AwardSpring

AwardSpring

Head of Marketing

Chicago, IL · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 90 days ago
SalesCadenceLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • This is the founding full-time marketing leadership hire at AwardSpring.
  • You'll arrive with a forcing function: a major platform story launching this quarter that needs a product marketing engine behind it - positioning, sales enablement, a launch campaign, demand activation, and customer proof.

Responsibilities

  • Today, marketing is run by a fractional lead and a paid media agency.
  • You will own the function.
  • The opportunity we're offering is the chance to design and run an AI-native marketing function at the org level - compressing the output of a traditional 3-person marketing team into a leader + agencies + AI.
  • We don't want you to fight for budget to use AI - we want you to lead us deeper into it on the marketing side.

Nice to have

  • Leadership Experience not necessary - you can be a strong individual contributor looking to take the next step, or an experienced leader.
  • We're interested to explore the right candidate across the career spectrum Already operating AI-native in your personal craft.
  • You default to Claude Code or Codex, use Clay or similar enrichment tools, explore agent workflows, and treat AI as a force multiplier - not a gimmick.
  • This is not something we'll teach you.
  • Product marketing fluency.
  • You have written positioning, led a launch, built a messaging framework, and know the difference between a brief and a battlecard.
  • Writer-operator.
  • You can draft a case study, a website headline, a launch email, and a Slack post to the AE team - all on the same day.

Skills

  • Multiple product lines are ramping in parallel, and a light rebrand is in flight.
  • Your first 90 days will be dense.
  • That's table stakes.
  • That part is new territory for most marketers.

Compensation

  • Chicago-based, 2-3 days in office

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, 401(k) Direct CEO relationship: you report to Alex.
  • Bonus points: prior founding-marketer experience, higher ed or non-profit tech background, demonstrated results running paid media against measurable pipeline outcomes.
  • We help higher education institutions and foundations get more of their funding into students' hands - and we're expanding into adjacent Donor Management and Advancement software categories.
  • Compensation Commensurate with Experience including Equity Hybrid work: Chicago-based, 2-3 days in office Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k) Direct CEO relationship: you report to Alex.

Company info

  • you'll join a company where Claude, Claude Code, Gong AI, and a full suite of AI tooling is already part of how we work.
  • Company Overview AwardSpring is the scholarship management platform used by hundreds of colleges, universities, and community foundations to run their scholarship, financial aid, and donor engagement programs.
  • We are growing fast recently recapitalized for our next phase of growth.
  • Our product portfolio is expanding meaningfully this year - a category-defining platform story we're excited to share more about in the interview.
  • AI-native operating environment: you'll join a company where Claude, Claude Code, Gong AI, and a full suite of AI tooling is already part of how we work.

Visa & Work Authorization

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