Founding Marketing Lead - AI Startup

Founding Marketing Lead – AI Startup 📍 San Francisco – on-site, five days per week 💰 $190,000–$240,000 base + exceptional equity 🛂 Visa transfers considered Savannah Search is partnering with a well-funded, Y Combinator-backed AI startup to appoint its Founding Marketing Lead. With PE backed funding and a talent-dense team of approximately 8, the company is building an AI-powered workspace capable of orchestrating hundreds of thousands of agents simultaneously. This is a hands-on founding role for a marketer who can build the marketing function from the ground up—combining positioning and product marketing with performance marketing, content and measurable pipeline generation. The role You will: • Own paid acquisition across Google, LinkedIn, Reddit and emerging channels, managing budgets scaling beyond $30,000 per month • Develop the company’s messaging, positioning and market narrative • Drive SEO and GEO strategies to increase inbound demonstrations and self-service sign-ups • Build the content engine across landing pages, case studies, customer stories, newsletters, launch content and sales materials • Translate complex AI technology into clear, commercially compelling messaging • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design and Sales on launches and go-to-market strategy • Track campaign performance and continually improve channel mix, CAC and pipeline contribution • Help build and recruit the wider marketing team as the company scales About you You will bring: • 3-8 years’ experience in B2B product marketing and growth marketing • Strong hands-on experience running paid campaigns across channels such as Google, LinkedIn and Reddit • Experience with SEO/GEO and content-led growth • Evidence of generating measurable pipeline, inbound demonstrations or self-service sign-ups • The ability to build marketing infrastructure and playbooks from scratch • Experience within a fast-growing B2B SaaS or AI-native startup • A highly analytical, practical and entrepreneurial approach Experience within a business recognised for outstanding B2B marketing—would be particularly relevant. This position is based on-site in San Francisco five days per week with occasional travel.