About the RoleThis is a founding GTM role at a seed-stage AI infrastructure startup that has hit product-market fit early and is now growing faster than its current team can handle. You'll own the entire go-to-market function from day one, working directly with the founder to build marketing, sharpen the sales pipeline, and prove out a repeatable GTM motion - all hands-on, before you hire a team beneath you.
What You'll Do- Own marketing end-to-end: positioning, messaging, content strategy, product launches, and demand generation.
- Co-own brand and story direction with the founder, then execute and iterate based on real results.
- Analyze and optimize the sales pipeline - how leads arrive, get qualified, and where they stall - then fix the bottlenecks.
- Run continuous experiments and use data, not opinions, to decide what to double down on.
- Write copy, build email sequences, and manage GTM ops including tooling, tracking, and reporting.
- Communicate authentically with a technical audience - engineers and platform teams who are allergic to marketing speak.
- Hire and manage marketers once the playbook is validated.
What We're Looking For- 3+ years of hands-on B2B growth experience, ideally carrying a company from Series A through Series B - in the room making decisions, not adjacent to them.
- Strong technical fluency: you can explain agent testing, infrastructure concepts, or developer tooling to engineers without needing a translator.
- Proven track record running A/B tests and building marketing judgment through experimentation volume, not theory.
- Background in developer tools, infrastructure, or platform companies strongly preferred.
- Published technical writing for a real audience - newsletter, blog, Substack, or documentation people actually read.
- Experience leading a company through repositioning or a rebrand and measuring its impact on metrics.
- Prior experience hiring and managing at least a small marketing team.
- Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate - this is an on-site role.
Compensation & BenefitsBase salary starting at
$180,000 USD annually (top of range not specified). Equity expected at this stage. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LocationOn-site in
San Francisco, CA. Relocation candidates welcome; remote work is not available for this role.