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Founding Growth Lead

talentplutoSan Francisco, California🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 13, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This is a unique opportunity to build the growth function from the ground up at a rapidly growing AI inference company, directly impacting market strategy and product launches. You'll thrive here if you're a proactive, creative marketer with a knack for translating complex technical concepts into compelling narratives and are excited by the prospect of working closely with founders and a small, dynamic team. Apply now to shape the future of AI marketing!

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Posted
Yesterday
Marketing Automation

Job Description

Location: San Francisco, CA

Work Model: In-office (5 days per week)

Industry: AI inference infrastructure

Compensation: Competitive salary

About the Company

Our partner is an AI inference company delivering the fastest inference on open models, serving enterprise and serverless customers on its own GPUs. The team is small, around seven people, already at roughly $10M ARR with large, compute-bound enterprise deals.

The Opportunity

Our partner is hiring its first marketing hire to build the growth function from scratch. There is no pre-built strategy, process, or set of assets: you will define them. The core of the job is translating engineering results, from models and inference to latency, throughput, and GPU infrastructure, into market-facing content and launches.

You will move between strategy, creative work, project management, and execution, working directly with founders, engineers, customers, and external partners in person with a small team in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

  • Build the marketing and growth function from the ground up
  • Translate technical and engineering results into compelling market-facing content
  • Plan and run product launches and announcements
  • Drive founder-led social, technical content, and community efforts
  • Plan and execute events and support media relations
  • Use data to measure marketing effectiveness and sharpen decisions

Requirements

  • 3+ years in marketing, growth, communications, content, community, or a similarly broad role
  • Experience in an early-stage environment with no pre-built strategy, process, or assets
  • Exceptional writing, with a portfolio of work you personally created
  • Strong taste and judgment on messaging, content, and creative quality
  • Proactive and organized, comfortable working directly with founders, engineers, and customers
  • Willing to work in person in San Francisco
  • Bonus: AI infrastructure or developer-tools experience, design, video, or marketing automation skills, and curiosity about models and GPU infrastructure