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# Head of Marketing at Tavus

- **Company:** Tavus
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tavus/4b1ce3c4-59cd-4e11-8684-9a092de6b9d8

## Job description

## About Tavus

[Tavus](https://www.tavus.io/) is a research lab pioneering human computing. We’re building AI Humans: a new interface that closes the gap between people and machines, free from the friction of today’s systems. Our real-time human simulation models let machines see, hear, respond, and even look real—enabling meaningful, face-to-face conversations. AI Humans combine the emotional intelligence of humans with the reach and reliability of machines, making them capable, trusted agents available 24/7, in every language, on our terms. Imagine a therapist anyone can afford. A personal trainer who adapts to your schedule. A fleet of medical assistants that can give every patient the attention they need. With Tavus, individuals, enterprises, and developers can all build AI Humans to connect, understand, and act with empathy at scale. We’re a Series B company backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and Scale Venture Partners. Be part of shaping a future where humans and machines truly understand each other.

The Opportunity We're seeking a Head of Marketing to lead our go-to-market strategy during a pivotal inflection point. You'll own brand positioning, product marketing, and category creation as we introduce PALs and expand our Conversational Video Interface (CVI) API to developers and enterprises worldwide. The unique challenge: Tavus is both a consumer and enterprise brand. You'll build marketing that resonates across prosumers discovering AI companions, developers integrating our API, and enterprise buyers deploying conversational AI at scale requiring you to craft viral cultural moments alongside rigorous B2B campaigns. This role reports directly to the CEO and will be instrumental in defining how the world understands human computing and Tavus's leadership in this emerging category

## What You'll Do

Category Creation & Brand Strategy

- Define and own the "human computing" category narrative, positioning Tavus as the definitive leader in AI human interaction
- Build a world-class brand that resonates with developers, enterprises, and prosumers
- Drive viral awareness moments and cultural conversations. This isn't purely B2B marketing; you'll craft campaigns that capture imagination and drive organic growth
- Develop compelling messaging and positioning across multiple audiences: technical developers (API-first), enterprise buyers, and end-users
- Lead thought leadership initiatives, executive visibility, and other activities

Product Marketing

- Own go-to-market strategy for PALs (consumer), CVI APIs (developers), and the Tavus Platform (enterprise)
- Translate complex AI research (Phoenix-4, Raven-1, Sparrow-1) into compelling value propositions for technical and non-technical audiences
- Create product narratives, sales enablement materials, case studies, and customer proof points
- Partner closely with product and engineering to launch new features and capabilities
- Collaborate with demand generation team to ensure messaging and positioning drive qualified pipeline

## Team Building & Leadership

- Build and scale the marketing function—recruiting, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams across product marketing, content, and brand
- Foster a culture of experimentation, data-driven decision-making, and creative excellence
- Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, product, engineering, and research teams
- Partner closely with existing demand generation leadership to align on GTM execution

## What You Bring

Required:

- 8+ years of marketing experience, with at least 3+ years in leadership roles at consumer products industry, high-growth B2B SaaS or developer-focused companies
- Proven track record building and scaling marketing from early stage ($5M-$50M ARR) through hypergrowth
- Deep expertise in product marketing, brand strategy, and technical product marketing for developer-focused products
- Experience with both product-led growth (PLG) and enterprise sales motions
- Strong storytelling ability—you can distill complex technology into compelling narratives
- Data-driven mindset with experience partnering with growth teams on pipeline and revenue metrics
- Entrepreneurial builder mentality; comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving fast

Highly Valued:

- Experience marketing cutting-edge AI/ML products or foundational models
- Background at companies that defined new categories or emerged as category leaders
- Technical background or deep comfort working with engineering and research teams
- Experience marketing to multiple personas: developers, technical decision-makers, and C-suite buyers
- Strong network in AI, developer tools, or SaaS communities

## Benefits & Culture

When you join Tavus, you’re joining a diverse and supportive team. Our work is driven by our people, and our success is shared by all. This position has a flexible work schedule, unlimited PTO, competitive healthcare, and gear stipends, as well as plenty of fun. At the end of the day, we want Tavus to be a place for you to learn, directly drive impact, and work with a team you love. To learn more about our team culture and benefits, check out our hiring page. Tavus is growing fast, and we’d like you to grow with us. If you’re excited to get your hands dirty and help make machines more human, drop your resume and we’ll be in touch. We are not looking for cultural fits, we are looking for culture creators. Diversity is what drives our success – it’s at the core of how we hire, communicate, and work. We are inclusive to all and combine our diverse backgrounds, skill sets, and perspectives to build the best experiences for our clients.

