# Lead, Startup & Ventures Marketing

**Company:** [MongoDB](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mongodb)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Growth Marketing
**Salary:** $101k – $198k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Event Planning, Community Building, Partnership Development, Social Media Marketing, Digital Marketing, Metrics Tracking, Team Management, Content Strategy, Ecosystem Strategy, Developer Relations
**Posted:** 2026-04-08

> Leads MongoDB's marketing strategy for startups and ventures in the Bay Area, building relationships with VCs, founders, and communities. Owns ecosystem events, programs, acquisition strategies, and cross-functional alignment; requires 8+ years experience and deep local network.

## Job Description

## Position Expectations

- Serve as the MongoDB representative within the Bay Area startup ecosystem: Develop deep relationships across the Bay Area startup community, building trusted connections with top VCs, founders, operators, and ecosystem influencers
- Drive high-value startup acquisition: Design and execute a targeted acquisition strategy focused on engaging and converting high-potential startups in the region
- Expand MongoDB’s physical presence in the Bay Area: Lead an ecosystem strategy centered on high-impact founder programming, including VC-partnered events, demo days, hackathons, founder dinners, and other flagship community events
- Amplify MongoDB’s startup presence through digital channels: Collaborate with Brand, Social, and Digital Marketing teams to extend regional startup initiatives across social media, earned content, and owned media
- Own cross-functional alignment for the regional startup audience: Embed the startup and developer audience into marketing initiatives driven by Revenue Marketing, Strategic Events, DevRel, and other internal teams, ensuring programs and activations effectively serve the startup ecosystem
- Measure impact and continuously optimize: Define and track key success metrics for startup engagement, such as attendance quality, funded-founder participation, and program applications, and use insights to refine strategy and programming

## The right candidate for this role will be:

- Have 8+ years of experience in marketing, community, ecosystem, or events roles focused on startups, developers, or technical founders
- Have experience managing and developing high-performing teams, with the ability to set strategy while supporting strong on-the-ground execution
- Possess deep familiarity with the Bay Area startup ecosystem, ideally with established relationships across VCs, founders, accelerators, and key founder communities
- Have experience working in or closely with startups or venture capital firms, with a strong understanding of how early-stage companies operate and grow
- Be comfortable engaging technical audiences, with enough understanding of startup engineering workflows to shape credible and compelling programming
- Thrive in 0-to-1 environments, building strategy, programs, and operational processes from the ground up
- Be highly organized and execution-oriented, able to drive initiatives from strategy through delivery while managing multiple stakeholders
- Be data-driven, able to define success metrics, track impact, and communicate results clearly
- Communicate confidently and effectively with founders, investors, and senior internal stakeholders
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy, collaborating with a globally distributed team while maintaining an active presence within the Bay Area startup ecosystem

**Compensation:** MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is $101,000—$198,000 USD. Other benefits may include equity, employee stock purchase program, flexible PTO, parental leave, 401(k), and health benefits.

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