Founding Head of Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $180K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own our brand and category narrative, including how it evolves as the company scales
  • Build and run the full content engine across channels, from strategy through actual production
  • Own earned media, PR strategy, and analyst relations end to end, including managing and upgrading agency relationships
  • Use brand and content work to directly support active commercial and fundraising conversations
  • Build out a small team as the scope grows beyond a single owner
  • Operate using AI tools as core infrastructure for drafting, editing, research, and production, not as a supplementary tool
  • Reduce the amount of time founders spend on panel prep, press response, and content drafting
  • Strengthen our employer brand to support hiring as the team scales

Requirements

  • 7 to 10 years of experience in marketing or brand, ideally as the first marketing or brand hire at a Series A stage climate tech or deep tech company
  • A track record of building a narrative and positioning system from zero and managing agencies with real accountability
  • Demonstrable brand and narrative craft, with work you can show rather than just describe
  • A genuinely AI native operating style, using AI tools as core infrastructure today rather than as an aspiration
  • Comfort being the entire function in the early stage, with the ability to scale into a team lead role later
  • Strong writing skills and a real feel for brand voice

Preferred

  • Logistics, supply chain, freight, or broader industrial B2B marketing background, for example from companies like Project44, FourKites, Flexport, Motive, or Convoy
  • Fluency in F500 procurement and sustainability officer language
  • Direct experience marketing a company through a fundraise
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Necessary Ventures

4.5 Glassdoor

Our world has no shortage of challenges. Every day, we continue to struggle against illness and disease, a lack of opportunity, homelessness, violence and oppression, climate change, and hunger.Technology offers powerful solutions to these challenges.We work with the best founders building the most scalable solutions. Founders compelled by their mission. Founders building Necessary Ventures.

Founded in 2020
San Francisco, California, USA
20 employees (2 in marketing)
100% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.1%
Direct
48.7%
Referral
6.9%
Social
14.7%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~20

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (10% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Last Raise
$28M
Series A, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Series A • $28M
  • Jan 2023
    Seed