Finance · Full-time · Remote · Remote possible
Ushur is transforming the way enterprises communicate and engage with customers. Fueled by consumer’s self-service demands, enterprises are modernizing customer engagement and experience models. Ushur is fast becoming the platform of choice for Customer Experience Automation™, enabling these enterprises to leapfrog their digital native counterparts and deliver delightful customer and employee experiences. With cutting-edge Conversational AI, Machine Learning and Intelligent Process Automation technologies, Ushur has enabled Fortune 100 enterprises, including some of the world’s most well known brands in healthcare, insurance, banking and financial services sectors, to automate and transform their customer engagement. Cloud-native, 100% no-code and purely workflow-driven, Ushur empowers citizen developers within business operations teams to build AI-powered, fully-automated and omni-channel experience to digitally transform customer journeys end-to-end.
The Head of Industry, Insurance and Financial Services, will be a key driver in shaping and executing marketing strategies that elevate the Ushur brand and drive growth in these target verticals. This role demands a strategic thinker with deep industry knowledge, strong leadership skills, and a passion for technology and innovation. The ideal candidate will collaborate cross-functionally, and leverage market insights to craft compelling value propositions and go-to-market strategies.They will play a key role in formulating Ushur’s Go-to-Market strategy, providing key insights into market dynamics and vertical expertise in insurance/finserv processes, products, systems, and priorities to guide our platform, sales, marketing, and customer expansion strategies. The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, able to both think strategically and drive out the details. They must be adept in both written and verbal communication, confident to engage with global industry leaders. Continuous learning, flexibility, and initiative are key to success as a member of our industry team. This role will report into the Global Head of Industry Groups.
Responsibilities
Go-to-Market Strategy and Execution Planning:
Develop highly granular Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) and use case-focused solutions for the target markets.
Collaborate with product, marketing, sales, and customer success teams to ensure alignment, enablement and successful execution of go-to-market campaigns. Develop and implement comprehensive marketing strategies tailored to the insurance and financial services sectors.
Analyze market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape to identify opportunities and inform strategic decisions.
Set clear goals and performance metrics to measure the success of vertical
Industry Expertise:
Serve as the industry subject matter expert, understanding and sharing the nuances and challenges of the insurance and financial services sectors.
Stay abreast of industry trends, regulations, and emerging technologies to ensure marketing and sales strategies are current and relevant.
Act as an Ushur brand ambassador through meaningful interactions with industry, including through social media, events, conferences, and other public speaking opportunities.
Assist the Sales team in identifying meaningful use cases for target accounts, contributing to presentation collateral, providing insight into the buyer’s point of view, and participating in prospect meetings.
Contribute to the Customer Success team’s focus on growth with our customers by identifying and presenting use case expansion opportunities.
Assist our Solution Consulting team to design high-volume platform demonstrations for buyers and influencers.
Content Development:
Closely collaborate with product marketing, demand generation, brand and creative teams in the creation of high-quality, engaging content including case studies, whitepapers, blog posts, and thought leadership articles.
Ensure content effectively communicates the value of our solutions and addresses industry pain points. Provide feedback to the Marketing team on marketing campaigns and plans for written and multi-media collateral, along with authoring blogs and contributing to our hosted and field events.
Product and Platform Enhancements:
Work with the Product team to identify new platform capabilities with strong product potential for target verticals, building out functional process flows and creating buyer and user personas.
Support the Engineering team in their creation of new features, including guidance on credible data sources for AI and model enhancements.
Contribute to the industry team’s creation of standard work and scalable processes.
Provide regular reports and insights to senior leadership on effectiveness and industry trends.
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