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Growth Marketing Lead - Own How the World's Biggest AI Engineering Conference Grows | Remote (US or UK)
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Our client runs the biggest technical AI conference on the planet - the neutral stage where OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft all show up. Attendance is up ~1,200% in 3 years, the last events sold out, and they're heading for 10,000+ at the World's Fair and 30,000 across the community by 2030. Profitable, bootstrapped, still small. This is the person who owns how all of that grows.
The One Thing You Need:
- You've grown a real audience on digital and owned channels - LinkedIn, YouTube, X, SEO, content - marketing to a developer or technical audience. You know what makes engineers pay attention, and what makes them cringe. That instinct is the thing we can't teach.
Everything else about our world, you'll pick up fast:
- The events domain and the speaker/sponsor side
- Our specific stack (the website runs through an AI agent - no dev skills needed, just judgment)
- The community and amplification playbook
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2 Hard Filters:
- If your background is event or experiential marketing, this isn't your role. Different job, different toolkit - this is digital growth.
- If you need big-company process and headcount to move, keep scrolling.
The Upside, and It's Real:
- The channels are wide open. 10M+ YouTube views barely repurposed. A LinkedIn that's asleep. SEO and automations sitting on the table. You decide what to double down on, what to kill, and where the growth actually is.
- You report straight to the founder - who's done this exact role (ex-VP marketing, developer-first) - so it's a sharp sounding board and a short path from idea to done. Plus you're in the room with every major name in AI.
To be clear: it's intense.
- Fast-moving startup, lean team, priorities that shift weekly, big personalities. You force the call instead of waiting a week for a thread to resolve. No ego survives here - you do what the business needs. If you want calm and predictable, this isn't it.
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What You'll Own:
- The growth strategy - audience, ticket sales, brand - a year out
- Every digital channel: LinkedIn, YouTube, X, website, Slack community
- Speaker amplification and partner co-promotion
- The team you build underneath you
The Details:
- Remote - US (East Coast hours) or UK. Travel to 1–2 events a year to SF
- $120k-$150k (US), £80k-£100K (UK)
- Lead level - starts hands-on, grows into building a team
The Process:
- Short application → screening call with me (NOC) → interviews with the team. We move fast.
Want to Stand Out?
Take 30 minutes, DM me, look at their channels - YouTube, LinkedIn, X, the website - and tell me what you'd change first. That's literally the job.
Note: NOC is the search partner on this role - you'd be hired directly by the company, not by us.
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