Growth & Content Lead
Vendra (YC S24), San Francisco, CA, United States
What We’re Looking For
We’re scaling our manufacturing marketplace across the United States and we’re hiring our first Growth Marketing Lead to drive awareness and inbound.
We already have strong traction with leading aerospace and hardware companies, and you’ll work with the founding team to turn this into content, campaigns, and creative distribution that drives inbound and pipeline.
Your job is simple:
make Vendra impossible to ignore.
What You’ll Do
Create high signal content
Write and publish
LinkedIn posts and blogs (for founders and company)
Case studies based on real projects and outcomes
Short-form technical and industry content
Turn real manufacturing jobs into compelling narratives
Maintain a consistent, high-quality content cadence
Make Vendra a known name across hardware companies and A&D customers
Drive inbound
Own and optimize content → inbound → RFQ → revenue conversion
Build and execute campaigns around high-performing channels
Work closely with sales to distribute content into target accounts and active deals
Identify what works and scale it into repeatable growth playbooks
Do unconventional, high leverage growth
Run creative campaigns that get attention, such as:
Targeted stunts
Physical world marketing (where our customers are)
Examples:
Wrapping a van in Vendra branding and parking it outside a target customer’s office
Running billboard campaigns in the right locations to drive RFQ submissions
Goal: break through noise and reach customers in creative, memorable ways
What Success Looks Like (in Order Of Importance)
Optimizing MQL → SQL → RFQ → order conversion
A steady stream of inbound leads and RFQs
Vendra is widely recognized in aerospace, robotics, and hardware
Content consistently drives engagement from the right ICP
Creative content that generates real attention and conversations
What The Ideal Candidate Looks Like
2-6 years in content, growth, or marketing
Exceptional writer (clear, sharp, non-fluffy)
Highly creative and willing to try unconventional ideas
Extremely execution-oriented (you ship fast and often)
Strong taste in content, design, and messaging
Nice To Have (not Required)
Background in (or understanding of) manufacturing and hardware
Experience building content engines at early-stage startups
Why should you join Vendra?
You’ll define how Vendra shows up to the real world and help build a category defining company in manufacturing
You’ll have direct impact on pipeline and company growth
You’ll have freedom to run with creative and unconventional ideas!
Compensation Seriously, we want you doing stuff like this:
Base: $100,000 - $140,000 + bonus tied to inbound / pipeline
Equity
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We already have strong traction with leading aerospace and hardware companies, and you’ll work with the founding team to turn this into content, campaigns, and creative distribution that drives inbound and pipeline.
Your job is simple:
make Vendra impossible to ignore.
What You’ll Do
Create high signal content
Write and publish
LinkedIn posts and blogs (for founders and company)
Case studies based on real projects and outcomes
Short-form technical and industry content
Turn real manufacturing jobs into compelling narratives
Maintain a consistent, high-quality content cadence
Make Vendra a known name across hardware companies and A&D customers
Drive inbound
Own and optimize content → inbound → RFQ → revenue conversion
Build and execute campaigns around high-performing channels
Work closely with sales to distribute content into target accounts and active deals
Identify what works and scale it into repeatable growth playbooks
Do unconventional, high leverage growth
Run creative campaigns that get attention, such as:
Targeted stunts
Physical world marketing (where our customers are)
Examples:
Wrapping a van in Vendra branding and parking it outside a target customer’s office
Running billboard campaigns in the right locations to drive RFQ submissions
Goal: break through noise and reach customers in creative, memorable ways
What Success Looks Like (in Order Of Importance)
Optimizing MQL → SQL → RFQ → order conversion
A steady stream of inbound leads and RFQs
Vendra is widely recognized in aerospace, robotics, and hardware
Content consistently drives engagement from the right ICP
Creative content that generates real attention and conversations
What The Ideal Candidate Looks Like
2-6 years in content, growth, or marketing
Exceptional writer (clear, sharp, non-fluffy)
Highly creative and willing to try unconventional ideas
Extremely execution-oriented (you ship fast and often)
Strong taste in content, design, and messaging
Nice To Have (not Required)
Background in (or understanding of) manufacturing and hardware
Experience building content engines at early-stage startups
Why should you join Vendra?
You’ll define how Vendra shows up to the real world and help build a category defining company in manufacturing
You’ll have direct impact on pipeline and company growth
You’ll have freedom to run with creative and unconventional ideas!
Compensation Seriously, we want you doing stuff like this:
Base: $100,000 - $140,000 + bonus tied to inbound / pipeline
Equity
#J-18808-Ljbffr