VP of Marketing

Sent, Inc

$160K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in marketing, focusing on demand generation or growth at a developer-first company
  • Experience building enterprise strategies atop a self-serve model
  • Proven ability to hit pipeline metrics with measurable results
  • Deep understanding of developer communities and credibility dynamics
  • Technical fluency with APIs and developer-oriented solutions
  • Track record of leading high-output marketing teams
  • Strong analytical and creative instincts regarding metrics and brand positioning

Responsibilities

  • Own the entire marketing funnel from awareness to pipeline conversion
  • Establish measurement tools to assess lead generation costs and channel effectiveness
  • Direct rapid experimentation to test marketing hypotheses and scale successful initiatives
  • Develop a marketing foundation for sales engagement and enterprise customer acquisition
  • Collaborate closely with sales to define lead scoring and targeting strategies
  • Shape how the company presents itself in the developer ecosystem and key channels
  • Refine company positioning to distinguish it from competitors and communicate effectively with both developers and enterprise buyers

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity opportunities
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan with 100% match up to 4%
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • Access to a modern NYC workspace with complimentary meals and snacks
  • Provide a new MacBook Pro and Apple Studio Display for work
  • Stipend for gym memberships at Wellhub Gold or Equinox
Full Job Description
The Role

We're hiring our first VP of Marketing - someone who has built and led demand-focused marketing for a technical product, knows the developer ecosystem from the inside, and has the range to operate across self-serve growth and enterprise pipeline in the same week.

You'll report directly to the CEO and own marketing end to end. That means inheriting a growing base of developer users and building the motion that turns it into a real revenue engine - both expanding what's already working on the self-serve side and standing up the enterprise layer on top of it. This is a builder role as much as a leadership role. You'll be hiring a team, but you'll also be in the weeds.

What You'll Own

Demand generation and pipeline
  • Own the full funnel from awareness to pipeline - paid, SEO, lifecycle, content, events, and partnerships
  • Build the measurement infrastructure to know, down to the dollar, what a qualified lead costs and which channels are producing real pipeline
  • Direct a high-velocity experimentation cadence: hypotheses, tests, honest reads on results, and quick decisions on what to scale

The enterprise motion
  • Architect the marketing foundation that supports a sales-led motion layered on top of self-serve - account-based plays, outbound support, case studies, analyst relations, and the content that moves enterprise buyers
  • Partner closely with sales on lead scoring, handoff criteria, and targeted account plays for larger logos
  • Build the positioning and materials that make Sent legible to an enterprise buyer without alienating the developer who found it on their own

Developer marketing
  • Own how Sent shows up in the developer ecosystem - the channels, communities, and publications that technical buyers actually trust
  • Know which channels are worth owning (Hacker News, X, newsletters, podcasts, GitHub) and build repeatable acquisition loops around them

Brand and positioning
  • Define and sharpen how Sent is positioned as the market evolves - against incumbents, against point solutions, and as new channels come online
  • Ensure every surface Sent touches - docs, landing pages, campaigns, sales decks - reflects a consistent, credible point of view

What You Bring
  • 7+ years in marketing, with meaningful time in demand generation or growth at a developer-first, API, or infrastructure company
  • You've taken a technical product upmarket - you know what it takes to build an enterprise motion on top of a self-serve base and you've done it before
  • You've carried a pipeline number and hit it, and you can show exactly which bets got you there
  • You're comfortable in the developer ecosystem - you understand how these communities behave, what earns credibility, and what gets ignored
  • Technical enough to hold your own: you've worked with APIs, you understand how developers think, and you don't need things translated for you
  • You've built and led small, high-output marketing teams and know how to hire people better than you in their discipline
  • Strong instincts on both the quantitative side (CAC, payback, conversion rates) and the qualitative side (positioning, narrative, brand)
  • Experience with messaging, telecom, or API infrastructure is a strong plus

Our Commitment to You
  • Meaningful equity with high growth potential
  • Top-tier medical, dental, and vision, fully covered
  • 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Beautiful NYC workspace with daily meals and unlimited snacks
  • New MacBook Pro + Apple Studio Display
  • Wellhub Gold or Equinox membership stipend

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