## About Tavus

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tavus is an AI research lab and platform pioneering "Human Computing," building models and APIs that enable AI to see, hear, understand, and respond with lifelike realism in real-time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Hassaan Raza & Quinn Favret

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Human Computing / Multi-modal AI
- **Target customers**: B2B; Product teams and developers (via API and no-code builder), enterprise teams (for onboarding, training, support), and prosumers/individuals (for tutors, companions, assistants).
- **Mission**: "To make human-AI interaction as natural as face-to-face interaction, enabling the human touch where it has been previously unscalable." [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus)

## Products & Services
- **Conversational Video Interface (CVI)**: An API-first platform that allows developers to embed real-time, face-to-face conversational AI into any product. It enables emotionally intelligent, adaptive interactions with sub-second latency.
- **Tavus Platform (No-Code SaaS)**: A no-code builder that lets individuals and enterprises create custom AI humans for use in onboarding, training, customer engagement, or personal use by customizing personality, knowledge, and appearance.
- **Replica API**: Tools for creating personal or stock digital twins (replicas) with studio-grade fidelity, full-face rendering, and identity preservation. Supports both individual and large-scale deployment.
- **Personas**: A system for defining custom personalities and context to tailor the behavior of AI humans.
- **Core AI Models**:
    - **Sparrow (Conversational Flow Model)**: Delivers low-latency, accurate turn-taking by analyzing lexical, semantic, prosodic, and acoustic cues.
    - **Raven (Perception Model)**: A multi-modal perception engine that translates facial expressions, tone, gaze, and emotion into conversational signals.
    - **Phoenix (Rendering Model)**: A gaussian-diffusion based model for high-fidelity, photorealistic facial rendering with contextually accurate emotions and expressions in real time. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding**: $40M+ (including a $18M raise in 2024 and a subsequent Series B for $40M in 2025). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus), [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator (Summer 2021 batch), HubSpot. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/lp/ai-info-page)
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Demonstrated product-market fit with case studies for clients like Final Round AI (1.2M practice minutes logged), ACTO (life sciences training), and CareFlick (senior companionship).
    - Raising significant venture capital over multiple rounds, indicating strong investor confidence and a long runway for R&D.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Real-time realism**: Overcomes the "uncanny valley" with sub-second latency and photorealistic rendering, a key differentiator from asynchronous video-generation and static avatar companies.
- **Comprehensive AI Human Stack**: Offers a full operating system (perception, memory, knowledge, action) rather than just a single component like an avatar.
- **Flexibility**: Provides multiple integration paths—a modular API, a bring-your-own-LLM option, and a no-code builder—making it accessible to both technical and non-technical users.
- **Ethical foundation**: Built with a stated commitment to privacy, consent, and empathy, and aims for transparency in disclosure (e.g., SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance).

## Strategic Focus
- **Category Creation**: Actively establishing "Human Computing" as a new industry standard for human-AI interaction, moving beyond simple chatbots and scripted avatars.
- **Developer Ecosystem**: Centered on an API-first strategy to become the platform of choice for developers building the next generation of AI assistants, companions, and employees.
- **Real-time & Multi-modal**: Continuing to push the boundaries of multi-modal AI (video, audio, text, emotion) to create more intuitive and authentic interactions.
- **Enterprise & Prosumer Scale**: Growing the no-code platform to serve both enterprise-scale training/support and personal use cases (tutoring, wellness, companionship).

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting-edge Research & Impact**: A chance to work on frontier multi-modal AI models (perception, rendering, conversation) that directly shape how humans interact with machines.
- **Culture**: Described as a tight-knit, high-output team with semi-annual full-team retreats and a focus on continuous learning alongside AI leaders. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/careers)
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Offers competitive salary, meaningful equity, fully covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and their families, unlimited PTO, and a gear stipend for setting up the workspace. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/careers)
- **Work Environment**: "Our team moves mountains to bring the vision to life, and we’ve got their backs." The company appears to embrace a hybrid/office culture in San Francisco (SOMA) with remote options for some roles (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus)
- **Team Growth**: Team size reported as around 40 members. Currently hiring for roles like AI Researcher (Perception), Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, and Solution Engineer. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus), [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tavus)

## Sources
1. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/)
2. [tavus.io/careers](https://www.tavus.io/careers)
3. [tavus.io/lp/ai-info-page](https://www.tavus.io/lp/ai-info-page)
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tavus)
6. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com)

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