First Round Capital

I’m kicking off the search for a role on our team at First Round Capital, and I think it's shaping up to be one of the most important additions in a long time. I’m hiring a VP of Marketing charged with building and running a full-stack marketing team at First Round as we partner with incredible founders to tackle company building firsts. I’m eager to team up with this person to build on what we’ve established and create something new. If you were to join, you’d be responsible for figuring out the best ways to make sure that as many talented and ambitious builders in tech as possible know about First Round. I realize that many talented marketers may not be itching to get into VC. Marketing doesn't seem particularly important to most venture firms. It doesn’t seem creative or entrepreneurial. It’s not a traditional motion, with clearly defined inputs and outputs. It sounds like a gig filled with a series of generic dinners, market maps, press placements and puff pieces for portfolio companies. This is not that. Instead of depending on traditional media and venture capital thought leadership to build our brand, we've spent over a decade cultivating a large audience from the ground up by sharing unique, tactical and extremely high-quality content focused on founders. The cornerstone here is First Round Review and our “In Depth” podcast, which reach hundreds of thousands of people. Here’s what I’m looking for: - You’re unabashedly on the side of startups. You’re often one of the first users of new products. Your favorite kind of stories to dig into are the ones of how tiny companies got big, against the odds. - You’re not looking to just run the same marketing playbook. You should have a track record of first-principles problem solving using marketing as a primary tool, versus just running marketing programs. - You’ve got experience building a marketing engine. You love using data to tackle problems, and you can take disparate programs and products and turn them into a single machine that fits together and produces results. - You have breadth in all areas of marketing, but depth in a couple of areas such as growth marketing or product marketing. - You’re as comfortable playing as you are coaching. You have sharp people instincts and you have effectively led teams, but you’re low ego and love diving into the details to execute alongside them. - You’re an impatient person who biases towards action and finds slowness irritating. Some may describe you as “intense.” You work a lot, not because you have to, but because it’s how you choose to fill your days. - You believe in the importance of quality craftsmanship in your work, almost to a fault. You have a trained eye, refined taste, and you know the importance of holding up high standards to defend a brand. If the above sounded like something you want to dedicate the next chapter of your career to, you can apply by following the link below.

I’m kicking off the search for a role on our team at First Round Capital, and I think it's shaping up to be one of the most important additions in a long time. I’m hiring a VP of Marketing charged with building and running a full-stack marketing team at First Round as we partner with incredible founders to tackle company building firsts. I’m eager to team up with this person to build on what we’ve established and create something new. If you were to join, you’d be responsible for figuring out the best ways to make sure that as many talented and ambitious builders in tech as possible know about First Round. I realize that many talented marketers may not be itching to get into VC. Marketing doesn't seem particularly important to most venture firms. It doesn’t seem creative or entrepreneurial. It’s not a traditional motion, with clearly defined inputs and outputs. It sounds like a gig filled with a series of generic dinners, market maps, press placements and puff pieces for portfolio companies. This is not that. Instead of depending on traditional media and venture capital thought leadership to build our brand, we've spent over a decade cultivating a large audience from the ground up by sharing unique, tactical and extremely high-quality content focused on founders. The cornerstone here is First Round Review and our “In Depth” podcast, which reach hundreds of thousands of people. Here’s what I’m looking for: - You’re unabashedly on the side of startups. You’re often one of the first users of new products. Your favorite kind of stories to dig into are the ones of how tiny companies got big, against the odds. - You’re not looking to just run the same marketing playbook. You should have a track record of first-principles problem solving using marketing as a primary tool, versus just running marketing programs. - You’ve got experience building a marketing engine. You love using data to tackle problems, and you can take disparate programs and products and turn them into a single machine that fits together and produces results. - You have breadth in all areas of marketing, but depth in a couple of areas such as growth marketing or product marketing. - You’re as comfortable playing as you are coaching. You have sharp people instincts and you have effectively led teams, but you’re low ego and love diving into the details to execute alongside them. - You’re an impatient person who biases towards action and finds slowness irritating. Some may describe you as “intense.” You work a lot, not because you have to, but because it’s how you choose to fill your days. - You believe in the importance of quality craftsmanship in your work, almost to a fault. You have a trained eye, refined taste, and you know the importance of holding up high standards to defend a brand. If the above sounded like something you want to dedicate the next chapter of your career to, you can apply by following the link below.

