Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) / Founding Marketing Leader

We're looking for an exceptional Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) / Founding Marketing Leader to lead the brand, marketing, growth, positioning, and go-to-market strategy behind SkillsCapital's next major growth opportunity: building a new AI-native Career Intelligence platform for technology professionals globally.

This is not a traditional CMO role focused primarily on managing agencies, running campaigns, or maintaining an existing marketing function.

SkillsCapital already has a production-ready AI-Native Talent Intelligence platform , a proprietary AI-Native Talent Engine , operational Agentic AI-driven workflows , international customer relationships, and meaningful commercial traction.

The next opportunity is to build a globally recognized AI Career Intelligence brand and growth engine around a new B2C opportunity.

You'll work directly with the founders, product, technology, sales, and business leadership teams to define how SkillsCapital and its next-generation 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 enterprise technology ecosystems including SAP, Cloud, AI/ML, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data, and Enterprise Technology.

Our platform combines

- AI-Native Talent Intelligence
- AI-powered Talent Engine
- Agentic AI
- Intelligent matching and evaluation
- Semantic intelligence
- Workflow automation
- Talent data and intelligence

We have:
- Built and launched a production-ready AI-native Talent Intelligence platform
- Built and deployed an AI-Native Talent Engine
- Developed proprietary Talent Intelligence, matching, evaluation, and recommendation capabilities
- Built Agentic AI-driven end-to-end workflows
- Established customer relationships across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East
- Achieved a multi-million-dollar annual run rate
- Bootstrapped the business to profitability without external funding

We are now expanding into AI Career Intelligence for individual technology professionals. The Vision: AI Career Intelligence

We are building an AI-native Career Intelligence platform for technology professionals .

The vision is to create a fundamentally more intelligent way for professionals to understand, manage, and advance their careers—bringing together professional intelligence, market intelligence, AI-powered recommendations, personalized insights, and intelligent workflows into a unified platform.

We see an prospect to build a new intelligence layer around the professional and their career journey , rather than another standalone resume tool, job portal, or career application.

The platform will build on:

Talent Intelligence + AI + Semantic Intelligence + Matching + Evaluation + Agentic Workflows + Technology-Market Intelligence The CMO will play a central role in determining how this category is positioned, how the brand is built, how the market understands the product, and how millions of potential users are reached and converted.

What You'll Own

As the founding marketing leader, you will have significant ownership across brand, positioning, product marketing, growth, acquisition, content, community, GTM, and marketing operations.

1. Define the Brand





Build the brand identity and market perception for SkillsCapital's Career Intelligence business.

You'll help answer

- What do we want to be known for?
- What category are we creating?
- Why should professionals trust us?
- Why should they choose us over generic AI tools and existing career platforms?

2. Own Positioning & Messaging Develop compelling positioning, messaging, value propositions, narratives, and differentiation across:

- Product
- Website
- Social media
- Campaigns
- Sales
- Partnerships
- PR
- Community
- Investor / business communications

3. Build the Growth Engine Design and execute the growth strategy for acquiring technology professionals globally:

- Organic growth
- Performance marketing
- SEO
- Social
- Community
- Partnerships
- Referral programs
- Influencer / creator channels
- Content-led growth
- Product-led growth
- Lifecycle marketing
- Experimentation

4. Own Product Marketing Work closely with product and technology teams to translate sophisticated AI capabilities into simple, compelling user value.

You'll turn complex technology into:

- Product stories
- Use cases
- Demonstrations
- Landing pages
- Videos
- Campaigns
- Explainers
- Case studies
- Thought leadership

5. Build the Content Engine Create a scalable content strategy around:

- AI and careers
- Technology careers
- Talent intelligence
- Career intelligence
- Technology skills
- Future of work
- AI-driven skilled growth
- Technology market trends

The objective isn't simply to publish content. It's to build authority, trust, discovery, engagement, and organic demand. 6. Own Customer Acquisition

Develop a measurable acquisition funnel across:

Awareness → Discovery → Engagement → Activation → Conversion → Retention → Advocacy

Continuously identify opportunities to improve conversion and reduce acquisition costs.

