Head of Marketing & Community

Location: Paris, France, with flexible remote options in a hybrid setup.

Salary: €60,000–€80,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a startup studio and venture capital firm that builds and invests in technology and AI companies transforming industrial and operational environments toward a more sustainable future.

What you will do

• Build and animate communities of industrial executives, founders, portfolio companies, and LPs.
• Define and execute marketing strategy for hirify.global and its portfolio companies.
• Run the content engine across newsletters, white papers, webinars, blogs, social channels, and thesis pieces.
• Organize VC and founder events, industrial trade shows, and LP briefings, then develop the resulting relationships.
• Build and operate an AI-powered marketing and automation stack while managing an intern, AI agents, and external agencies.
• Support portfolio companies with go-to-market plans, branding, content, lead generation, and nurturing campaigns.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in B2B marketing, community, or ecosystem roles.
• Experience building a community or ecosystem from close to nothing, with the ability to identify its members.
• Proven experience running events that generated relationships, not only attendance.
• Credibility with senior executives, investors, and founders.
• Ability to manage several communities, three business lines, and 22 portfolio companies simultaneously.
• Comfort with uncertainty, shifting priorities, and an evolving scope.
• Experience across both acquisition and nurturing, from attracting contacts to maintaining relationships.
• Hands-on experience building and operating AI and automation systems.
• Fluent written and spoken English; the role is not limited to the French market.
• Ability to understand industrial operations and topics such as OEE, scheduling, or MES well enough to write about them independently.
• Proactive, data-driven, collaborative, and self-organized working style.

Nice to have

• Manufacturing knowledge.
• Experience in an early-stage company or studio environment.
• Experience marketing to the US market.
• An existing network in industry, VC, or the French startup ecosystem.

Culture & Benefits

• Full ownership of marketing and community strategy for an industrial technology startup studio.
• Access to a network of industrial executives, founders, VCs, and LPs.
• Marketing initiatives across 22 portfolio companies at different stages.
• Pragmatic, fast-moving, results-oriented environment with emphasis on measurable pipeline, LP conversations, and portfolio impact.
• Hybrid work setup in Paris with flexible remote options.

Hiring process

• 45-minute screening call with the Partnership Manager.
• One-hour immersion interview with the CRO.
• 120-minute technical case involving a presentation on a real OSS community and marketing problem.
• 30-minute final interview with the CEO.