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Omaze

Omaze

Prize draw-based fundraising platform for charity

Marketing Lead

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
London, UK
Hybrid

Hybrid work in London.

About the job

Requirements
  • Significant experience in consumer marketing, brand, growth, or integrated marketing roles.
  • Experience taking a new proposition, product, or category from early-stage concept through launch and growth.
  • Strong customer and commercial instincts, with the ability to move between qualitative customer insight, proposition development, and quantitative performance data.
  • A strong understanding of how brand building and customer acquisition work together to create sustainable growth.
  • Experience developing positioning, messaging, customer segmentation, and integrated brand and marketing strategies.
  • Strong experimentation instincts and experience using data to improve marketing performance over time without becoming overly dependent on short-term performance signals.
  • The ability to lead complex cross-functional work without direct reporting lines.
  • Excellent briefing and communication skills, particularly with creative and channel specialists.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and building processes where none yet exist.
  • The judgment to know when work needs deep analysis and when it simply needs to get done.
Responsibilities
  • Develop the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for a new proposition, from initial customer understanding through launch and scale.
  • Define priority audiences, their motivations and barriers, and the occasions that will drive participation.
  • Define the new product's positioning, differentiation, and relationship to the wider brand and product portfolio, including incrementality.
  • Develop brand positioning, messaging architecture, and a creative platform.
  • Partner with Product, Commercial, Analytics, and Research teams to shape customer experience, offer, and proposition decisions.
  • Build acquisition and retention strategies covering channels, messages, and customer journeys.
  • Translate strategy into measurable objectives combining brand and commercial key performance indicators.
  • Own the marketing strategy and integrated campaign plan for each new property prize launch.
  • Turn each campaign into a customer story with a clear audience, insight, proposition, and creative brief.
  • Ensure individual property campaigns strengthen the brand while delivering immediate commercial objectives.
  • Set a high creative bar and work with Creative teams to develop distinctive, emotionally compelling brand-building work.
  • Lead the cross-functional marketing squad responsible for bringing campaigns to market.
  • Partner with Creative, Performance Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Public Relations, Social, and other teams to deliver the strategy.
  • Ensure customer touchpoints work together as one coherent campaign from first impression through conversion and repeat participation.
  • Make prioritization and investment recommendations based on expected commercial impact.
  • Establish processes, templates, measurement frameworks, and operating cadence for running campaigns repeatedly and efficiently.
  • Track and develop understanding of brand health alongside commercial performance using measures such as awareness, consideration, and customer perceptions.
  • Design and prioritize tests across audiences, propositions, messaging, creative, channels, and customer journeys.
  • Experiment and optimize appropriately while maintaining consistency and creative conviction when short-term campaign data should not drive changes.
  • Build understanding of performance drivers by customer segment and campaign type.
  • Turn campaign learnings into improvements for subsequent campaigns and create a compounding growth loop.
  • Bring customer insight and market intelligence into the wider business to help shape the future product roadmap.

About the company

Omaze is a for-profit platform that raises funds for non-profit organizations by running prize-draw campaigns. Donors buy entries for chances to win high-value prizes such as multi-million-pound houses, luxury cars, or cash, and a portion of the proceeds goes to charity. The product works by offering video-led campaigns and direct-to-consumer entries; in the UK, Omaze guarantees at least £1 million in donations per campaign, with about 17% of total sales allocated to the charity partner while the rest covers prizes, marketing, operations, and profit. Unlike typical charity fundraising, Omaze takes on the financial risk of purchasing prizes upfront and operates as a social-enterprise-like business model, having shifted its focus from celebrity experiences to the Million Pound House Draw and expanding into the UK and Germany. Its goal is to engage a broad audience in philanthropy, generate significant charitable giving, and broaden access to charitable experiences through prize draws.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

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Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

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What believers are saying

  • FareShare's October 2025 draw raised £5.2 million, reinforcing strong donor appetite.
  • Omaze's 2026 draws funded Eden Project Morecambe, Royal Marsden, and English Heritage.
  • The company raised over £250 million worldwide, giving charities and sellers strong social proof.

What critics are saying

  • North Norfolk District Council investigated Omaze's 2025 Norfolk draw over planning discrepancies.
  • Lotteries Council criticized Omaze's donation structure in Parliament, citing weak legally binding oversight.
  • If UK regulators tighten prize-draw rules, Omaze's house-draw economics collapse quickly.

What makes Omaze unique

  • Omaze monetizes charity through luxury house draws, not standard donations, since 2020 UK pivot.
  • The brand pairs guaranteed £1 million donations with headline prizes like £4.5 million homes.
  • Its UK model turned lottery-style fundraising into repeatable, high-production entertainment.

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