SaaS for Streamlined Employee Onboarding & Marketing Team Strategy Alignment
The stories in this Reddit post (ID: 1l2sila) shed light on a common challenge: new marketing hires often find themselves in a disorganized environment with unclear directions and insufficient onboarding, leading to frustration and high turnover. This opens up some interesting SaaS opportunities:
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A Specialized Onboarding & Role Assimilation Platform for Marketing Teams:
- Opportunity: Tackle the crucial first few months for new marketing hires by providing a structured path to productivity and clarity.
- Product Form: A web-based SaaS platform offering customizable 30-60-90 day onboarding plans tailored to various marketing roles (e.g., digital specialist, content manager). Features would include a centralized hub for essential marketing resources (brand guidelines, strategy documents, MarTech access info, key internal contacts), checklists for initial tasks and system setups, clear documentation of role expectations and initial objectives, and progress tracking for both the new hire and their manager.
- Expected Revenue: $15-$30 per new marketing hire per month (typically for the first 3-6 months of their onboarding). Alternatively, a team package could be $75-$250/month for continuous use by small to mid-sized marketing departments for all onboarding and as an internal knowledge base.
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A Marketing Operations & Strategy Alignment Hub:
- Opportunity: Provide marketing teams, especially those in companies where marketing structures are weak or evolving, with tools to establish and maintain operational clarity and strategic alignment.
- Product Form: A web-based SaaS platform designed as a central source of truth for marketing operations. Features would include tools for defining, documenting, and visualizing marketing strategy and its connection to business goals; modules for clarifying team roles, responsibilities, and reporting structures (e.g., interactive RACI charts for projects); templates and builders for standardizing common marketing workflows (e.g., campaign planning, content creation and approval processes); and dashboards for tracking progress against key marketing objectives and team deliverables.
- Expected Revenue: $150-$700 per marketing team per month, with pricing tiered based on team size, feature set (e.g., advanced analytics, integrations with other MarTech tools), and the number of customizable workflow templates.
Origin Reddit Post
r/marketing
Thinking of quitting new job 10 days in.
Posted by u/ApprehensiveFix4474•06/04/2025
Hey, I started a new "marketing" job less than 2 weeks ago and I’m already thinking about leaving. I’d love some gut check advice.
I took a role in digital marketing & communications at
Top Comments
u/TheCheshireCat_
I would stick it out, at least for a 6 months. Improve it where you can. If work is getting done you can adapt a bit, even if there are some inefficiencies. But it doesnt sound that bad
u/ria_89
Leave. I quit this exact job two months in not long ago. Not joking - even had two managers and everything. I almost feel like you got my job after I left lol.
u/stupidauthor
That sounds like heaven, can I work for your company?
u/jseng2
i was in this position similarly with my last job “the woman who worked your job before you had a mental break down in the office.”
you can either:
1. Suck it up, take on the extra pay with
u/SmashingLumpkins
I think I worked there. What state are they based out of?
u/NewBlazrApp
It happens, not always a great fit. Ask yourself questions about why. It helps to figure out if the reason is fixable
u/von_sip
If you quit please come back and tell us who this company is. I REALLY want to know what kind of organization can run like this
u/FixItGuy1985
I didn’t support quiet quitting until I was in this same position. This person is correct. This will fall on your “lack of experience or ability to execute”. The position is set up to fail &a
u/klu16
You're not overreacting. It probably won't get better. If you can afford to quit without something else, do it. Otherwise, start looking.
u/Shivs_baby
You have two options: start looking and get out asap, or really give it your best shot by over communicating, setting boundaries, giving yourself a clearly defined job description and going a
u/LocksmithComplete501
I was in a job just like that, stuck it out nearly 3 years…should have got out of there as soon as I could. I’ll only work with companies now that actually understand marketing and have the t
u/Traffalgar
I've worked for a leading company in the financial industry, everything was so well organised. Meeting would get cut immediately at the time stated, like the phone would shut down, it was gre
u/upwardmomentum11
I’ve been in your position twice and it sucks. I’m sorry you’re going through this.
The first time I got let go after 5 months, the 2nd time I quit willingly after 3 months.
I have no advic
u/nomcormz
If you care about doing a good job and being fulfilled at work, look for another job as soon as possible.
But if you view it as just a paycheck, congrats, you just got a 30% pay bump and it
u/Mindless-Regular343
This just sounds like a normal marketing position tbh. Most non marketing agency orgs seem to just do stuff (like host multi cam video shoots) without any strategy and call it marketing. I’ve
u/klu16
You're not overreacting. It probably won't get better. If you can afford to quit without something else, do it. Otherwise, start looking.
u/OpusClip-Team
That doesn't sound like fun at all. I think it's all a huge bunch of red flags and it's not going to get better.... I think what bothers me the most about this circus job is how they misled y
u/TheCheshireCat_
I would stick it out, at least for a 6 months. Improve it where you can. If work is getting done you can adapt a bit, even if there are some inefficiencies. But it doesnt sound that bad
u/upwardmomentum11
I’ve been in your position twice and it sucks. I’m sorry you’re going through this.
