Sr. Growth Marketing Manager, AI Discovery - Chainguard

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software for engineers and AI agents. We help organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders like Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

The Role

We are hiring a technical Sr. Growth Marketing Manager to ensure Chainguard is discovered, recommended, and used by developers across search, LLM queries, and coding agents. This is a builder role measured on signups and pipeline, not rankings or mentions. It is highly cross-functional, requiring daily collaboration with Product, Product Marketing, Growth, Web, and Paid Media, and a proactive approach to driving work forward.

What You'll Do

• Own search. Run Chainguard’s end-to-end SEO program, including keyword strategy, content, programmatic pages, and technical optimization. Partner with Web and PMM to convert high-intent traffic into signups, demos, and pipeline.
• Agent as researcher. Ensure ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews surface and recommend Chainguard. Leverage content, structured data, and third-party sources models learn from. Track and grow citations and recommendations.
• Agent as user. Make Chainguard the default choice when Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex select tools for a developer. Map the agent adoption journey (discover, auth, pull, build, verify) and remove friction at every step. Partner with Product to build and maintain our MCP server, Agent Skills, plugins, CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md snippets, llms.txt, and agent-readable quickstarts, and ensure they are listed where agents look.
• Measure what works. Conduct evaluations of real developer prompts across models and coding agents to learn which assets lead to Chainguard being recommended and used. Build attribution to tie organic, AI-referred, and agent-originated signups to pipeline.

What You'll Bring

• 4+ years in growth, developer marketing, or technical product, with measurable funnel ownership for technical audiences.
• Hands-on SEO and AEO experience, including technical SEO, keyword strategy, content, and measurement.
• Terminal fluency and advanced SQL: ability to build a working MCP server or agent skill, and answer your own questions from data.
• A daily coding-agent habit, with opinions on how agents choose tools and where they fail.
• A track record of driving work through cross-functional partners without direct authority, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience in cybersecurity or the cloud-native ecosystem (containers, Kubernetes, software supply chain security).

Salary

The base salary range for this position is $140,000—$167,500 USD.

Our Values

At Chainguard, we live and breathe our company values:

• Customer Obsessed: We focus on delivering solutions that create value and improve our customers' lives.
• Bias for Intentional Action: We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• Don't Take Ourselves Too Seriously (but do serious work): We solve important problems with focus, while enjoying the journey.
• Trust Each Other and Assume Good Intentions: We are transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well-informed choices.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion, with participation in secondary offerings and 10 years to exercise options.
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and reset.
• Paid Parental Leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, usable all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.