Founding GTM Lead

Clera

$150K — $185K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-8+ years in GTM, partnerships, growth, or client-facing roles at startups or fast-moving environments.
  • Proven experience in B2B partnerships/sales or B2C growth with community/creator funnels.
  • 3+ years experience serving professionals in creative tools companies or agencies.
  • 1-2+ years hands-on with GenAI products and workflows.
  • Full-cycle sales experience including discovery, demo, negotiation, and closing.
  • Strong customer-facing and execution-driven mindset with independent work capability.
  • Ability to sell an evolving product and communicate effectively in fast-paced settings.

Responsibilities

  • Own go-to-market execution across community, content, partnerships, and outreach.
  • Build and manage relationships with design partners and early customers.
  • Recruit and organize product research and user testing participants.
  • Drive commercial conversations, demos, and structured feedback channels.
  • Collaborate on product positioning, messaging, ICP definition, and pricing strategy.
  • Deliver structured market feedback for product decision-making.
  • Track the competitive landscape of GenAI creative tools.

Benefits

  • Early-stage equity commensurate with a founding team member.
  • Visa sponsorship available where applicable.
Full Job Description
About the Role

A fast-moving, pre-seed generative AI research lab - specializing in human-centric image and video generation for professional creatives - is hiring a Founding GTM Lead to own end-to-end go-to-market execution. This is a high-ownership, high-autonomy founding role: you'll work directly with the founding team to turn cutting-edge AI product capability into commercial traction, shape early customer relationships, and build the repeatable GTM playbook from scratch. The company serves creative industries including gaming, film & VFX, agencies, fashion, and digital human experiences.
What You'll Do
  • Own early go-to-market execution across community, content, partnerships, and targeted outreach.
  • Build and manage relationships with design partners and early customers in creator, studio, and agency segments.
  • Recruit and organize participants for ongoing product research and user testing.
  • Drive early commercial conversations, demos, pilots, and structured feedback channels.
  • Collaborate with product leadership on positioning, messaging, ICP definition, and pricing strategy.
  • Deliver clear, structured market feedback to accelerate product decision-making.
  • Track the competitive landscape of GenAI creative tools, workflows, and evolving user expectations.
  • Represent the company externally with credibility, strong EQ, and confident storytelling.
What We're Looking For

Required:
  • 4-8+ years in GTM, partnerships, growth, or client-facing roles at startups or fast-moving environments.
  • Proven experience in at least one motion: B2B partnerships/sales (pilots, early deals) and/or B2C growth (community/creator funnels).
  • 3+ years serving professional creatives at creative tools companies, agencies, creator platforms, or production studios.
  • 1-2+ years of hands-on exposure to GenAI products and workflows; comfortable using AI tools as part of daily GTM work.
  • Full-cycle sales experience: discovery, demo, negotiation, close, and building CRM/outbound sequences from scratch.
  • Strong customer-facing skills, execution-driven mindset, and ability to operate independently in ambiguous, early-stage settings.
  • Comfortable selling a product still being built; fast-paced communicator who takes ownership well beyond a job description.

Nice to have:
  • Background at a generative AI, creative software, or visual media company (e.g. similar to Runway, Luma AI, Stability AI, Midjourney, Synthesia, or Adobe).
  • Experience launching or scaling a GTM motion at a company with fewer than 20 employees.
  • Familiarity with API-led or developer-facing GTM motions alongside end-user creative workflows.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Salary: $150,000 - $185,000 USD annually
  • Early-stage equity commensurate with a founding team member
  • Visa sponsorship available where applicable
Location

Fully remote (US-based, New York preferred) or based in Zurich or Warsaw. Occasional travel expected. Visa sponsorship is available where applicable.

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