Director of Demand Generation

Seattle, WA (Remote)

$175K/yr – $250K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end demand generation for Runpod, leading multi-channel programs to fuel PLG and enterprise pipeline.

  • Own the demand gen strategy across paid, email, SEO/content, events, ABM, and partnerships.
  • Must-have: 8+ years B2B demand gen with leadership experience.
  • Standout: PLG-to-sales motion and building a scalable marketing tech stack.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end demand generation strategy and execution across all channels, including paid media, email/lifecycle, SEO/content distribution, events, webinars, ABM, and partner co-marketing
  • Build, manage, and optimize campaign programs that drive MQLs, SALs, pipeline, and revenue against defined targets and efficiency benchmarks
  • Own marketing-sourced and marketing-influenced pipeline metrics; build dashboards and reporting cadences to track funnel performance from top-of-funnel through closed-won
  • Design and execute multi-touch, multi-channel campaigns targeting AI/ML engineers, platform teams, and technical decision-makers at mid-market and enterprise accounts
  • Manage and optimize paid acquisition budgets across Google, LinkedIn, programmatic, sponsorships, and emerging channels; hold yourself to CAC and LTV/CAC targets
  • Partner with Sales to build and refine lead scoring, MQL/SAL definitions, SLAs, and handoff processes that improve conversion rates and deal velocity
  • Architect and manage the marketing tech stack (CRM, MAP, attribution, intent data, enrichment) to support scalable, data-driven demand gen operations
  • Plan and execute Runpod's event strategy, including owned events, sponsored conferences, and field marketing activations
  • Build lifecycle and nurture programs that convert free-tier users and signups into qualified pipeline (PLG-to-sales motion)
  • Hire, develop, and lead a demand generation team as the function scales; define roles, set priorities, and establish operating cadences

Requirements

  • 8+ years of B2B demand generation or growth marketing experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role
  • Proven track record of building and scaling demand gen programs that directly contributed to pipeline and revenue targets at a high-growth B2B SaaS company
  • Deep hands-on experience with marketing automation, CRM (HubSpot or Salesforce), attribution tools, and paid media platforms
  • Experience marketing to developers or technical audiences (infrastructure, DevTools, cloud, or AI/ML strongly preferred)
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights; comfortable building and interpreting pipeline and funnel models
  • Experience owning a demand gen budget of $1M+ and reporting on CAC, LTV/CAC, and channel ROI
  • Experience working in PLG or hybrid PLG + sales-assisted environments
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills; demonstrated ability to partner closely with Sales, Product, and GTM leadership
  • Successful completion of a background check

Preferred

  • Experience at an infrastructure or cloud company (AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Datadog, etc.)
  • Familiarity with GPU compute, inference workloads, or the AI/ML tooling ecosystem
  • Experience building ABM programs targeting enterprise accounts with long sales cycles
  • Track record of converting free/self-serve users into enterprise pipeline through PQA (product-qualified account) or PQL motions
  • Experience at a Series A through C stage company where you built the demand gen function from early stage
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with limited playbooks and a bias toward action

Runpod

Runpod provides cost-effective GPU cloud computing services for training, deploying, and scaling AI models. With GPU Cloud, users can spin up an on-demand GPU instance in a few clicks. With Serverless, users can create autoscaling API endpoints for scaling inference on their models in production.Runpod was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in New Jersey.

Founded in 2022
San Francisco, California, USA
84 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$19.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.9%
Direct
55.2%
Referral
4.3%
Social
2.1%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~84

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
5 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$22M
Last Raise
Seed, 2 years ago