Founding Head of Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 15 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and build the marketing function and drive strategic growth for Gridsight through product marketing, ABM, and strong partnerships.

  • Define and execute the marketing strategy and roadmap.
  • Lead positioning, messaging, and buyer narratives across accounts.
  • Build AI-enabled workflows and a scalable marketing engine.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and build the marketing function
  • Define Gridsight’s marketing strategy and roadmap in partnership with company and commercial leadership.
  • Set marketing goals, KPIs, and measurement systems that connect activity to account engagement, pipeline, expansion, and market position.
  • Own the marketing resource plan, including when to build internally and when to use agencies, contractors, and specialist partners.
  • Build AI-enabled workflows and reusable systems that increase the quality, speed, and leverage of the marketing function.
  • Own the marketing budget and allocate resources against the highest-impact commercial and market priorities.
  • Lead positioning and product marketing
  • Set and own Gridsight’s positioning, messaging architecture, value propositions, category narrative, and competitive framing.
  • Translate complex technical capabilities into clear outcomes for utility executives, engineers, planners, operators, customer teams, and procurement stakeholders.
  • Build buyer- and use-case-specific narratives across sales and marketing assets.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of B2B marketing experience, including meaningful experience in enterprise product marketing, account-based marketing, or a closely related role.
  • Experience building a marketing function, or a substantial part of one, in an early-stage or rapidly growing company.
  • Deep product marketing expertise, including positioning, messaging, sales enablement, customer research, content marketing, and product launches.
  • Experience supporting large, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals with long sales and procurement cycles.
  • Experience building account-based programs in partnership with Sales and Customer Success across acquisition, expansion, and advocacy.
  • Experience turning customer outcomes into credible proof, references, stories, and commercial assets.
  • Experience building customer advocacy, community, or ecosystem programs that create meaningful peer engagement, word of mouth, and market validation.
  • Strong writing, narrative-development, and executive communication skills.
  • Experience setting marketing strategy, allocating resources, and balancing near-term commercial priorities with longer-term market-building investments.
  • The ability to prioritize competing needs and independently take high-quality work from insight through execution.
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Gridsight

4.0 Glassdoor

Gridsight is a fast-growing GridTech startup accelerating the global transition toward electrification and decarbonisation. Our AI-powered SaaS platform generates insights to ensure electrical utilities maximise reliability, modernise and optimise operations, and integrate renewable energy sources seamlessly into the grid.

Founded in 2020
Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
60 employees (2 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$4.5M
Last Raise
$4.5M
Series A

Funding History

  • Apr 2025
    Series A • $4.5M
  • Sep 2021
    Seed • $14.7K

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
678

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~60
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Founding Head of Marketing

Gridsight · San Francisco, CA · Unknown