Founding Growth Marketer

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$135K/yr – $160K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end demand-gen engine from channel setup to pipeline measurement, guiding messaging, funnel instrumentation, and channel optimization across executive events, paid, organic, content, and lifecycle.

  • Define and own a growing qualified-pipeline target with GTM leadership
  • Build a content and acquisition engine that runs without constant founder involvement
  • Expand partnerships and hosted executive events to scale distribution

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Stand up the core demand channels (events, conferences, organic, email) and get the first qualified leads flowing to sales.
  • Ship the messaging and landing pages that turn “office of the CIO” into a copy a buyer recognizes themselves in.
  • Instrument the funnel so we can see what a lead costs and where it converts.
  • Build and co-own a qualified-pipeline target with the GTM Lead, with a clear path to owning the number outright as the demand engine matures.
  • Build a content and acquisition engine that produces leads without a founder in the loop.
  • Find the two or three channels that actually work for an audit-led enterprise sale and double down on them.
  • The full demand stack: executive events, paid acquisition, organic and SEO, content, email and lifecycle.
  • Expand distribution channel partner relationships, including technical and consulting partnerships in partnership with the sales organization
  • Establish, organize, and lead hosted executive events.
  • Qualified lead flow: the volume and quality of leads the sales team works, measured against a shared pipeline target.

Requirements

  • 7+ years exp of experience running B2B demand generation and/or growth marketing, end-to-end, and can point to the pipeline you created, not just the campaigns you ran.
  • You execute across channels yourself (events, content, email, and web) without waiting for a team to hand off to.
  • You have developed or overhauled a growth marketing playbook before
  • You’re fluent with the data: you set up the tracking, read the funnel, and change course on what it tells you.
  • Experience with growth marketing in a tech environment
  • You know enough about enterprise AI or data infrastructure to write about it credibly.
  • You’ve marketed a technical or complex product to executive mid-market and enterprise buyers, and you frame value in dollars and ROI, not impressions.
  • Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time

Preferred

  • You’ve been an early or first marketing hire at a startup.
  • You’ve got experience marketing AI technology.
  • You’ve marketed to finance, operations, or data teams.

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