VP of Marketing

About Air Ops

Air Ops helps brands get found and stay found in the AI era. As the first end-to-end content engineering platform, we give marketing teams the systems to win visibility across traditional and AI search with one durable advantage: quality.

Thousands of marketers use Air Ops to see how their brand shows up across the new discovery landscape, prioritize the highest-impact opportunities, and create accurate, on-brand content that earns citations from AI platforms and trust from humans. We are building the platform and profession that will equip a million marketers to lead the next chapter of marketing, where creativity and intelligent systems work together and quality becomes the strategy that lasts.

Air Ops is backed by Greylock, Unusual Ventures, Wing VC, Founder Collective, XFund, Village Global, Alt Capital, and more than a dozen top marketing leaders, with hubs in San Francisco, New York, and Montevideo.

About the Role

We're hiring our VP of Marketing to own the public stage as we define and win the emerging category of AI Search. You'll have a driver seat in shaping the conversation with CMOs, founders, and growth leaders about this emerging channel and the new stack and skillsets needed to win.

You'll build an AI-native marketing team (current team is 5pp) that embeds quality and precision into the operating system of our entire GTM.

And you'll be our chief storyteller, creating narratives that resonate in boardrooms, on main stages, across media, and in the way our customers redefine their careers with Air Ops at the center.

What You'll Own

• Category Creation & Evangelism:
  
  Establish Air Ops as the defining company in this new category and serve as a public-facing pillar of our story: speaking at events, building executive-level relationships, and driving thought leadership around AI search.
• Storytelling at Scale:
  
  Architect a storytelling engine that converts complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives that scale across channels, from keynote talks and customer round tables to viral Linked In threads and product launches.
• Product Marketing:
  
  Partner with Product and Sales to launch new offerings, sharpen positioning, and enable GTM teams.
• Brand:
  Build a brand that feels inevitable to win, yet welcoming and trustworthy to enterprise CMOs and startup growth leaders alike.
• Community: accelerate the movement we're creating around content engineering, expanding the tent for a whole new class of marketers.
• An AI-Native Marketing Team:
  Build a team that sets new standards for the adoption, creative application, and revenue impact of AI within marketing

Qualifications

• 8+ years of B2B marketing or growth leadership experience, ideally in AI, SaaS, and/or category-defining startups.
• A proven public-facing leader: confident presenting on stage, shaping industry conversations, and building community.
• Track record of building high-performing teams and systems in high velocity environments.
• Demonstrated success in category design, demand generation, and product marketing.
• Deep curiosity about AI and a strong belief in its role as a marketing force multiplier.
• Exceptional storyteller with the ability to translate complex concepts into narratives that resonate with executives, operators, and the market at large.
• Willingness to travel 2-3 weeks per quarter.

Our Guiding Principles

Extreme Ownership

Quality

Curiosity and Play

Make Our Customers Heroes

Respectful Candor

Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing startup
• Competitive benefits package tailored to your location
• Flexible time off policy
• Parental Leave
• A fun-loving and (just a bit) nerdy team that loves to move fast!