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# Field Marketing & Growth Lead at Sift Stack, Inc.

- **Company:** Sift Stack, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $125k–$175k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/siftstack/5808a42b-bfb3-4723-ab08-4e027880fb53

## Job description

## ABOUT SIFT

Sift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams. Sift turns high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical systems. Teams use Sift to build and operate rockets, satellites, autonomous vehicles, energy systems, defense platforms, and more.

Founded by former SpaceX engineers who built the tools behind Dragon and Starlink, Sift is building the data infrastructure to herald the AI era for physical systems.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

San Francisco hard tech is the most alive it has been in years, and Sift just opened an office in the middle of it. We already know how to throw a great event. What we have not done is make the energy travel: the room fills, the night lands, and none of it shows up on Twitter, where the hard tech conversation actually compounds. This is a growth role that fixes that. You will own our events and field program, our hosted community nights out of our SF office, and the job of turning every room we are in into content that moves online. Vibe and funnel carry equal weight here, because they feed each other: the vibe fills the room, the room fills the funnel, and the funnel pays for the next room. You will carry an event-sourced pipeline number set with the Head of Sales and a talent contribution target set with the Head of Talent.

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Own the annual event calendar, budget, and the return on it. Run our internal event scoring framework and make the call on every booth, walk, and pass with a rationale attached.
- Build and run our owned event program: dinners, roundtables, and hosted formats that fill without depending on account executives sending personal invites the week of.
- Stand up a recurring San Francisco community program out of our SF office, so the Bay Area hardware and autonomy community has a Sift night on its calendar.
- Make every event ship to the feed. Every event we host or attend produces clips, photos, and posts on Twitter within days. If it was worth hosting, it is worth posting.
- Grow Sift’s Twitter presence into something that carries the energy of the SF hard tech scene, and get the team posting alongside the company account.
- Partner with RevOps to close our attribution gap so every booth, dinner, and sponsorship maps to opportunities and event-sourced pipeline is a number we can state.
- Turn booth execution into a system: owned assets, a shipping and staffing runbook, a quarterly collateral kit, consistent lead capture, and follow-up within 48 hours.
- Help Shape employer brand: build the Working at Sift and Why I Joined programs into a real cadence, and make the engineers the protagonists of our content.
- Own speaking submissions and sponsorships, coordinated with comms.
- Treat all of it as a growth portfolio: measure each program, kill what does not convert, and double down on what does.

## REQUIRED SKILLS:

- 4+ years in field marketing, growth, events, brand, or community, with real ownership of a calendar, a budget, and a number.
- Time inside a company during the stretch when it became a place people wanted to work, with a clear account of what you specifically owned.
- Proof you can make an IRL moment travel online: events you ran that became posts people actually saw, shared, and showed up because of.
- A real presence on or fluency with Twitter, especially the hard tech and defense tech corners of it.
- A track record of running a hosted format people ask to be invited to.
- A real Bay Area network in hard tech, defense tech, robotics, or autonomy.
- Equal comfort with vibe and funnel: has made things that were simply great, and has shipped work with attribution behind it, and refuses to choose between the two.
- Production instinct: comfortable directing video, photography, and editorial and getting it out the door fast.
- Operational exactness: contracts, deposits, shipping deadlines, badge scanners, vendor invoices.
- Comfort in the CRM and marketing automation stack, building your own invite lists and running your own campaigns.
- Willingness to travel: roughly one show a month in season, plus regular time in LA and periodic trips to DC.

## BONUS POINTS:

- Experience marketing in NDA-constrained environments, where much of what customers do cannot be named on a banner.
- Experience opening a new market or city for a company previously concentrated in one place.
- Existing relationships with venue, production, and experiential vendors in San Francisco.
- Experience running partner and co-marketing motions, including shared booths and co-hosted events.

## LOCATION:

This role is based in our San Francisco office at 211 Sutter Street and is in person four days a week. Sift’s headquarters is in Marina Del Rey, CA (next to LAX); expect regular travel to LA, roughly one industry event per month in season, and periodic travel to Washington, DC. We come together as a company for a full week every three months.

Salary range: $125,000 - $175,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.

## ELIGIBILITY:

U.S. Person Required: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual such as an asylee or refugee in compliance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) / EAR (Export Administration Regulations) regulations.

