AI-First Marketing Lead (m/w/d) - Remote

Join; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

End-to-end ownership

AI-first playbook

Competitive compensation

Training budget

Direct access to founding team

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

refive GmbH is seeking a Head of Marketing to own strategy, content, SEO, events, partner co-marketing, and brand. You will drive AI-powered workflows and automation, shaping the editorial standards and omnichannel campaigns for Europe and beyond.

You will lead content across two voices, build an ABM-friendly calendar aligned with pipeline, and manage events from NRF to EuroShop. The role demands hands-on writing, data-driven decisions, and a relentless drive for rapid, high-quality execution.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of B2B SaaS or tech marketing with ownership.
• End-to-end campaigns with measurable results.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Experience with agentic automation and prompt engineering.
• Strategic yet execution-focused and fast-paced.
• Strong content judgment; writes well with clarity.
• HubSpot and GA4 proficiency.
• Retail or martech familiarity is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own editorial standards across LinkedIn, blogs, SEO copy, case studies.
• Direct and maintain AI content pipelines; write prompts and evaluate outputs.
• Align content with live pipeline priorities; brief assets for key accounts.
• Own organic growth strategy and inbound marketing.
• Evolve brand through Retail Spotlight; ghostwrite founder content.
• Lead events logistics, content, and post-event follow-ups.
• Develop joint campaigns with partners and white-label solutions.
• Run automated weekly dashboards and report proactively.

Skills

B2B SaaS marketing

Content strategy

AI content workflows

Agentic automation

Editorial oversight

SEO/Inbound

HubSpot GA4

European languages

Tools

Claude Code

n8n

Make

Zapier

Job description

refive is building the engagement layer for physical retail: digital receipts, QR/NFC touchpoints, and post-purchase journeys that help brands and retailers turn anonymous shoppers into known customers. We work with retailers like Puma, EuroShop, and Orlen and are scaling fast across Europe and beyond. We are a close-knit team, distributed across three continents, with a base in Berlin. We're building an AI powered startup, flat heirarchy and a tight, efficient team.

This is a Head of Marketing operating model inside a lean-team structure. You own the entire marketing function: strategy, content, SEO, events, partner co-marketing, and brand, and you run most of it through AI-powered workflows and agentic automation rather than headcount.

The bar is high: you need to zoom from annual content strategy to line-level copy review to prompting a new automation pipeline - and know which mode each situation calls for. We move in sprints, ship fast, and never let perfect be the enemy of good.

Tasks

• Content quality and brand voice: Own the editorial standard across everything that goes out — LinkedIn posts, blog content, SEO copy, case studies, newsletter. You are the last human filter before anything is published. You can tell the difference between content that performs and content that just sounds like AI generated it, and you fix the latter.
• AI content engine: Direct and maintain agentic pipelines that produce content at scale. You set direction, write the prompts, evaluate the output, and intervene when the machine gets it wrong. This is already partially built; you evolve and own it.
• Account-based marketing support: Align the content calendar with live pipeline priorities. Brief assets for key accounts. Make sure sales has what it needs, when it needs it — not generic collateral.
• SEO and inbound: Own organic growth. Blog strategy, keyword targeting, distribution playbook, conversion path optimisation.
• Brand and thought leadership: Evolve the Retail Spotlight podcast into a content ecosystem. Ghostwrite and direct founder voice content across two distinct voices. Build refive's presence as the authoritative voice on in-store customer engagement in Europe.
• Events and field: Project-manage event participation remotely — NRF, EuroShop, RTS London and similar. Own the full loop: logistics, pre-event content, on-site coordination with vendors and booth teams, lead capture workflows, post-event follow-up content. You run this independently; founders show up and present.
• Partner co-marketing: Develop joint campaigns and launch materials with white-label and integration partners as the pipeline scales.
• Metrics and reporting: Own the automated weekly marketing dashboard (GA4, HubSpot, LinkedIn). Know your numbers. Flag what is not working before anyone asks.

Requirements

• 6-8 years of B2B SaaS or tech marketing experience, with real ownership - not just execution support.
• You have run campaigns end to end and have results to show.
• Fluent, flawless native spokend and written english
• Agentic automation fluency. You have built or designed workflows using tools like Claude Code, n8n, Make, Zapier, or similar. You are comfortable prompting LLMs for structured outputs and wiring them into repeatable pipelines. This is not a nice-to-have it is how this role operates day to day.
• Strategic range with execution instinct. You can write a marketing plan in the morning and review a CTA in the afternoon. You know when to go deep and when to move on.
• Content quality instinct. You can tell the difference between AI-generated content that performs and content that just sounds like it was AI-generated. You write well yourself - sharp, no fluff, B2B-appropriate.
• Modern mindset, not stuck in old-school playbooks. Curious about what new tools can do, comfortable with ambiguity, willing to try things that have no case study yet - but experienced enough to know what good looks like and push back when a shortcut will cost you later.
• HubSpot and GA4 proficiency. You track what matters and use data to change direction, not validate decisions already made.
• Retail or martech experience is a genuine plus — if you understand how brick-and-mortar retailers think about footfall, loyalty, and first-party data, you will ramp faster and produce better work.
• One or more European language skills are a significant bonus given our primary market. But not a must have.

Benefits

• End-to-end ownership of a marketing function with real enterprise customers and a clear growth path
• The chance to build and document an AI-first lean marketing playbook - a genuinely novel problem
• Attractive compensation package and options after year 1
• Training budget and access to the latest AI tooling
• Direct access to the founding team and meaningful strategic input from day one
• Work from home or Goa or the mountains, wherever you want as long as you have a perfect internet connection

We use heavy agentic automation across content, research, and reporting. This role is not about doing more with less, it is about designing systems that handle the repeatable work so human judgment goes where it actually matters. If that excites you, you will fit here. If you prefer full manual control over every deliverable, this is probably not the right environment.