Job Description
We’re looking for a highly creative entrepreneurial and organized Lead Startup & Ventures Marketing to expand MongoDB’s AI-native marketing strategy and strengthen our presence across the startup and VC ecosystem in the Bay Area.
This is a highly strategic regional leadership role focused on ecosystem building execution and operating at scale. You will be responsible for establishing MongoDB as the database of choice for high-growth venture-backed startups across the Bay Area as well as serve as MongoDB’s primary representative to the local startup ecosystem. In this role you will be responsible for developing relationships with VCs accelerators founders and community partners to design and deliver high-impact programs events and partnerships that drive awareness adoption and long-term affinity for MongoDB. As the regional startup leader you will own the planning and lead the team responsible for the execution of startup-focused initiatives including hackathons demo nights founder dinners and conference-adjacent activations. This role sits at the intersection of partnerships community events and content and requires a leader who can pair strategic vision with hands-on execution.
Position Expectations- Serve as the MongoDB representative within the Bay Area startup ecosystem: Develop deep relationships across the Bay Area startup community building trusted connections with top VCs founders operators and ecosystem influencers
- Drive high-value startup acquisition: Design and execute a targeted acquisition strategy focused on engaging and converting high-potential startups in the region
- Expand MongoDB’s physical presence in the Bay Area: Lead an ecosystem strategy centered on high-impact founder programming including VC-partnered events demo days hackathons founder dinners and other flagship community events
- Amplify MongoDB’s startup presence through digital channels: Collaborate with Brand Social and Digital Marketing teams to extend regional startup initiatives across social media earned content and owned media
- Own cross-functional alignment for the regional startup audience: Embed the startup and developer audience into marketing initiatives driven by Revenue Marketing Strategic Events DevRel and other internal teams ensuring programs and activations effectively serve the startup ecosystem
- Measure impact and continuously optimize: Define and track key success metrics for startup engagement such as attendance quality funded-founder participation and program applications and use insights to refine strategy and programming
- Have 8+ years of experience in marketing community ecosystem or events roles focused on startups developers or technical founders
- Have experience managing and developing high-performing teams with the ability to set strategy while supporting strong on-the-ground execution
- Possess deep familiarity with the Bay Area startup ecosystem ideally with established relationships across VCs founders accelerators and key founder communities
- Have experience working in or closely with startups or venture capital firms with a strong understanding of how early-stage companies operate and grow
- Be comfortable engaging technical audiences with enough understanding of startup engineering workflows to shape credible and compelling programming
- Thrive in 0-to-1 environments building strategy programs and operational processes from the ground up
- Be highly organized and execution-oriented able to drive initiatives from strategy through delivery while managing multiple stakeholders
- Be data-driven able to define success metrics track impact and communicate results clearly
- Communicate confidently and effectively with founders investors and senior internal stakeholders
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy collaborating with a globally distributed team while maintaining an active presence within the Bay Area startup ecosystem
About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era enabling innovators to create transform and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform the most widely available globally distributed database on the market helps organizations modernize legacy workloads embrace innovation and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform MongoDB Atlas is the only globally distributed multi-cloud database and is available across AWS Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 60000 customers including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups relying on MongoDB for their most important applications we’re powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment guiding how and why we make decisions show up for each other and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
Req ID: 1273405598
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set experience qualifications and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity participation in the employee stock purchase program flexible paid time off 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave fertility and adoption assistance 401(k) plan mental health counseling access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage and health benefits offerings. Please note the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
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What We Do
The database market is big. How big? Well according to IDC it’ll reach $153 billion by 2027. And MongoDB is at the forefront of that innovation with thousands of customers across the globe. We empower developers and businesses to build and deploy the applications they want wherever they want.
Why Work With Us
We are ambitious. We are passionate about creativity. And we believe the best paths are the ones we have yet to forge.
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