Growth @ Hatchet

Hatchet is a code-first orchestration engine used by companies to run AI workloads at scale.

Modern LLM-native workloads break traditional infrastructure. Long-running LLM calls timeout your APIs, massive contexts crash your workers, parallel jobs flood your queues. Hatchet handles the complexity so developers can focus on features:

⚡️ real-time AI agents

⏰ long-running jobs that recover gracefully

🌊 massive parallel workloads that scale

We're 100% open source, processing billions of tasks for scale-ups and enterprises, backed by Y Combinator, and growing fast.

So far, our growth has been organic through a few Hacker News posts and word-of-mouth, but we're ready to scale up and show the world what's possible with modern low-latency async job processing, especially in AI systems. That's where you come in.

Why this role matters

We're at an inflection point. The AI explosion is creating massive demand for orchestration that can handle the new problems introduced by LLMs without the infrastructure headaches. We're fortunate to work with hundreds of scaling AI companies and some of the top research labs with a front row view to new problems and patterns to solve them.

As our first Growth Marketer, you'll be the architect of our awareness strategy, building our presence in the developer community and creating the experiments that turn our organic momentum into scalable, predictable growth. You'll be our voice at conferences, the curator of our content, and the strategist behind campaigns that resonate with technical audiences.

You'll have the opportunity to define our growth and awareness strategy from the ground up while working directly with two 2x YC technical founders.

What you'll do

Events & Community Building

• Lead our conference strategy - from selecting the right AI/infrastructure events to executing memorable activations
• Build and manage our speaker program, identifying opportunities for thought leadership at key industry events
• Create engaging booth experiences, demos, and collateral that showcase Hatchet's capabilities to technical audiences
• Foster relationships with developer communities, AI research groups, and infrastructure meetups

Growth Experimentation

• Design and execute experiments across acquisition channels - from content marketing to developer advocacy
• Test messaging, positioning, and campaign strategies across different technical audiences
• Build and optimize campaigns for awareness, trial conversion, and community engagement
• Run A/B tests on everything from landing pages to email sequences to conference activations

Awareness & Content Strategy

• Develop content that educates developers about AI orchestration challenges and solutions
• Create case studies, technical blog posts, and developer-focused resources that drive awareness
• Manage our presence across developer channels - GitHub, social media, forums, and communities
• Build thought leadership content around AI infrastructure trends and best practices

Campaign Development

• Launch integrated campaigns that combine events, content, and digital channels
• Create developer-focused campaigns that feel authentic and valuable, not salesy
• Build automated nurture sequences for conference leads and content engagement
• Develop partnership campaigns with complementary tools and platforms in the AI ecosystem

Analytics & Optimization

• Track awareness metrics, event ROI, and campaign performance across all channels
• Analyze which events, content, and campaigns drive the highest quality leads and conversions
• Build reporting dashboards to measure brand awareness, developer sentiment, and funnel impact
• Use data to optimize event selection, content strategy, and campaign messaging

You might be a fit if

• You understand developers. You know how technical audiences think, what they care about, and how they discover new tools
• You're creative with campaigns. You can design memorable experiences and content that cut through the noise at conferences and online
• You're analytical. You track everything, test hypotheses, and optimize based on data rather than assumptions
• You move fast and iterate. You're comfortable launching experiments quickly and learning from the results
• You're comfortable being technical. You can have credible conversations about AI infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer tooling

Requirements

• 2+ years of growth marketing, developer marketing, or technical marketing experience
• Hands-on experience with events - from booth management to speaker programs to community building
• Growth experimentation experience. You've designed and run campaigns across multiple channels and measured their impact
• Understanding of developer tools and infrastructure. You know how technical products are adopted and scaled
• Strong analytical skills. Comfortable with analytics tools, attribution tracking, and campaign measurement

Bonus points for

• Experience at a developer tools company or open source project
• Background in AI/ML infrastructure or distributed systems
• Previous experience managing conference programs or developer advocacy initiatives
• Active in developer communities or have built technical content/resources
• Experience with PLG motions and converting technical evaluators to paid customers

What we offer

• $110k-$130k base compensation + meaningful equity in a fast-growing startup
• Full benefits package including premium healthcare and unlimited PTO
• Events and marketing budget for conferences, activations, and growth experiments
• Conference travel budget - you'll be attending and speaking at industry events regularly
• Remote-friendly with optional NYC office access, but expect regular travel for events and community building
• Direct impact. Your campaigns and events will directly drive our growth and market presence

Who you'll work with

We're a small team of 4: Alexander (previously founded Porter YC S20, multi cloud infrastructure) and Gabe (previously founded ClearMix YC S20, distributed remote video production), plus 2 founding engineers. We're obsessive about building the developer experience we've always wanted and believe that authentic community building and technical storytelling are key to scaling our impact.

We move fast and use what we ship. Everyone in the company shares in support, where we're constantly improving the product based on feedback and relationships with our customers. If you're excited about building the awareness and community that will power the next generation of AI orchestration, we'd love to hear from you.