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# Senior Director, Marketing at Pryon

- **Company:** Pryon
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $250k–$265k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-11-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/pryon/07101c68-9a03-479b-b485-123b863a2462

## Job description

About Pryon: We’re a team of AI, technology, and language experts whose DNA lives in Alexa, Siri, Watson, and virtually every human language technology product on the market. Now we’re building an industry-leading knowledge management and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform. Our proprietary, cutting-edge natural language processing capabilities transform unstructured data into meaningful experiences that increase productivity with unmatched accuracy and speed.

This is an opportunity to lead our marketing efforts, and design, implement and monitor effective marketing strategies that align with well-defined business goals and objectives for sales. Pryon is seeking an experienced and talented marketing leader with a successful track record owning, performing, and driving direct marketing campaigns and strategies that result in positive metrics for demand generation, leads, and opportunities for sales. The successful candidate will possess a strong track record of collaborating with sales and cross-functional teams to develop, execute, and measure strategic, integrated programs that result in a qualified pipeline for revenue growth. In conjunction with our Product and Go to Market organizations, this hire will develop compelling product positioning, messaging programs, go-to-market strategy and execution, corporate and field marketing, industry thought leadership, and awareness among our target customers, partners, analysts, and press audiences.

The ideal candidate will bring a "roll-up-your-sleeves” mindset and attitude with prior experience building, scaling, and mentoring an end-to-end Marketing team across content, demand gen, product marketing and PR/communications/analyst briefings. Additionally, they will recognize, research and pursue new markets, verticals and use cases where Pryon can leverage its solutions for the benefit of its customers and itself, with the goal of generating demand in previously untapped areas. Candidates must possess strong technical knowledge and engineering experience of knowledge or document management markets along with AI and ML principles and practices. He/she will have proven abilities to work jointly with AI engineers, data scientists, and development teams to build the next generation of AI-first knowledge management systems, document processing workflows, and question/answer chatbot applications. A strong work ethic, agility, and the ability to work under pressure are essential.

In This Role, You Will:

- Lead all aspects of the company’s marketing initiatives, including brand strategy and positioning, B2B marketing, and digital strategy; operate as a senior leader as well as an individual contributor
- Develop and implement a cohesive marketing plan to increase brand awareness
- Manage MQL end-to-end analytics and attribution for all lead generation while executing key KPIs for net new and expansion revenue.
- Own and deliver the top-of-the-funnel demand generation for all sales channels and efforts
- Collaborate with Solutions Engineering, Product, and Sales teams to understand existing and potential customers’ needs and deliver marketing collateral that resonates with our different market segments and buyer personas
- Develop the strategic vision for Pryon’s brand and ensure flawless execution of our mission
- Evaluate the overall marketing function and design a scalable organization structure to keep pace with expected growth; grow and manage a Marketing team that will execute the strategies that support company revenue goals.
- Build relationships with media and stakeholders through creative PR strategies
- Provide direction and set standards for creation of tactical content to support strategic objectives
- Generate internal enthusiasm and training to enable the field team to take messaging to the market
- Monitor all marketing campaigns and improve them when necessary
- Create metrics to demonstrate value of marketing efforts and provide a blueprint for course correction as needed
- Prioritize marketing projects and allocate resources accordingly
- Conduct market analysis to identify challenges and opportunities for growth
- Provide guidance and ideas to organize effective marketing events
- Forecast hiring needs for the Marketing department
- Participate in the quarterly and annual planning of the company’s objectives
- Create metrics to demonstrate the value of marketing efforts and provide a blueprint for course correction as needed
- Drive data-driven decisions and establish effective frameworks, metrics, and strategies to inform the company’s approach to direct and channel marketing

What You'll Need to Be Successful:

- Experience managing multiple Marketing disciplines and strategy at an enterprise AI and/or software company, with a minimum of 12-15 years of total experience and 5-7 years as a Marketing leader
- Proven ability to build a world class B2B enterprise SaaS brand while in a Marketing leadership role; growth hacker mentality
- Track record in a high growth, product-first, hands-on culture; prior experience in a venture-backed company, scaling from a start up to an organization of significant size and revenue
- Driven, success-oriented, flexible team player who can juggle multiple and/or changing priorities in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Prior success working closely with Sales to drive lead gen demand• Experience interfacing with media and industry analysts to influence their perception of the company’s products
- Strong, persuasive communication skills will an ability to synthesize complex market and technology messages into sales drivers
- Excellent leadership skills with the ability to mentor and inspire high performance
- Business-critical thinker on pricing, analytics, GTM, and branding
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred

Benefits for Full Time Employees:

- Remote first organization
- 100% Company paid Health/Dental/Vision benefits for you and your dependents
- Life Insurance, Short-term and Long-term Disability
- 401k
- Unlimited PTO

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is authorized to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

Pryon will not consider race, religion, sex, sexual preference, or national origin in ways that violate the Nation's civil rights laws.