I’m kicking off the search for a role on our team at First Round Capital, and I think it's shaping up to be one of the most important additions in a long time. I’m hiring a VP of Marketing charged with building and running a full-stack marketing team at First Round as we partner with incredible founders to tackle company building firsts. I’m eager to team up with this person to build on what we’ve established and create something new. If you were to join, you’d be responsible for figuring out the best ways to make sure that as many talented and ambitious builders in tech as possible know about First Round. I realize that many talented marketers may not be itching to get into VC. Marketing doesn't seem particularly important to most venture firms. It doesn’t seem creative or entrepreneurial. It’s not a traditional motion, with clearly defined inputs and outputs. It sounds like a gig filled with a series of generic dinners, market maps, press placements and puff pieces for portfolio companies. This is not that. Instead of depending on traditional media and venture capital thought leadership to build our brand, we've spent over a decade cultivating a large audience from the ground up by sharing unique, tactical and extremely high-quality content focused on founders. The cornerstone here is First Round Review and our “In Depth” podcast, which reach hundreds of thousands of people. Here’s what I’m looking for: - You’re unabashedly on the side of startups. You’re often one of the first users of new products. Your favorite kind of stories to dig into are the ones of how tiny companies got big, against the odds. - You’re not looking to just run the same marketing playbook. You should have a track record of first-principles problem solving using marketing as a primary tool, versus just running marketing programs. - You’ve got experience building a marketing engine. You love using data to tackle problems, and you can take disparate programs and products and turn them into a single machine that fits together and produces results. - You have breadth in all areas of marketing, but depth in a couple of areas such as growth marketing or product marketing. - You’re as comfortable playing as you are coaching. You have sharp people instincts and you have effectively led teams, but you’re low ego and love diving into the details to execute alongside them. - You’re an impatient person who biases towards action and finds slowness irritating. Some may describe you as “intense.” You work a lot, not because you have to, but because it’s how you choose to fill your days. - You believe in the importance of quality craftsmanship in your work, almost to a fault. You have a trained eye, refined taste, and you know the importance of holding up high standards to defend a brand. If the above sounded like something you want to dedicate the next chapter of your career to, you can apply by following the link below.

I’m kicking off the search for a role on our team at First Round Capital, and I think it's shaping up to be one of the most important additions in a long time. I’m hiring a VP of Marketing charged with building and running a full-stack marketing team at First Round as we partner with incredible founders to tackle company building firsts. I’m eager to team up with this person to build on what we’ve established and create something new. If you were to join, you’d be responsible for figuring out the best ways to make sure that as many talented and ambitious builders in tech as possible know about First Round. I realize that many talented marketers may not be itching to get into VC. Marketing doesn't seem particularly important to most venture firms. It doesn’t seem creative or entrepreneurial. It’s not a traditional motion, with clearly defined inputs and outputs. It sounds like a gig filled with a series of generic dinners, market maps, press placements and puff pieces for portfolio companies. This is not that. Instead of depending on traditional media and venture capital thought leadership to build our brand, we've spent over a decade cultivating a large audience from the ground up by sharing unique, tactical and extremely high-quality content focused on founders. The cornerstone here is First Round Review and our “In Depth” podcast, which reach hundreds of thousands of people. Here’s what I’m looking for: - You’re unabashedly on the side of startups. You’re often one of the first users of new products. Your favorite kind of stories to dig into are the ones of how tiny companies got big, against the odds. - You’re not looking to just run the same marketing playbook. You should have a track record of first-principles problem solving using marketing as a primary tool, versus just running marketing programs. - You’ve got experience building a marketing engine. You love using data to tackle problems, and you can take disparate programs and products and turn them into a single machine that fits together and produces results. - You have breadth in all areas of marketing, but depth in a couple of areas such as growth marketing or product marketing. - You’re as comfortable playing as you are coaching. You have sharp people instincts and you have effectively led teams, but you’re low ego and love diving into the details to execute alongside them. - You’re an impatient person who biases towards action and finds slowness irritating. Some may describe you as “intense.” You work a lot, not because you have to, but because it’s how you choose to fill your days. - You believe in the importance of quality craftsmanship in your work, almost to a fault. You have a trained eye, refined taste, and you know the importance of holding up high standards to defend a brand. If the above sounded like something you want to dedicate the next chapter of your career to, you can apply by following the link below.