Founding Marketing Lead

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI and data infrastructure company as its founding marketing lead in the United States. You will build awareness, adoption, and community among technical audiences, working closely with product, sales, leadership, and external partners.

What You'll Do

• Lead US product launches and improve researcher signups, activation, onboarding, and ongoing product use.

• Build and manage technical communities through online channels, product updates, office hours, and a community CRM.

• Plan hackathons, meetups, ecosystem events, and partner marketing programs with cloud and hardware organizations.

• Coordinate conference presence, including demos, meetings, and timely follow-up.

• Work with the PR agency on media responses, journalist and analyst meetings, and spokesperson preparation.

• Develop university and research-lab partnerships through talks, events, and student community programs.

• Build a customer proof pipeline, including case studies, references, and co-speaking opportunities.

• Share timely updates on professional and social platforms, conduct weekly user interviews, and relay product insights to the team.

What We're Looking For

• Four to seven years of experience in growth, community, developer relations, or ecosystem marketing at an AI, infrastructure, or developer tools company.

• Experience growing product usage or a technical community with measurable results, ideally as an early-stage startup hire.

• Technical fluency to demo AI and machine learning products and engage credibly with researchers and robotics audiences.

• Comfort working autonomously across launches, events, partnerships, content, and community programs.

• Experience with community platforms, CRM tools, social channels, email marketing, analytics dashboards, and video or demo editing tools.

• University or research-lab partnership experience is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual salary range: $150,000 to $200,000. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Hybrid role based in San Francisco, United States.