Head of Growth & Marketing

Location: Remote
Status: Full-Time

At Misfits & Machines, the innovation sister company of Marketing Architects, we’re not just exploring what AI can create—we’re building transformative technologies that help marketers machine remarkable growth in the age of AI. Our team is obsessed with reimagining the marketing value chain through automation, machine learning, and scalable innovation. If you believe the future belongs to bold ideas executed with precision and humanity, we’d love to meet you.

ROLE OVERVIEW

You will own the commercial engine for Misfits & Machines. Every dollar, every deal, every demand signal, every story we tell the market. You'll lead the go-to-market for a portfolio of AI-native advertising and media platforms moving from build into beta and beyond. You'll open and structure enterprise platform partnership conversations with the kinds of aggregators who already own deep relationships with the customers our products are built to serve. You'll build the social, content, and demand engine that gives our products voice in the market.

You'll do all of it as a team of one, leveraged by AI tools, with executive air cover and a creative engine behind you. When the model proves out, you'll hire the team that grows underneath you.

This is multi-year work. Year one is foundation. Year two is throughput. Year three is the engine running at the scale our products demand.

This is a founding commercial role inside a maturing company. The function is founding. The operating environment is not. You're joining an established leadership team, a developed strategic doctrine across our products, and a capital and infrastructure position most early commercial hires don't get. You should want it because of that, not in spite of it.

What you'll do:

• Building the partnership function. Our partnership strategy is light today. Your first phase is changing that. Landscape research, target prioritization, partnership economics, GTM sequencing, and the sales staffing plan that will eventually execute against it.

• Closing enterprise platform partnerships. Opening and structuring conversations with the large platforms and aggregators whose customer bases align with our products. Sitting across from VPs of Partnerships at major platform companies and walking out with signed term sheets. The first LOI in active negotiation is a realistic year-one milestone; closed partnership revenue is year-two work.

• Owning the pipeline; sharing the relationship. Working in lockstep with our SVP of Strategic Partnerships on every meaningful conversation. The SVP holds the senior relationship and the warm intros. You own the deal: the sequencing, the economics, the term sheet, the close.

• Owning the full marketing function. Positioning, messaging, brand voice in partnership with our Creative Alchemist, social, content, email, paid where it makes sense, and the website.

• Designing and operating the modern AI-leveraged GTM stack. Clay, Apollo, Smartlead, Instantly, n8n, Claude, ElevenLabs, and whatever else proves out. You will build workflows we haven't thought of yet.

• Translating product reality into market reality. Working closely with our product, engineering, and creative teams so what we ship is what we can sell, and what we sell is what we ship.

• Building the commercial operating system. Partnership economics, pipeline forecasts, and the commercial reporting cadence that lets the leadership team make good decisions.

• Hiring your team when the math says it's time, and not before.

   

Who you are:

• 10+ years across some combination of marketing, sales, BD, growth, or RevOps, with proven depth in at least two and demonstrated capability across three.

• Founding-team or early-stage experience. A track record of being employee #5 to #50 at a fast-growing tech company, ideally B2B SaaS or platform. You know what it feels like to be the entire commercial team.

• Demonstrably AI-native. You don’t just use AI tools. You have opinions about them, you’ve rebuilt your own job around them, and you can show us a workflow you built that you’re proud of.

• Full-funnel operator. You write the cold email, you build the Clay table, you run the demo, you draft the partnership memo, and you write the social copy. Senior in judgment, hands-on in execution.

• Deep understanding of how advertising creates business outcomes. You can have the strategic conversation with a CMO and the tactical conversation with a small-business owner with equal fluency.

• Comfort with ambiguity, opinions held with conviction, and the ability to push back on leadership when you think we’re wrong.

• A portfolio of work. Campaigns shipped, deals closed, pipelines built, workflows architected. Bring receipts.

   

What this role is not:

• A traditional enterprise sales role with a quota and an SDR team.

• A traditional CMO role with a marketing org underneath you on day one.

• A role for someone who hasn't done the work themselves in five years.

• A role for someone who needs a defined playbook handed to them.

• An equity-driven early-stage compensation package. See Compensation below.

Your first year:

• Months 1 to 3. Inherit the brand and product context across our portfolio. Stand up the AI-leveraged operating stack. Begin partnership landscape research by industry. Open the first friendly conversations with named partner targets.

• Months 4 to 6. Refined GTM plan and partnership economics model ready for leadership review. Sales staffing strategy drafted. Social and content engine in market for our lead product. First named partner conversations moving from friendly to formal.

• Months 7 to 12. First platform-partnership LOI in active negotiation. Sales staffing plan moving from approved document to first hires. Go-to-market plan drafted for the next product in the pipeline.

By month twelve, we'll know whether the partnership strategy has produced a target list and a first LOI in active negotiation, whether the marketing engine is producing demand at the pace our products require, and whether the next product in the pipeline is ready to go to market under the playbook you've built.

This sequencing is gate-based, not calendar-based. If the gates move, the plan moves with them.

Compensation
This is structured as a salary-and-bonus role, not an equity-driven early-stage package. The base is set at the upper end of senior commercial leadership compensation for this market, with meaningful annual variable tied to milestone-based deliverables in year one and transitioning to pipeline and revenue variable in year two. We're happy to discuss specifics with finalists.

BENEFITS OVERVIEW

We offer rewarding careers that encourage growth while providing industry-leading benefits including:

• Fully remote within the US

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental and disability, with vision option

• Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 4% company match

• Flexible paid time off, 9 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays

• Paid parental leave

• Annual office supply allowance, monthly internet stipend and employer-paid cell phone

• Opportunities to connect virtually and in-person twice a year with our fully remote team

Learn more at https://misfitsandmachines.com/

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We want applications from everyone, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizen status, age, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected status.

Our remote-friendly work model supports flexibility across the US, however we are currently unable to support employment in California. We are unable to consider applicants who live outside of the US.

At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, O-1, etc.

The application for this position may request a short, job relevant assessment as part of our multi-stage interview process. Reasonable accommodations are available for this assessment, please let reach out to talentteam@markarch.com.

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, location and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

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