008. Scaling a Marketing Team: What No One Tells You – with Marija Hammon
Hiring the right people is hard. Leading them? Even harder.
One day, you’re a marketing executive. The next? You’re hiring, leading, and making decisions that impact the entire company... on top of your daily work. No one really prepares you for this 😅
That’s why I sat down with Marija Hammon, Marketing Director at Relax Gaming, who’s grown her team across multiple countries – and learned some hard lessons along the way.
We cover:
👉 How to structure a marketing team for scale (without chaos)
👉 The biggest hiring red flags that cost you time & money 🚩
👉 How to balance leadership & execution as a marketing leader
👉 What makes a great hire?
👉 How to step up and grow into leadership
If you're figuring out how to build and lead a high-performing marketing team (including the first-ever hire!), this episode is packed with real, no-BS advice from someone who’s been there.
📚 Read the key takeaways here.
🕰️ Timestamps
0:00 – Marija's journey to marketing director
3:57 – Scaling a Marketing Team
5:44 – How to Structure a Marketing Team for Long-Term Growth
7:29 – The Biggest Leadership Lesson
10:54 – Hiring Red Flags You Should NEVER Ignore
12:17 – Common CV Mistakes
15:41 – Onboarding Done Right
17:52 – How to Balance Leadership, Strategy & Execution Without Burnout
19:39 – The Toughest Part of Managing People
21:59 – Keeping a Team Motivated in Hard Times
23:43 – Marija’s #1 Career Advice
💜 About Marketing Mondays with Maria
Marketing Mondays with Maria is a podcast series where marketing leaders share real-world challenges and creative solutions to inspire and empower fellow marketers.
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Marketing Mondays with Maria
Marketing Mondays with Maria is a podcast for marketing leaders by magier (ex Magic Design).
Every episode, released bi-weekly on Mondays, dives into a specific marketing challenge, with expert guests sharing their learnings & experience in tackling it.
From content creation, personal branding, lead generation, community building, hiring, mental health, UGC content, CRO & more, we will step by step cover it all!! With more and more guests coming onto the show 🫶
📌 What makes this podcast unique?
We focus on tangible and actionable advice.
The guests share their personal experiences, mistakes and lessons learned, all backed by real-life experience and concrete examples.
My goal is for you to walk away from every episode inspired to take action and with more clarity about your marketing strategy than before 🙏
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Hosted by Maria Ledentsova, Head of Marketing at magier & Notion Ambassador.
In case you haven’t heard, magier lets your marketing team subscribe to a team of graphic designers and art directors.
One flat monthly fee = unlimited design requests for all your landing pages, content, ads, flyers and everything in between!
Book a demo call to get your questions answered and get design support 🫶
And Notion... you probably know Notion already 😉
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- Latest episode: 2025-03-17
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