Director of Marketing

Philadelphia, PA (On-site)

$150K/yr – $170K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale Burro's demand generation and brand strategy in a fast-growing environment, building the roadmap, programs, and team needed to deliver qualified pipeline while partnering with Sales to meet revenue targets.

  • Lead strategy, infrastructure, and execution across digital, field, content, and partnerships to drive qualified pipeline.
  • Mature the marketing tech stack, reporting, and attribution to measure success and optimize spend.
  • Collaborate closely with Sales and field teams to translate customer insights into marketing programs and field presence.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assess what's working in Burro's current marketing efforts and build a clear strategy and infrastructure roadmap to scale qualified pipeline: systems, team, and execution.
  • Sharpen and evolve our brand positioning and messaging across a technical multi-persona audience of growers, ag and industrial operations leaders, and dealers.
  • Own demand generation: expand and professionalize campaigns across digital, field/trade shows, content, and partnerships to drive qualified pipeline.
  • Partner closely with Sales to align marketing programs with revenue targets and pipeline goals.
  • Mature the marketing tech stack,reporting, and attribution models to measure what's working and cut what isn't.
  • Manage external agencies, freelancers, and a growing in-house team as the function scales.
  • Represent the Burro brand at industry events, trade shows, and in the field with growers, translating authentic customer insights into marketing narrative
  • Balance long-range brand and category strategy with the tactical, hands-on work needed at an early-stage company.

Requirements

  • 7+ years in marketing, with direct experience scaling a marketing function beyond its early foundation at an early-stage or high-growth company.
  • A track record of being both strategic and tactical: you can set the roadmap and also execute the campaign, or run the event yourself.
  • Experience building demand generation and brand programs in a technical, B2B, or industrial/agricultural context (or comparable complex-sale environment).
  • Comfortable operating with limited resources and ambiguity, and a bias toward shipping and iterating over perfecting.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical robotics/autonomy concepts for a non-technical audience.
  • Willingness to spend time in the field with growers and operations teams to understand the product and the customer firsthand.
  • Genuine excitement about agriculture, robotics, and Burro's mission.
  • Experience with tools like HubSpot

Preferred

  • Early-stage startup experience or a strong affinity for thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
  • A blend of in-house brand/growth leadership alongside early-career agency experience.
  • Direct experience marketing robotics, autonomous systems, agtech, heavy machinery, or industrial solutions.
  • Experience building co-marketing programs, enablement tools, or messaging for third-party dealer and distributor networks.
  • Hands-on familiarity with modern B2B marketing stacks (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Analytics, digital ad platforms).
  • Track record of leveraging customer case studies, field stories, and earned media/PR to build category authority.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package (medical/dental/vision)
  • 401K Plan
  • Early-stage equity
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Paid parental leave
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Burro

3.4 Glassdoor

Burro is pioneering the future of work outdoors.Our mission is to solve the crushing labor problem faced by industrial and agricultural operators today, by making collaborative robots a reality. We build robots that are practical, durable, and easy to use for a variety of demanding environments, including farms, construction sites, rail yards, and shipping terminals.Burro is an autonomous robotic platform that can run cargo and materials around, relieving your team of strenuous, repetitive tasks that add little value. This frees your human workers to focus on more valuable, complex, and high-impact work.

Founded in 2017
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
68 employees (4 in marketing)
35% recommend to a friend
51% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
14.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.7%
Direct
65.6%
Referral
5%
Social
5.8%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~70

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (3% of company)
Median Tenure
0.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$36.7M
Last Raise
$24M
Series B, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2024
    Series B • $24M
  • Sep 2021
    Series A • $10.9M
  • Jan 2020
    Series Unknown

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