EMEA Community Marketing Lead
Posted 1 day ago by Aquent
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The EMEA Community Marketing Lead will drive community strategy for Creative Professionals in the UK and Germany, ensuring alignment with EMEA program leads. This role involves collaborating with various teams to execute community events, content strategies, and ambassador programs while monitoring industry trends. The position requires strong communication and leadership skills, along with a deep understanding of community programs. The role is hybrid and based in London, starting in February 2026 for a duration of 12 months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive Community strategy for Creative Professionals across the UK and Germany.
- Establish strong working processes across Community Marketing and EMEA teams.
- Collaborate with UK Event Manager to align events with audience and product milestones.
- Partner with Global Community Marketing team to drive EMEA content strategy.
- Define EMEA Ambassador strategy and continuously research best practices.
- Lead collaboration with social team for amplification of community content.
Key Skills:
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
- Excellent networking and project management abilities.
- Comfortable testing new formats and engagement models.
- Strong understanding of community programs and the creative community.
- Ability to translate community feedback into actionable insights.
- Cultural fluency and sensitivity to global contexts.
- Experience in building scalable processes and toolkits.
- Over 7 years of experience in marketing/community building.
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a relevant design field.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: EMEA Community Marketing Lead
Client Location: London - hybrid
Starting: February 2026
Pay Comments: up to £40.20/hr PAYE
Hours: 35-hour week
Duration: 12 months
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Strategy/Programs
- Drive Community strategy for Creative Professionals across the UK and Germany, partnering with EMEA program leads (content, events, ambassadors, VIP programs) to ensure strong alignment and supported execution.
- Partner and establish strong working processes across our Community Marketing team as well as EMEA PMMs, Customer Marketing and Social in region.
- Stay on top of industry trends, community best practices and support the team with an understanding of customer needs, partnering closely with Research & Insights team.
- Community Events
- Collaborate with UK Event Manager to align events to audience and product milestones, ensuring event strategy and formats align to broader community marketing goals.
- Community content
- Partner with Global Community Marketing team (Content) to drive EMEA content strategy and align program execution in region.
- Monitor content roll-out in collaboration with EMEA Content Manager and own monthly reporting at a regional level.
- Ensure regular reporting to EMEA stakeholders.
- Ambassadors
- Partner with Global teams to define EMEA Ambassador strategy and define country prioritisation.
- Continuously drive and research ambassador best practices in the UK and Germany.
- Act as a voice of the customer/ambassador by representing ambassador programs internally and leading monthly “meet the ambassador” sessions, educating stakeholders.
- Continuously expand the program by identifying new talent, with support of local UK intern.
- Ensure program talent is being leveraged by Marketing programs and online opportunities (e.g. event speakers, in-person workshops, content amplification, press).
- Social
- Lead collaboration with social team, identifying opportunities for amplification across community content, and representation of key community leaders.
Skills:
- Strong communicator who can navigate complex organisations, excellent leadership, networking, and project management skills.
- Experimentation mindset: Comfortable proactively testing new formats, platforms, and engagement models, and iterating quickly based on results.
- Strong understanding of community programs and the creative community.
- Feedback synthesis & insight translation: Ability to turn community feedback into actionable insights for product, marketing, and leadership teams
- Ability to work independently across large internal and international teams as well as with partner organisations in the community.
- Cultural fluency: deep sensitivity to global, regional, and cultural context.
- Operational excellence & scalability: Comfortable building processes, playbooks, and toolkits that allow communities to scale sustainably.
Education:
- Over 7 years of experience in marketing/community building.
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a design field relevant to any of the creative communities preferred.
*This role is open for a limited time. Next steps will be shared with shortlisted candidates ASAP. Due to the high volume of applicants, we may be unable to reply to each applicant individually. Thank you for taking the time to apply.
Client Description:
A multinational cloud-based software company specialising in a series of products designed to drive creative innovation across multimedia. Used by millions around the world for personal and professional use across all industries. Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.