VP of Marketing

About Inworld At Inworld, we believe that the benefits of AI should extend beyond business workflows to the applications and experiences that we enjoy every day. We began by pushing the frontier of lifelike, interactive characters for games and entertainment, pioneering realtime conversational AI at scale. Today, we apply that expertise to provide the multimodal models, pipelines and tools needed to build and evolve consumerscale, realtime conversational AI applications across learning, health, social, assistants, games and media. Weve raised more than $125M from Lightspeed, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsofts M12 venture fund, Founders Fund, Meta and Stanford, among others. Our technology has powered experiences from companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella and Bible Chat. Weve also been recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally and have been named one of LinkedIn's Top 10 Startups in the USA. Your Impact We are looking for a visionary VP of marketing to define a new category and position Inworld as the default model and infrastructure provider for the next generation of realtime AI applications. While the first wave of AI focused on textbased task automation, we are leading the next wave: the shift toward natively realtime, multimodal AIhuman interactions that were previously impossible to build. With a worldclass product, high technical credibility, and hundreds of thousands of developers already on the platform, Inworld is leading this shift. Your role is to amplify our momentum and awareness, and orchestrate the growth engine to scale Inworld 100x. What Youll Do Team building & GTM leadership: Build, lead, and scale a high-impact marketing organization, partnering closely with sales, product, and engineering to accelerate our hybrid PLG and salesassisted revenue motions. Positioning, messaging & narrative: Define and own clear, differentiated positioning and company narrative that translates complex AI and research breakthroughs into compelling customer value across all gotomarket touchpoints. Product marketing & sales enablement: Own product launches, pricing and packaging, and sales enablement for the Inworld family of products. Developer marketing & advocacy: Build and nurture a developerfirst ecosystem through documentation, community, events, and advocacy across all major developer touchpoints. Demand generation: Build and operate a repeatable demand engine focused on highquality pipeline, turning customers into advocates through proof points, references, and feedback loops that drive acquisition, retention, and expansion. Content & thought leadership: Establish category authority through highimpact technical content, benchmarks, case studies, and thought leadership that builds trust with sophisticated buyers. Growth & conversion: Optimize the endtoend marketing funnel from first touch to activation, to convert interest into qualified opportunities using datadriven experimentation. Marketing analytics & operations: Establish scalable, AIfirst marketing operations, analytics, and infrastructure to measure impact, inform strategy, and support longterm growth. What Youll Bring Seasoned leadership: 10+ years of marketing leadership experience at highgrowth, earlystage startups or established technical SaaS/infrastructure companies. Launch excellence: A demonstrated track record of running major product launches that directly accelerated developer adoption and revenue growth. Strategic mindset: Experience scaling developerfirst ecosystems and a deep understanding of usagebased business models. Ambiguity to clarity: The ability to thrive in fastmoving environments and see constant market shifts as opportunities to define new standards. Technical fluency: A strong product or engineering background with the ability to design and implement technically driven growth systems. Education: BA/BS degree or higher; technical degrees are a significant plus. Location: SF Bay Area or willingness to relocate preferred but not mandatory. The base salary range for this fulltime position is between $250,000 - $350,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process. #J-18808-Ljbffr