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About the job

Location: San Francisco, CA

Work Model: Onsite, 5 days per week

Industry: AI infrastructure / conversational AI

Compensation: $100K-$200K base

About the Company

Our partner is a fast-growing, seed-stage AI infrastructure startup building an end-to-end testing and observability platform for conversational AI, spanning both voice and chat agents. In under a year they have surpassed seven figures in ARR, backed by top-tier investors, and count global enterprises and Fortune 500 brands among their customers.

The Opportunity

As Head of Marketing, you will build and own the marketing function at a company known for bold, unconventional campaigns. This is a hybrid creative and technical role: you will pair standout, out-of-the-box brand marketing with a strong command of SEO and GEO, and help lead the company's move into a product-led growth motion.

You will have wide latitude to set the marketing vision, from narrative and content to demand and category creation, working directly with the founders in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

Responsibilities

Own and shape the overall marketing strategy, narrative, and brand voice.

Design and execute creative, out-of-the-box campaigns that stand out in a crowded market.

Lead SEO and GEO strategy to drive organic discovery and growth.

Create technical content credible to engineers, across blog posts, launches, paid experiments, and events.

Build the product marketing motion as the company shifts toward product-led growth.

Measure and report on pipeline influenced and demand created.

Requirements

A hybrid marketer who is both highly creative and technically fluent.

Experience marketing developer tools, infrastructure, or AI products to technical buyers.

Strong understanding of SEO and GEO.

A track record of inventive, memorable marketing campaigns and programs built from scratch.

Experience at a pre-Series C startup; former founder or first marketing hire is a plus.

Bias for action and the ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment.

Able to work onsite in San Francisco five days per week.