Overview

Much Better Adventures is fast becoming the leading marketplace for one of the fastest growing sectors in travel – adventure. We’re on a mission to inspire people to live a more adventure-rich life, help a global community of local and independent businesses to make a great living doing what they love, and protect the planet’s most inspiring natural landscapes in the process.

We were voted the UK’s ‘Best for Experiences’ in 2016, are continually rated 5* by our tribe of loyal customers, and are founded by the UK’s ‘Young Travel Entrepreneurs of the Year’ 2017.

We’re backed by some of Europe’s leading investors and entrepreneurs, and are partly-community owned. Now we’re building a team of super talented, passionate and ambitious people to join us.

The role

We are seeking a highly strategic content king or queen to launch our content and media arm, and be responsible for building long term organic growth through content, social media and our highly engaged community.

We’re looking for you to own the content marketing vision, strategy and the execution of it. You’ll be responsible for putting people and processes in place across all areas of content production, and overseeing performance.

If you are the person for the job, you’ll know what that entails already, and we’ll be looking for you to demonstrate that during the interview process.

REQUIREMENTS

Your skills and experiences;

  • Successfully led the content strategy for an interesting consumer or media brand before
  • Experienced in content production and digital marketing
  • Experience in building big audiences with quality content
  • Brave, self-motivated, highly ambitious, organised, detail-oriented, ability to prioritise, multi-task, set and meet deadlines

Your personal motivation;

We’re looking for people driven by 3 things;

  • The ambition to build an industry-defining brand
  • A passion for the outdoors and travel
  • A desire to solve social and environmental problems through innovative business thinking

BENEFITS

If you want disrupt one of the fastest growing sectors of travel, get a kick out of supporting local and independent businesses around the world, and are in your element on skis, a bike, a surfboard or something equally exciting, you are in the right place.

We are headquartered in London, but run as a flexible remote working team with people dotted around Europe, and get together on regular company retreats.

  • Competitive salary with share options
  • An entrepreneurial environment where great ideas are actively encouraged, and taking responsibility for them is expected
  • Flexible working arrangements – work where/when you want
  • 25 days paid holiday a year
  • Regular company meet-ups in a variety of inspiring and adventurous settings
  • Budget and time for continued learning and self development, including courses, monthly audible/books budget, and access to training, classes and talks from Europe’s leading entrepreneurs and mentors
  • Budget for home-working set up, your choice of laptop
  • Pension scheme (UK-based employees)
  • The warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing you are making a huge difference to small independent business, local economies and communities. Did we mention our Foundation?

Application process

Apply online with a short summary of why you think you are perfect for the role. CV or links to relevant online info is a welcome addition. If asked for an in-person interview, you’ll be given a short brief asked to pitch your content and marketing strategy.