Head of Corporate Marketing

Responsibilities

• Own SambaNova's overall brand strategy, brand identity, and positioning across all external channels.
• Own all creative services, ensuring visual and verbal consistency across web, events, campaigns, and content.
• Own SambaNova's website and web presence, including SEO/AEO strategy, to strengthen discoverability and digital credibility.
• Own content creation and production — including thought leadership, POV/POC content, and the company blog — executing against direction set by the CMO to reinforce a single, sharp narrative.
• Own corporate and large-scale third-party industry events, setting the strategy and ensuring flawless execution for major launches, conferences, and keynotes.
• Serve as a close partner to the CMO, translating brand and content strategy into flawless execution across all channels.
• Lead integrated brand marketing campaigns that tie together brand, product launches, events, and demand generation into one coherent story.
• Build, mentor, and scale a corporate marketing team, while working cross-functionally with product marketing, DevRel, Sales, and field teams.
• Manage relationships with outside creative and event agencies to keep execution high-quality and on-brand.
• Bring structure and rigor to marketing operations — planning, budgeting, and measuring the impact of brand, creative, and content investment.

Requirements

• 8+ years in corporate marketing, brand, or creative leadership, with at least 2-3 years in a senior leadership role (Senior Director, Head of, or VP level).
• Direct experience building or scaling a marketing function inside a high-growth technology company — infrastructure, semiconductors, cloud, or enterprise AI strongly preferred.
• Track record of shaping company narrative and brand at an inflection point (new category, major launch, funding milestone, or public-market transition).
• Strong executive presence and experience acting as a strategic partner to a CMO or senior marketing leader.
• Deep familiarity with what it takes to build brand credibility and trust in a technical, skeptical market.
• Hands-on experience owning a website, SEO/AEO, and digital brand presence.
• Proven people-leadership skills — has built and run teams, not just functions.
• Comfortable operating with startup speed and ambiguity while still bringing enterprise-grade marketing discipline.

Preferred

• Experience marketing chips, accelerators, datacenter hardware, or AI/ML infrastructure.
• Experience owning or elevating a company's presence at major industry events (e.g., Nvidia GTC, AWS re:Invent, Web Summit).
• Experience directing content strategy — thought leadership, POV/POC content, and blog — in a technical category.
• Experience marketing through a major company milestone (IPO, large funding round, high-profile acquisition, category creation).
• Public-facing credibility of their own (interviews, panels, bylines, podcast appearances).
• Bay Area-based or willing to work closely and in-person with the CMO and marketing leadership team.

Benefits

• Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.