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title: "Marketing Manager, Founding Marketing Hire"
company: "Sitreps"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/sitreps"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/sitreps-marketing-manager-founding-marketing-hire-53f0e30c-8bd9-4d39-ab5c-f0ee886ef389"
apply_url: "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sitrepsllc/jobs/4410920009"
workplace: hybrid
location: "Herndon, VA (hybrid) — 20% travel"
employment_type: unspecified
seniority: founding
role: marketing-growth
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-09-18T13:45:00.000Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-18T13:47:32.278Z
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# Marketing Manager, Founding Marketing Hire

**Sitreps** · Herndon, VA (hybrid) — 20% travel

Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sitrepsllc/jobs/4410920009

## About Sitreps

Sitreps supports your veteran career transition with expert advice, a veteran-focused job board, and tips for moving from military to civilian life confidently.

## About the role

##### Marketing Manager, Founding Marketing Hire

**Company:** Name disclosed upon mutual interest · **Location:** Herndon, VA (on-site/hybrid) — 20% travel · **Reports to:** CEO or CRO, with direct exposure to the founders · **Comp:** $140,000–$170,000 base, plus bonus and equity

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##### About the Client

The client is a defense-technology company building a family of high-altitude and long-range systems: tactical balloon platforms, balloon-deployed ISR and communications buses, an autonomous glide munition, specialty-purpose dispensers, and a family of ultra long range one-way attack and ISR drones. The company has recently closed a funding round backed by a top-tier venture syndicate, and as it scales toward its next round, it is building its first dedicated marketing function from the ground up.

##### About the Role

This is the founding marketing hire — someone who can own the full marketing function end to end from day one and grow into a leadership role as the team scales. You'll work directly with the founders and executive team, shape how the company shows up publicly in a fast-moving defense-tech and national security landscape, and build the systems and team needed to support a company scaling through its next stage of growth and beyond. Strong performance in this role comes with a clear path to Head of Marketing, including hiring and managing a team.

##### Responsibilities

- The company's social media presence and brand voice across all platforms

- Content generation, from concept through production, in partnership with outside creative resources

- Inbound and outbound marketing campaigns, including planning, execution, and performance tracking

- A social and content calendar aligned to product milestones, funding announcements, and industry events

- Sourcing, hiring, and managing photography and video vendors/contractors

- Product collateral development (data sheets, one-pagers, web content, trade show materials) in partnership with engineering and product

- Client and partner-facing marketing support at conferences, demos, and industry events

- Building the marketing function's foundational systems (CRM/marketing automation, brand guidelines, content workflows) as the team scales

##### Requirements

##### Must-Haves

- 3-6+ years of marketing experience, with a track record of owning a marketing function or major workstream independently

- Prior experience at a venture-backed startup, ideally at or near the founding marketing hire stage

- Comfortable operating with minimal structure and building process rather than inheriting it

- Strong written and visual eye; able to brief and manage outside creative vendors effectively

- Experience running both inbound (content, SEO, campaigns) and outbound (targeted outreach, event marketing, ABM-style campaigns) motions

- Client-facing and comfortable representing the company at industry events and in front of customers/partners

- Willing to be based in Herndon, VA and travel roughly 20% of the time

##### Nice-to-Haves

- Prior exposure to defense, aerospace, government, or dual-use tech markets is a strong plus

##### Why This Role

This is a ground-floor opportunity to build a marketing function at a defense-technology company backed by a top-tier venture syndicate, led by a multi-time defense founding team, with direct access to the founders and a clear growth path into a leadership role as the company and team scale.

*The client is an equal opportunity employer. This role supports defense work.*

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