About the role
Founding Growth Marketer
About AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ is the leading platform for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), helping brands optimize their visibility across AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.
Founded by former Google Search PM and backed by the creator of Google Image Search, Y Combinator, and angels from DeepMind, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
We're working with brands like Coinbase, SoFi, and more to win in the new era of AI-powered search.
We treat distribution like an engineering problem: building systems, running experiments, and compounding results over time.
The Role
We're hiring our Founding Growth Marketer to build the engine that takes AthenaHQ to $10M+ ARR.
This is not a "run the blog and manage some paid spend" role. You'll own the entire growth function, working directly with the CEO and founding team to architect a repeatable, scalable revenue system. You will be responsible for both the fuel (the content, messaging, and creative that reaches our audience) and the engine (the channels, systems, and processes that distribute it and convert it into pipeline).
What You'll Do
Run Growth Experiments
- Design and execute experiments to increase lead generation across channels
- Test hypotheses, measure results, and report findings to the team
- Double down on what works and build compounding growth loops
- We won't judge you on failed experiments. We value curiosity and grit. Show us what you've got.
Build Systems
- Architect end-to-end systems that make growth repeatable, not ad hoc
- Own the marketing-to-sales-to-CSM handoff: build seamless flows so contacts move through our pipeline without friction
- Set up and manage the tools, automations, and analytics infrastructure that power our growth engine
