Senior Manager - Brand Marketing

KUNGFU.AI is an AI-native management consulting and engineering firm. We partner with ambitious organizations through multi-year cycles of transformation to help them compete and lead in the age of AI. Our work spans AI strategy, applied machine learning and engineering, and the operationalization of AI into real products, processes, and decision systems.

We are not a slideware consultancy. We design and build production-grade AI systems that drive measurable business outcomes, not pilots that never reach production. Since 2017 we have delivered 230+ engagements on time and on budget, at a 4.7 out of 5 average client satisfaction score, with an average client relationship of 1.4 years. Our clients include Google, Indeed, Johns Hopkins, Keller Williams, SXSW, WM, the Department of Defense, and UT Austin.

Gartner cited us among emerging AI-native providers in January 2026.

Outside of client work, our team includes artists, athletes, musicians, board members, parents, volunteers, and lifelong learners. We value curiosity, craftsmanship, and care for one another.

The Role

KUNGFU.AI is hiring a Senior Manager, Brand Marketing, a senior manager-level role reporting to the CMO, to own how the market hears us: content, public relations, analyst relations, events, and the brand itself.

Our growth is concentrated in industries where the stakes and the rules are unusually specific. Healthcare and life sciences. Government and defense contracting. Regulated and specialized markets where your buyer answers to the FDA, an accreditor, or a contracting officer, where procurement has its own physics, and where a general claim about AI transformation is worse than saying nothing at all.

So this is a role for someone who can go narrow. Choose a real problem that a Chief Medical Information Officer, a VP of Regulatory Affairs, or a capture lead actually has. Learn it properly, including the standard, the regulator, and the deadline that make it urgent. Then explain in short, plain, unhedged language why KUNGFU.AI is the right answer to that problem, with a number in it.

You will not be starting cold. You will have 230+ delivered engagements to draw on, engineers and strategists with real depth in these sectors, five Gartner reports that cite us, and a team that will sit with you for as long as it takes to get a claim right.

You will also start with a book. Wayfinding, by our CEO Stephen Straus and Sr. AI Strategist, Ben Szuhaj, publishes with Ben Bella on 20 October 2026.

What You'll Own

Sector Content & Buyer Translation

• Work with the CMO and marketing ops manager to build the sector content engine. For each priority sub-sector: a named buyer, the problem they are accountable for, the proof we can bring, and the assets that carry it. Nothing ships without all four.
• Produce at volume, with aim. We expect significantly more content than we make today, and we expect nearly all of it to trace back to a named buyer in a named sub-sector.
• Learn the domain properly. Interview our engineers, delivery leads, and clients. Know the regulation, the accreditation, the acquisition vehicle, and the deadline that turn an interesting capability into an urgent purchase.
• Translate our service offerings into buyer language, with a stated outcome, a target buyer, and a proof point behind each, so the value is obvious to a buying committee before anyone gets in a room with them.
• Hold the line between sector specificity and one coherent brand. Six sub-sector stories should still add up to a single firm with a point of view and brand equity that gets stronger with each new story.

Public Relations

• Work with the CMO to manage our PR efforts: agency and contractor management, and the standard we hold them to, including vertical specialists in our priority sectors.
• Build the trade press bench alongside the national one. In these industries, the publication your buyer actually reads is often the one nobody outside the sector has heard of.
• Make our proof public. We have the client outcomes, the satisfaction scores, and the named logos. Your job is to get them in front of the people who write about these markets.

Analyst Relations

• Work with the CMO to manage our analyst program day to day, starting with Gartner, where we are already cited and already in inquiry.
• Move us from cited to sourced: briefing cadence, inquiry strategy, evaluations and market guides, and a serious effort at inclusion where we qualify.
• Turn analyst validation into sales currency. A citation nobody in the buying…