Marketing & Events Lead

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$100K/yr – $150K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own HUD’s marketing and events to tell the frontier AI story and build the brand across social, content, and communities.

  • Own marketing strategy and content calendar
  • Must-have: proven growth of social accounts or company branding
  • Standout: ability to translate technical concepts into clear storytelling across channels

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the overall marketing strategy and content calendar
  • Lead social media presence on Twitter/X and LinkedIn to grow our audience, engagement, and inbound interest
  • Ghostwrite high-quality content for founders that tell HUD’s story, communicate product vision and insights, and showcases wins on the platform
  • Translate complex, technical product concepts into clear, compelling narratives for a technical audience
  • Develop and refine HUD’s voice, positioning, and storytelling across channels
  • Experiment with different formats (e.g., posts, short-form video, memes) and double down on what works
  • Identify high-leverage opportunities to show up at events where the target audience already is (e.g., conferences, hackathons, technical communities)
  • Plan and run high-quality, memorable events that reinforce brand and generate pipeline
  • Support the founders and team with event presence (e.g., talks)

Requirements

  • Genuine excitement about frontier models and telling HUD’s story
  • Experience in marketing, content, or community roles in startups
  • A strong track record of growing social accounts or company branding
  • A portfolio of writing that showcases your ability
  • Evidence that you can understand technical products well enough to explain them simply and accurately
  • Experience planning and running events
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to own multiple workstreams
  • Startup experience in early-stage technology companies with ability to work independently in fast-paced environments

Preferred

  • Experience marketing AI/ML, developer tools, or technical platforms
  • A standout portfolio of writing, social content, or campaigns
  • Experience running events, meetups, or community programs end-to-end
  • Strong network within the RL researcher, RL engineer, and broader startup communities
  • Familiarity with analytics tools and growth strategies for social and content
  • A clear point of view on how great technical companies tell stories and build brand
  • Motivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if they don’t meet all criteria.

Benefits

  • 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA
  • Lunch and dinner when you’re in the office
  • Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
  • Other perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits
  • Unlimited* access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc. *By unlimited, we mean no one on our token usage leaderboard has ever hit a limit. So we have no idea what the limit is.
HUD (YC W25) logo

HUD (YC W25)

The platform to build RL environments. We help improve frontier models across diverse capabilities and help build post-training datasets for doing RFT.

Founded in 2025
San Francisco, California, USA
11 employees

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
18.4%
Direct
48%
Referral
5.5%
Social
26.6%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~11

Funding

Total Funding
$500K
Last Raise
$500K
Pre Seed, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2025
    Pre Seed • $500K