Founding GTM Lead

New York City, NY (Remote)

$150K/yr – $185K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and scale the early GTM for a GenAI creative tooling startup, leading communities, content, partnerships, and outreach while shaping positioning, pricing, and early customer relationships.

  • Own early go-to-market across community, content, partnerships and outreach.
  • Build relationships with design partners and early customers in creator, studio, and agency segments.
  • Drive pilots, demos and structured feedback channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own early go-to-market execution across community, content, partnerships, and targeted outreach.
  • Build and manage relationships with design partners and early customers in creator, studio, and agency segments.
  • Recruit and organize participants for ongoing product research and user testing.
  • Drive early commercial conversations, demos, pilots, and structured feedback channels.
  • Collaborate with product leadership on positioning, messaging, ICP definition, and pricing strategy.
  • Deliver clear, structured market feedback to accelerate product decision-making.
  • Track the competitive landscape of GenAI creative tools, workflows, and evolving user expectations.
  • Represent the company externally with credibility, strong EQ, and confident storytelling.

Requirements

  • 4–8+ years in GTM, partnerships, growth, or client-facing roles at startups or fast-moving environments.
  • Proven experience in at least one motion: B2B partnerships/sales (pilots, early deals) and/or B2C growth (community/creator funnels).
  • 3+ years serving professional creatives at creative tools companies, agencies, creator platforms, or production studios.
  • 1–2+ years of hands-on exposure to GenAI products and workflows; comfortable using AI tools as part of daily GTM work.
  • Full-cycle sales experience: discovery, demo, negotiation, close, and building CRM/outbound sequences from scratch.
  • Strong customer-facing skills, execution-driven mindset, and ability to operate independently in ambiguous, early-stage settings.
  • Comfortable selling a product still being built; fast-paced communicator who takes ownership well beyond a job description.

Preferred

  • Background at a generative AI, creative software, or visual media company (e.g. similar to Runway, Luma AI, Stability AI, Midjourney, Synthesia, or Adobe).
  • Experience launching or scaling a GTM motion at a company with fewer than 20 employees.
  • Familiarity with API-led or developer-facing GTM motions alongside end-user creative workflows.
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Clera

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Founded in 2025
San Francisco, California, USA
8 employees (1 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$150K/yr – $185K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (13% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
17

Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 12 months ago

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
32K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$874
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.7%
Direct
59%
Referral
4.9%
Social
12.7%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8
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Founding GTM Lead

Clera · New York City, NY · Remote