--- title: 'Growth Marketing Lead at Nace AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/growth-marketing-lead-nace-ai-palo-alto-7bw1bwfdqydv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Growth Marketing Lead at Nace AI - **Company:** Nace AI - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-04-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nace.ai/668a4698-34fa-4326-b712-e7eb857e142a ## Job description The Mission At Nace AI, we are building the cognitive infrastructure for the modern professional. Our platform empowers professional knowledge workers like auditors and accountants to get 1000 hours of productivity back. Backed by General Catalyst and Intel, we have the capital, the pedigree, and the technical edge to define the future of work. We’ve found our early "true believers," and now we are looking for a Performance Marketing Team Lead to scale our reach to millions of professionals globally. ## The Role As our first dedicated marketing hire, you will own the full growth surface — from paid acquisition to organic channels, lifecycle, and product-led growth. You’ll bridge high-level strategy and tactical execution, building a world-class acquisition engine that targets high-value professionals and ensures Nace AI becomes the default tool in their workflow. This is a rare opportunity to build from zero, with direct access to founders, a strong technical team, and the resources to move fast. What You’ll Do: Paid & Performance Marketing: - Own strategy and execution across Search, Paid Social (LinkedIn/Meta), Twitter/X, and newsletter sponsorships - Manage substantial budgets with a relentless focus on unit economics — optimizing for LTV:CAC and payback periods - Partner with Engineering to build perfect attribution and a data-forward culture where every experiment is measured Organic Growth & SEO: - Own SEO strategy and content distribution to drive sustainable organic acquisition - Build a content engine that positions Nace AI as the go-to resource for finance and audit professionals - Identify and develop high-intent channels like communities, newsletters, and industry publications Lifecycle & Retention - Build and optimize email and lifecycle flows to convert, onboard, and retain users - Develop segmentation and personalization strategies tailored to finance and audit personas Product-Led Growth: - Experiment with PLG motions including free trials, freemium, and in-product referral loops - Collaborate with Product to surface growth opportunities within the product experience Brand & Team - Lead a small team of growth marketers and creative specialists to produce content that doesn’t look like ads, but like essential tools for knowledge workers - Work side-by-side with our founders and product teams in our Palo Alto office to tighten the feedback loop between acquisition and product ## Who You Are - The Operator: 6+ years in Performance Marketing, with a proven track record of scaling B2B or "Prosumer" SaaS products from $0 to $10M+ ARR. - The Leader: You have experience managing high-performing teams or agencies and know how to get the best work out of creative and technical talent. - The Generalist: You’ve owned multiple growth levers — paid, organic, lifecycle — and know how to prioritize across them based on stage and data - Analytical Rigor: You are dangerous with SQL and data visualization tools; you don't wait for reports, you build them. - AI-Native: You understand the AI landscape and are already using LLMs to optimize copy, analyze sentiment, or automate workflows. - Palo Alto Based: You value the "war room" energy of a physical office and are committed to being on-site with the team. Why Nace AI? Pedigree: Work with a team from top-tier institutions and companies, backed by the best VCs in the world. Impact: You are joining early enough to shape the culture and the growth roadmap of a company aiming to be the "OS" for professional knowledge. Competitive Package: Silicon Valley-standard salary, significant equity, and premium benefits. ## About Nace AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Nace AI builds long-horizon reasoning models and AI agents that audit, reconcile, and report on financial and compliance data for enterprises. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed / Series A – $21.5M raised in 2026) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Zhanibek Datbayev (CTO/Co-Founder), Ritesh Shrivastava (Co-Founder), Sudha Valluru (COO/Co-Founder), Swathi B (Co-Founder), and others ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Audit, Compliance, Finance, Accounting, Enterprise AI - **Target customers**: B2B enterprise – specifically audit firms, finance departments, compliance teams, and professional services firms - **Mission**: Build long-horizon AI that runs organizations; give professionals their time back by automating high-stakes knowledge work ## Products & Services - **Metamodel**: A specialized small language model (SLM) platform that enterprises can customize with their own policies and knowledge. Used for audit, contract governance, and financial reporting. - **Agentic Accounting**: AI agent that executes end-to-end financial audits, billing audits, and revenue leakage detection by connecting directly to databases. - **Nace Verification Intelligence**: Evidence-based reasoning engine that processes up to 1 million files (PDFs, spreadsheets, databases) to automate SOX 404 reports, contract compliance checks, and due diligence. - **Nace Process Automation**: Automatically maps transaction flows across 10+ disparate databases to visualize and reconcile processes. - **The Macros**: A research preview product that lets power users create custom AI macros for repetitive professional tasks. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $21.5M (May 2026 round led by Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, AME Cloud Ventures, AICONIC VENTURES); earlier $5M seed round (April 2025) led by General Catalyst. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, Walden Catalyst Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, AICONIC VENTURES - **Growth Signals**: - Launched from stealth in March 2025 with Metamodel 1 - Raised $21.5M within 14 months of founding - Operations in 7 countries (US, Kazakhstan, India, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Georgia) - 2,574 LinkedIn followers (+141% YoY) - Active job postings for senior roles (Product Manager, Audit Consultant, Growth Lead) ## Competitive Advantages - **Metamodel approach**: Enterprises can turn internal policies and employee knowledge into custom, on‑premise AI models, enforcing consistency and accuracy. - **Evidence‑based reasoning**: The system explains exactly where it looked and why – building trust in regulated environments (SOC 2 Type II, AICPA audited infrastructure). - **Small model efficiency**: Uses specialized small language models (SLMs) instead of massive general LLMs, making deployments faster, cheaper, and compliant with data sovereignty requirements. - **End‑to‑end automation**: Covers the entire audit workflow – from raw database ingestion to boardroom‑ready reports – without any manual spreadsheet work. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale the Metamodel platform**: Turn enterprise policies into custom AI agents for every department. - **Expand into adjacent compliance verticals** (tax, due diligence, contract governance). - **Grow the team** across engineering, product, and go‑to‑market roles (currently 39–50 employees, with a heavy technical tilt of ~45%). - **Maintain on‑premises / hybrid cloud deployments** to meet strict regulatory requirements of audit and finance clients. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Fast‑paced research‑first environment assembling a “world‑class team” to solve high‑stakes scaling challenges in AI reasoning. - **Work model**: Hybrid workspace (Palo Alto offices); many roles are in‑office for close collaboration on complex ML and product work. - **Team composition**: Heavy technical concentration (45% of staff are engineers/researchers), with deep domain expertise from ex‑Dropbox, Bloomberg, McKinsey, and AI labs. - **Impact**: Build infrastructure that gives audit, compliance, and finance professionals their time back – directly reduces manual drudgery in multi‑billion‑dollar compliance markets. - **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company emphasizes “autonomy, impact, and working on the hardest AI problems in enterprise.” ## Sources 1. [nace.ai](https://nace.ai/) 2. [nace.ai/careers](https://nace.ai/careers) 3. [LinkedIn – Nace AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nace-ai) 4. [Built In – Nace.AI](https://builtin.com/company/nace-ai) 5. 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