Marketing Assistant /Coordinator
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP)-- www.nvp.com
job code: NVP-vpm
Location: Palo Alto, CA

Reports to:
Director of Marketing & VP of Marketing

The Marketing Assistant will be responsible for project support and all administrative functions related to the Marketing Department at NVP. Specific responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to:
· Support and assist in the coordination of all internal and external NVP events: registration, logistics, planning, research, etc.
· Support and assist in the coordination of all international and national NVP public relations projects/follow-up; clip reports
· Maintain and update key NVP process and activity documents including conference calendar and other marketing activity tracking spreadsheets.
· Support and assist in the coordination/deliverables related to NVP sponsorships
· In house creation of select NVP collateral pieces and invitations (via MS Publisher, Photoshop)
· Maintain/update NVP website and plasma screen (basic HTML experience)
· Post speaking events and news on Facebook and other relevant social media channels
· Maintain/update vendor resource area on nvp.com
· Print and update separate marketing collateral for various teams within NVP
· Produce and maintain press kits (U.S. and global)
· Produce/ manage tombstones and reprints
· Assist with managing marketing budget and billing
· Organize and maintain marketing files and publications
· Interface with vendors, portfolio companies and staff regarding marketing-related projects
· Attend select marketing-related seminars and classes to enhance marketing skill set
· Additional administrative tasks as needed (i.e. CMS, PowerPoint support, vendor meeting coordination)

Knowledge, skills, and abilities required:
· Minimum 2 years of marketing experience
· Undergraduate degree preferred
· Familiar with standard marketing concepts, practices and procedures
· Strong organizational skills - Ability to develop and maintain files and records
· Strong computer skills – MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint; basic HTML; Photoshop, Internet savvy
· Ability to communicate effectively (oral and written)
· Positive, “can do” attitude and sense of humor
· Excellent interpersonal skills
· Detail-oriented
· Self-starter
· Accountable­Takes ownership of work
· Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and work well under pressure
· Ability to multi-task and prioritize projects
· Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
· Ability to maintain confidentiality
· Flexible – ability to “roll with the punches” and help out where/when needed
· Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
· Ambassador for NVP

About NVP
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global venture and growth equity investment firm that manages more than $3.7 billion in capital. It has offices in Palo Alto, California, Mumbai and Bangalore, India and Herzelia, Israel. NVP makes early to late stage venture and growth equity investments in U.S. and global companies across a wide range of sectors including: information technology, business services, financial services, infrastructure, technology enabled services and consumer. NVP has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 49 years and has funded over 450 companies since inception.

Notable investments include Actel Corporation, Airespace (acquired by Cisco Systems), Asian Genco Pte Ltd (AGPL), Brocade, Cast Iron Systems (acquired by IBM), Cerent (acquired by Cisco Systems), Corio (acquired by IBM), Cray Research, Documentum (acquired by EMC), Extreme Networks, Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Jigsaw (acquired by Salesforce.com), Kace (acquired by Dell), LifeSize Communications (acquired by Logitech), NSE (National Stock Exchange of India), Omneon (acquired by Harmonic), Open-Silicon (acquired by Unicorn Investment Bank), PeopleSoft (acquired by Oracle), Persistent Systems (NSE: PERSISTEN.NS), Polycom, Qumranet (acquired by Red Hat), Rackspace (NYSE:RAX), Shriram City Union Finance, Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), SideStep (acquired by Kayak), Spinnaker Networks (acquired by Network Appliance), SPSS (acquired by IBM), Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM), Transaction Systems Architects (Nasdaq: ACIW), Verio (acquired by NTT), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola), Yatra.com and Yipes (acquired by Reliance/Flag Telecom). For more information, please visit www.nvp.com.

To appy for this job:
Send resume to: HR@nvp.com Please cite job code: NVP-vpm No phone calls please.

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