Growth Marketing Manager, AI Discovery

USA (Remote)

$140K/yr – $168K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own Chainguard’s growth engine for developers by running the SEO program end to end, shaping content and technical optimization, and turning high-intent traffic into signups, demos, and pipeline.

  • Oversee search strategy, content, programmatic pages, and technical SEO.
  • Lead agent and AI-assisted discovery initiatives to surface Chainguard in AI tools and promote adoption.
  • Build measurement and attribution to tie organic, AI-referred, and agent-originated signups to pipeline.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own search. Run Chainguard’s SEO program end to end: keyword strategy, content, programmatic pages, and technical optimization. Partner with Web and PMM to turn high-intent traffic into signups, demos, and pipeline.
  • Agent as researcher. Get ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews to surface and recommend Chainguard. Your levers are content, structured data, and the third-party sources models learn from. Track how often we’re cited and recommended, and grow it.
  • Agent as user. Make Chainguard the default choice when Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex picks tools for a developer. Map the agent adoption journey (discover, auth, pull, build, verify) and remove friction at every step. Partner with Product to build and maintain our MCP server, Agent Skills, plugins, CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md snippets, llms.txt, and agent-readable quickstarts, and keep them listed where agents look.
  • Measure what works. Run evals of real developer prompts across models and coding agents to learn which assets actually get Chainguard recommended and used. Build attribution that ties organic, AI-referred, and agent-originated signups to pipeline.

Requirements

  • 4+ years in growth, developer marketing, or technical product, with measurable funnel ownership for technical audiences.
  • Hands-on SEO and AEO experience, including technical SEO, keyword strategy, content, and measurement.
  • Terminal fluency and advanced SQL: you can build a working MCP server or agent skill, and you answer your own questions from the data.
  • A daily coding-agent habit, with opinions on how agents choose tools and where they fail.
  • A track record of driving work through cross-functional partners without direct authority, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Preferred

  • Experience in cybersecurity or the cloud-native ecosystem (containers, Kubernetes, software supply chain security).

Benefits

  • Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
  • Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
  • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
  • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
  • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
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Chainguard

3.9 Glassdoor

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. For more information, visit: https://www.chainguard.dev/

Founded in 2021
Kirkland, Washington, USA
624 employees (33 in marketing)
33% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$140K/yr – $168K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($154K) is 42% above the median base salary for Growth Marketing Manager roles in the United States ($108K).

Growth Marketing Manager median pay in the United States

$108K/yr

Most pay falls between $90K and $120K. Based on 285 salaries.

See all Chainguard salaries

Funding

Total Funding
$892M
Last Raise
$280M
Debt Financing, 5 months ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2025
    Debt Financing • $280M
  • Apr 2025
    Series D • $356M
  • Jul 2024
    Series C • $140M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
146.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$16.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42%
Direct
44.7%
Referral
7.5%
Social
4.9%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~624
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Growth Marketing Manager, AI Discovery

Chainguard · USA · Remote