The first time I got let go after 5 months, the 2nd time I quit willingly after 3 months.
I have no advic
u/MondayLasagne
You forgot that OP also has been tasked with huge projects that are out of their wheelhouse and were not agreed upon in the job interviews. It's not only messy, it also expects OP to do thing
u/BabyCat2049
I wanna quit my new job because there’s always so many redundant meetings taking me away from tasks and people without authority telling me what to do and how to direct brand repositioning (i
u/KnightDuty
I had a job like this and I was the only one trying and i became head of creative.
Since then I see the kind of situation you describe as a golden opportunity.
If nobody's checking in? T
u/littleworld444
Just start looking, there is usually a lot of grace on the front end of new jobs.
u/Shivs_baby
You have two options: start looking and get out asap, or really give it your best shot by over communicating, setting boundaries, giving yourself a clearly defined job description and going a
u/princess20202020
I’ve been in that position several times and I’ve never listened to my gut. I tried to stick it out and was miserable until I was eventually laid off. I don’t think there any way this turns i
u/Very-Sortof-714
I’m in this same situation in a marketing role and cannot believe what a mess it has been. I’m almost 3 years in. I weighed this and another offer before commenting and I wish I’d picked the
u/SmashingLumpkins
I think I worked there. What state are they based out of?
u/LocksmithComplete501
I was in a job just like that, stuck it out nearly 3 years…should have got out of there as soon as I could. I’ll only work with companies now that actually understand marketing and have the t
u/AdBudget6545
Ive been in this a few times, and it never gets better. Its a lack of competency and respect and nomatter what you do, the leaders pulling strings won't listen.
A normal way to do things wo
u/AdTechGinger
Oh bless your heart, yes there should be something. My company does a 2 day thing at HQ we fly new hires in for (we're remote-first), and every manager has to submit an individualized onboard
u/Zealousideal-Bet1727
Y’all are getting onboarded?
u/BabyCat2049
I wanna quit my new job because there’s always so many redundant meetings taking me away from tasks and people without authority telling me what to do and how to direct brand repositioning (i
u/ria_89
Leave. I quit this exact job two months in not long ago. Not joking - even had two managers and everything. I almost feel like you got my job after I left lol.
u/JusticeBear
Yeah, sounds about right—mostly normal stuff. Hope the pay is good at least.
u/Zealousideal-Bet1727
Y’all are getting onboarded?
u/Odd_Skill_5299
One of my first marketing gigs was just like this. The company had zero direction from leadership, no budget, and marketing was expected to fix everything. I was a glorified executive assista
u/speedyelephants2
Who the f^*#* makes a Reddit post with 15-30 bullet points about a job 10 days in?
Just get out.
u/princess20202020
I’ve been in that position several times and I’ve never listened to my gut. I tried to stick it out and was miserable until I was eventually laid off. I don’t think there any way this turns i
u/ananonh
This. Literally just do whatever you want.
u/KnightDuty
I'm not saying the work culture is fair. But the stress/anxiety part of it can be solved through self-development. Boundary setting is an adult skill that needs to ne intentionally developed.
u/Very-Sortof-714
I’m in this same situation in a marketing role and cannot believe what a mess it has been. I’m almost 3 years in. I weighed this and another offer before commenting and I wish I’d picked the
u/AdTechGinger
Oh bless your heart, yes there should be something. My company does a 2 day thing at HQ we fly new hires in for (we're remote-first), and every manager has to submit an individualized onboard
u/KnightDuty
I had a job like this and I was the only one trying and i became head of creative.
Since then I see the kind of situation you describe as a golden opportunity.
If nobody's checking in? T
u/Odd_Skill_5299
One of my first marketing gigs was just like this. The company had zero direction from leadership, no budget, and marketing was expected to fix everything. I was a glorified executive assista
u/AdBudget6545
Ive been in this a few times, and it never gets better. Its a lack of competency and respect and nomatter what you do, the leaders pulling strings won't listen.
A normal way to do things wo
u/OpusClip-Team
That doesn't sound like fun at all. I think it's all a huge bunch of red flags and it's not going to get better.... I think what bothers me the most about this circus job is how they misled y
u/ananonh
So many more than you think.
u/von_sip
If you quit please come back and tell us who this company is. I REALLY want to know what kind of organization can run like this
u/FixItGuy1985
I didn’t support quiet quitting until I was in this same position. This person is correct. This will fall on your “lack of experience or ability to execute”. The position is set up to fail &a
u/threebutterflies
Do you have my old job? Hahaha, apparently it’s quite common. I ended up quitting