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# Marketing Manager, Events & Brand at Swayable

- **Company:** Swayable
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/swayable/jobs/5254440007

## Job description

**Swayable is in office 3x a week in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Swayable is a fast-growing AI and automated data science platform that measures public opinion, and the impact of messages and advertising content on it. We are a 50-person team backed by top technology and social impact investors, including Y Combinator. Founded in 2018 by physics PhDs, it is led by the former Executive Director for Digital Strategy at the New York Times. Clients include major consumer-facing brands (JP Morgan Chase, Airbnb, Paramount Pictures), technology companies (Anthropic, Meta, Amazon), academic researchers (MIT, Yale, Stanford) and mission-aligned civic advocacy campaigns (e.g. on climate, human rights and elections). Check our our values & culture deck to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/4zjchwzs

Joining Swayable means being on a team whose work changes the course of history. The technology we develop is at the leading edge of transforming some of the world’s most important campaign organizations and enterprises: combatting disinformation, protecting democracy, and supporting the sustainable growth of consumer-facing brands.

About The Role:

Swayable is looking for a creative, resourceful, and highly organized Marketing Manager to help grow our awareness and demand among leading brands and agencies. Events will be a big part of this role – including Cannes, Possible, CES, AWNY, etc. You'll own everything from industry conferences and executive dinners to webinars and strategic partnerships, creating memorable experiences that build relationships and generate business opportunities. We're looking for a builder who loves creating experiences, and understands that great marketing should drive measurable business results.

What You’ll Do:

- Events: Own the strategy, planning, and execution of Swayable's events, sponsorships, webinars, executive dinners, and industry activations.
- Demand Generation: Partner with sales to drive attendance, engage senior brand and agency decision-makers, and turn events into qualified pipeline.
- Brand Awareness: Identify creative, cost-effective opportunities to increase Swayable's visibility through partnerships, speaking opportunities, and industry initiatives.
- Vendor & Budget Management: Manage external partners, negotiate contracts, and maximize the impact of our marketing investments.
- Website & Marketing Operations: Oversee website maintenance, coordinate content updates, and support campaigns and day-to-day marketing activities.
- Support broader brand initiatives and help ensure consistency across marketing materials and customer touchpoints.

Who You Are:

- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration, or a related field.
- 4+ years of B2B marketing experience, with demonstrated experience developing and executing successful integrated marketing campaigns, and a strong focus on events.
- Experience marketing to brands and agencies, ideally in advertising, ad tech, or marketing technology.
- Experience planning and executing events, webinars, and brand marketing initiatives.
- Exceptional project management skills, with experience managing external agencies, vendors, and cross-functional projects, aligning on clear deliverables and deadlines.
- Proficiency with marketing automation tools, HubSpot, and analytics platforms.
- An entrepreneurial, hands-on mindset and a willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Benefits:

- 100% Medical, Dental & Vision Plans - no employee contribution required
- Generous PTO
- Equity Options
- 401k plan, FSA
- Ongoing professional development investments
- Salary: $120-140K, dependent on experience

Swayable is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to promote an organizational environment that values diversity and fosters growth. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other basis prohibited by law. The team especially encourages applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

## About Swayable

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Swayable provides a causal AI platform that measures how effectively media content changes opinions, using randomized controlled trials to prove advertising and messaging impact.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Public Benefit Corporation)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (with offices in San Francisco, CA, USA)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: James Slezak (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Advertising Technology / Marketing Analytics / Causal AI for Campaigns
- **Target customers**: B2B — major brands, advertising agencies, foundations, and political campaigns
- **Mission**: To dramatically increase the impact of the stories clients tell on the world’s most important issues, operating as a public benefit corporation dedicated to effective truth-telling.

## Products & Services
- **Creative Pre-Testing Platform**: A cloud-based SaaS platform that runs automated experiments with real human respondents to measure the impact of video, image, and concept content on brand perception, purchase intent, and opinion.
- **Brand Tracking**: Tracks consumer opinion and brand equities over time with customized segmentation for granular audience insights.
- **Research Surveys**: Real-time pulse surveys on consumer sentiment and brand perception.
- **Message & Tagline Testing**: Tests language and messaging to find the strongest performing copy.
- **Campaign Comparison**: Enables side-by-side testing of creative routes to quickly identify winning content.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; Y Combinator Winter 2018 batch graduate; team size ~30 employees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (primary partner: Gustaf Alstromer); clients include New Balance and other major brands, agencies, and foundations
- **Growth Signals**: Currently hiring across multiple departments (data science, engineering, sales, product, client success); expanding enterprise sales with dedicated Sales Director roles; growing AI/ML engineering team

## Competitive Advantages
- **Causal AI methodology**: Uses rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on tens of thousands of verified human respondents, providing stronger evidence than correlational methods.
- **Speed**: Delivers brand lift results in 24 hours.
- **Privacy-first design**: Exceeds GDPR and CCPA standards; built with informed user consent as a core feature.
- **Public Benefit Corporation status**: Mission-driven focus on combating disinformation, protecting democracy, and supporting sustainable brand growth.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling enterprise adoption of systematic creative testing across organizations.
- Deepening AI-native capabilities to model and understand audiences over time.
- Expanding partnerships with brands and agencies to integrate lift measurement into all stages of campaign development.
- Continuing to hire senior AI/ML talent to advance scientific computing and causal inference capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on technology that changes opinions on the world’s most important issues; team’s work is described as "changing the course of history."
- **Culture**: Public Benefit Corporation and equal opportunity employer; actively encourages women and members of underrepresented groups to apply.
- **Remote/hybrid**: Offers remote (US-based) roles alongside offices in San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, DC.
- **Diverse team**: Proud of a diverse team doing cutting-edge work at the intersection of data science, engineering, and social impact.
- **Leadership**: CEO James Slezak brings a unique background — PhD in experimental physics from Cornell, former Executive Director of Digital Strategy at The New York Times, and experience at McKinsey and Purpose.com.

## Sources
1. [swayable.com](https://www.swayable.com/)
2. [swayable.com/about](https://www.swayable.com/about/)
3. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/swayable)
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/swayable)

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