Founding Marketing Lead

High-level

Help us reshape how enterprise companies build with LLMs. As our first marketing hire, you’ll work directly with the founders to define and execute our brand and growth strategy from the ground up. This is a hands-on role: one week you’re revamping our landing page, the next you’re designing a sales one-pager, then you’re shipping social content or pitching press stories. You’ll touch every surface of the company and play a defining role in how we show up in the world.

We’re at an inflection point: demand is exploding, customers are pushing us to scale fast, and we need someone who can tell our story clearly, creatively, and consistently. If you're equal parts designer, copywriter, and growth-minded operator—you'll thrive here.

Low-level

We move fast and value people who don’t wait for permission to make things better. You’ll take rough ideas or company milestones and turn them into polished marketing assets without needing a full spec. You’ll own our website, write and design social posts, and build out sales materials that make our value obvious. You’ll also work directly with the founders to shape product launches, drive awareness, and build trust with both technical and business audiences.

We don’t care what tools you use—as long as you can deliver great work quickly, write clearly, and design things that make people want to learn more. You should be comfortable sourcing assets, tweaking copy, iterating on brand direction, and producing high-quality content across channels.

Who You Are

• You're a hybrid: part designer, part writer, part strategist
• You’ve done this before—maybe at an early-stage startup, maybe as a freelancer or founder
• Your portfolio has bangers: landing pages, decks, social posts, campaigns
• You bias toward action and don’t wait for perfect direction
• You think visually and communicate clearly
• You’re resourceful as hell

Why Join Us?

• Big challenges – Help redefine how enterprise companies build with AI
• High impact – You’ll set the tone for our brand and own major pieces of the go-to-market
• Elite team – Work directly with founders and early engineers in a fast-moving environment
• Equity upside – Early team, meaningful ownership
• Creative freedom – High trust, low friction

More You Need To Know

• In-person downtown Redwood City. We'll hook you up with a Caltrain or parking pass, lunch, and Starbucks/Philz.
• We'll let you bite off as much as you can chew, and you'll get more and more opportunity if you prove you can handle it.
• We’re a small team now, but growing rapidly in the Bay Area. If you’re looking forward to great in-person Bay Area tech culture, then we’re definitely a good fit.

About Us

Maitai ensures LLMs never fail by optimizing reliability, speed, and resilience. We act as an intelligent proxy, applying real-time autocorrections, rerouting requests, and fine-tuning models to maximize performance. We're growing fast, well-capitalized, and seizing a massive opportunity to redefine how enterprise companies build with AI. Our technology enables businesses to create AI models that are 10x faster and more accurate than closed-source alternatives, while also providing more reliable inference through online guardrails that catch and fix model failures in real time—unlocking entirely new product possibilities. Top YC startups and public companies rely on us to manage their model stack.

1. Let’s Chat (Video Call)
   Hop on a quick 15-minute call and let’s just chat about what you’ve done and what you want to do.

2. Show Us Something
   Design something akin to what you would do on the job. Show off your various skills with something small.

3. Meet Up (In Person)
   Join us for coffee or lunch. We want to make sure that there’s good fit - you want to work with us and we want to work with you.

   We don’t drag out the process - we’ll make a decision quickly.