What the role involves
Location
San Francisco
Reports to: CEO
About Tavus
Tavus is a research company focused on building AI systems that enable real-time, human-like interaction between people and machines. Its technology combines multimodal perception, generation, and low-latency infrastructure to support conversational video interfaces.
The company is backed by investors including Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and Scale Venture Partners.
The Role
Tavus is hiring a founding marketer to lead brand, product marketing, and category development.
This role sits outside a traditional marketing structure and reports directly to the founder. The successful candidate will own narrative development, content creation, and distribution end-to-end.
Key responsibilities include
- Developing and maintaining core company and product narratives
- Translating technical concepts into clear, externally facing messaging
- Creating high-quality content across formats (written, video, demos, launches)
- Supporting frequent product launches (weekly cadence) with structured messaging and assets
- Owning and evolving brand positioning across website, product, and external channels
- Driving distribution through organic, social, and PR channels
- Contributing to category definition in an emerging market
- Candidate Profile
- The role is open to candidates across a range of seniority (typically 4+ years’ experience), with a focus on demonstrated execution capability.
Two common profiles are expected
Narrative / Creative Focus
- Strong ability to develop clear, compelling messaging from complex inputs
- High attention to detail across writing, visual output, and overall brand
- Experience producing product-facing content (e.g. demos, websites, launch materials)
Distribution / Growth Focus
- Experience driving reach through content, launches, and media
- Strong understanding of channels, timing, and amplification strategies
- Track record of creating high-engagement or high-visibility moments
- Candidates may lean toward one area but should be capable across both.
- Requirements
- Proven experience executing marketing work end-to-end (not solely strategy)
- Ability to operate independently and manage multiple workstreams
- Strong product understanding and ability to map messaging to user journeys
- High quality bar for output and attention to detail
- Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment with frequent releases
Preferred Background
- Experience in AI or developer-facing products
- Exposure to early-stage or high-growth environments
- Involvement in positioning or launching new product categories
- Familiarity with companies such as ElevenLabs, Lovable, or similar
Scope and Impact
- Full ownership of brand and narrative development
- Direct collaboration with the founder
- Responsibility for external perception of the company and its products
- Opportunity to shape positioning in a new and evolving category
About Tavus
At Tavus, we're building the human layer of AI. Our mission is to make human-AI interaction as natural as face-to-face interaction, enabling the human touch where it has been previously unscalable. We achieve this through pioneering research in multi-modal AI models for human perception and understanding, combined with state-of-the-art human avatar rendering and conversation models that we make accessible to developers worldwide. Our models and APIs power everything from text-to-video AI avatars to real-time conversational video experiences across industries like healthcare, recruiting, sales, education, and more. By enabling AI to see, hear, and communicate with human-like authenticity, we're creating the foundation for developers to create the next generation of AI employees, assistants, and companions.
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