Founding Marketing Lead

Foundry Robotics•San Francisco, CA

1d•$150,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. The company is reimagining manufacturing through advanced robotics with the mission to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer. They aim to empower manufacturers with intelligent, efficient, and adaptable robotic systems that redefine productivity and quality. As a founding member of the engineering team, the role will have a direct and significant impact on the product, culture, and ultimate success of the company. This role is 100% in-person at their office in the Mission, SF.

Requirements

6+ years in B2B marketing, including time where you were doing the work, not directing it.
Owned brand and product marketing — positioning and messaging for a sales team.
Managed external agencies (web, PR, creative, or events) with strong outcomes.
Run a website project end to end with a design or development partner.
Hands-on events experience: built the booth plan, worked the show, followed up on leads.
Strong writing skills.
Taste and a point of view. Ability to articulate why agency work is off and push back when necessary.
Credibility with engineers. Ability to spend real time with them and earn their trust.

Nice To Haves

Hardware, robotics, industrial automation, or deep tech marketing experience.
Familiarity with defense or government-adjacent buyers.
HubSpot/Marketo/Salesforce fluency.
Enough Figma to get a concept across.
Experience managing a junior marketer or contractor.

Responsibilities

Positioning and messaging that resonates with an AI robotics researcher, a manufacturing engineer, a defense program lead, and an investor alike — technical audiences.
Develop core narrative assets: sales decks, one-pagers, case studies, demo scripts, technical content.
Stewardship of the brand system across every surface — including agency output.
Stand up analytics, conversion tracking, and SEO for website and other channels then own the site and its publishing cadence after with the support of internal technical team members.
Develop and execute strategy, calendar, and content on LinkedIn and X — work with partners and internal team to build footage, deployment milestones, technical explainers, founder-led thought leadership.
Report on audience quality, engagement, share of voice, referral traffic, and inbound sources.
Scope and eventually manage an analyst to absorb production and reporting.
Run events end to end — trade shows, customer and partner dinners, demo days.
Help to decide what's worth investing in (time and money). Own booth and demo development, shipping, staffing, run-of-show, and develop systems for pre/post outreach.
Work with GTM leaders to build the foundational engine: inbound capture, lead routing, nurture, clean handoff to GTM team. Own the CRM and automation stack.
Deliver a monthly scorecard leadership can budget from: spend, sourced and influenced pipeline, cost per opportunity, channel-level ROI.