## About Pryon

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pryon provides an enterprise-grade memory layer that enables organizations to ground generative AI agents and applications in their own trusted, governed content for accurate, verifiable answers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C / Venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (with offices in Seattle, WA; Westport, CT; and Brooklyn, NY)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Igor Jablokov (Chairman & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI), specializing in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI memory layers.
- Target customers: Enterprise and Government organizations (B2B), with a focus on Defense & Intelligence, State & Local Government, Energy, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and Education.
- Mission or purpose: To reduce the distance between people and answers, building high-performing, resilient, and responsive organizations by making trusted AI easy to use anywhere.

## Products & Services
- **Pryon Memory Layer**: The core platform that unifies all enterprise intelligence (structured and unstructured data) into a single, searchable repository to power AI agents and applications.
- **Pryon RAG Suite**: A set of tools for retrieval-augmented generation that securely extracts answers from all forms of content (text, audio, images, video) via API. It includes Advanced Data Prep, Dynamic Retrieval, and a Secure Architecture with document-level access controls. Deployable in the cloud or on-premises.
- **Custom AI Agents**: Tools that enable enterprises to deploy trusted, custom AI agents that perform context-aware actions grounded in the organization’s own data and workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$199.1M** USD (across 10 rounds), with latest funding including a $20M debt financing round in June 2025.
- **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at **$3M** USD.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: US Innovative Technology Fund (lead, 2023 round), Greycroft (lead, Seed round), Silicon Valley Bank (lead, Debt Financing round), Carolyne LaSala Holtorf (Board Member). Partners include major tech companies (AWS, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Snowflake, ServiceNow, Salesforce, IBM).
- **Growth Signals**: Headquartered in Raleigh, NC with expanding US offices. Trusted by "Fortune 50" technology companies and leading energy corporations. Applications span defense, federal, and state government sectors with deployments in 80 languages from 150,000+ pages of content.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Team of AI Pioneers**: Founded by Igor Jablokov and staffed with executives instrumental in the development of Alexa, Siri, and Watson (e.g., Chief Scientist David Nahamoo).
- **Trust and Security Focus**: Emphasizes a "safe & trusted path" with a secure architecture, document-level access controls, and fine-grained attributions for auditability.
- **Advanced Technical Moat**: Combines hybrid search, intelligent query expansion, re-ranking, iterative deep dives, and context sufficiency checks. Handles all data types (PDFs, scans, slides, spreadsheets, diagrams) without manual preprocessing.
- **Flexible Deployment**: Operates in the cloud or on-premises, meeting the strict security requirements of government and defense clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale Enterprise AI Production**: Helping companies move past "proof-of-concept purgatory" by providing the infrastructure to deploy AI agents and assistants that users can rely on.
- **Deep Government & Defense Sector Penetration**: Recently appointed a VP of Public Sector Sales (Jeremy Hogg) and is actively hiring for Federal Solutions Managers and Architects.
- **Product Leadership**: Appointed AI veteran Hamsa Buvaraghan as SVP/Head of Product in October 2025 to drive the product roadmap.

## Why Work Here
- **Pioneering AI Work**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge enterprise GenAI infrastructure alongside veterans from Alexa, Siri, and Watson.
- **Location**: HQ in Raleigh, NC (a growing tech hub), with offices in NYC, Seattle, and Westport, CT. The company has a physical office presence. Typical time on-site is none (remote/hybrid friendly).
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong technical environment using a modern stack including Python, Kubernetes, Docker, GraphQL, Terraform, TensorFlow, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP). Technical roles make up 30% of the workforce.
- **Perks & Culture**: According to employee reviews (3.1/5.0), Work-Life Balance scores highest (3.8/5.0), followed by Compensation (3.7/5.0). Reviews suggest room for improvement in Culture (3.1) and Career Development (3.2).
- **Current Hiring**: The company is actively looking for multiple Solutions Architects and a Senior Director of Marketing, indicating a push toward scaling customer adoption.

## Sources
1. [pryon.com](https://www.pryon.com/)
2. [pryon.com](https://www.pryon.com/about)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/pryon)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pryon)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pryon)

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