Joe Martin
Comms Team Lead at PostHog
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Martin is a Comms Team Lead and product marketing specialist with five years focused in early-stage tech, currently shaping messaging and brand at PostHog after joining as the company's tenth hire and first marketing lead. He builds multidisciplinary teams that span product marketing, design, comms, partnerships and support, and has hands-on experience improving front-end UI and documentation for the open-source PostHog project and its website. Known for scaling functions quickly—he started and grew support and comms teams, then willingly handed operational reins over—he combines strategic storytelling with practical execution. With a background in content and journalism and degrees in linguistics, creative writing and cognitive psychology, he brings a rare mix of narrative craft and user-focused product sense to technical marketing.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA HONS English Linguistics, BA HONS English Linguistics at Lancaster University
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
gatsby10
react10
user-interface9
graphical-user-interface9
tailwindcss9
documentation8
content-management8
content-management-system8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PostHog/posthog.com
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Official docs, website, and handbook for PostHog.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & UI Designer
Front-end Developer & UI DesignerContributions:1271 reviews, 481 commits, 1302 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the PostHog.com website and documentation, focusing on content updates, UI improvements, and the addition of new features. Their work involved modifying components, updating copy, adjusting the layout, and implementing design changes across various pages, including the homepage, product pages, and careers section. They also worked on blog posts, including the creation of new case studies and content overhauls. The user also implemented multiple changes in relation to the apps within the product, including the addition of a new application.
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PostHog/posthog
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
🦔 PostHog provides open-source web & product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host. Get started - free.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 14 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the front-end components of the PostHog project. Their work includes updating UI elements, fixing casing issues in the UI, and adding informational modals. The commits show modifications to React components, including changes to UI elements, labels, and links within the application. They also addressed minor UX improvements and updates to the UI.
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