Founding Head of Marketing
Build Office Hours’ marketing function from the ground up, owning positioning, product marketing, content, founder amplification, field marketing, and events. The role requires 10+ years of experience, early-stage company-building experience, strong B2B product marketing expertise, exceptional writing, and comfort operating hands-on in ambiguity.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own positioning, product marketing, messaging, segmentation, competitive strategy, and enablement.
- Develop foundational marketing and sales assets, including sales decks, ICP-specific one-pagers, pricing collateral, category overviews, and website content.
- Build and run a content engine spanning case studies, point-of-view pieces, white papers, reports, newsletters, expert insights, proprietary data, frameworks, and events.
- Amplify the founder and CEO through LinkedIn, social content, ghostwriting, editing, and future earned and paid channels.
- Own field marketing and events, including audience strategy, invitations, execution, and follow-up.
- Build the marketing function from the ground up; eventually hire and lead marketers, creatives, agencies, and contractors.
Requirements
- 10+ years of marketing experience, including experience as an early marketer at an early-stage company.
- Experience building a marketing function from the ground up.
- Deep product marketing expertise, including positioning, messaging, segmentation, competitive strategy, and enablement.
- Experience in a B2B sales environment and partnering with Sales and Customer Success.
- Exceptional writing skills across buyer messaging, thought leadership, executive content, and social media.
- AI-forward approach to improving marketing quality and output.
- Builder’s mindset with ownership from strategy through execution.
- Comfort with speed, ambiguity, iteration, and shifting priorities.
- Strong judgment, taste, and ability to create alignment across teams.
Bonus Experience
- Shaping an executive or founder voice.
- Brand strategy and visual identity.
- Marketing to institutional investors, consulting firms, AI labs, or similar enterprise audiences.
- Experience with a two-sided marketplace or expert network.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary of $180-$220k, based on seniority and relevant experience.
- Additional target 15-20% discretionary bonus.
- Equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k).
- Monthly wellness and fitness stipend.
- Paid time off and company holidays.
- Annual company off-sites.
- Parent-friendly policies, remote flexibility, and paid family leave.
Skills
Product Marketing, Positioning, Messaging, Market Segmentation, Competitive Strategy, Sales Enablement, Content Marketing, Thought Leadership, LinkedIn, Social Media, Brand Strategy, Visual Identity, B2B Marketing, AI
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