Director of Marketing

About Stride

Stride is an AI consultancy built to deliver real results. We combine elite engineering talent with cutting-edge GenAI tooling to help companies build high-quality software, modernize legacy systems, and future-proof their tech orgs. From Fortune 50 giants to scaling startups, clients trust us to accelerate delivery, reduce technical risk, and leave internal teams stronger than we found them. While others might be selling magic, Stride has spent the last decade delivering real outcomes that transform how businesses build and ship software.

Location: Remote (U.S.)

Position Overview

Are you both a strategist and a doer — the kind of leader who can set the vision, and also roll up your sleeves to make things happen? Do you thrive on generating measurable results, and making marketing magic with a budget? Are you eager to join a progressive tech company leading the way in AI software development?

Stride is looking for a Director of Marketing with a player-coach mindset — someone who can run an organized, agile, and creative marketing team while directly driving execution. You’ll be accountable for generating inbound leads, elevating Stride’s brand, supporting our sales and recruiting teams, and shaping the narrative around Stride's growth in the rapidly evolving world of AI and custom software development. Stride is influencing how businesses think about AI adoption, and this person will be part of that voice.

This role is equal parts strategy and execution: you’ll define positioning and mid-term growth strategy, while also creating content plans, driving digital lead generation, managing vendors, building campaigns, and ensuring Stride is attending, sponsoring and hosting the right in-person events.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and run Stride’s marketing function with an agile mindset: make work visible, document priorities, and communicate clearly across the org
  

• Drive inbound lead generation through content marketing, digital campaigns, GEO/SEO, and events
  

• Support the sales team with messaging, decks, one pagers, email sequence language, and campaign execution
  

• Manage Stride’s brand presence across channels, ensuring consistent, compelling content and storytelling
  

• Identify and plan for industry events where Stride should have a presence; manage logistics, promotion, and follow-up
  

• Oversee vendor relationships, ensuring external partners deliver on goals and budget
  

• Track performance and pipeline impact, using data to inform priorities and iterate quickly
  

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure sales, product, and delivery are aligned on market positioning and campaigns

• Have the ability to test new AI tools to make the marketing team better and stronger than ever before

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience running marketing strategy and execution for a B2B technology or services company

• Ability to use various AI tools in a way that increases the efficiency and ROI of Stride’s marketing efforts and results in measurable outcomes.

• Strong player-coach mindset — you can deliver results yourself while building and mentoring a team

• Demonstrated success in digital lead generation and inbound marketing campaigns

• Exceptional organizational skills: documenting processes, prioritizing work, and delivering on time

• Ability to balance strategic positioning with hands-on execution

• Strong communication skills across all levels of the organization — up, across, and down

• Hustle and creativity

• Proficiency with core marketing tools: HubSpot, Webflow, LinkedIn Sales Navigator

• Deep curiosity and commitment to staying ahead of marketing trends — continuously exploring new strategies, channels, and tools to improve efficiency, drive innovation, and maximize impact.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast pivots — able to work autonomously, make decisions with imperfect information, and adapt quickly to changing priorities without losing momentum.

Stride values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Ready to help shape the future of AI-powered software development? We'd love to hear from you. Apply today and join us in transforming how companies build and deliver software.