Head of Marketing

Location: San Francisco CA (On-site 5 days/week)
Company Stage of Funding: Seed (YC-backed $3M raised profitable)
Office Type: On-site
Salary: $150000 $210000 Equity (0.2% 0.75%)

Our client is an early-stage AI startup building the conversation intelligence layer for companiesstarting with AI-powered meeting notes and expanding into a unified system that captures organizes and activates knowledge across meetings calls and emails.

The company is already profitable and growing rapidly with thousands of paying customers including companies like PostHog and Browserbase. Backed by Y Combinator the team consists of experienced operators from companies like Stripe Twitter and Microsoft.

With a lean team of under 10 people and $7M ARR this is a rare opportunity to join a high-traction startup as the first marketing hire and define the companys brand growth strategy and go-to-market motion from the ground up.

• Own the entire marketing function end-to-end as the first hire
• Define and execute brand positioning messaging and narrative
• Drive growth through scrappy high-impact experiments across channels
• Build and manage a content engine aligned with product launches
• Create and execute a cohesive marketing strategy across all surfaces (web social product)
• Turn product features and releases into compelling stories and campaigns
• Leverage AI tools to automate workflows and scale marketing impact
• Partner closely with founders on GTM strategy and product positioning
• Analyze performance metrics and optimize growth channels systematically
• Build the foundation for a scalable marketing function

• 38 years of experience in growth product marketing or generalist marketing roles
• Experience owning or heavily contributing to marketing at a SeedSeries B startup
• Strong understanding of multiple growth channels (content social product-led etc.)
• Proven ability to execute scrappy high-leverage marketing initiatives
• Product-minded with strong user empathy
• Experience working in fast-paced early-stage environments

• Experience as first marketing hire or early marketing leader
• Strong personal brand or online presence (Twitter LinkedIn content etc.)
• Experience marketing AI developer tools or SaaS products
• Deep familiarity with PLG (product-led growth) motions
• Strong storytelling and brand-building ability
• Experience using AI tools to build marketing systems and workflows

• Base salary: $150000 $210000
• Equity: 0.2% 0.75%
• Visa sponsorship available (case-by-case)
• Founding-level ownership of marketing
• Direct collaboration with founders
• High-growth profitable startup with strong traction
• Opportunity to define brand and GTM from scratch

This is a rare opportunity to be the first marketing hire at a profitable high-growth AI startup with strong product-market fit.

Youll own everything from brand growth narrative working directly with the founders to scale a product thats already loved by customers.

If youre a scrappy AI-native marketer who wants full ownership and impact this role offers the chance to build a category-defining brand from the ground up.