About the Role
We are seeking a versatile Marketing Manager who enjoys tackling diverse marketing challenges daily. This role involves broad engagement across brand building, portfolio company support, and incubation projects, requiring both strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
Responsibilities
- Support marketing initiatives across the Sound brand, including presentations, events, digital marketing, content, and marketing operations.
- Help plan and execute founder dinners, LP events, conferences, and other community-building experiences.
- Support portfolio marketing efforts by preparing for founder engagements, conducting brand and messaging audits, researching competitive landscapes, and developing strategic recommendations.
- Partner with our incubation team on positioning, go-to-market strategy, messaging, creative development, and early marketing initiatives.
- Create high-quality presentations and other marketing assets.
- Coordinate with external agencies, designers, PR partners, and other creative vendors.
- Jump into high-priority marketing projects wherever they're needed and help move them from idea to execution.
- Continuously identify ways to improve how marketing operates across the firm and our portfolio.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of marketing experience preferably at a startup, agency, venture firm, or high-growth company.
- Curious, resourceful, and excited by technology, with AI as part of your daily workflow.
- Great communicator and storyteller.
- Comfortable wearing many hats across different marketing disciplines.
- High ownership, low ego, and thrives in ambiguity.
- Open to LA-based, with some travel.
Skills
- Brand marketing
- Product marketing
- Event marketing
- Communications
- Storytelling
- Operations
- Creative strategy
- Digital marketing
- Marketing operations
- Positioning
- Go-to-market strategy
- Messaging
- Creative development
Location
- LA-based
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-7 years
About the Company
- At Sound, we believe inspiration beats convention, and that the best founders aren’t just solving problems; they’re rewriting the rules.
- For the last 15 years, we've invested thematically in category-defining companies at the forefront of major technology platform shifts.
- We seek out founders with relentless ambition and bold ideas, backing them before the rest of the world sees what's coming.
- Our portfolio includes early investments in Affirm, Airbnb, Airtable, Anthropic, Duolingo, EquipmentShare, GitLab, OpenAI, SentinelOne, and Uber, among others.
- Sound Ventures is led by General Partners Effie Epstein and Guy Oseary and manages $2B+ across a series of funds.
