Own and optimize founder acquisition campaigns across multi-channel channels, build the speedrun newsletter and social presence, and partner with the investing team to align with fund priorities while managing tooling, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration.

Own full campaign lifecycle and channel mix
Grow newsletter and social presence
Partner with investing team and cross-functional groups

Job Description

Responsibilities

Run Founder Application Campaigns
Drive application volume and quality across campaign cycles.
Own the full campaign cycle for founder acquisition inclusive of channel mix, asset pipeline, paid media (X, LinkedIn), and net-new growth levers including alumni referrals and word-of-mouth programs.
Develop and execute strategies to reach underrepresented and emerging founder communities.
Partner with the investing team to align campaign messaging with fund priorities and portfolio themes.
Own and grow the speedrun newsletter (200K+ subscribers); write or edit every issue, keeping it genuinely useful and relevant to early-stage founders.
Represent speedrun by producing your own content and posts.
Run social across X, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, and dark social channels.
Surface the best of the speedrun portfolio and community through founder spotlights, cohort stories, and demo day coverage.
Build and maintain speedrun's brand voice as the definitive destination for pre-seed founders.

Requirements

7-10 years of experience in marketing, content, or growth ideally within venture, tech, or a high-growth startup.
Deep familiarity with the founder and startup ecosystem.
Strong written communication skills: you can produce and edit newsletter content that founders actually want to read.
Proven experience running multi-channel marketing campaigns with measurable outcomes.
Strong operator: with a track record of building acquisition campaigns from scratch. You can manage a campaign calendar, own tooling, and keep reporting clean
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to operate with significant autonomy in a fast-moving environment.
Experience with HubSpot, Substack, Paid social, and analytics platforms.
Genuine passion for early-stage founders and the pre-seed ecosystem.
Low ego, high empathy, and the capacity to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
Ability to quickly build trust with cross-functional teams and founders.

Benefits

health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401K plan, vacation, and sick leave

Andreessen Horowitz

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Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces.a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services.We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building.https://a16z.com/portfolio/ https://a16z.com/podcasts/ https://a16z.com/videos/ http://a16z.com/subscribe See Disclosures: https://a16z.com/disclosures/

Founded in 2009

Menlo Park, California, USA

888 employees (91 in marketing)

www.a16z.com

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