Director of Marketing, Enterprise AI
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Director of Marketing, Enterprise AI
196,000–245,000 / Year
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
Senior
Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Apply by
August 13, 2026
Applicants
0
Early applicantEasy applyFull-timeWork from Office
Job Description
# About Handshake
Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.
In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.
Why join Handshake now:
- Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
- Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions
- Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders
- Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
About Handshake AI
Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale.
# The Role
Handshake built the eval and human-data infrastructure that frontier AI labs rely on to make their models better. We're now pointing that same infrastructure at the enterprise — helping Fortune 500 companies in banking, insurance, retail, and legal build the eval and improvement loops their AI agents need to work safely in production. This is the founding marketing role for that business — and at its core, a product marketing role: positioning, technical narrative, and sales partnership come first, with reporting into a team built by former Palantir go-to-market leadership and direct visibility to company leadership. If this line of business becomes what we expect it to, this founding role grows into a team you build and lead.
- Own positioning and messaging end-to-end — define the ICP, build the competitive narrative, and stand up the messaging architecture everything else runs on
- Translate technical proof points (evals, RL environments, model behavior) into content that credibly reaches technical buyers: POVs, case studies, executive bylines, sales narrative
- Build sales enablement from scratch — pitch decks, battlecards, objection handling — for a sales team currently working without a CRM or existing collateral
- Partner on the front line with sales and a deployment strategist/solutions architect — joining demos and discovery calls to close knowledge gaps in real time as the team ramps
- Shape account-based, vertical-specific motions (banking, insurance, retail, legal) in partnership with field and growth marketing, who will already be staffed and running events by fall
- Stand up a minimum-viable digital presence (microsite/landing pages) with support from web dev
- Use AI tooling aggressively to operate above your weight class — this function doesn't have the headcount yet for a traditional team structure
## You Have
- 7+ years in B2B marketing with a strong product marketing foundation — this is a PMM-first role, not a generalist growth or demand gen seat
- Experience partnering with enterprise sales in a high-ACV, complex technical sales motion — comfortable joining live demos and discovery calls, not just producing materials from a distance
- Gone zero-to-one before: launched a product, built a function, or served as a founding/solo marketer at an early-stage company
- Sold complex technical solutions into traditional, non-tech Fortune 500 enterprises (banking, insurance, retail) rather than exclusively tech buyers
- Strong writer and storyteller who gets fluent in genuinely technical material fast
- Operates independently with real agency in ambiguous, fast-moving environments — this team is early and self-directed, without a lot of hand-holding infrastructure yet
Bonus points:
- Came up at a large, structured company (Salesforce, Google, etc.) before making the jump to a founding marketing role at an AI or technical B2B startup
- Fluent in AI tooling as a way of multiplying personal output across content, research, and competitive intel, rather than just a topic you market
## We Offer
Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported — and thrive at work and in life.
The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses
Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at http://joinhandshake.com/careers.
Key Responsibilities
- Define ICP, competitive narrative, and messaging architecture for enterprise AI solutions.
- Translate technical proof points into content for technical buyers and executives.
- Build sales enablement materials including pitch decks, battlecards, and objection handling.
- Partner with sales and solutions architects on demos and discovery calls.
- Shape account-based marketing motions for verticals like banking, insurance, retail, and legal.
- Establish a minimum-viable digital presence including microsites and landing pages.
- Leverage AI tooling to increase personal output for content, research, and competitive intelligence.
Skills Required
B2B marketingProduct marketingTechnical writingSales enablementAccount-based marketingAI toolingIndependent operationAgencyStorytellingCommunicationAdaptabilityExperience at large structured companies (e.g., Salesforce, Google)AI tooling proficiency
Benefits
- Equity
- 401(k) match
- Competitive compensation
- Financial coaching
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility benefits
- Parental coaching
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Mental health support
- $500 wellness stipend
- $2,000 learning stipend
- Internet provided
- Commuting benefits
- Free lunch
- Free gym access
- Flexible PTO
- 15 holidays
- 2 flex days
- Team outings
- Referral bonuses
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