Founding Product Marketing Manager

ABOUT ALEX AI Our mission is to unlock human potential by accelerating hiring. Alex AI is a platform of AI agents for recruiting. Our agents interview candidates, coordinate next steps, and keep recruiting systems up to date, working together so employers hire great people faster. Customers include First Student, Mattress Firm, and Upwork. ABOUT THE ROLE We're hiring our first product marketer, a hands-on role, to refine and amplify the story of Alex. You'll be the connective tissue between our product and the market, owning how we communicate the value we provide, how our brand shows up, and how Alex brings that story to customers. You'll work with our founders, product, and customers to sharpen our messaging and brand, then build out the sales training, demos, customer proof, and launch material that carry it. You'll join customer conversations, learn what buyers actually ask and where the story falls short, and make sure it works both in the room and out in the world. Product marketing is the core of this job, and as our first marketer you'll shape everything around it too: how we show up at conferences, which channels we bet on, and what the marketing function becomes as we grow. Alex is an early-stage company. We operate at an exceptionally fast pace, but with pragmatic intention and thought. Roles will blur and your scope will be wide. Many things remain to be figured out, and it's imperative that you are open to and excited by that. This is a full-time IC role based in-person in our San Francisco office 5 days a week, with travel for conferences. You will report to the Head of Product. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the story, end to end: sharpen Alex's customer story with our founders, grounded in concrete use cases, and refine the voice and creative direction. Then bring it to life twice: in the materials you create, and in the AI resources you put in everyone else's hands to compound your impact. For example, when a seller builds a pitch deck with Claude the night before a meeting, it should come out on message, on brand, and accurate, because you put the right story, proof, and design in place for both of them to draw from. - Make every seller fluent: own the core materials, talk tracks, demo guides, competitive positioning, objection handling, and customer proof. Train reps and check that they can use it all in real conversations. - Turn every ship into a story: build the AI systems that turn product releases, sales calls, and customer conversations into refined messaging, seller briefings, website copy, and launches, continuously, so the story never goes stale between releases. - Close the loop with customers: use customers response, seller adoption, and real deal feedback to improve the story. Bringing customer questions back into the product. - Run the room: lead our conferences, from planning and budget through onsite execution and follow-up with Sales. - Own what ships: you write the deck, the page, and the talk track yourself. Whatever drafted it, you decide what's true, what's good, and what goes out under our name. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - You're an excellent writer with strong product judgment and creative taste. You can show two or three examples of a message and brand you shaped, explain why it was right for the domain, how sellers used it, and the results it delivered. - You learn products deeply, teach clearly, and stay hands-on from the first idea through the the measurement of results. You demonstrate this in how well you know the products you've worked on and why they were built the way they were. - You build systems that do your work when you’re not in the room. You can show one, whether an AI resource or a knowledge base your team relies on, and say how it could be improved. - You're wonderfully curious in a manner that fosters healthy debate, uncovers new information, and draws those around you closer. - You bring a balanced perspective that grounds "vibes" in quantitative and qualitative evidence you gather yourself. WHY JOIN? Direct founder access, meaningful ownership, salary and equity, and work that changes how people find opportunities. Benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, flexible PTO, 401(k), parental leave, commuter benefits, and office lunch. Confirm the current benefits and approved salary range before posting. Inbound applicants start with Alex AI, our AI recruiter. Alex AI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.