7. Drive Marketing Experimentation

Build a culture of rapid experimentation across:

- Messaging
- Channels
- Campaigns
- Landing pages
- Offers
- Content
- Referral mechanisms
- Product-led growth
- Community
- Partnerships

8. Build the Marketing Organization Initially, this will be a hands-on builder role . You'll personally drive strategy and execution while using AI and a lean team to achieve disproportionate output. As the business scales, you'll build and lead a high-

performing marketing organization.

9. Shape Business & GTM Strategy

Work directly with founders to shape:

- Market strategy
- Segmentation
- Product positioning
- Pricing
- GTM
- Partnerships
- Growth strategy
- Geographic expansion
- Brand strategy

What We're Looking For We care far more about capability, ownership, creativity, execution, and demonstrated results than titles or years of experience.

You may be a great fit if you have:

- Experience building brands or growth engines from an early stage
- Strong understanding of B2C / consumer technology growth
- Experience marketing AI, SaaS, technology, CareerTech, HRTech, EdTech, or similar products
- Strong product marketing instincts
- Deep understanding of digital acquisition
- Experience with organic and paid growth




- Strong content and storytelling capabilities
- Experience building communities or audiences
- Strong analytical and experimentation skills
- Ability to operate hands-on with limited resources
- Strong product thinking
- Ability to work directly with founders
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and move quickly

Particularly valuable experience includes:
- Consumer AI
- Generative AI
- CareerTech
- HRTech
- Professional platforms
- SaaS
- Marketplaces
- Creator-led growth
- Community-led growth
- Product-led growth
- SEO / content-led growth
- Viral / referral growth

The AI-Native Marketing Opportunity You will have the opportunity to use AI across:

- Market research
- Customer research
- Content creation
- Personalization
- SEO
- Campaign generation
- Creative production
- Video
- Social
- Analytics
- Lead intelligence
- Experimentation
- Marketing automation
- Customer engagement

The goal isn't simply to market an AI product . It is to build an AI-native marketing organization where a small, highly capable team can achieve the output of a much larger traditional marketing organization.

Why This Opportunity

- Build a potentially category-defining global AI Career Intelligence brand
- Start with an existing AI-native technology and commercial foundation
- Work with a production-ready AI-Native Talent Intelligence platform
- Build on an operational AI-Native Talent Engine
- Leverage existing Agentic AI workflows
- Work directly with founders
- Shape category, positioning, brand, and GTM from the beginning
- Own the growth strategy
- Build a marketing organization from the ground up
- Work at the intersection of AI, Talent, CareerTech, and Future of Work

Most importantly, you're not joining to run an established marketing machine . You're joining to build the marketing machine. Compensation & Ownership

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

The compensation structure can include:

- Meaningful equity / ownership opportunity
- Long-term wealth creation potential
- High-impact strategic ownership
- Competitive structure based on experience and level of commitment
- Significant 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 the value created. This opportunity is best suited for someone excited by:

- Ownership
- Building from the ground up
- AI
- Brand building
- Growth
- Global scale
- Long-term value creation
- Entrepreneurial risk and reward

It is not designed for someone looking primarily for a conventional corporate CMO role with a large existing marketing organization and established budgets. This is an opportunity to build the brand, growth engine, marketing organization, and category alongside the founders.

How to Apply

Send your resume to: [email protected]

Please include

- A short note on why this opportunity excites you
- Examples of brands, products, audiences, or growth engines you've helped build
- Metrics demonstrating your impact wherever possible
- Links to campaigns, content, websites, communities, or products you've worked on
- Your LinkedIn / portfolio, if applicable
- Your expectations around compensation and ownership

We care far more about what you've actually built, grown, and achieved

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