We're looking for an exceptional CMO / Founding Marketing Leader to lead brand, marketing, growth, positioning, and GTM for SkillsCapital's next major opportunity: a new AI-native Career Intelligence platform for technology professionals globally.

This is not a traditional CMO role focused on agencies, campaigns, or maintaining an existing marketing function. It is a builder's role , and you are not starting from zero .

SkillsCapital has a production-ready AI-Native Talent Intelligence platform, AI-Native Talent Engine, operational Agentic AI workflows, international customers, and commercial traction . The prospect is to build a globally recognized AI Career Intelligence brand and growth engine .

You'll work with founders, product, technology, sales, and business leadership to define how SkillsCapital and its products are positioned, understood, adopted, and scaled globally .

About SkillsCapital

SkillsCapital is an AI-native Talent Intelligence platform helping organizations discover, evaluate, and deploy specialized technology talent across SAP, Cloud, AI/ML, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data, and Enterprise Technology .

It combines AI-Native Talent Intelligence, AI-powered Talent Engine, Agentic AI, matching/evaluation, semantic intelligence, workflow automation, talent data, expert validation, and deployment-readiness intelligence ; capabilities are production-ready and deployed in real workflows .

We have a production-ready AI-native Talent Intelligence platform and AI-Native Talent Engine , proprietary Talent Intelligence, matching/evaluation/recommendation and Agentic AI capabilities, customers across the U.S., U.K., Europe, Australia, and Middle East , a multi-million-dollar annual run rate , profitability without external funding, and a vetted technology-professional network.

Leadership backgrounds include IBM, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, Trilogy, ESW Capital , Wharton, London Business School, IIT Delhi, IIIT Hyderabad, BITS Pilani .

We are expanding into AI Career Intelligence for individual technology professionals .

The Vision: AI Career Intelligence The vision is a more intelligent way for professionals to understand, manage, and advance their careers through professional intelligence, market intelligence, AI recommendations, personalized insights, and intelligent workflows .

Rather than another resume tool, job portal, or career application, we aim to build a new intelligence layer around the professional and career journey , using Talent Intelligence + AI + Semantic Intelligence + Matching + Evaluation + Agentic Workflows + Technology-Market Intelligence .

This is a large global opportunity across AI, Talent, CareerTech, and Future of Work .

The CMO will determine category positioning, brand, market understanding, and how millions of potential users are reached and converted .

What You'll Own1. Define the Brand

Build the brand identity and market perception for the Career Intelligence business. Help determine what we want to be known for, what category we're creating, why professionals should trust us, and why they should choose us over generic AI tools and existing career platforms .

1. Own Positioning & Messaging

Develop positioning, messaging, value propositions, narratives, and differentiation across product, website, social, campaigns, sales, partnerships, PR,



community, and investor/business communications .

1. Build the Growth Engine

Design and execute global acquisition strategy for technology professionals through organic growth, performance marketing, SEO, social, community, partnerships, referrals, influencer/creator channels, content-led growth, product-led growth, lifecycle marketing, and experimentation .

1. Own Product Marketing

Turn sophisticated AI capabilities into simple, compelling user value through product stories, use cases, demos, landing pages, videos, campaigns, explainers, case studies, and thought leadership.

1. Build the Content Engine

Create scalable content around AI/careers, technology careers, Talent Intelligence, Career Intelligence, technology skills, future of work, AI-driven professional growth, and technology market trends to build authority, trust, discovery, engagement, and organic demand .

1. Build Community

Build relationships with technology professionals, technical communities, domain experts, creators, and influential voices across global technology ecosystems.
1. Own Customer Acquisition

Build a measurable funnel across Awareness → Discovery → Engagement → Activation → Conversion → Retention → Advocacy , continuously improving conversion and reducing acquisition costs.

1. Drive Marketing Experimentation

Rapidly test messaging, channels, campaigns, landing pages, offers, content, referrals, product-led growth, community, and partnerships .

