Head of Marketing

USA (Remote)

$180K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own high-visibility demand and GTM for a security software platform, with clear ownership of pipeline, budget, and messaging across federal and enterprise buyers.

  • Pipeline & Growth: Own a quantified pipeline and report progress to the CRO and enterprise sales, tying every program to tangible pipeline impact.
  • Budget-to-ROI: Manage a P&L style marketing budget, cut underperforming spend, and prove marketing’s contribution to pipeline and revenue at any time.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Pipeline Accountability: Own a qualified pipeline number alongside the CRO and enterprise sales team, feeding and accelerating the pipeline goals they already carry. Every program ties back to the pipeline created and influenced; report the metrics on a regular cadence rather than reporting activity.
  • Budget, Spend & Return: Own the marketing budget and be accountable for every dollar. Know where spend is and is not producing pipeline, cut what is not working, put more behind what is, and be able to show the pipeline and revenue return on marketing spend at any time.
  • Positioning, Product Marketing & GTM Feedback Loop: Own positioning and messaging across federal, enterprise/commercial, and regulated verticals — translating technical capability into narratives that land with security, compliance, and engineering buyers. Own product marketing end-to-end, partnering with product on PR and launch for major releases. Feed market and buyer signals back into the product, so what gets built and how it's sold move together.
  • Content, Decks & Competitive Enablement: Write and ship the work yourself — web copy, one-pagers, campaigns, email, sales, and pitch decks. Keep battlecards and competitive intel up to date, and host internal training sessions with DSE and product to sharpen the field's win strategy.
  • Demand Generation Channels: Outbound, Web & Social: Build and run a marketing-led outbound motion without a BDR team — lists, sequences, ABM plays. Drive measurable growth in website traffic and conversion, owning SEO and the site as a pipeline surface. Own social presence and turn LinkedIn into a real demand channel, including executive amplification.
  • Events, End to End: Plan, coordinate, and run field and event presence — conference selection, booth logistics, executive dinners, webinars — without an events team.
  • Analyst Relations & Executive Brand: Work analysts and category voices (Gartner, Forrester, GigaOm, IDC, the supply-chain-security community). Grow the CEO's personal brand — speaking slots, keynotes, panels, webinars.
  • Brand, Investor Awareness & Momentum: Generate awareness and engagement across the security and venture communities, keep Manifest visible to investors and press, and build the kind of hype that supports the next round and the next hire.
  • Vendor Leverage: You inherit agency partners already supporting the work. Own and direct them, add offshore help where it adds capacity, and keep them all pointed at pipeline, while you keep ownership of strategy, messaging, and anything that has to be exactly right.

Requirements

  • 7 to 10 years of B2B marketing experience , with meaningful time owning both brand and demand at the same time. Experience across B2B and enterprise, and ideally federal and public sector, with a real understanding of how government buying differs from commercial.
  • Cybersecurity and market domain knowledge . Working knowledge of cybersecurity — you understand the security buyer and the space, including software supply chain, SBOM, vulnerability management, and compliance, and you do not need to be taught the fundamentals.
  • Product marketing chops. You can own launches, positioning, competitive enablement, and sales enablement that visibly change how the field sells, and you partner naturally with product on PR and go-to-market.
  • Experience building an executive or founder brand and analyst/press relations. You have turned a leader into a visible voice in a category through speaking slots, panels, moderation, and webinars, and you've worked with industry analysts and press to build category presence and share of voice.
  • Pipeline accountability. A track record of being directly accountable to a pipeline or revenue number, ideally in an early-stage or resource-constrained environment.
  • Budget and P&L rigor. Metrics-driven and rigorous about spend. You run marketing like a P&L, track spend against pipeline and cost of acquisition, and make budget calls based on data rather than habit.
  • Demand generation channel fluency. Proven ability to build outbound and demand programs that create a pipeline without a large SDR or BDR team, plus fluency with LinkedIn and social as demand and awareness channels, with concrete examples of traffic, engagement, or pipeline you've driven.
  • Hands-on production and resourceful leverage. Hands on production skills — you are the one who writes the one pager, builds the deck, edits the copy, and ships it, not the one who only reviews someone else's draft. You also know how to get high-quality output from offshore contractors and agencies on a startup budget, managing that work yourself without needing a team or org to do it.
  • Events ownership. Experience owning events end-to-end as a solo operator.
  • AI-accelerated workflow. AI is part of your default workflow. You can point to concrete, AI-accelerated output and the workflows you built around it, paired with good judgment about what still needs expert review before it ships.
  • High agency. High agency and a strong bias to action, comfortable owning outcomes end to end in an intense, fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience marketing to the US Air Force, DoD, or federal civilian agencies.
  • Familiarity with SBOM and AIBOM and the regulatory drivers behind them, including EO 14028, the OMB software security memos, and FDA premarket cybersecurity requirements.
  • Existing analyst or press relationships in the security space.

Benefits

  • Fully remote
  • Unlimited PTO (taken seriously)
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance: 100% covered for you and your dependents
  • 401(k) and retirement options
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Manifest

3.9 Glassdoor

At Manifest, we drive growth by starting in the messy middle — where customer consideration widens and momentum is at greatest risk. We focus on shortening that journey to close the gap between brand and performance, turning consideration into preference and driving results that ripple throughout the full funnel.As an independent, integrated agency with roots in content, brand journalism, performance marketing, digital storytelling, creative technology, ecommerce, and consumer brand campaigns, we’ve seen enough to know that through complexity, comes certainty.

Founded in 1981
New York, New York, USA
274 employees (109 in marketing)
59% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
16.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.6%
Direct
45.3%
Referral
9.2%
Social
6.1%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~275

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
77 (28% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Last Raise
Convertible Note, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2022
    Convertible Note

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