Head of Marketing

Role Description

This is a hands-on, single-threaded role for a doer and a manager. Manifest is hiring a Head of Marketing to run marketing as a pipeline-generation engine and put Manifest on the map. You will inherit a working playbook and a bench of agencies already supporting our efforts, so you are not starting from a blank page. Your job is to own it, sharpen it, and drive it harder. You will own the full funnel:

• Positioning and messaging
• Content and slides
• Demand generation
• Social media
• Events
• Analyst relations
• Marketing-led outbound motion

You are the person who writes the copy, builds the deck, runs the event, posts on LinkedIn, directs the agencies, and reports the number, extending yourself with those agency partners and offshore help to carry the execution heavy work so you get leverage without building headcount.

The mandate for this role is two-sided: build a pipeline and build the brand. You will drive brand recognition and awareness across the security community, the federal and enterprise buyers we sell to, the analysts who shape the category, and the investors who fund it.

You already know cyber. We sell to some of the most technical and skeptical buyers in software:

• CISOs
• Compliance leaders
• Engineering teams across federal and defense
• Enterprise and commercial
• Healthcare and medical device
• Automotive AI risk

You will report to the Chief Revenue Officer and work alongside an established enterprise sales team that already carries its own pipeline goals. Marketing's job is to feed and accelerate that pipeline, not to operate in isolation. This is a metrics-driven role, and you will be measured on the outcomes that matter:

• Qualified pipeline
• Return on marketing spend
• Website traffic and engagement
• Brand awareness across the security and investor communities
• Analyst mindshare

This is an intense, high ownership role with a direct line between your work and the company's growth.

Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years of B2B marketing experience
• Experience across B2B and enterprise, ideally federal and public sector
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity
• Experience building an executive or founder brand and analyst/press relations
• Track record of being directly accountable to a pipeline or revenue number
• Metrics-driven and rigorous about spend
• Proven ability to build outbound and demand programs
• Hands-on production skills
• Experience owning events end-to-end
• AI is part of your default workflow
• High agency and a strong bias to action

Requirements

• Own a qualified pipeline number alongside the CRO and enterprise sales team
• Own the marketing budget and be accountable for every dollar
• Own positioning and messaging across federal, enterprise/commercial, and regulated verticals
• Write and ship the work yourself — web copy, one-pagers, campaigns, email, sales, and pitch decks
• Build and run a marketing-led outbound motion without a BDR team
• Plan, coordinate, and run field and event presence
• Work analysts and category voices
• Generate awareness and engagement across the security and venture communities
• Own and direct agency partners

Benefits

• Fully remote
• Unlimited PTO (taken seriously)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance: 100% covered for you and your dependents
• 401(k) and retirement options

Compensation

$180,000 - $200,000 base salary and 40,000 shares of stock - commensurate with experience