San Francisco, USA · Full time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
The Role
We're looking for a Head of Marketing to build and own our pipeline engine. This is a hands-on, player-coach role for someone who has personally run outbound at scale and knows how to turn it into a repeatable, measurable growth channel. You'll set the marketing strategy, build the team, and work shoulder to shoulder with Sales to generate a qualified pipeline based on our ICP.
What you'll do
Run the outbound program end to end: ICP and account selection, list building, messaging, sequencing, and execution across email, LinkedIn, phone, and direct mail
Create a comprehensive list of target accounts, lead-handoff criteria, and pipeline targets with Sales leadership; review conversion data with Sales [weekly]
Write and standardise positioning and outbound messaging, and produce supporting assets: case studies, one-pagers, landing pages, sales enablement
Test segments, subject lines, offers, and channels, and document results
Own the marketing budget and report pipeline, CAC, and ROI to leadership and the board [monthly]
Run channels beyond outbound, for example hosted events for target accounts, active presence in industry forums and communities, podcasts and partner co-marketing; track each on pipeline created and cost per opportunity
What we're looking for
Required
8+ years in B2B SaaS marketing or growth, including 3+ years leading a marketing or demand generation function at an early- or growth-stage company
Experience building and running an outbound program that sourced pipeline and revenue, and can share the results (meetings, pipeline $, conversion rates)
Hands-on with sequencing, data, and CRM tools (e.g. Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, Clay, ZoomInfo, Sales Navigator, HubSpot, Salesforce or related tools)
Has written and A/B tested outbound copy
Has owned a pipeline or revenue target jointly with Sales
Reports on funnel metrics, conversion rates, attribution, and forecasts
Own the marketing budget and report on pipeline, CAC, and ROI to the leadership team and board
Experience running events, communities, or partnerships that sourced pipeline
Experience launching marketing in a new market, segment, or region
Experience with product-led or sales-assisted motions
Outcomes
By 90 days
$1.5M in qualified pipeline
By 12 months
$10M in qualified pipeline
At least 2–3 additional channels (e.g. events, communities, partnerships, podcasts) contributing measurable inbound pipeline
Ovii Interpretation
The Head of Marketing builds and runs a measurable pipeline-generation function for a B2B SaaS business. This hands-on player-coach role combines outbound execution, marketing strategy, team building, and close partnership with Sales, with accountability for pipeline performance and budget reporting.
Role at a glance
B2B SaaS MarketingDemand GenerationOutbound PipelineMarketing StrategySales PartnershipTeam Building
Build and operate outbound programs, from target-account selection and list creation through messaging, sequencing, and execution across multiple channels.
Partner with Sales leadership on account criteria, lead handoffs, pipeline goals, and regular conversion reviews.
Develop positioning and outbound copy, then create supporting case studies, one-pagers, landing pages, and sales enablement materials.
Experiment with segments, messaging, offers, and channels; measure and document results.
Manage marketing spend and report pipeline, CAC, and ROI to leadership and the board.
Develop additional pipeline channels such as events, communities, podcasts, and partner marketing, measuring their contribution and cost.
Build the marketing team and set the function's strategy and operating approach.
Good fit signals
Has 8 or more years in B2B SaaS marketing or growth, including at least 3 years leading marketing or demand generation at an early- or growth-stage company.
Can show results from outbound programs that generated meetings, pipeline, and revenue.
Has jointly carried a pipeline or revenue target with Sales and reported on funnel performance, attribution, and forecasts.
Brings hands-on experience with sequencing, data, and CRM tools, including comparable tools to the examples listed.
Paid acquisition, pipeline-generating events or partnerships, market launches, and product-led or sales-assisted motions are helpful additional experience.
Meet Plotline
Plotline is an AI-powered customer engagement platform for consumer-facing apps. It helps product, growth and marketing teams personalize customer experiences across in-app widgets, nudges, gamification, videos, push notifications and email, while supporting segmentation, experimentation and customer journeys. Its AI Director uses live customer context to decide the message, channel, timing and whether to engage a user. Plotline also integrates with analytics, CRM, marketing and data platforms. Customers shown by the company include Flipkart, Dream11, BharatPe, CoinDCX, Airtel, Lenskart, Wealthsimple, Careem and Kredivo. Plotline says its SDK serves more than 300 million end users.
Founded
2022
Company size
11-50 employees
Company stage
Seed
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA
Why work here
Plotline offers candidates exposure to technically demanding problems at substantial scale. Its careers material says its SDK serves more than 300 million end users, while its engineering team works on areas such as sub-100ms real-time triggers, high-volume event processing, mobile SDK performance, no-code UI tooling and large-scale scheduling. The company operates with a relatively small team and works with consumer brands including Dream11, CoinDCX and other large apps. Plotline has raised $2.6 million in seed funding from Elevation Capital and is expanding its customer engagement platform with AI-driven decisioning. Candidates should weigh the learning and ownership available at an early-stage company against the uncertainty and pace typical of a seed-stage startup.
Co-founder of Plotline and an IIT Madras alumnus. Before starting Plotline, Jindal led the business team at identity-verification SaaS company HyperVerge. His experience working with consumer apps helped identify the product-adoption and in-app engagement problems that led to Plotline.
Co-founder of Plotline and an IIT Madras alumnus with a background in machine learning and production AI. He previously held engineering, algorithms, solutions architecture and sales engineering leadership roles at HyperVerge before co-founding Plotline.
Plotline introduces AI Director for adaptive customer engagement
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Plotline introduced AI Director, an AI-driven customer engagement capability that evaluates each user's live context and determines the appropriate message, channel, timing or whether the user should be contacted at all.
How Plotline improved ClickHouse performance by 7x while scaling to a billion events an hour
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Plotline described changes to its ClickHouse event-data architecture that reduced data read from disk by about 7x and cut storage roughly in half while supporting schemaless event processing at large scale.
Plotline raises $2.6 million in seed funding from Elevation Capital
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Plotline raised $2.6 million in seed funding from Elevation Capital to expand R&D, marketing and sales and support growth in the US, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.