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SambaNova Systems

Head of Corporate Marketing

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In-Office
San Jose, CA, USA
270K-330K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
San Jose, CA, USA
270K-330K Annually
Senior level
Leads SambaNova’s corporate marketing function, owning brand strategy, creative services, website and digital presence, content, SEO/AEO, and major industry events. Partners with the CMO and cross-functional teams to develop a unified company narrative, execute integrated campaigns, manage agencies, and measure marketing investments. Builds and scales the corporate marketing team while representing the company externally and strengthening credibility in the technical AI infrastructure market.
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SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, delivering a full-stack inference platform for customers worldwide. At the core of SambaNova's technology is the RDU (Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit) — a chip built on a dataflow architecture rather than the traditional GPU model. Its decode performance is especially strong for agentic workloads like multi-turn agents, code generation, and long-running applications. RDUs are packaged into SambaRack, rack-scale hardware that lets customers deploy state-of-the-art models with better performance, greater energy efficiency, and faster time to value.

SambaNova is looking for a Head of Corporate Marketing (Senior Director or VP-level) to build and lead the corporate marketing function within a broader marketing organization led by the CMO. This is a rare opportunity to shape the brand, creative, web, content, and event presence of one of the most important independent players in AI infrastructure — at a moment when the market is actively re-evaluating what comes after GPUs.

You will own corporate brand identity, website and digital presence, content creation, creative services, and large-scale corporate and industry events, while partnering closely with product marketing, demand generation, developer relations, and the CMO to make sure every external touchpoint — website, events, content, creative, executive platform — reinforces a single, sharp story about why SambaNova and our AI inference architecture matter.

The right candidate has run corporate or brand marketing at some scale inside a fast-moving tech company, is comfortable being the connective tissue between the CMO's vision and the company's go-to-market motion, and knows how to build a team and function from a solid but still-forming base.

Responsibilities
  • Own SambaNova's overall brand strategy, brand identity, and positioning across all external channels.
  • Own all creative services, ensuring visual and verbal consistency across web, events, campaigns, and content.
  • Own SambaNova's website and web presence, including SEO/AEO strategy, to strengthen discoverability and digital credibility.
  • Own content creation and production — including thought leadership, POV/POC content, and the company blog — executing against direction set by the CMO to reinforce a single, sharp narrative.
  • Own corporate and large-scale third-party industry events, setting the strategy and ensuring flawless execution for major launches, conferences, and keynotes.
  • Serve as a close partner to the CMO, translating brand and content strategy into flawless execution across all channels.
  • Lead integrated brand marketing campaigns that tie together brand, product launches, events, and demand generation into one coherent story.
  • Build, mentor, and scale a corporate marketing team, while working cross-functionally with product marketing, DevRel, Sales, and field teams.
  • Manage relationships with outside creative and event agencies to keep execution high-quality and on-brand.
  • Bring structure and rigor to marketing operations — planning, budgeting, and measuring the impact of brand, creative, and content investment.
  • Represent the company externally as a credible technical and business spokesperson when needed.
What We're Looking For
  • 8+ years in corporate marketing, brand, or creative leadership, with at least 2-3 years in a senior leadership role (Senior Director, Head of, or VP level).
  • Direct experience building or scaling a marketing function inside a high-growth technology company — infrastructure, semiconductors, cloud, or enterprise AI strongly preferred.
  • Track record of shaping company narrative and brand at an inflection point (new category, major launch, funding milestone, or public-market transition).
  • Strong executive presence and experience acting as a strategic partner to a CMO or senior marketing leader.
  • Deep familiarity with what it takes to build brand credibility and trust in a technical, skeptical market.
  • Hands-on experience owning a website, SEO/AEO, and digital brand presence.
  • Proven people-leadership skills — has built and run teams, not just functions.
  • Comfortable operating with startup speed and ambiguity while still bringing enterprise-grade marketing discipline.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience marketing chips, accelerators, datacenter hardware, or AI/ML infrastructure.
  • Experience owning or elevating a company's presence at major industry events (e.g., Nvidia GTC, AWS re:Invent, Web Summit).
  • Experience directing content strategy — thought leadership, POV/POC content, and blog — in a technical category.
  • Experience marketing through a major company milestone (IPO, large funding round, high-profile acquisition, category creation).
  • Public-facing credibility of their own (interviews, panels, bylines, podcast appearances).
  • Bay Area-based or willing to work closely and in-person with the CMO and marketing leadership team.

Base Salary Range:

Base Pay Range
$270,000—$330,000 USD

Submission Guidelines
Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at SambaNova Systems, you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. 

EEO Policy
SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.

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Our Palo Alto office is in a tech complex known for incubating research facilities and borders the Bay Trail along the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge. Only a 5-minute walk, our employees often fly out of PAO for lunch with colleagues or enjoy happy hour at the nearby Palo Alto Country Club.

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