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Growth Marketing Lead (USA)

Neon

Neon

Marketing & Communications, Sales & Business Development
Remote
Posted on May 22, 2024

We are growing our Marketing Team and looking for a Growth Marketer.

As a Growth Marketer, you will be responsible for driving growth marketing initiatives across the entire customer journey. You will leverage your marketing expertise, particularly in engaging developer communities, to create and execute innovative marketing campaigns that enhance our brand visibility and engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Full-Cycle Growth Marketing: Own and manage growth marketing efforts across all stages of the customer journey, ensuring a seamless transition from awareness to conversion and beyond.
  • "Always-On" Marketing Programs: Source, build, execute, and report on continuous marketing programs, including SEO, email marketing, advertising, sponsorships, partnerships, and events to maintain and grow our market presence.
  • Developer-Focused Campaigns: Utilize your experience in marketing to developers and your deep understanding of Neon to identify and implement unique marketing campaigns that drive awareness, engagement, and conversion.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Marketing, Marketing Operations, Developer Relations, and Product, to produce high-quality, impactful marketing content and initiatives.
  • Market Insights: Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies to ensure Neon remains at the cutting edge of growth marketing strategies.

We are looking for someone who has

  • Experience doing growth marketing work for developer products.
  • Proven track record taking an idea, turning it into a strategy, executing it, and tracking the results.
  • Analytical skills - ability to use data to discover new opportunities and analyze results of work.

About Neon

Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We're a well-funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low-level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.

Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.

Our Team

  • We are a distributed team of 90 people working from 29 countries (concentrating around North American and European time zones)
  • We are a team built on open source cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, proactivity)
  • Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical
  • We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Arseny, Matthias profiles)
  • We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open-source
  • We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
  • We are keen to be a fast-moving, flat org and avoid hierarchical structures

Our Investors

  • Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:
    • We raised $104 million in funding from Menlo Ventures, Notable Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund.
    • Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.
    • Our angel investors are prominent technologists, and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney.
    • Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Tim Tully.

Our Offer

  • You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling ambitious team
  • You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
  • We grant equity (stock options) for all full-time hires
  • We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)
  • We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Barcelona, Spain)