Build and run the marketing scorecard with leading and lagging key performance indicators and targets.
  • Own attribution across the marketing automation platform and Salesforce, lead scoring, lead handoff to Sales, and data quality.
  • Report Marketing performance in executive and quarterly business reviews.
  • Rationalize the marketing technology stack and vendor spend, and ensure every marketing account and asset remains company-owned.
  • Agree Marketing priorities and service levels with each department quarterly.
  • Run campaigns and account-based programs that generate qualified pipeline for new-business sales.
  • Run expansion, adoption, and retention programs with Customer Success for the installed base.
  • Turn Product's value model into seller-ready business-case tools and maintain a database of customer outcomes demonstrating delivered value.
  • Maintain a proposal and request-for-proposal content library, including support for public-sector and government responses.
  • Run win/loss analysis and share findings with Sales, Product, and messaging teams.
  • Partner with Product on positioning, naming, packaging input, and launch readiness for new products and releases.
  • Produce and maintain product sheets, presentations, demo stories, case studies, and competitive battlecards.
  • Govern messaging to keep customer-facing assets consistent and current.
  • Run co-marketing with technology and channel partners.
  • Build the annual event calendar with an investment case and return-on-investment target for each event.
  • Run national and regional conferences end to end, including pre-booked meetings, booth operations, customer receptions, follow-up, and return-on-investment reporting.
  • Run webinars, virtual events, and the customer user conference.
  • Support internal company events, including the annual employee conference.
  • Lead the brand refresh and protect brand standards across every channel.
  • Own social media strategy, public relations, thought leadership, industry awards, and customer recognition programs.
  • Keep external profiles, including directories, analyst sites, and data sites, accurate.
  • Support employer branding and the careers page for recruiting.
  • Lead the website refresh and own site traffic, conversion, and lead quality performance.
  • Own search engine optimization and visibility in AI search tools.
  • Run the customer newsletter and email programs.
  • Own the company intranet and its content.
  • Produce the company-wide leadership newsletter and internal announcements.
  • Run customer surveys through one tool and one intake process so results are coordinated and acted on.
  • Turn Product-led competitive and market insights into battlecards, messaging, and sales enablement.
  • Produce intelligence reports from every major conference.
  • Define ideal customer profiles and segments with Product and Sales across healthcare, military, corrections, and higher education.
  • Bring the voice of the customer into product and pricing decisions.
  • Lead AI adoption across the team through AI-first workflows for research, content, campaigns, personalization, and reporting.
  • Build and deploy practical AI tools and agents, including automation within the marketing automation platform and customer relationship management system.
  • Set quality, brand-safety, and data-privacy standards for AI-generated content.
  • Measure and report productivity and performance gains delivered by AI.
  • Grow visibility in AI search and answer engines.
  • Prepare a marketing plan from a provided case study, present it live, and meet with Product and Sales leaders as a finalist.

Desired Qualifications

  • Prior experience managing a marketing team.
  • Experience marketing both on-premise and cloud software.
  • Healthcare technology, healthcare foodservice, or clinical nutrition background; a registered dietitian credential or close work with dietitians is a strong plus.
  • Experience marketing to health systems, government, or military buyers through long, multi-stakeholder sales cycles.
  • Experience in a private equity-backed or holding-company software environment.
  • Internal communications experience alongside external marketing.

About the Company

Jonas Software

Long-term ownership of vertical software

Jonas Software manages a decentralized portfolio of over 160 independently run software companies across more than 40 vertical markets. It buys vertical market software (VMS) businesses and holds them long-term, allowing each company to keep its brand, leadership, and culture while Jonas provides capital, strategic oversight, and financial stability. Revenue comes from the ongoing operations of the portfolio’s companies, with the model focusing on deep industry expertise in nich es rather than restructuring or selling. Goal: grow value across the portfolio by supporting stable, niche-focused software companies for the long term, maintaining ownership stability instead of pursuing quick flips.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
1990

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