Chief Marketing/Growth Officer

Perma; Kansas City (MO); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Remote work flexibility

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Perma.sh is private cloud storage you pay for once. Customers buy upload capacity upfront, files are encrypted in the browser before upload, and the private key stays with the customer.

Our mission is to give people a simpler way to keep their files private without another recurring storage bill. We're looking for a Chief Marketing Officer to turn that promise into a brand people understand, trust, and choose.

Qualifications

• Track record of growing an early-stage technology product.
• Strong product marketing judgment and ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
• Hands-on experience with customer research, acquisition experiments, conversion optimization, and lifecycle marketing.
• Comfort with limited resources, making decisions with incomplete data, and adjusting direction when needed.
• Strong writing skills, analytical discipline, and care for customer trust.

Responsibilities

• Define Perma's positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy around customer needs.
• Interview customers and test audiences to identify resonant use cases and offers.
• Build and improve acquisition across content, search, social, partnerships, and paid campaigns.
• Own website messaging, launch campaigns, email journeys, and educational content to drive action.
• Partner with product on onboarding, activation, and conversion.
• Establish measurement across the customer journey and tie marketing to revenue and CAC.

Skills

Growth strategy

Product marketing

Customer research

Acquisition experiments

Lifecycle marketing

Strong writing

Tools

CRM

Email automation

Job description

Chief Marketing/Growth Officer - Perma.sh

Location: Remote

Employment: Fractional/Part-Time/Flexible Depending on Your Schedule

Compensation: Equity to start, ~$120,000 upon funding.

Check us out to make sure the opportunity is right for you: https://perma.sh is fully functionable and ready for users.

Help make private cloud storage something people own.

Perma is private cloud storage you pay for once. Customers buy upload capacity upfront, files are encrypted in the browser before upload, and the private key stays with the customer. Our mission is to give people a simpler way to keep their files private without another recurring storage bill.

We're looking for a Chief Marketing Officer to turn that promise into a brand people understand, trust, and choose. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can set the strategy, write the copy, launch the campaign, and use the results to decide what comes next.

The role

You'll own Perma's marketing strategy and execution, from positioning and customer research to acquisition, conversion, and customer engagement. You'll work closely with the founding team to identify our strongest customer segments, sharpen our story, and build a repeatable path from discovery to purchase and ongoing use.

Trust is central to this work. You'll make privacy, encryption, key ownership, and the pay-once model understandable while keeping every claim grounded in what the product delivers.

What you'll do

• Define Perma's positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy around clear customer needs.
• Interview customers and test audiences, use cases, and offers to identify where Perma resonates most.
• Build and improve acquisition across content, search, social, communities, partnerships, referrals, and paid campaigns where the economics work.
• Own website messaging, launch campaigns, email journeys, and educational content that help customers understand the product and take action.
• Partner with product on onboarding, activation, purchase conversion, and continued usage.
• Establish measurement across the customer journey and connect marketing investment to revenue, acquisition cost, payback, and contribution margin.
• Build the marketing team and external partner network as priorities and resources evolve.

What you bring

• A track record of growing an early-stage technology product, with specific examples of your contribution and results.
• Strong product marketing judgment and the ability to explain technical concepts in clear, compelling language.
• Hands-on experience with customer research, acquisition experiments, conversion optimization, and lifecycle marketing.
• Comfort working with limited resources, making decisions with incomplete data, and changing direction when evidence calls for it.
• Strong writing skills, analytical discipline, and care for customer trust.
• The ability to lead while staying close to execution.

Experience with consumer software, cloud storage, privacy, security, or products sold through one-time purchases is a plus. Prior CMO experience is welcome; demonstrated ability to build and lead a marketing function matters more than your current title. If you can organically grow a company - we want to talk.

What success looks like

In your first 90 days, you'll develop a clear view of our priority customers, refine the messaging, establish funnel measurement, and run focused growth experiments. Over time, success means a recognizable brand, stronger customer activation and conversion, and acquisition channels that produce sustainable economics for a pay-once product.

A note to consider

We're not expecting 40-hour weeks - we understand this is an equity role, and we simply need another set of hands to help us get this in front of people. We've had some early success with BetaList and ProductHunt, but where we are lacking is a clear, consistent presence and interaction. Full disclosure - we all have dayjobs, and we expect you will as well. That's why we're offering up to 15% of the company (or more, if the canidate blows us away!) in order to be a part of this. If we get funding, you will have life-changing equity for your work.