Sr. Industry Marketing Manager, Startups

USA (On-site)

$131K/yr – $225K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own the startup segment go-to-market framework and pipeline-building programs, coordinating cross-functional ABM, venture, and field initiatives to drive adoption, pipeline, and credibility for startups and developers.

  • Define and activate the startup positioning and content framework across programs
  • Drive integrated pipeline targets through ABM, partnerships, and field motions
  • Foster a venture ecosystem that creates opportunities and measurable influence

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Establish a startup-segment positioning and content framework used consistently across priority sales, partner, developer, field, and demand-generation programs, with adoption measured through program usage and stakeholder feedback.
  • Meet or exceed agreed pipeline and consumption targets for priority startup accounts through integrated account-based, partner, venture, demand-generation, and field programs.
  • Build an active venture and accelerator ecosystem that generates measurable portfolio reach, co-marketing activity, qualified opportunities, and sourced or influenced pipeline.
  • Improve the conversion of startup evaluations into committed production spend by optimizing credits, trials, free-tier, and other product-led motions, measured through activation, conversion, and expansion rates.
  • Increase awareness and technical credibility with startup founders, developers, and technical leaders, measured through target-audience engagement, community participation, content-assisted opportunities, and event outcomes.
  • Equip go-to-market teams with startup-specific messaging, technical proof points, sales plays, and enablement that improve seller adoption and segment performance, including conversion, win rate, or sales-cycle metrics.
  • Expand the segment’s customer and community proof through credible startup stories, technical content, speaking engagements, and investor or developer events that contribute to reach, engagement, and pipeline.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience marketing technology to startups, developers, or the venture ecosystem, or equivalent experience building and scaling a venture-backed startup.
  • A proven record of owning marketing strategy for a segment, product line, or go-to-market motion and delivering measurable pipeline, adoption, consumption, or revenue outcomes.
  • Experience developing positioning, messaging, and content for complex technical B2B products and translating cloud, data, analytics, or AI/ML capabilities into clear customer use cases and business outcomes.
  • Technical fluency in modern data and AI architectures, including the technologies and buying considerations relevant to model providers, agent frameworks, vector search, evaluation tooling, and production workloads.
  • Demonstrated success building relationships with venture firms, accelerators, incubators, startup communities, customers, or strategic partners to drive awareness, co-marketing, adoption, or pipeline.
  • Working knowledge of venture-backed company buying dynamics, including funding stages, budget and runway pressures, buying authority, and triggers that accelerate or stop infrastructure and AI platform decisions.
  • Experience with product-led and consumption-based growth motions, including self-serve funnels, trials, credits, free tiers, and the path from technical evaluation to committed spend.
  • Experience leading cross-functional programs and presenting credibly to founders, technical leaders, investors, sales teams, and partners while balancing strategic direction with fast, hands-on execution.
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Founded in 2021
San Francisco, California, USA
14K employees (482 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
93% CEO approval

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$131K/yr – $225K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$27.2B
Last Raise
$2B
Debt Financing, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Debt Financing • $2B
  • Dec 2025
    Series Unknown • $5B
  • Sep 2025
    Series Unknown • $1B

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4.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$363.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.1%
Direct
51.8%
Referral
6.5%
Social
2.4%
Paid
2.1%

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Current headcount: ~13.9K

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Sr. Industry Marketing Manager, Startups

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