About First Round

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

About First Round's Founder Success Team

At First Round, we invest in founders who possess not just strengths, but areas of true genius, whether it’s technical skill, product judgement, industry expertise, or a deep understanding of their customer’s pain point. But on the other side of every spike in talent are a few areas that are still underdeveloped, parts of the business where a founder doesn't have the skills and expertise — yet.

Simply put, there are many gaps that have yet to be closed when you’re only a 3-person startup. On the path to building a company of consequence, the very best founders are able to level up, both in terms of their own capabilities (by developing new muscles) and in the team around the table (by bringing in complementary talent).

That’s where our Founder Success team comes in, during the pivotal early years of company building. We fill in where we can until there's genius up and down the org chart, closing gaps around existing strengths while helping in the key growth areas on the transition from founder to founder & CEO. This might involve teaching a technical founder how to sell and take their product to market, or guiding them through making their first key hires.

About the Role

This is a hands-on, founder-facing role to support our early stage portfolio companies with their marketing experiments, with a particular focus on conferences and events.

The role will require 30+ hours of remote work per week, but you must be U.S.-based. This will be a temporary (4 month contract from February to May) role to start, and the potential to continue after the end of the contract.

Your core responsibilities will include:

Project Manage & Strategize Marketing Experiments. Our founders are testing out marketing channels like conferences and client dinners. They need guidance to make sure that not only are the logistics of the events flawless, but that they’re also being thoughtfully strategic about the goals, tracking, positioning, budgets, and tradeoffs of these high stakes events as part of their overall GTM plans.
Teach & Train Founders on All Thing Marketing. We take the “I do, we do, you do” approach with our founder services. You’ll be able to meet founders where they are and provide advice, templates, and/or hands-on help with their marketing projects across a variety of channels, industries, and team sizes.

You could be a great Marketing Specialist at First Round if:

You have a minimum of 5 years of experience supporting early stage (<$10M in ARR) B2B companies. You’ve done the zero to one thing, working super closely with pre seed or seed stage companies on early demand gen strategies across industries, buyer personas, ACVs and GTM motions. You have a lot of