Director of Growth Marketing, Pinecone
$177-215k
+ Equity
Vector database
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Vector database
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$177-215k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the search and database technology to power AI/ML applications for the next decade and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to build and scale growth marketing programs targeted at developers
- Curiosity and courage to ask “what if?” and question all assumptions
- Both an analytical and creative approach to driving traffic and maximizing conversions
- Comfort working in a fast-paced and loosely structured (startup) environment with a high degree of autonomy
- Burning desire to make a measurable impact on growth
- Superb communication and interpersonal skills to successfully work with other teams to test and implement changes
- 7+ years of growth marketing experience
- Track record of building and/or scaling successful and efficient growth marketing programs including paid, organic, and email
- Bachelor's degree
- Startup experience
- Experience at a data/infrastructure, AI/ML, or developer-tools company
- Experience owning the company website or a significant portion of it
- Proficient with HubSpot marketing platform, Heap Analytics or similar analytics tool, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads
What the job involves
- As the Director of Growth Marketing at Pinecone, you will apply your analytical and creative problem-solving skills to help engineers discover, explore, and build with vector databases — a fast-growing product category at the intersection of AI and data infrastructure
- Our growth has come almost entirely from inbound interest, so you will make an immediate and measurable impact
- You will report to the VP of Marketing and collaborate with the most technical marketing team you’ve ever seen
- Drive web traffic to Pinecone using a mix of paid and organic channels
- Convert web visitors into signups or sales leads by optimizing and expanding our website. You will own the website as a product, in partnership with a Growth Engineer and Brand Designer
- Nurture email subscribers into signups or sales leads with email marketing and lifecycle emails
- Build out marketing analytics to inform and evaluate Growth Marketing and other marketing programs, primarily using Heap and HubSpot
- Make an impact: Think big, move fast, be flexible, take an experimental approach, and do what it takes to move the needle on funnel metrics. You will find opportunities in areas that don’t fit neatly into the above options; we want you to take them
Our take
Vector databases arrived on the scene only a few years ago, but the technology has already helped power a new breed of search engines that are based on neural networks as opposed to keywords. Vector databases quickly became popular in the world of machine learning and AI and they will continue to play a significant role in the future development of AI technologies.
Pinecone is a vector database company that specializes in providing an efficient and scalable solution for high-performance vector search applications. The platform is designed to allow businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage machine learning applications without the hassle of infrastructures.
Pinecone is providing customers around the globe with capabilities that have, up until recently, only been utilized by tech giants. Due to the increasing demand for efficient and scalable vector database solutions, Pinecone's 2024 "breakthrough" release is set for a promising future. It claims its release will lead to 50x cost reductions for companies, that will be able to bring state-of-the-art AI to the market at a faster rate. With the company creating a buzz for itself in 2023 off the back of significant funding and with various high profile partnerships (Robust Intelligence and Gathr) announced the following year, here's to hoping it can fulfil the expectations placed upon it.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$100m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$28m
SERIES A
Total funding: $138m
Company benefits
- Company stock options
- Flexible PTO
- Medical, dental & vision plans
- Paid parental leave
- Mental health resources
- Commuter benefits
- FSA & HSA
- Flexible work hours
- Hybrid in-office/remote
- Annual team retreat
- WFH Equipment Stipend
Company values
- Be a pro: Own your work, push boundaries, and strive for simplicity.
- Be yourself: Be authentic, speak your truth, seek feedback, and know you are accepted.
- Be a friend: Earn trust, extend help, listen intently, and commit to shared decisions.
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Edo Liberty
(CEO)Previously worked at Yahoo and Amazon Web Services in Senior Research roles.
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