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AI / Agentic Software · New York
Founding Deployment Strategist (Ads)
$180K-$250K + equityThe company is a seed-stage startup (4 employees, NYC Financial District, founded 2025, $6.3M raised) building agentic AI for performance marketing for consumer brands. The founders are ex-Google Ads, Google Research, Citadel and HBS.
We are hiring a Founding Deployment Strategist (Ads): the first dedicated customer-facing hire, taking customer deployments over from the founders and building the function from scratch. At its core this is a performance marketer who knows how ads work, in a customer-facing role. This is an individual contributor role with a path to team leadership.
What you will do:
- Run customer deployments end to end: weekly calls, collateral, and presenting performance insights to CMOs, CEOs and CFOs
- Act as a trusted advisor on ad strategy
- Analyse ad performance data, run account audits and build executive-ready narratives
- Step into ad accounts (Google Ads, Meta Ads) to make manual changes
- Build playbooks from scratch and, later, hire a team
Location: 5 days a week on-site, Financial District, New York City. Visa sponsorship is not available (US citizens and Green Card holders only). Compensation: $180K-$250K plus equity. Hiring 1-2.
What we're looking for
- •Consulting background, ideally MBB or tier-2 (McKinsey, Bain, BCG X, Kearney, Oliver Wyman) - dealbreaker
- •Hands-on ads / performance marketing experience, actually running campaigns inside Meta / Google ad accounts at a fast-growing consumer startup (e.g. Nurri, Quince, Graza, Olipop, Dr. Squatch) or an adtech startup (e.g. Fermat, LiveRamp) - dealbreaker
- •3-15 years of experience: consulting, then moving into performance marketing or ads-related work
- •Ad-performance analysis: assesses account data, runs audits and applies judgment to campaign performance
- •Tinkers and builds with AI: uses AI and dev tools to automate workflows (e.g. Claude Code / Codex)
- •Customer-facing, executive-ready: can present performance insights to CEOs, CMOs and CFOs
- •Based in New York City and able to work 5 days on-site; US citizen or Green Card holder (no visa sponsorship)
Nice to have
- •STEM degree
- •Bachelor's from a top university
- •Hands-on ads experience at a top ads agency
- •Google / Meta ad-sales or GPL-style roles (medium signal, platform-side only)
- •Forward-deployed performance marketing role at an adtech company (Fermat, LiveRamp etc.)
- •Previous founder or startup founding-team experience
- •Outlier achievement outside work (e.g. elite athlete, chess champion, competitive powerlifter)
- •Background at DTC / consumer brands with strong performance marketing (Warby Parker, Allbirds, Glossier, Hims & Hers, Harry's, Ridgeline, True Classic, HexClad, Jones Road Beauty, Dr. Squatch)
- •Background at growth-stage startups (Italic, Ramp, Faire, Gopuff, Resident, Quince, Vuori, SKIMS, Figs)
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