Head of Marketing

Head of Marketing

ARIS is a student initiative based at ETH Zürich (Dübendorf) that inspires students across Switzerland to gain hands-on space-related project experience and contribute to space-related project challenges through academic and industry collaborations. As part of the business team, you will tackle the challenge of enhancing our competition systems, growing our team, and building our network.

From the technical side, ARIS is currently making progress on several exciting projects, including developing a hybrid rocket engine with a guided recovery system for the European Rocketry Challenge in Portugal. Additionally, ARIS is developing a CubeSat with the SAGE project and working on the Karman rocket project to build a rocket capable of flying up to 100 km. We are also building a biliquid engine test stand to further our research and development in this field.

On the business side, ARIS has been expanding its team in areas such as marketing, finance, and HR, and collaborating with new academic partners to provide the best possible framework for all engineering projects.

The goal of the business team is to constantly develop processes to address ongoing growth. To achieve our ambitious projects and continue our exciting growth, we require a motivated Head of Marketing who can contribute to the team by enhancing competition systems, growing our team, and building our network.

As Head of Marketing for ARIS, your main responsibilities would likely include the following tasks:

• Developing a marketing strategy: You would be responsible for developing a comprehensive marketing strategy that aligns with the company’s goals and objectives. This strategy should include a target audience, messaging, positioning, and a plan for promoting the brand across various channels.
• Branding: You would be responsible for ensuring that the ARIS brand is consistent across all marketing channels, including the company website, social media, advertising, and other communications. You would need to ensure that the branding accurately reflects the company’s values and mission.
• Market research: You would need to conduct market research to gain insights into the needs and preferences of potential customers, as well as trends in the market. This information would help inform your marketing strategy and tactics.
• Advertising and promotions: You would need to plan and execute advertising campaigns and promotional activities to raise awareness of ARIS and its products or services. This could include digital advertising, social media marketing, print advertising, events, and other tactics.
• Content marketing: You would be responsible for developing content marketing strategies and creating content that engages potential customers and builds the ARIS brand. This could include blog posts, whitepapers, case studies, videos, and other types of content.

Overall, your role as Head of Marketing would be to promote ARIS and its projects in the most effective and compelling way possible, while also ensuring that the brand is consistent and aligned with the company’s values and mission.

Expectations

As a team member, we expect you to:

• Attend team meetings and workshops at Switzerland Innovation Park in Dübendorf, ZH
• Be proactive and take responsibility for your work
• Embrace failure, learn from it and move forward
• Take ownership of your projects and tasks
• Collaborate closely with both the business and engineering teams as well as the board.

We believe that with these expectations, you will be able to contribute effectively to the team and help ARIS achieve its goals.

What do you get?

By participating in this unique challenge, you will:

• Get in contact with many sponsors from academia and industry
• Take initiative outside of the classroom and gain hands-on experience
• Establish and grow your network in industry and academia
• Be part of a friendly community, grow as a unit and build life-long friendships
• Kickstart your career!
• Do something useful combined with your studies

Project start: as soon as possible

Duration: 2 semesters

Working hours: 6 – 10h/week or per project

Please be informed that your work will be entirely voluntary. As we are a student project, we do not offer any paid employment. But you will be able to proof your practical experience in your CV.

Any questions? Get in touch.

We look forward to hearing from you! Please submit a complete application, including CV. If you have any questions, please reach us on hr@aris-space.ch.

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