1. Build the Marketing Organization

Initially this is a hands-on builder role . Personally drive strategy and execution while using AI and a lean team for disproportionate output. As the business scales, build and lead a high-performing marketing organization.

1. Shape Business & GTM Strategy

Work with founders on market strategy, segmentation, positioning, pricing, GTM, partnerships, growth, geographic expansion, and brand strategy .

What We're Looking For

We value capability, ownership, creativity, execution, and results over titles or years.

You may be a great fit with:

- Early-stage brand/growth engine experience
- Strong B2C/consumer technology growth understanding
- Marketing experience in AI, SaaS, technology, CareerTech, HRTech, EdTech, or similar
- Strong product marketing, content, storytelling, and digital acquisition skills
- Organic and paid growth, community/audience building, analytics, and experimentation
- Hands-on ability with limited resources
- Strong product thinking
- Ability to work directly with founders and thrive in ambiguity

Particularly valuable: Consumer/Generative AI, CareerTech, HRTech, professional platforms, SaaS, marketplaces, creator/community/product-led growth, SEO/content growth, and viral/referral growth .

What We Value

We want someone who thinks Category before campaign, Product before promotion, Customer before channel, Experimentation before assumptions, and Outcomes before activity .





You should be comfortable going from Strategy → Positioning → Landing Page → Campaign → Analytics → Experiment → Iteration without a large team, and use AI extensively to multiply marketing output .

The AI-Native Marketing Opportunity

Use AI across market/customer research, content, personalization, SEO, campaigns, creative/video/social, analytics, lead intelligence, experimentation, automation, and customer engagement .

The goal is an AI-native marketing organization where a small, highly capable team can match the output of a much larger traditional marketing organization.

Why This Opportunity

- Build a category-defining global AI Career Intelligence brand
- Start with existing AI technology and commercial traction
- Leverage the Talent Intelligence platform, Talent Engine, and Agentic AI workflows
- Work directly with founders
- Shape category, positioning, brand, GTM, and growth
- Build a global audience and marketing organization across AI, Talent, CareerTech, and Future of Work
- Reach a global market of technology professionals

You're not joining to run an established marketing machine ; you're joining to build it . Why SkillsCapital?

SkillsCapital has demonstrated it can build, commercialize, and operate AI-native products , with a production-ready Talent Intelligence Platform, AI-Native Talent Engine, operational Agentic AI workflows, multi-million-dollar annual run rate, profitable business, global customers, and vetted technology professionals .

Career Intelligence is the next growth opportunity .

Compensation & Ownership

This senior leadership opportunity offers significant long-term upside for someone excited about building a category-defining technology and consumer brand.

The compensation structure can include:

- Meaningful equity / ownership
- Long-term wealth creation potential
- High-impact strategic ownership
- Competitive structure based on experience/commitment
- Upside tied to brand, product, customer, and business growth

For the right person, this can evolve into a true founding marketing leadership position with meaningful participation in value created. Best suited for ownership, building from the ground up, AI, brand building, growth, global scale, long-term value creation, and entrepreneurial risk/reward .

It is not for a conventional corporate CMO role with a large existing organization/budgets, or someone seeking high fixed salary without accountability, execution, or long-term commitment.

Build the brand, growth engine, marketing organization, and category alongside the founders .

How to Apply

Send your resume to [email protected] with:

- Why this opportunity excites you
- Brands, products, audiences, or growth engines you've helped build
- Impact metrics wherever possible
- Links to campaigns, content, websites, communities, or products
- LinkedIn / portfolio, if applicable
- Compensation and ownership expectations

We value what you've built, grown, and achieved over title. If you want to build a globally recognized AI-native Career Intelligence company and brand from an existing foundation , we'd love to hear from you.

Only email applications with a thoughtful note demonstrating genuine interest, alignment, and clarity around expectations and compensation will be considered.

📌 Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) / Founding Marketing Leader - Global AI-Native Tech Talent Venture (India)
🏢 SkillsCapital
📍 India