Founding Marketing Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead US product launches, from early researcher engagement through signups, activation, onboarding, and ongoing usage.
• Build and manage technical communities across platforms such as Discord and Slack, and maintain a community CRM to track engagement and needs.
• Plan hackathons, meetups, and partner events to support product adoption and business development.
• Manage conference presence, including demos, meetings, and post-event follow-up.
• Coordinate partner co-marketing programs, including joint content, speaking opportunities, and events.
• Work with PR partners and support journalist and analyst meetings and spokesperson preparation.
• Develop university and research-lab partnerships through talks, campus events, and student communities.
• Build a customer proof pipeline, including case studies, references, and co-speaking opportunities.
• Represent the product on social channels, sharing launches and event coverage and engaging with technical audiences.
• Conduct weekly user interviews and share product feedback with the team.

Requirements

• Four to seven years of experience in growth, community, developer relations, or ecosystem marketing, including work at an AI, infrastructure, or developer tools company.
• Experience growing a product user base or technical community and measuring results.
• Technical fluency to demo AI and machine learning products and engage credibly with ML and robotics audiences.
• Comfort working autonomously in an early-stage startup environment, with experience in growth or community alongside brand or communications work.
• Familiarity with Discord, Slack, CRM platforms such as HubSpot, LinkedIn, X, email marketing, analytics dashboards, AI productivity tools, and video or demo editing tools.

Preferred

• University or research-lab partnership experience and strong content creation skills are a plus.