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Founding Growth Marketing

Starboard

New York City, NY (Hybrid)Full time$100K/yr – $130K/yr

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Founding Growth Marketing

Starboard

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$100K/yr - $130K/yrAgencyFull-timeIntern/new grad
2 months ago
Starboard logo
Starboard

Founding Growth Marketing

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $130K/yrIntern/New GradFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the go-to-market narrative and demand engine for a freight-tech startup, from baseline branding to a self-serve funnel on Starboard Light.

  • Brand and voice: define the public face, online presence, and positioning to turn freight buyers into leads.
  • Content and SEO engine: build the website, case studies, and thought leadership that move freight professionals from awareness to action.
  • Events and self-serve funnel: plan coverage at industry events, run pre/post outreach, and scale a low-touch acquisition motion into pipeline.

Job Description

You’ll own how the market discovers, understands, and trusts Starboard — from a near-blank brand canvas to a repeatable demand engine. Establish our voice online, turn the freight conference circuit into pipeline, build SEO from the ground up, and stand up the self-serve lead-gen motion behind Starboard Light, our lighter, faster on-ramp into the product. Work directly with the founder and the commercial team, and you’ll have unusual latitude: define the playbook, pick the tools, and build the function. This role suits a builder who’s equally comfortable writing a landing page, running a booth, debugging an attribution model, and arguing about positioning. Brand & online presence: Establish Starboard's brand, voice, and visual identity across web, LinkedIn, and the channels where forwarders actually pay attention. Build and own the website and content engine — positioning, messaging, case studies, and thought leadership that make us the obvious choice in a category most people didn't know existed. Grow our share of voice in the freight and logistics-tech conversation. Event marketing: Plan and run Starboard's presence at industry events and conferences (think GLA, JCtrans, and the regional forwarding networks), turning expensive booths and travel into measurable pipeline. Own pre-event outreach, on-site capture, and post-event follow-up in tight coordination with sales and SDRs. Build a repeatable event playbook: which shows to attend, what to spend, and how to measure return. SEO & inbound: Build SEO from zero — technical foundation, keyword and topic strategy, and a content roadmap that compounds. Grow organic traffic into a reliable, low-cost top-of-funnel channel that ranks for the terms forwarders search when they're ready to buy. Lead generation — Starboard Light: Design and run the demand-gen and self-serve acquisition motion for Starboard Light: paid, organic, lifecycle, and conversion-rate optimization across the funnel. Instrument the funnel end to end — sign-ups, activation, and conversion — and report on CAC, pipeline, and what's actually working. Partner with product and sales to turn Light users into qualified opportunities for the core platform.
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Starboard

Founded in 2018 by Ryan Coyne, Starboard, formerly Olympic Media, is a digital media company that turns the old ad agency model on its head. Providing a zero-risk solution, we are an agency that invests in your cause or company. Assuming all the risk, we are only as successful as our clients. Simply put, when our clients win, we win.

Founded in 2018
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
40 employees (9 in marketing)
starboard.co

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
580
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.9%
Direct
41.9%
Referral
12.7%
Social
9.5%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~40

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (15% of company)

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