Marketing Lead
Listed on 2025-11-22
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IT/Tech
Digital Marketing -
Marketing / Advertising / PR
Digital Marketing
About Roo Code
Roo Code is an open-source software development platform that adds an AI-powered team of coding agents directly into Visual Studio Code through an extension. Our mission is to empower a global community of builders to drive huge impact by leveraging advanced AI capabilities.
Role OverviewAs the Marketing Lead at Roo Code, you will be the driving force behind how we position, articulate, and promote our open-source platform to developers, community contributors, and self-serve Personal and Teams customers. You will blend strategic marketing
, community engagement
, and technical evangelism to ensure that Roo Code stands out as both a beloved open-source initiative and a credible AI solution
. This is a high-impact role where you’ll work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and community teams to drive awareness, activation, and conversion, and to influence the product roadmap.
Marketing Strategy & Positioning
Develop and refine a compelling value proposition that resonates with open-source developers and self-serve Personal/Teams users.
Own the marketing roadmap
, including core messaging, branding, and go-to-market strategies for new features or releases.
Community Evangelism
Drive our community engagement strategy by developing scalable programs for events, webinars, and maintaining an active presence across developer platforms (Git Hub, Discord, Reddit, etc.).
Grow and nurture the open-source user base by promoting transparency, celebrating contributions, and supporting new contributors to get started easily.
Create tutorials, documentation, and other resources to onboard new users and showcase success stories
.
Self-Serve Funnel & Conversion
Create targeted messaging and materials for website, in-product prompts, and docs to accelerate sign-up, onboarding, and upgrade to Teams.
Partner with Product to run growth experiments across the funnel (pricing/packaging tests, paywalls, activation checklists, templates).
Develop content (how-tos, success stories) that showcases product value and improves trial-to-activation and individual-to-team conversion.
Content & Campaign Execution
Develop a content calendar across multiple platforms (blog, newsletters, social channels) to keep the community updated on new features, community-driven success stories, and product roadmaps.
Author or commission deep-dive technical content (tutorials, how-to guides) that highlights Roo Code’s advanced AI capabilities and open-source extensibility.
Manage product launches and announcements, coordinating internal teams and external contributors to maximize reach.
Metrics & Analytics
Define, track, and report on key performance indicators such as traffic, sign-ups, activation, Day-1/Week-1 retention, upgrade to Teams, contributor growth, and NPS.
Use data-driven insights to optimize marketing strategies
, improve community programs, and inform product roadmap priorities.Present findings and updates to the leadership team, ensuring alignment on growth targets and strategic focus areas.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with Product and Engineering to gather feedback from the community and self-serve users, turning it into actionable product improvements.
Collaborate with the Design team to ensure branding consistency across all user touchpoints (website, documentation, social media).
Work alongside Developer Relations to organize events (virtual and in-person) and ensure cohesive messaging.
Experience & Background
3–5+ years in Product Marketing, Developer Advocacy, or Developer Relations, ideally within open-source or developer tool companies.
Proven track record launching and marketing technical products to developer communities and/or driving self-serve growth for Personal/Teams products.
Familiarity with AI technologies
, coding workflows, and developer ecosystems.Experience in community building
, whether through hosting events, driving engagement on social platforms, or running open-source contributor initiatives.
Skills & Competencies
Technical Fluency
:
Comfortable communicating product value to developers and technical stakeholders; able to translate AI features into…
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