Interim Head of Marketing

**Please note: This is a 6-month interim position, starting as early as October 1, 2025.

Hi there, I’m Wouter, CEO at TestGorilla. We’re excited to share more about this interim Head of Marketing role and our team.

At TestGorilla, we’re on a mission to revolutionize hiring.
We help companies source, screen, and shortlist talent through skills-based hiring—empowering one billion people to land their dream jobs. With 2m+ candidates tested and 350+ science-backed assessments, we’re making hiring smarter, faster, and fairer.

About the role

This is a 6 months interim leadership role, with possibility for an extension, to accelerate our next phase of growth while providing hands‑on management within the marketing team. You’ll build a sales‑led growth (SLG) motion on top of our product‑led growth (PLG), unlock new marketing channels (email, events, sponsorships, partnerships), and partner deeply with Sales and the broader GTM org to create qualified pipeline and revenue. You’ll also help us win in the Sourcing market—making the “Sourcing + Evaluate” story unmistakable—and support healthy two‑sided marketplace dynamics across employer and job‑seeker experiences.

Want to see what it's like to join the leadership team and make an impact as an Interim Head of Marketing? Get an inside look in this quick video by Wouter:

Responsibilities

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Build SLG on top of PLG:Shape a sales-led growth motion that complements PLG and fuels stronger results together with Sales and GTM.
• Unlock new marketing channels: Develop new channels, such as email, events, sponsorships, and partnership that fuel sales-led growth.
• Sourcing market growth: Craft the narrative and campaigns that showcase access to 2m+ skills‑tested job seekers and the advantage of combining Sourcing + Evaluate in one platform; orchestrate employer‑side demand while partnering internally on job‑seeker engagement so the marketplace flywheel turns.
• Leadership and management: Direct management of 3 x marketing leads, and leadership of the wider marketing team
• Interim content channel support: Provide interim consultancy for maternity cover for content lead. Give advice to the content team on strategy, content decisions and organic pipeline growth.
• Outcome‑oriented execution: Guide the team to focus on what matters most, marketing that creates sales opportunities and drives new product-led ARR.
• AI adoption: Encourage and model significant AI in marketing research, development and innovation.
• Uphold our behaviors: Model our company behaviors—think big, deliver user value fast, own outcomes, raise the bar, dive deep, learn and grow, and support each other.

What you’ll bring

We're looking for someone who:

• Has senior B2B SaaS experience layering SLG onto PLG.
• Has opened and scaled new channels (email, events, sponsorships, partnerships) and proven their business impact.
• Deep understanding of organic content channel execution and strategy (PR, content, social, SEO), and capable of providing support during maternity leave
• Is a collaborative partner to Sales
• Strong empathetic leadership skills that keeps priorities focused
• Understands or has led marketing for a marketplace or two‑sided product (bonus in HR tech/talent).
• Moves easily from strategy to hands‑on execution. Comfortable reviewing a forecast in the morning and helping craft a nurture sequence in the afternoon.
• Communicates with clarity and empathy
• Believes in skills-based hiring.
• Based in an EMEA country that we hire from and is available from as early as October, 2025. The role is expected to require the equivalent of a full-time engagement - minimum four days per week.

What’s in it for you?

This is a time-bound, high-impact leadership role where you’ll shape TestGorilla’s next stage of growth:

• Make your mark quickly: Build and launch new marketing motions that have direct impact on pipeline, revenue, and category leadership in a matter of months.
• Steer a talented team: Provide steady leadership during a maternity leave, keeping priorities sharp and helping the team tie their work to business outcomes.
• Drive category creation: Play a pivotal role in helping us win in the Sourcing market, shaping how employers discover and hire from our pool of 2m+ skills-tested candidates.
• Operate at the intersection of PLG and SLG: Few companies are at this exact inflection point—you’ll design and implement the sales-led growth engine on top of a thriving PLG base.
• Global, remote collaboration: Work fully remote with mission-driven colleagues across 50+ countries, in a culture that values flexibility and async collaboration.
• Interim scope with lasting impact: While this is a 6 months engagement, the systems, channels, and plays you establish will continue to drive impact long after.

Interested?

We believe in using our own product to ensure fair and objective hiring. If this role aligns with your skills and aspirations, we invite you to complete one of our very own assessments. This will give you a first-hand experience of our platform and help us get to know you better. We look forward to hearing from you!

TestGorilla is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe that diverse teams are stronger teams, and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We understand that some candidates may experience test anxiety, and we want to assure you that accommodations are available and can be requested prior to sitting our assessments. Your request will not negatively impact your application, as we do not factor this into our review process.

Originally posted on Himalayas