Marketing Lead

Sage Ox is a well-funded, early-stage startup at the frontier of how AI is shaping the world. At Sage Ox, we believe the future of work is deeply human and collaborative. As agents take on execution, coordination, and routine work, people gain space for what only humans do well: creativity, judgment, relationships, the work of imagining, deciding, and creating together. Humans become not only more productive individually, but better at working with each other, leaning on their AI coworkers to carry out execution and raise the quality of how they collaborate.

We're looking for strategic hires - fearless, creative, independent thinkers - that will shape the future of the company, and how work is done in the modern world.

There's no trail yet. Pioneering and breaking trails is one of our company's core values. You're one of the first ten people cutting it.

You'll be the first marketer re is no marketing team, no agency, no brand book with rules to follow - you’ll be the brain behind all that. We’re looking for an AI-pilled marketer who does not get defined by boundaries and applies creativity to push through the noise.

Sage Ox is creating a new product category, and this role is part of the creation. A category doesn't exist until people have words for it. Part of your work is finding what resonates, learning how to explain it, and teaching the market to see what we see. That work happens in two places in public: social media, where builders are comparing notes on agents every day, and events, where they meet each other and decide what's worth their attention.

Your job is to make Sage Ox present, legible, and connected in both.

This role will morph over time as needs evolve. Your ultimate goal is to drive awareness of Sage Ox - that can be measured by customer acquisition, engagement on social media, and broader ecosystem reach.

• Own Sage Ox's voice on X and Linked In. Publish on cadence, every week: threads, posts, short video, and the occasional longer piece. The raw material comes from the founders, the team's own experiments with agents, customer stories, and shipped features; you turn it into things people actually read.

• Be a real presence, where builders compare notes. Reddit, Hacker News, and the Discords and Slacks of the agent tools themselves — the Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and MCP communities. Show up as a person, be useful, know who the interesting voices are, and be one of them.

• Run launches. When we ship something worth announcing, own the moment end to end — Hacker News, Product Hunt, the coordinated push across every channel, and the follow-through in the comments.

• Amplify the founders and team. Identify the highest-impact platforms, podcasts, and moments for the founders and other team members to show up, get them there, and shape what they say so it lands.

• Bring outside-in signal back. What people are asking, what they're confused by, who's comparing us to what — surfaced to the core team continuously. What you hear in public is a deliverable, not a byproduct.

• Own event presence end to end. Pick the events worth being at across San Francisco, Seattle, and other builder hubs, and decide how we show up — talk, demo, booth, dinner, sponsorship, or just being there.

• Host our own. Meetups, hackathons, workshops, and small dinners for the teams building with agents. Start small and repeatable; grow what works.

• Turn every event into a pipeline. Know who's coming, who we met, and what happened after. An event that produced no conversations worth following up on is an event we shouldn't repeat.

• Build the Seattle builder scene around us. Seattle has fewer natural gathering points for agent-heavy teams…