Founding Growth

About the role

Most job posts are designed to collect as many applications as possible.

This is not one of them.

At Simplify, we work directly with startup founders to help them hire for high-priority roles.

We're partnering with a fast-growing AI inference company in San Francisco to make their Founding Growth hire — the person who will build the marketing function from scratch and own how the company shows up across positioning, content, social, launches, events, customer stories, and distribution. $140–180K base + equity.

About the company

One-liner: Building AI systems that automatically optimize inference workloads across silicon — making LLM inference faster, cheaper, and more energy-efficient

Stage: Small, well-funded team growing quickly, HQ in SF. They serve trillions of tokens a month for mission-critical workloads, and their customers include Vercel and Neon Health.

Most marketing roles inherit a brand, a calendar, and a working playbook. This one does not. You will work directly with the founders and GTM lead to define the strategy, create the assets, ship the work, measure what matters, and decide what should happen next.

One week might mean turning an engineering result into a product launch, writing posts for the company and its founders, and improving a landing page. The next might mean organizing a dinner for AI infrastructure leaders, interviewing a customer for a case study, or coordinating a podcast or press opportunity.

What you'll work on

• Define marketing strategy, audiences, positioning, narrative, priorities, and the operating calendar
• Make highly technical differentiation clear without oversimplifying it
• Develop the company's voice and visual direction, then create content for the website, X, LinkedIn, newsletters, video, and other relevant formats
• Build founder-led social by turning technical work, ideas, and market observations into distinctive posts, essays, and commentary
• Plan and execute product, model, partnership, research, and company launches across owned channels, communities, press, podcasts, and partners
• Own conferences, dinners, meetups, workshops, and developer events from concept and audience selection through execution and follow-up
• Work with engineers and customers to produce accurate case studies, technical articles, benchmark narratives, videos, and sales materials
• Keep the website current and distribute work through social, email, communities, events, partners, and targeted programs
• Build a practical scorecard and lightweight workflows using AI, automation, contractors, and software

What we look for

• Exceptional writing, with samples of work you personally created
• Early-stage experience where the strategy, process, and assets were not already built for you
• Roughly 3+ years across marketing, growth, communications, content, community, or a similarly broad role — quality matters more than the exact number
• The ability to move comfortably between strategy, creative work, project management, and hands-on execution
• Strong taste — you know when a message, page, event, or piece of content is not good enough
• Technical curiosity and a willingness to learn models, inference, latency, throughput, and GPU infrastructure
• A practical approach to measurement that improves judgment without reducing marketing to impressions, raw leads, or last-click attribution
• Proactive, organized, and comfortable working directly with founders, engineers, customers, and external partners
• In person in San Francisco, 5 days/week
• Visa sponsorship and transfers are available, including H-1B, O-1, TN, and STEM OPT

Nice to have

• Experience with AI infrastructure, developer tools, or another technical product
• Founder-led social or ghostwriting for technical founders
• Technical content, benchmark storytelling, or customer case studies
• Product launches, communications, press, podcasts, events, or community building
• Design, video, web tools, or marketing automation skills
• Heavy use of AI and automation in your own workflow

Why join

• $140–180K base + equity — plus fully covered medical, dental, and vision, daily lunch and dinner, unlimited PTO, and a $1K/month housing stipend near the office
• Founding ownership — build the marketing function rather than inherit somebody else's playbook
• Work directly with the founders and GTM lead, with close access to engineers and customers
• Own both strategy and the finished work across brand, content, launches, events, and distribution
• Turn real technical progress and customer outcomes into the story the market sees
• Small, fast-moving team where strong work can immediately change company momentum