Founding Marketer

Graphon.AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision

Competitive paid time off

Meaningful equity opportunity

Job summary

Graphon.AI is seeking a Founding Marketer to establish how the company is perceived in the market and create a repeatable go-to-market engine for their innovative product. The ideal candidate will possess strong experience in marketing technical products, simplify complex ideas, and be comfortable driving product launches.

With a focus on building systems and collaborating closely with engineers and founders, this position offers a salary range of $180,000 – $230,000 and meaningful equity, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience owning messaging, positioning, and go-to-market for new products.
• High agency and ownership mindset; able to execute ideas and strategies.
• Familiarity with product launches from alpha to beta.

Responsibilities

• Own the narrative, simplifying complex concepts for customers.
• Define the wedge to focus on initial ICPs and use cases.
• Run marketing from alpha to beta to launch with proper messaging.
• Build systems, playbooks, and processes to scale marketing efforts.
• Collaborate with founders, engineers, and sales on positioning.
• Establish repeatable demand and pipeline motions for marketing.

Skills

Strong experience marketing technical products

Ability to simplify complexity

Strong writing and communication skills

Builder mentality with examples of systems

Comfort working closely with founders and engineers

AI-native with modern tools

Job description

Graphon AI is building the pre-model intelligence layer for the next generation of AI. We are developing the context engine layer that solves a fundamental challenge: “What if I could just dump all my data and GPT/Claude/Gemini could smartly reason across it?” Today, this is incredibly difficult due to the limitations of LLM context windows and the fundamental squared scaling inherent to attention mechanisms. While sparse attention and RAG systems attempt to address this, they haven't proven to be robust general solutions.

Our Approach

Pre-model intelligence is our answer. We believe a graph-based approach that analyzes relationships across data on a topological level provides the correct inductive bias for long-context multimodal reasoning.

Just asCNNsprovided the bias for spatial invariance in vision, andTransformersestablished the standard for sequential dependencies in language, our framework provides the structural foundation needed for complex, interconnected data.

We believe the next wave of AI progress will come from better infrastructure around models:

Better Memory & Context:Creating truly persistent, scalable state.

Better Representations:Moving beyond simple embeddings to relational world models.

Universal Infrastructure:A way to stop rebuilding the same context layer for every agent, dataset, and application.

The Team

We are a lean, experienced team that values ownership, pragmatism, and technical excellence. We have raised a significant seed round from top-tier VCs and strategic foundation model providers to scale this new paradigm.

Arbaaz Khan, CEO:ex-Amazon; PhD in Robotics and ML.

Clark Zhang, CTO:ex-Meta; PhD in Robotics and ML.

Deepak Mishra, COO:ex-VC; 10+ years of Enterprise Technology experience.

About the Role

We are hiring our Founding Marketer to define how Graphon is understood in the market and to build the first repeatable go-to-market engine around the product.

We are looking for a hands-on marketing leader who can own the narrative, sharpen the wedge, identify the right initial ICPs, and drive product launches. You should be equally comfortable thinking strategically, writing clearly, building systems, and executing directly in a highly technical environment.

• Own the narrative. Turn Graphon's technical concepts into simple customer language that makes the value obvious.
• Define the wedge. Figure out the first ICPs and use cases worth focusing on, and why they should come first.
• Run marketing end to end. Take features from alpha to beta to launch with the right messaging, assets, and rollout plan.
• Build repeatable systems. Create playbooks, content engines, and processes that scale beyond one-off marketing work.
• Partner closely with founders, engineers, and sales to shape positioning based on real product and market feedback.
• Stand up the first repeatable demand and pipeline motions across site, content, events, and outbound enablement.

About You

Required

• Strong experience marketing technical products and translating complex ideas into clear customer value.
• Ability to simplify complexity, especially for highly technical or horizontal products.
• Experience owning messaging, positioning, and go-to-market for new products or capabilities.
• Builder mentality with examples of creating systems, playbooks, or repeatable engines, not just one-off campaigns.
• High agency and ownership mindset; you can come up with an idea and execute it.
• Comfort working closely with founders and engineers in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Strong writing and communication skills.
• AI-native and comfortable using modern tools to ramp quickly and increase execution velocity

Nice to Have

• Prior experience as an early or first marketing hire at a startup.
• Experience with AI, search, infrastructure products or other highly technical products.
• Experience defining ICPs and segmentation in an emerging category.
• Familiarity with product launches that move from alpha to beta to general availability.

Base salary range: $180,000 – $230,000 (depending on experience and level)

Meaningful equitywith the opportunity to own a real stake in a category-defining company

Comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision, and competitive paid time off