Job Description
Important: This is not a desk-only marketing job
If your idea of marketing is sitting in an office waiting for instructions, this position is probably not for you. We need someone who is willing to go where the customers are: visit businesses, landlords, construction sites, universities, and residential communities; demonstrate the app; recruit sellers and service providers; build partnerships; and run street activations. You will have significant freedom to determine how you achieve results.
About RentHub
RentHub is a Zimbabwean digital marketplace ecosystem designed to bring everyday needs into one platform. People can use RentHub to:
• Find and list properties for rent, sale or other property needs
• Find places to live, work or do business
• Advertise and find services
• Sell and discover products
• Find jobs and advertise job opportunities
• Become service providers and find customers
• Connect buyers and sellers
• Find transport and ride-related services
• Discover businesses, products and services around them
Our vision is bigger than simply being a property app. We want RentHub to become one of the platforms Zimbabweans think of first when they need something, want to advertise something, or want to find a customer.
The challenge is simple: people cannot use what they don't know exists. That is where you come in.
The role
We are looking for a highly energetic, creative and results-driven Market Acquisition Officer to take RentHub to the Zimbabwean market.
Your job is not simply to “do marketing.” Your job is to create a market.
You will be responsible for taking RentHub from a relatively unknown platform to a widely recognised and actively used digital marketplace.
You must be comfortable going into the streets, businesses, communities, universities, markets, shopping centres, residential areas and workplaces to introduce RentHub, demonstrate it, recruit users and help people start using it.
We are looking for someone who can look at a situation and say: “How can I get 100 people to know about RentHub today?” Then go and make it happen.
Duties and Responsibilities
Key responsibilities
• 1. Build awareness: Create aggressive but intelligent awareness campaigns that introduce RentHub to Zimbabweans. Develop street, social media, community, business-to-business, university, residential-area and shopping-centre campaigns. Explore influencer partnerships, referral campaigns, demonstrations, promotional events, WhatsApp campaigns, local community initiatives and attention-grabbing publicity ideas. Think beyond traditional advertising.
• 2. Acquire users: Get real people onto RentHub through direct outreach, demonstrations, campaigns and referrals. Tailor the message to different audiences, including house seekers, landlords, service providers, sellers, employers and job seekers. Move people beyond awareness to registration and actual usage.
• 3. Acquire listings and businesses: Actively recruit property owners, estate agents, landlords, developers, service providers, contractors, tradespeople, shops, product sellers, businesses, employers, job seekers and transport providers. Get people to actually register, create profiles, list properties, advertise services, upload products, post jobs and begin using the platform.
• 4. Make RentHub a daily habit: Develop campaigns around everyday needs so RentHub becomes a platform people naturally think about when they need something or want to advertise something.
• 5. Think creatively: Work independently and identify opportunities without waiting for daily instructions. Create campaigns around universities, shopping centres, communities, events, social-media trends and business clusters. If an idea fails, change the approach and test something else.
• 6. Build local partnerships: Identify organisations, businesses and communities that can help RentHub grow. Develop mutually beneficial partnerships with property agencies, universities, employers, retailers, construction companies, service businesses, community organisations, transport operators, influencers and business associations.
• 7. Create content and public attention: Help create short videos, interviews, demonstrations, street interviews, educational content, promotional campaigns, testimonials and creative challenges. Use creativity and execution rather than relying on expensive production.
• 8. Track results: Track new users, businesses, property listings, service providers, products, job advertisements, campaigns, businesses visited, partnerships, downloads, active users, leads and paid listings. Every campaign should answer: What did we do? How many people did we reach? How many registered? How many actually used RentHub? What worked? What didn't? What will we change next?
Qualifications and Experience
Who we are looking for
• Highly ambitious and energetic
• Creative and self-motivated
• Confident approaching strangers and businesses
• Excellent communicator and persuasive without being pushy
• Results-oriented and persistent
• Comfortable working independently and in the field
• Good at networking and identifying opportunities
• Social-media savvy and comfortable with technology
• Able to learn the RentHub platform quickly
• A person who creates opportunities rather than waits for them
Requirements & qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, E-commerce, Business Administration, or a related field with at least 3 years of relevant experience in sales, marketing, digital marketplace acquisition, or community mobilization.
OR
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in field marketing, direct sales, business development, or customer acquisition without a degree.
• Proven track record of user acquisition, local brand activation, and creating measurable market growth.
• High social-media literacy and deep familiarity with mobile app adoption strategies.
First 90-day mission & what success looks like
Your initial mission will be to help establish RentHub's presence in the market. Within your first 90 days, you are expected to demonstrate measurable progress through the full acquisition funnel:
Awareness → Downloads → Registrations → Listings → Usage → Revenue
Success is not: “I posted on Facebook.”
Success is: “I ran a campaign that reached 10,000 people, brought 500 people onto RentHub, recruited 50 businesses, generated 100 listings and produced paying customers.”
We want results, not activity for the sake of activity.
Why join RentHub?
This is an opportunity to join a growing technology platform at an early stage and play a significant role in shaping how it is adopted across Zimbabwe.
The successful candidate will not simply be another employee. You will have the opportunity to help build the market, brand, user base and commercial presence of RentHub from the ground up.
If you are ambitious and believe you can take an unknown product and make people talk about it, download it and use it, we want to hear from you.
How to Apply
How to apply
Send your CV together with your application response to careers@zirenthub.com and curlie@zirenthub.com.
Please include a short explanation addressing the following:
• Why you believe you are the right person for this role.
• How you would make thousands of Zimbabweans aware of RentHub.
• What you would do during your first 30 days on the job.
• One creative campaign idea you would execute to drive app downloads and active usage.
• Your previous experience in sales, marketing, business development, community mobilisation, or customer acquisition.
Show us your creativity — don't just send a standard CV
Tell us: “If we give you RentHub today, how will you make Zimbabwe know about it?”
