Marketing Lead - Portugal
Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
Part of something bigger
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal.
Your hiring experience matters
Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.
Your Role as a Marketing Lead
What you'll do
Set and deliver the marketing strategy for Shine's portfolio in Portugal.
Lead and develop a small local marketing team, with clear priorities and objectives.
Personally plan, build and optimise paid media campaigns across search, social and display.
Manage Shine's Portuguese websites and landing pages, including content, conversion and tracking.
Lead website migrations end to end: content, SEO continuity, redirects, QA and post-launch monitoring.
Own local SEO across technical, on-page and content.
Select, brief and manage agencies, setting scope, budget and performance expectations.
Own the country marketing budget and allocate it to what performs.
Report on acquisition, conversion, return on investment and commercial impact.
Work closely with Product, PMM and Sales to land launches and local campaigns
📍 Job located in Portugal, Porto (Hybrid Model)
About you
5 to 8 years in marketing, strong in both general and digital marketing.
Proven experience leading and developing a marketing team, without stepping back from execution.
Real hands-on depth in paid media: strategy, activation, analysis and optimisation.
Strong working knowledge of SEO, website management, CMS platforms and web analytics.
Practical experience running website migrations, including SEO transition planning.
Experience managing agencies and external partners.
Sound commercial judgement and confidence owning a budget against targets.
An analytical, project-driven mindset and strong stakeholder skills.
You are as comfortable building a campaign or fixing a broken redirect as you are setting the plan. You still want to be in the detail.
Fluency in Portuguese and professional English.
Our recruitment process
1️⃣ 30' call with Talent Acquisition
2️⃣ 30' interview with Hiring Manager
3️⃣ 60' business case presentation to highlight your skills and give you a hands-on feel for the role
4️⃣ A team introduction, followed by a soft skills interview based on personality assessments to see how we can best support your growth at Shine
What we offer
Impact: The opportunity to build and lead marketing for an innovative SaaS solution in banking, accounting and FinTech
Ownership: Significant ownership in developing the German market and shaping the
company’s local presence.
Innovation: Work in a dynamic, ambitious environment with space to grow and try our ideas and approaches
Mission-driven: Likes our mission to help entrepreneurs succeed by giving them better, smarter banking and administrative tools.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.