Senior Director, Distribution and Growth Marketing

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs.

Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.

Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.

We are seeking a Senior Director of Distribution & Growth Marketing to architect and scale our global demand engine. Reporting to the CMO, this leader will own performance marketing, audience growth, digital distribution, brand amplification, and full-funnel pipeline acceleration.

This role is accountable for measurable business impact — including 5x social audience growth, increased brand share of voice, improved sentiment visibility, and significant pipeline expansion. The ideal candidate is analytical, performance-obsessed, and deeply fluent in modern marketing signal tracking across channels.

• Drive a 5x increase in social followers across priority platforms within defined timelines.
• Build scalable audience acquisition strategies across paid, organic, partner, and community channels.
• Optimize distribution strategies to maximize reach, engagement, and conversion.
• Develop channel-specific growth playbooks for executive, corporate, and product narratives.

• Own demand generation strategy and full-funnel performance.
• Drive measurable increases in qualified pipeline, marketing-attributed revenue, and conversion rates.
• Partner with Sales to ensure alignment on pipeline targets and revenue contribution.
• Continuously optimize CAC, LTV, and ROI across campaigns.

• Establish a unified marketing intelligence framework to track all marketing signals and metrics.
• Implement robust attribution models across digital, social, field, and partner marketing.
• Develop dashboards that provide real-time visibility into performance KPIs.
• Lead experimentation strategy (A/B testing, creative testing, channel optimization).

• Increase brand share of voice across earned, owned, and paid channels.
• Implement social listening and sentiment tracking infrastructure to monitor brand perception in real time.
• Partner with Communications to proactively respond to reputational risks or narrative shifts.
• Provide regular executive reporting on brand momentum and competitive positioning.

• Own website performance, SEO/SEM strategy, and conversion optimization.
• Optimize content distribution to maximize engagement and downstream demand capture.
• Leverage AI-driven marketing tools to enhance targeting, personalization, and predictive analytics.

• Build and scale a high-performance growth marketing organization.
• Recruit top-tier digital, performance, analytics, and lifecycle marketing talent.
• Foster a culture of accountability, speed, and data-driven decision making.

• 5x social audience growth
• Increased brand share of voice
• Improved brand sentiment visibility and responsiveness
• Significant growth in marketing-sourced and marketing-influenced pipeline
• Improved funnel conversion rates
• Clear, real-time visibility into marketing performance metrics

• 10+ years of marketing experience, with significant leadership in growth or performance marketing.
• Proven track recordof scaling pipeline in high-growth B2B technology environments.
• Deep expertise in digital distribution, paid media, SEO/SEM, and lifecycle marketing.
• Strong analytical capabilities and fluency in marketing attribution models.
• Experience implementing social listening and sentiment analysis platforms.
• Strong executive presence and cross-functional leadership experience.

• Experience in enterprise technology, AI, infrastructure, or high-performance computing.
• Experience building growth engines in IPO-stage or public companies.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled marketing automation and predictive analytics tools.

• Metrics-driven and outcome-oriented
• High urgency, high ownership
• Strategic thinker with operational depth
• Collaborative…