Technical Head of Marketing

Remote (United States)

About the Role

This role owns the execution engine that turns growth strategy into consistent weekly performance. The position is accountable for signup growth across multiple acquisition channels and requires a hands-on operator who can manage priorities, diagnose performance issues, and keep channel owners aligned.

The role works closely with senior leadership on growth strategy and major initiatives, while taking ownership of weekly execution, operating cadence, and measurable outcomes.

This opportunity is for a Technical Head of Marketing to own the growth engine behind user acquisition and activation across content, SEO/GEO, product marketing, partnerships, social media, and emerging agent-first distribution channels.

This is not a narrow channel role. The position is responsible for running the operating system behind signup growth, including pacing, channel mix, performance diagnosis, prioritization, and team execution.

Employment Type: Full-time

Annual Salary: $180,000 – $240,000 per year

Equity: Up to 0.1%

What You’ll Do

• Own weekly signup pacing and growth across core acquisition channels.
• Be accountable for growth numbers, not only marketing strategy.
• Build a defensible signup mix across SEO/GEO, partnerships, brand, and other durable channels that compound over time.
• Run cross-channel planning, prioritization, and execution.
• Manage channel owners across content, product marketing, partnerships, brand, and distribution.
• Lead weekly performance reviews to diagnose misses, identify what is working, and ship corrective action plans quickly.
• Partner with product and engineering teams on activation, onboarding, and growth constraints outside direct marketing control.
• Keep senior leadership focused on strategy and major bets by managing the week-to-week growth machine.
• Own areas that may not yet have a clearly defined owner in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Build and improve systems that support consistent signup growth.
• Move between strategy, execution, diagnosis, prioritization, and team accountability.

What This Role Requires

• Strong operator mindset with proven ownership of a growth number.
• Ability to distinguish between an underperforming channel and a channel that should be stopped.
• Experience making growth decisions without waiting for perfect information.
• Experience running marketing for a technical or developer-facing product.
• Understanding of how developers discover tools, evaluate them, and decide to use them.
• Experience building growth systems for technical audiences that are resistant to traditional marketing.
• Strong management instincts and ability to run a team of channel specialists.
• Ability to create operating cadence, drive accountability, and keep teams moving in the same direction.
• Operational depth across SEO/GEO, content, product launches, AI-native discovery, and modern distribution channels.
• Good messaging judgment and ability to maintain a high quality bar without becoming a bottleneck.
• Comfort working directly with founders or senior leadership.
• Ability to push back, make decisions, and own outcomes.
• Comfort working in a small, fast-moving team where roles are intentionally flexible.
• Ability to succeed without needing a fully defined scope before taking action.

Preferred Backgrounds

• Head of Growth or Head of Marketing experience at a developer tools or API-first company.
• Early marketing leadership experience at a product-led growth SaaS startup.
• Founder-marketer background with experience building a growth engine from scratch.
• Experience owning a multi-channel growth operation.
• Experience managing channel teams and driving measurable performance outcomes.

What This Role Is Not

• This is not a role for marketing leaders who are strong at strategy decks but weak on execution.
• This is not a role for someone who needs a fully staffed team before making an impact.
• This is not a role for someone who measures success only by activity such as campaigns launched, emails sent, or content published.
• This is not a role for someone who wants only to advise on growth rather than be accountable for the number.

Work Pace and Environment

• Work in a small, fast-moving, technical environment.
• Take ownership of loosely defined areas that may not yet have a clear owner.
• Operate with speed, accountability, and high ownership.
• Build meaningful growth systems inside a fast-growing AI infrastructure environment.
• Work in a setting with limited approval layers and a direct line to senior leadership.

Benefits and Perks for All Employees

• Equity of up to 0.1%.
• Generous paid time off, including 15 mandatory PTO days.
• Additional PTO after 24 days may be requested.
• Holidays are excluded from the PTO count.
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for mothers and fathers.
• $100 monthly wellness stipend for gym, therapy, massages, or other wellness needs.
• Learning and development reimbursement of up to $1,000 per year for professional growth.
• Team offsites.
• Three-month paid sabbatical after four years of service.

Additional Benefits for U.S.-Based Full-Time Employees

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 100% employee coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 50% coverage for spouse and children.
• Employer-paid short-term disability insurance.
• Employer-paid long-term disability insurance.
• Employer-paid life insurance.
• Optional accident insurance.
• Optional critical illness insurance.
• Optional hospital indemnity insurance.
• Optional voluntary life insurance.
• Telehealth access.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Access to FSAs.
• Access to commuter benefits for U.S.-based employees.
• Pet insurance.

Additional Perks for San Francisco-Based Employees

• Access to San Francisco headquarters perks.
• Snacks and drinks.
• Team lunches.
• Ping pong and startup office energy.
• Loaner electric bike for city transportation.

Interview Process

• Application review, including examples of a growth channel or system owned, a team built, or a number achieved.
• A brief note on what the candidate would want to understand about the current growth system before starting.
• Intro chat of approximately 20 minutes focused on prior work, channel team management, and first priorities.
• Deep dive chat of approximately 60 minutes covering a real example of running a multi-channel growth operation and recovering from a performance miss.
• Live scenario discussion focused on building a defensible signup mix from the current starting point.
• Founder chat of approximately 30 minutes focused on culture, pace, ownership, working style, and candidate questions.
• Paid work trial lasting 1–2 weeks.
• Work trial includes auditing the current channel mix, identifying the biggest growth lever, and presenting a 30-day plan.
• Evaluation during the work trial is based on diagnosis, prioritization, and whether the plan would realistically move the growth number.
• Final decision after the paid work trial.