Principle Customer & Community Marketing Specialist I Bókun in Oxford

About Tripadvisor: The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories.

About Bókun: Bókun, a subsidiary of Tripadvisor, is a rapidly growing travel technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to the Tours and Experiences industry. Our comprehensive suite of tools enables Tour Operators, Travel agencies, and OTAs to streamline their operations and expand their reach. At Bókun, we are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower our users to grow their businesses and enhance customer experiences.

What You’ll Do: Bókun is seeking a highly skilled, hands-on Principal Customer & Community Marketing Specialist to join our growth team. Reporting to the Senior Growth Marketing Manager, you will be the recognised expert and driver of our customer success, engagement, and referral strategies. You will roll up your sleeves to execute day-to-day community programs while simultaneously designing the long-term, scalable frameworks. As a unique cross-brand initiative, you will lead community building and engagement across our whole supplier community working closely alongside a team of specialists in Content Marketing, Partnerships, Product Marketing, and Growth Marketing.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Build & Execute the Community Strategy: You'll develop, launch, and manage spaces where tour and attraction businesses can learn and network. This includes getting hands-on with designing and executing educational programs, webinars, newsletters, and social content for our global network of experience operators.
• Drive Community Initiatives: You will directly manage and execute community-building efforts, content, and engagement strategies for the whole supplier community, sharing best practices across the entire Experience operator industry.
• Drive the Referral Program: You'll collaborate directly with the PMM to enhance brand/product affinity and build scalable campaigns that drive a significant increase in customer referrals.
• Own Customer Communication Channels: Take ownership of our primary customer communication channels, specifically leading initiatives and campaigns through platforms like Intercom and ActiveCampaign to drive consistent operator engagement.
• Scaling Reactivation Campaigns: You will use quantitative and qualitative data research to understand root causes of suppliers who don’t upgrade from Free plans, building highly efficient, scalable frameworks for customer reactivation and retention in the process.
• Brand Engagement & Social Media Champion: You will actively develop and implement a hands-on brand engagement strategy and content plan for our community channels to increase reach, engagement, and ultimately drive qualified leads.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Mentorship: You'll collaborate seamlessly with Content, Partnerships, and Sales to integrate community initiatives into broader growth campaigns. As a Principal IC, you will act as a role model, proactively offering guidance, insights, and mentorship to junior team members.

The Ideal Candidate: A minimum of 4 years of experience in community/customer marketing or a related field. Proven track record of building and nurturing online communities. Strong practical experience managing and executing campaigns through customer communication platforms such as Intercom and ActiveCampaign. Possesses 'AI native thinking' to innovate and optimise how we interact with and empower our operator community. You don't just track basic metrics; you analyse trends to propose data-driven solutions and continuously improve recurring engagement activities. Comfortable speaking in-person and online to large audiences. Excellent project management and organisational skills, with the ability to seamlessly balance responsibilities. Can effectively prioritise tasks and adjust strategies based on community feedback and needs. You are comfortable sharing complex insights with senior stakeholders and enjoy mentoring junior colleagues. Proactively identifies challenges, improves processes, and challenges the status quo. A keen interest and passion for travel, technology, and empowering tour and activity operators.

What We Offer: Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses. “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like or as required by your team. Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work. Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually. Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs. Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you. Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more. Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges. Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums. Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.

Our Cultural Pillars: Traveler first - We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviours and insights are what drives us. Execution is our edge - We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data-driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges. We succeed together - The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements.

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at AccessibleRecruiting@tripadvisor.com. If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at recruitment@tripadvisor.com. We have all the answers!