Head of Growth, Marketing ​/ Advertising ​/ PR

About Prefect

Prefect builds automation for an unpredictable world. The last decade of automation was about protecting workflows from unpredictability; in the agentic era, unpredictability is the point. Our mission is to give people confidence in automated work, whether that work is a mission-critical data pipeline or a fleet of AI agents.

In August 2026, Prefect and Dagster, competitors for eight years, joined forces to build the next generation of automation infrastructure. Today, our ecosystem includes Dagster, the data platform;
Prefect, the agent platform; and FastMCP, the leading open-source developer framework for the MCP ecosystem. Together, our open-source and commercial products are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, data innovators, and high-growth technology companies around the world.

We think of our culture as the operating system of the company. We’ve carefully created a supportive, high-performance environment that empowers our team to do the best work of their careers, have meaningful impact, and continue growing personally and professionally. We’re a remote-first team that values high standards, ownership, and thoughtful collaboration.

We have an audience most companies our size would be thrilled to have. FastMCP is the leading framework for building MCP servers, with 27,000+ Git Hub stars and a docs site developers read start to finish. Prefect's open-source orchestrator has been trusted by data teams for years. This year we acquired Dagster, which brings a second large open-source community with us.

With that opportunity in mind we're hiring a Head of Growth. You will set the strategy for how that audience becomes revenue and own the path from audience to signup to activated user to qualified pipeline, across the Prefect, FastMCP Gateway, and Dagster funnels. That means deciding which motions we invest in and in what order, then building them: attribution, lifecycle and email, paid and organic acquisition, CRO and experimentation.

You'll have a budget, a number to hit, and the mandate to build the growth function around what works.

You'll start as the only person in growth and build the team as results earn it. You'll report to our Chief Growth Officer, sit at the table where company priorities get set, and work daily with the Marketing, Sales, Product and Engineering leads.

Time zones: Anywhere in the continental US. We're remote-first. We have a slight preference for candidates near New York, the Bay Area, or Washington D.C., where our spaces and most of our events are, but it isn't a requirement.

In your first year you will:

• Set the growth strategy and own the number. Decide how Prefect turns its audience across FastMCP, Dagster and Prefect open source into revenue: which motions we invest in, in what order, and what we expect back. Bring a plan with a budget and a pipeline target to leadership each quarter, and be accountable for hitting it.

• Build the funnel system. Model every major demand source with a baseline, a conversion target and an owner. Decide which stages we fix first, and ship the fixes yourself until there is someone else to do it.

• Run acquisition end to end. Own the paid and organic budget, channel mix, landing pages and CRO. Report cost per activated user and pipeline per dollar, reallocate budget monthly on that evidence, and kill what doesn't work quickly and out loud.

• Manage lifecycle programs. Design and ship the onboarding, activation and re-engagement programs. Measure activation lift and pipeline influenced, not open rates.

• Set the measurement foundation. Set campaign taxonomy, UTM discipline and the Hub Spot-to-Salesforce handoff so attribution is trusted and we can run several experiments a month. Then run a monthly…