Head of Marketing

Firecrawl•San Francisco, CA

2d•$180,000 - $240,000•Onsite

About The Position

You'll own the growth engine behind how Firecrawl acquires and activates users — across content, SEO/GEO, product marketing, partnerships, social, and emerging agent-first distribution channels. This is not a narrow channel role. You'll run the operating system behind our signup growth: pacing, channel mix, performance diagnosis, prioritization, and team execution. You'll work closely with Eric, who owns growth strategy and the major bets, while you own turning that strategy into a machine that performs every single week. Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. In just over a year, we've hit 8 figures in ARR and 100k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get clean, structured web data. We're a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure for the AI era. We ship fast and deep.

Requirements

A true operator, not a strategist. You've owned a growth number before — not advised on one. You know the difference between a channel that's underperforming and a channel that needs to be killed, and you make that call without waiting for someone else to tell you.
Experienced running marketing for a technical or developer-facing product. You understand how developers discover tools, evaluate them, and decide to actually use them. You've built growth systems for an audience that hates being marketed to.
Strong management instincts. You can run a team with a mix of channel specialists, create cadence, drive accountability, and keep everyone moving in the same direction — without needing perfect information to do it.
Fluent in modern distribution. SEO/GEO, content, product launches, AI-native discovery — you have real operational depth across multiple channels, not just talking points.
Good messaging taste. You're not a pure brand specialist, but you know what good looks like. You can maintain a high bar across everything that goes out without being the bottleneck.
Comfortable working directly with founders. No marketing committee. No approval layers. You'll have a direct line to Eric and be expected to push back, make calls, and own the outcome.
Backgrounds that often do well: head of growth or marketing at a developer tools or API-first company, early marketing leader at a PLG SaaS startup, founder-marketer who built a growth engine from scratch.
US Citizenship/Visa required
5+ years in marketing or growth leadership at a technical or developer-facing product

Responsibilities

Own weekly signup pacing and growth across core acquisition channels — you're accountable to the number, not just the strategy
Build a defensible signup mix across SEO/GEO, partnerships, brand, and other durable channels that compound over time
Run cross-channel planning, prioritization, and execution — including managing channel owners across content, PMM, partnerships, brand, and distribution
Run weekly performance reviews: diagnose misses, identify what's working, and ship corrective action plans fast
Partner with product and engineering on activation, onboarding, and growth constraints that live outside marketing's direct control
Keep Eric focused on strategy and major bets — not on stitching the whole machine together week to week

Benefits

Salary that makes sense — $180,000–$240,000/year (SF, U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure
Own a piece — Up to 0.1% equity in what you're helping build
Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge
Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for moms and dads
Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new
Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works
Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs
Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind
Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch
401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you
Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit
Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too
SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us