Who are Love Ventures?

Love Ventures is a top emerging Venture Capital firm that invests in exceptional technology founders across FinTech, Future of Work and ConsumerTech. The company was founded in 2020 by two brothers, Marcus and Adrian Love and is on a mission to build the UK's most engaged tech investor community. 

Love Ventures has successfully raised three EIS funds to date, having fully deployed two of these already. So far, we've invested into 22 start ups, including the likes of Banked, Fifth Dimension AI and Tembo, that are reimaging how and where we spend our time and money.

The offering today is an Evergreen EIS fund which seeks to close twice a year and deploy capital within a 12 month period. The Love Ventures platform is expected to continue to expand, with potential additional products for investors and intermediaries, including institutional focussed offerings and further growth funds. 

The core team comprises Marcus Love (General Partner), Adrian Love (General Partner), Faye Williams (Distribution Director),  Kit Blakiston-Houston (Head of Direct Investors), Alice Knibbs (Senior Associate) & Bill Corfield (Senior Associate). With a range of backgrounds from Capgemini, The Instant Group, Barclays Ventures, Octopus Investments & Backed VC.

As part of the wider team, Love Ventures has a highly experienced investment committee which comprises of four members, three of whom are exited founders from Skyscanner, Instant Group and Passmark Security, as well as one with corporate technology experience from Google and UiPath.

The Love Ventures team is dynamic, ambitious and is now looking for its next addition who matches this energy to be part of the company’s growth over the coming years.

What is the role?

Love Ventures is hiring for a Marketing and Brand Lead, who will be responsible for the marketing across the firm. This wide-reaching role will be focussed on propelling the Love Ventures brand and community into its next phase. To begin with, the role will be focussed on the EIS Fund offering, with room to grow to additional products and services as they are launched in due course. 

This role gives the opportunity to an individual who is looking for their next stage of growth and looking to make their mark in a company which has ambitions to grow into a household VC brand.

What are the Marketing and Brand Lead core job responsibilities?

• Creation and delivery of all central communications to investors (HNWI and family offices) and intermediaries (financial advisers and wealth managers). Examples include: regular email campaigns, investor updates and newsletters

• Using a variety of systems they will create and execute the content and materials associated with these communications

• They will work alongside the Sales, Investment and Client Servicing teams to deliver on their strategy

• They will deliver and execute the social media strategy on platforms such as LinkedIn and X, with a minimum of two posts a week, looking to come up with creative ways of growing the Love Ventures follower base and engagement

• They will create regular thought leadership and educational pieces to support the Sales & Investment teams, including white papers and industry research

• They will develop relationships with key PR contacts to ensure we grow our reputation and brand across various relevant media channels

• They will be responsible for organising and running events and webinars on a regular basis in collaboration with the Sales and Investment teams 

• They will monitor the success of digital campaigns and conversions to click throughs and opens and explore ways to increase these rates from a strong foundation

• They will monitor the ROI across various events and campaigns and report on this to their manager and senior stakeholders

• In their role they will need to work closely with our Appointed Representative to ensure that all materials and communications comply with FCA regulations

What are the Marketing and Brand Lead desired skills?

• Creative mindset and approach to the work they execute, thinking outside of the box and coming up with new ways of engaging with our audience

• Familiar with Marketing outreach tools and know how to build and manage campaigns within them

• Highly proficient in using Microsoft and Google’s suite of tools particularly Powerpoint and Google slides

• An understanding of a CRM system and how to manage subscription lists to ensure that an individual's marketing preferences are managed accordingly 

• The ability to understand the FCA handbook and GDPR and how to deliver campaigns in line with this

• A proactive and positive attitude, being prepared to work above and beyond across multiple projects at any given time

• Experience within the Venture Capital industry or working for a VC backed start-up would be advantageous

What is the benefits package?

• Competitive base salary

• Annual discretionary bonus

• 25 days annual leave with an additional day per year of service (capped at 5)

• Pension contribution 

• Flexible working arrangements

• Four weeks working from any location

Other information:

If you have any questions about this role, please contact the hiring manager: faye@loveventures.co.uk 

Please note, this job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may be required to perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organisation. 

Next steps

Start the application process and you will begin by answering some questions that are related to your day-to-day job. Your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step where you'll be invited to a face to face interview in our London office. For candidates who are successful, this will be followed by an assessment stage where you will have the opportunity to present a marketing plan and meet members of the team.

Expected duration of this application process: 3-4 weeks.

We are an equal opportunities employer

At Love Ventures, we are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Love Ventures VC Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, registered number 12829912, with registered office, South Building, Upper Farm, Wootton St. Lawrence, Basingstoke, RG23 8PE. Love Ventures VC Limited (FRN 976882) is an Appointed Representative of Frank Investments Limited (FRN 627697), a firm which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. VAT number: 401765027.