Founding Marketing Lead (AI)

Location: Onsite in New York, NY (SoHo), six days per week

Company

Seed-funded AI search startup helping enterprises understand and influence their visibility in AI-generated search results. The company has approximately $1.5M in ARR, a $5–10M pipeline, approximately $5M in funding, and a fifteen-person New York team.

What you will do

• Build the marketing function from zero to one across multiple channels.
• Own paid acquisition, LinkedIn, social and user-generated content, conferences, and in-person events.
• Design, run, measure, and refine channel experiments, discontinuing ineffective approaches.
• Partner with sales and the incoming Account Executive to build and qualify top-of-funnel demand.
• Establish measurement and reporting to identify effective marketing activities.
• Operate autonomously with direct access to the founding team.

Requirements

• Three to ten years of marketing experience with demonstrable channel-building results.
• Startup marketing experience with a clearly successful outcome.
• Experience developing and executing growth marketing strategy across multiple channels.
• Data-driven approach to channel testing and measurement.
• Ability to work autonomously and set priorities.
• Ability to work onsite in New York six days per week.

Nice to have

• Genuine interest in AI.
• Agency experience with a strong multi-client track record.

Culture & Benefits

• Broad mandate to define the marketing function and determine its growth.
• Real experimentation budget for testing acquisition and growth channels.
• Direct collaboration with the founding team and sales.
• Work from a fifteen-person New York office.