--- title: 'Product Marketing at Pulse' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-marketing-pulse-san-francisco-q54grdwvh99e' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Product Marketing at Pulse - **Company:** Pulse - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pulse/896b808d-1207-4a21-8212-e66418a03838 ## Job description ## Overview Pulse is tackling one of the most persistent challenges in data infrastructure: extracting accurate, structured information from complex documents at scale. We have a breakthrough approach to document understanding that combines intelligent schema mapping with fine-tuned extraction models where legacy OCR and other parsing tools consistently fail. We are a small, fast-growing team of engineers in San Francisco powering Fortune 100 enterprises, YC startups, public investment firms, and growth-stage companies. We are backed by tier 1 investors and growing quickly. What makes [our tech special](https://www.runpulse.com/blog/pulse-approach-to-document-intelligence) is our multi-stage architecture: - Layout understanding with specialized component detection models - Low-latency OCR models for targeted extraction - Advanced reading-order algorithms for complex structures - Proprietary table structure recognition and parsing - Fine-tuned vision-language models for charts, tables, and figures If you are passionate about the intersection of computer vision, NLP, and data infrastructure, your work at Pulse will directly impact customers and shape the future of document intelligence. ## What we are looking for - 5 days in-office at our San Francisco office - Eager to learn and adapt quickly - Prior startup or founding experience is a plus ## About the Role As Pulse’s first dedicated Product Marketing hire, you will own how Pulse explains its work to the world. At its core this is a technical writing and communication role: turning what our engineering team builds into clear, precise content for technical audiences across blog posts, social media, product launches, sales materials, and events. This role is ideal for someone who writes exceptionally well, is curious about how document AI systems work, and wants to build a marketing function from the ground up alongside the founders. ## Responsibilities - Write and edit technical content: deep-dive blog posts on how our models and pipeline work, [benchmark releases](https://benchmark.runpulse.com/), release notes, and customer stories - Run Pulse’s LinkedIn and X presence in a consistent company voice and grow an audience of technical practitioners - Own core messaging and positioning across our priority industries and keep it current as the product evolves - Run product launches end to end, from understanding what shipped to the blog post, landing page, social, and email that announce it - Turn engineering work, evaluations, and customer results into materials the sales team uses: one-pagers, solution briefs, and evaluation guides - Plan and execute Pulse’s presence at industry conferences, executive dinners, and roundtables - Organize Pulse-hosted events that bring the product to life, from customer roundtables and technical meetups to launch showcases, and turn each one into content and proof points afterward - Work in HubSpot and Webflow, and report on inbound interest, content engagement, and share of voice ## Requirements - 0-4 years in technical writing, content, developer relations, or marketing at a startup or agency; new grads with strong writing and a portfolio of published work are encouraged to apply - Exceptional written communication for technical audiences, with the ability to explain how a system works clearly and without hype - Enough technical fluency to interview engineers, read a benchmark table, and hold your own in conversations with engineering and data teams - Experience writing for social media, or a clear point of view on what works on LinkedIn and X for a technical audience - Bias to ship: a blog post or landing page in hours, not weeks ## Nice to have - Experience writing about developer tools, data infrastructure, or AI products - Has grown an audience online through writing - Technical background (computer science, engineering, math, or a quantitative field) - Experience running a launch, content program, or event end to end ## Compensation and benefits Competitive base salary plus equity, relocation assistance for Bay Area moves, daily meal stipend, medical, vision, and dental coverage. ## About Pulse ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Pulse provides a production-grade platform for unstructured document extraction, using OCR, layout analysis, and vision models to accurately process complex documents at enterprise scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Sid Manchkanti (CEO), Ritwik Pandey (CTO) ## Core Business - **Industry**: Enterprise document intelligence / AI-powered data extraction - **Target Customers**: B2B – Fortune 10 enterprises, financial services, healthcare, insurance, legal, real estate, and AI-native startups - **Mission**: Provide trust and scale in document processing for regulated environments through advanced OCR, layout understanding, and vision models. ## Products & Services - **[Pulse Document Intelligence Platform]**: A unified API and on-premise solution that ingests PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations, images, and other unstructured documents. Features include layout-aware OCR, reading order algorithms, table/chart/figure extraction, handwriting recognition, and fine-tuned vision models for complex conversions. Deployable via Docker, Kubernetes, or internal API gateways in VPC/on-prem environments. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – USD $4.4M (Pre-seed $500K led by Y Combinator; Seed $3.9M led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross (Seed lead); processed over 1 billion pages for clients including Fortune 50 technology firms, top private equity, large insurance carriers, and AI startups. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 312.5% year-over-year (now ~12 employees); open-sourced PulseBench-Tab benchmark for table extraction; expanding hiring across engineering, sales, and research. ## Competitive Advantages - **Security & Compliance Natively**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, and BAA available – certifications verified by continuous audits, enabling use in strictly regulated industries. - **Architectural Control**: Flexible deployment (private VPC, on-prem, hybrid cloud) with full data isolation, load balancing, and GPU acceleration for massive throughput. - **Superior Document Understanding**: Proprietary pipeline that understands layout structure before OCR, reads multi-column/irregular layouts in human-like sequence, and handles tables, charts, and handwriting – outperforming traditional OCR tools. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling Enterprise Adoption**: Continue serving regulated verticals (healthcare, finance, insurance, legal) while expanding into new AI-driven workflows. - **Product Development**: Advance vision models, table extraction benchmarks, and reading order intelligence to maintain accuracy edge. - **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring for technical roles (ML Engineers, DevOps, Software Engineers, Inference, Forward Deployed) and GTM positions (Sales, Solutions Engineering), all in-person in San Francisco. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Environment**: Small, high-caliber technical team (12 people) with a focus on precision, reliability, and deep respect for complex enterprise workflows. In-office culture in San Francisco (on-site required). - **Growth Opportunity**: Join a fast-growing startup (312% headcount growth YoY) backed by visionary investors; opportunity to shape the platform from the ground up in a high-trust environment. - **Notable Perks**: Involvement with cutting-edge AI/OCR research, open-source contributions (PulseBench-Tab), and direct collaboration with founders and founding hires. ## Sources 1. [runpulse.com](https://www.runpulse.com/) 2. [LinkedIn – Pulse](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pulse-ai-corp) 3. 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