Lead, Startup & Ventures Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$101K/yr – $198K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive regional startup ecosystem marketing for MongoDB in the Bay Area, building programs with VCs, accelerators, and founders to establish MongoDB as the database of choice for high-growth startups.

  • Must-have: 8+ years in marketing, community, ecosystem, or events focused on startups or technical founders
  • Standout: Deep Bay Area startup relationships and autonomous leadership across partnerships, events, and content

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • We’re looking for a highly creative, entrepreneurial, and organized Lead, Startup & Ventures Marketing to expand MongoDB’s AI-native marketing strategy and strengthen our presence across the startup and VC ecosystem in the Bay Area.
  • This is a highly strategic, regional leadership role focused on ecosystem building, execution, and operating at scale.
  • You will be responsible for establishing MongoDB as the database of choice for high-growth, venture-backed startups across the Bay Area, as well as serve as MongoDB’s primary representative to the local startup ecosystem.
  • In this role, you will be responsible for developing relationships with VCs, accelerators, founders, and community partners to design and deliver high-impact programs, events, and partnerships that drive awareness, adoption, and long-term affinity for MongoDB.
  • As the regional startup leader, you will own the planning and lead the team responsible for the execution of startup-focused initiatives, including hackathons, demo nights, founder dinners, and conference-adjacent activations.
  • This role sits at the intersection of partnerships, community, events, and content, and requires a leader who can pair strategic vision with hands-on execution.
  • The right candidate for this role will be: Have 8+ years of experience in marketing, community, ecosystem, or events roles focused on startups, developers, or technical founders
  • Have experience managing and developing high-performing teams, with the ability to set strategy while supporting strong on-the-ground execution
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Headquartered in New York, MongoDB's mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, our modern database platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for today's wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens ofthousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.

Founded in 2007
New York, New York, USA
7.6K employees (454 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
94% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$436.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38.9%
Direct
52.3%
Referral
6.9%
Social
0.9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
348 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
3.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$311M
Last Raise
$80M
Post IPO Equity, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2024
    Post IPO Equity
  • Oct 2024
    Post IPO Debt
  • Mar 2018
    Post IPO Equity

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