About Lightfield Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that assembles itself from your email, calendar, and meetings. It captures every interaction and turns it into organized context: accounts, tasks, follow-ups, and insights, so nothing slips through the cracks. We’re rethinking CRM from first principles. Instead of forcing teams to maintain rigid systems, Lightfield learns from how companies actually work, adapting, automating, and surfacing the insight that drives growth. We’re building the CRM platform we always wished existed: fast, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. We are backed by Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, and our founders previously built Tome, a generative AI presentation product used by over 25 million people. Before Lightfield, our team worked on Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Google, and Salesforce.
About
the role We’re on an exponential growth trajectory with unit economics that justify a significant investment in paid acquisition. We're hiring a Performance Marketing Lead to build the most AI-native version of performance marketing we can, in service of our vision of becoming the de facto CRM for every startup. AI has radically transformed what’s possible with performance marketing. This is an opportunity to build an AI-native growth machine from the ground up. You'll own a paid mix that spans direct response and intentional brand investment across major platforms like Google and LinkedIn, plus the full self-serve funnel from ad to activation. This role reports directly to our Head of GTM.
What you'll do Build an AI-native performance marketing engine. You’ll architect every part of our growth machine - including experiment design, creative production, and analysis - with agents (and the Lightfield platform) at the center. You’ll set the bar for what this discipline looks like in 2026. Run paid acquisition. You’ll run strategy and execution across Google, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, X, and newsletter sponsorships. Optimize our self-serve funnel. You’ll own our self-serve sign-up and conversion targets, and systematically address friction at every point in our self-serve customer acquisition journey. Own lifecycle marketing. You'll design and optimize every touch from signup through expansion, including onboarding sequences, trial nudges, and churned user re-engagement. Build the measurement systems we need to scale. You’ll architect first-touch and last-touch attribution tracking, define how we measure the impact of brand campaigns, and surface this data in a way that guides where we invest in growth.
Who you are You’re AI-native. You use AI tools to pull analyses, generate and test creative, brief landing pages, and move at speeds that weren't possible two years ago. You’re deeply hands-on with Google and LinkedIn. You can sit in each platform and performance tune campaigns yourself without outside assistance. You’re fluent in measuring brand, not just direct response. You've owned a mixed brand-and-performance budget and know how to evaluate channels designed to produce halo, not last-click. You have opinions on MMM vs. multi-touch vs. self-reported attribution, and you've run incrementality tests. You’re a strong written communicator. You write crisp briefs, sharp ad copy, and clear analyses. You have a track record of success at a fast-paced early-stage company. You’re comfortable with a less-structured work environment and shipping daily.
Benefits &
Perks Competitive salary Meaningful early equity Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) 3 weeks of PTO 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break 3 months of paid family leave Wednesdays work from home Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats 401k plan Other
perks include: commuter and lunch stipend
Lightfield is an AI-native CRM built for the modern era, designed to replace legacy tools like Salesforce and HubSpot by assembling itself automatically from a team's email, calendar, and meetings. Founded with the mission to become the definitive system of record for the AI era — just as Salesforce defined the cloud era — Lightfield is rethinking CRM from first principles: instead of forcing teams into rigid systems, it learns from how companies actually work, adapting, automating, and surfacing insights that drive growth. The company is backed by top-tier investors including Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, and its founders previously built Tome, a generative AI presentation product used by over 25 million people. The team brings deep pedigree from Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Google, and Salesforce. Traction has been exceptional: over 3,000 companies have signed up for the product, with more than 100 new sign-ups every week and roughly 30 converting to paying customers weekly. Customers include notable names like Substack and Distill. Lightfield operates a dual go-to-market motion — a high-velocity self-serve PLG funnel paired with a direct sales motion targeting Series A/B startups — and is scaling rapidly with plans to grow its sales team from 1 to 7 AEs by end of year. The culture is high-intensity, mission-driven, and in-office four days a week, attracting missionaries over mercenaries who are genuinely excited about building a category-defining company.
Founding Account Executive
Staff Engineer, Backend Systems
Head of Talent
Full Stack Engineer, Product & Systems
Founding Account Executive
Salary
$180,000 - $220,000
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Total raised
$81.0M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
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