Marketing Lead

Aiven; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Stock options for permanent employees

Learning & growth budget

Hybrid work friendly

Private health and dental care

Work equipment: The tools you need to

Cool, collaborative work spaces

Résumé du poste

Aiven seeks a Bay Area Marketing Lead to own and execute community, brand and event strategy in the territory. You will partner with sales to shape the region's presence and drive engagement with customers, partners and practitioners.

You'll manage Bay Area meetups, influencer relations, and a flagship conference presence, blending hands-on execution with strategic storytelling to stand out in a crowded market.

Description du poste

• The Bay Area Marketing Lead is the on-the-ground owner of that plan: the single accountable driver of community, brand and event strategy in the territory, working alongside the Strategic Account Executive
• You’ll own both the strategy and the execution across several concurrent workstreams deciding how Aiven builds relationships, shows up and stands out in a crowded Bay Area market
• Own and run Aiven’s Bay Area community meetup program (monthly, scaling to twice monthly): decide the format and cadence, source practitioner and external speakers, and recruit non-competing co-host partners. Speakers should be majority external practitioners, not just Aiven staff
• Tag-team with the local sales team to build and maintain the Bay Area speaker, partner and ecosystem network. You’re jointly responsible for who Aiven knows in the territory
• Set the strategy for how Aiven builds brand presence in the Bay Area. Decide who we need to know (influencers, partners, press/analysts, other relevant local companies), where we need to show up, and what will actually get attention in a market already saturated with competitor noise. This includes owning billboard/OOH and guerrilla marketing (e.g. murals, street activations and similar)
• Build relationships with the Bay Area’s VC, accelerator and founder community and feed those relationships into the meetup and partner network above
• Support flagship conference presence. Manage sponsorship logistics and identify speaking-slot opportunities for Aiven’s team, partnering with PR/comms to land them
• Work with Aiven’s PR and comms teams to amplify our voice in the region
• Track and report on program health: RSVP-to-attendance rate, pipeline sourced or influenced with target accounts and local press mentions/coverage

Benefits

• Stocks: Stock options for permanent employees
• Learning & growth: Get ahead with an individual learning budget, access to a web learning platform, coaching, and the ever-growing Aiven library
• Work/life balance: Flexible, regular working hours, and hybrid work friendly
• Health care: Private health and dental care
• Work equipment: The tools you need to do your job
• Cool, collaborative work spaces: with free drinks, treats and fruit

Based in and experience working in a similar marketing role in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is an in-person role by designDogged and resourceful: an out-of-the-box thinker who’s genuinely proactive, doesn’t wait to be told what to do and doesn’t let blockers stop them. When the obvious path is closed they find another way forwardEnough technical fluency in AI, cloud or data infrastructure to hold a credible conversation, vet talks and earn respect from engineers. This is someone with technical chops who can find and win over the right people in a new marketSenior-level autonomy: you’ll be the sole on-the-ground owner of multiple concurrent workstreams and expected to set direction as much as execute against itExisting relationships in the Bay Area AI-native/startup, VC or open-source data community