Director of Marketing
Empatica · Milan · €80,000–€120,000 (stated in the posting)
Empatica
Empatica is a full-stack digital healthcare company and a pioneer in digital biomarker development and continuous patient monitoring driven by AI. Our platform consists of medical-grade smartwatches, software, physiological and behavioral digital biomarkers. Together they enable the continuous remote monitoring of human health across a range of conditions, through clinical-quality digital measurements.
Your ultimate call is to improve lives around the world, as part of a cross-functional teams who share knowledge and are eager to keep learning and pushing to create top-notch products that have a meaningful impact.
If you are looking to join a fast-paced growth environment and do meaningful work that can make a true impact in the world, then keep reading.
About the role
As Marketing Director, you will own Empatica's marketing strategy end to end, with a strong focus on growth and demand generation in the US market. You'll lead a team and a budget, build a data-driven demand engine across our B2B, B2C, and patient-facing segments, and work closely with Sales, Product and Clinical teams.
In addition, working together with other members from the Marketing Team you will be:
- Developing and implementing comprehensive marketing strategies - covering both organic and paid initiatives.
- Owning the demand generation engine end to end - driving lead generation, ABM initiatives, lifecycle marketing and nurture programs across the funnel, from first touch to conversion.
- Building the organic growth engine across SEO, content, and thought leadership, turning clinical evidence into content that earns trust with clinicians, patients, and pharma partners.
- Overseeing the marketing technology stack and website performance - ensuring the team drives continuous conversion rate optimization (CRO), SEO, and effective use of marketing automation platforms (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot, Pardot) to scale acquisition efficiently.
- Managing market research collection, analysis, and interpretation of market data.
- Overseeing team members and ensuring their objectives are reached.
- Working closely with the Product team to produce marketing materials and programs.
- Undertaking continuous analysis of the competitive environment and consumer trends.
- Working closely with the Director of Communications to strengthen the company’s market presence.
- Establishing and maintaining automated, accurate reporting of marketing KPIs, partnering with Business Operations to ensure data-driven decision-making across the team.
Requirements
Must have:
- Solid knowledge of the digital health, medtech, or healthcare wearables industry
- Deep understanding of the US healthcare market, including buyer dynamics, reimbursement and payer considerations, and relevant marketing compliance (e.g., FDA promotional rules, HIPAA)
- Proven track record building organic growth engines across SEO, content, and thought leadership, ideally in a clinical or regulated setting
- Ability to turn clinical evidence and published research into content that earns trust with clinicians, patients, and pharma partners
- 8+ years of marketing experience, including 3+ years in a managerial role
- Proven expertise in growth marketing (paid or organic), with a track record of scaling acquisition and improving unit economics
- Hands-on or leadership experience with demand generation tactics - lead generation, lead scoring/nurturing, ABM, and lifecycle marketing automation
- Strong analytical skills: comfortable working with data to measure performance
- Excellent written and spoken English
Nice to have (we don’t expect one candidate to have all of these):
- Experience in both B2B and B2C/B2B2C go-to-market models
- Experience marketing to clinicians, researchers, or patient communities
- Working knowledge of conversion rate optimization (CRO) and SEO principles, with experience overseeing website performance and marketing tech stack decisions
- Proven expertise in growth marketing and performance marketing, with a track record of scaling acquisition and improving unit economics
- Hands-on fluency with tools such as Google Analytics, HubSpot or Salesforce, and ad platforms (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn)
Benefits
- 🧠 Multiple opportunities to be challenged and step up your career in a fast-growth company in one of the hottest areas of tech
- 💰 €80,000–120,000 (Italy) / $150,000–200,000 (US) gross per year, commensurate with the candidate’s experience and background
- 📈 Employee stock options - we want everyone who joins us to own part of the company and our success
- 📍 We have offices in Milan City Center and Downtown Boston
- 🏥 Health Insurance
- 🏋️♀️ Wellhub membership with access to gyms, online classes, personal training sessions, and nutrition plans
- 🤍 Membership for mental health and wellness platforms
- 🥗 Free healthy lunch every day
- 🤓 Free Kindle and books
- 🕰️ Flexible working hours
- 🧑🎓 Personal learning and development budget
- 👀 Much more…
Important notice for candidates:
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