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Tanagram

Founding Technical GTM Operator/Engineer

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About Tanagram

Tanagram’s mission is to accelerate agentic coding.

We extract engineering learnings buried in real codebases, PRs, code reviews, incident post-mortems, and Slack conversations, turn them into real-time guardrails for coding agents, and enforce them in PRs — helping teams ship faster while avoiding catastrophic mistakes.

We’re building a small, diverse team of meticulous, high-agency people who care deeply about making software development faster, safer, and more reliable — and who can speak credibly to engineers because they’ve been in the work themselves.

About This Role

This is a highly technical GTM role — not traditional marketing.

It’s a hybrid between:

  • Technical GTM / Product Marketing (PMM)
  • Developer-adjacent operator
  • Early-stage growth strategist

This is not:

  • A BDR role
  • A social media role
  • A pure DevRel role

You will own a meaningful slice of GTM from 0 → 1 , with real product and narrative responsibility.

This role can grow into Head of GTM or Head of Product Marketing .

Location: San Francisco preferred (remote ok for exceptional candidates)

What You’ll Own

Core KPIs

  • High velocity of GTM experiments
  • High-quality inbound (quality > quantity)
  • Credible technical conversations with founders, CTOs, and tech leads

Experiment & Learn (Hands-On)

  • Fast experiments across Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and technical communities
  • Messaging × persona × channel testing
  • Landing pages, hooks, loops, and demo flows
  • Analyze and report learnings quickly

Own Positioning & Messaging (Technical)

  • Refine ICP (starting with Founding CTOs, Staff+ engineers, and tech leads)
  • Build messaging frameworks grounded in real engineering pain
  • Create value props engineers actually believe
  • Improve demo framing and technical narrative with founders

Build & Demo (Important)

  • Build or vibe-code your own demos
  • Modify example repos, workflows, or integrations
  • Walk engineers through how Tanagram works in practice
  • Translate real dev workflows into compelling stories

Create Early Inbound Motion

  • Help engineers care about the product
  • Founder posts, technical narratives, experiments
  • Seed early SEO with technically credible content

Build Outbound Motion (Selective & Technical)

  • Personalized, high-signal outbound
  • Repeatable tactics that engineers respond to
  • Spark thoughtful, high-quality conversations

Surface Opportunities

  • Events, meetups, dinners, conferences
  • Angel / advisor intros
  • Launch coordination

What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)

  • Consistent experiment → learning loops
  • ICP hypotheses validated or killed
  • Meaningful inbound from engineers and technical founders
  • Sharper, more technical demo narrative
  • Clear understanding of which GTM motions actually work

You Might Be a Fit If You

  • Can build, prototype, or code demos yourself
  • Are technically fluent (you don’t need to be a staff engineer, but you can hold your own)
  • Understand real developer workflows (PRs, CI, incidents, reviews, on-call)
  • Write clearly and precisely
  • Have strong messaging taste and technical intuition
  • Enjoy ambiguity and rapid experimentation
  • Are very online in developer communities
  • Are high-agency and collaborative
  • Can switch between execution and strategic thinking

Not a Fit If You

  • Need detailed direction
  • Move slowly
  • Don’t like writing
  • Don’t like talking to engineers
  • Prefer rigid roadmaps
  • Want strict lane boundaries
  • Want a marketing role without technical depth

Why You’ll Love Working Here

  • Shape GTM from 0 → 1
  • Work directly with founders
  • Have real product and narrative impact
  • Massive autonomy
  • Help make agentic coding safer and more reliable
  • Fast learning, fast iteration, real ownership

Compensation

Depending on the relevance and depth of your experience:

  • $140k–$180k salary
  • 0.3%–0.7% equity
  • Medical, dental, vision insurance
  • MacBook

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