## About Sift Stack, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sift provides a unified observability platform for mission-critical hardware systems, enabling real-time telemetry ingestion, storage, analysis, and anomaly detection for aerospace, defense, energy, robotics, and manufacturing.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $42M raised in July 2025)
- **Headquarters**: El Segundo, California, USA (with expansion to Marina del Rey)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Austin Spiegel (CEO) and Karthik Gollapudi (Co-Founder), both former SpaceX engineers

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Observability / Data Infrastructure for physical systems; Aerospace & Defense, Energy, Robotics & Physical AI, Advanced Manufacturing, Autonomous Vehicles
- **Target Customers**: B2B / Enterprise – engineering teams building, operating, and maintaining mission-critical machines (e.g., spacecraft, launch vehicles, satellites, autonomous rail, supersonic aircraft, grid-scale energy systems)
- **Mission**: “Advance science and technology by providing engineers advanced tools and infrastructure that help build our exciting future.” – [siftstack.com/about](https://www.siftstack.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Sift Platform**: A unified observability platform that ingests, stores, and analyzes machine telemetry at scale. Supports real-time streaming analysis, automated data review, anomaly detection, and long-term retention. Integrates with Grafana, LabVIEW, Palantir Foundry, Nominal, Mavlink, and provides REST/GraphQL/Python/gRPC APIs. Deployment options include cloud SaaS, hybrid, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. – [siftstack.com/about/faq](https://www.siftstack.com/about/faq)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised: **$42M** (Series B, led by StepStone, July 2025). Prior rounds: Series A1 (Apr 2024), Series A ($4M, Nov 2023), Seed ($3.5M). – [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/525527-47)
- **Notable Investors**: StepStone (Series B lead), GV (Google Ventures – largest investor), plus 10 total investors. – [siftstack.com/about/faq](https://www.siftstack.com/about/faq)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 80 employees (as of 2026) – [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/525527-47)
  - Achieved **FedRAMP High** certification in partnership with Knox Systems, enabling federal/defense work. – [siftstack.com](https://www.siftstack.com/)
  - Named to Fast Company’s **Next Big Things in Tech 2024** (Transportation category). – [siftstack.com/about/faq](https://www.siftstack.com/about/faq)
  - Expanding to two cities (El Segundo/Marina del Rey) with new senior leaders in engineering, sales, and design. – [siftstack.com](https://www.siftstack.com/)
  - Customer results: Astrolab saved 5,000 development hours and $100K+ in costs; Parallel Systems reduced infrastructure costs by 85% and recovered 150 hours per engineer per year. – [siftstack.com/about/faq](https://www.siftstack.com/about/faq)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for hardware telemetry**: Unlike general-purpose databases or monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, InfluxDB), Sift handles high-frequency, multi-channel sensor data at scale and provides automated anomaly detection (stateful rules, not just threshold alerts).
- **Compliance moat**: SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP High, ITAR, CMMC2, NIST SP 800-171 – critical for aerospace and defense procurement.
- **Founder pedigree**: Built by former SpaceX engineers who personally experienced the pain of brittle in-house telemetry solutions.
- **Customer traction**: Deployed in spacecraft, launch vehicles, satellites, autonomous rail, supersonic aircraft, and grid-scale energy systems. Customers include Impulse Space, Reliable Robotics, Mach Industries, Astro Mechanica, JetZero, K2 Space, and others. – [siftstack.com/about/faq](https://www.siftstack.com/about/faq)

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand into national security and defense** via FedRAMP High certification and ITAR compliance.
- **Scale the platform** to serve more industries (physical AI, autonomous systems, energy) while maintaining air-gapped and on-premises options for classified programs.
- **Grow team** across engineering, product, and go-to-market in two office locations, while preserving a long-term, mission-driven culture. – [siftstack.com/career](https://www.siftstack.com/career)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Bias for action, customer experience first, own the outcome, thrive together, maintain a long-term mindset. Emphasis on solving real-world problems (not just shipping features) and working across disciplines. – [siftstack.com/career](https://www.siftstack.com/career)
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid – up to 4 days per week in-person depending on team. Free lunch on in-office days via Forkable.
- **Benefits**:
  - Medical (Blue Shield of CA, 100% employee premium covered on select plans)
  - Dental and vision (Principal, full coverage for employee & dependents)
  - 401(k) with Accrue/Vestwell
  - Unlimited PTO (subject to approval)
  - Equity grants (ownership aligned with company success)
- **Engineering Culture**: Interview process is transparent; teams are given autonomy to solve hard technical problems. The company is building “the backbone of tomorrow’s energy systems, aerospace platforms, and autonomous fleets.” – [siftstack.com/career](https://www.siftstack.com/career)

## Sources
1. [siftstack.com](https://www.siftstack.com/)
2. [siftstack.com/about](https://www.siftstack.com/about)
3. [siftstack.com/about/faq](https://www.siftstack.com/about/faq)
4. [siftstack.com/career](https://www.siftstack.com/career)
5. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/525527-47)

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