Head of Corporate Marketing

<div class="content-intro"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of SambaNova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into SambaRack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.</span></p></div><p>SambaNova is looking for a Head of Corporate Marketing (Senior Director or VP-level) to build and lead the corporate marketing function within a broader marketing organization led by the CMO. This is a rare opportunity to shape the brand, creative, web, content, and event presence of one of the most important independent players in AI infrastructure — at a moment when the market is actively re-evaluating what comes after GPUs.</p> <p>You will own corporate brand identity, website and digital presence, content creation, creative services, and large-scale corporate and industry events, while partnering closely with product marketing, demand generation, developer relations, and the CMO to make sure every external touchpoint — website, events, content, creative, executive platform — reinforces a single, sharp story about why SambaNova and our AI inference architecture matter.</p> <p>The right candidate has run corporate or brand marketing at some scale inside a fast-moving tech company, is comfortable being the connective tissue between the CMO's vision and the company's go-to-market motion, and knows how to build a team and function from a solid but still-forming base.</p> <h1><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h1> <ul> <li>Own SambaNova's overall brand strategy, brand identity, and positioning across all external channels.</li> <li>Own all creative services, ensuring visual and verbal consistency across web, events, campaigns, and content.</li> <li>Own SambaNova's website and web presence, including SEO/AEO strategy, to strengthen discoverability and digital credibility.</li> <li>Own content creation and production — including thought leadership, POV/POC content, and the company blog — executing against direction set by the CMO to reinforce a single, sharp narrative.</li> <li>Own corporate and large-scale third-party industry events, setting the strategy and ensuring flawless execution for major launches, conferences, and keynotes.</li> <li>Serve as a close partner to the CMO, translating brand and content strategy into flawless execution across all channels.</li> <li>Lead integrated brand marketing campaigns that tie together brand, product launches, events, and demand generation into one coherent story.</li> <li>Build, mentor, and scale a corporate marketing team, while working cross-functionally with product marketing, DevRel, Sales, and field teams.</li> <li>Manage relationships with outside creative and event agencies to keep execution high-quality and on-brand.</li> <li>Bring structure and rigor to marketing operations — planning, budgeting, and measuring the impact of brand, creative, and content investment.</li> <li>Represent the company externally as a credible technical and business spokesperson when needed.</li> </ul> <h1><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></h1> <ul> <li>8+ years in corporate marketing, brand, or creative leadership, with at least 2-3 years in a senior leadership role (Senior Director, Head of, or VP level).</li> <li>Direct experience building or scaling a marketing function inside a high-growth technology company — infrastructure, semiconductors, cloud, or enterprise AI strongly preferred.</li> <li>Track record of shaping company narrative and brand at an inflection point (new category, major launch, funding milestone, or public-market transition).</li> <li>Strong executive presence and experience acting as a strategic partner to a CMO or senior marketing leader.</li> <li>Deep familiarity with what it takes to build brand credibility and trust in a technical, skeptical market.</li> <li>Hands-on experience owning a website, SEO/AEO, and digital brand presence.</li> <li>Proven people-leadership skills — has built and run teams, not just functions.</li> <li>Comfortable operating with startup speed and ambiguity while still bringing enterprise-grade marketing discipline.</li> </ul> <h1><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></h1> <ul> <li>Experience marketing chips, accelerators, datacenter hardware, or AI/ML infrastructure.</li> <li>Experience owning or elevating a company's presence at major industry events (e.g., Nvidia GTC, AWS re:Invent, Web Summit).</li> <li>Experience directing content strategy — thought leadership, POV/POC content, and blog — in a technical category.</li> <li>Experience marketing through a major company milestone (IPO, large funding round, high-profile acquisition, category creation).</li> <li>Public-facing credibility of their own (interviews, panels, bylines, podcast appearances).</li> <li>Bay Area-based or willing to work closely and in-person with the CMO and marketing leadership team.</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>Base Salary Range:</p></div><div clas