Founding Marketer
$180,000–$280,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Own the company's external presence from narrative strategy to tactical execution, shaping the blog, thought pieces, and unique AI perspective while positioning founders as industry voices. Define the category, translate deep technical capabilities into developer messaging, and manage brand channels across X, LinkedIn, and the website. Coordinate product launches from press to podcasts, build developer and enterprise pipelines through demand generation, and run growth experiments spanning social, SEO, and email. Execute this full-spectrum marketing function from zero in a small, fast-moving team preparing the world for Transformative AI.
Required Qualifications
- Have built a marketing function from zero at a start-up and can both set strategy and execute it
- Are tactically broad — can own narrative, launches, demand, and growth experiments across channels from social to SEO to email
- Have 5+ years of professional expertise in high-performing teams, including under shifting and ambiguous environments
- Write exceptionally well — clear, technical, and fast
- Have taste: know what's credible, what's hype, and what's premature
- Are fluent in the AI industry, leverage tools yourself, and can credibly talk models and APIs with our engineers and researchers
- Show complete ownership — think at the level of goals, not tasks or tickets
- Solve problems from both first-principles reasoning and a reservoir of lived experience
- Care deeply about our mission and are driven to translate it into real-world impact
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.