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Head of Marketing

Parallel Web Systems parallel.ai Open · verified Aug 5, 2026
On-site San Francisco Full-time Director Marketing Leadership

Leadership Marketing Leadership role at Parallel Web Systems. San Francisco · full-time · $200,000–$350,000 base.

SalaryStated by Parallel Web Systems
$200,000 – $350,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from Parallel Web SystemsOur estimate for the market: $190,000–$275,000
Above the market median of $199,750 for lead marketing leadership roles in San Francisco.
Worked out from 13 postings that stated pay, median $199,750. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Set the go-to-market direction and build the marketing function
  • Position Parallel against incumbents around accuracy and cost
  • Turn benchmark results and customer evidence into demand
  • Set priorities for brand, content, developer community, and growth

What you bring

  • Experience building or scaling marketing for a technical API or infrastructure company
  • Ability to balance product positioning with pipeline generation
  • Skill in turning complex product details into messaging for AI engineers and technical buyers
  • A distinctive approach to developing a brand and reaching audiences

Who this fits

You'll fit if you have built or expanded marketing for a technical API or infrastructure company, can work deeply with the product, and can connect positioning to pipeline. The role is fully in person, working from the Palo Alto headquarters and San Francisco office.

From the employer

About us

Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.

We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.

Job: You will shape Parallel's go-to-market strategy and build the marketing function. You will define how we position against incumbents, own the narrative around accuracy and cost, and turn benchmark wins and customer proof points into demand. You will set the roadmap across brand, content, developer community, and growth.

You: Have built or scaled marketing at a technical API or infrastructure company. You think in positioning and pipeline equally. You are comfortable going deep on product to extract what actually matters, and translating that into messaging that lands with AI engineers and technical buyers. You have some “spice” in how you think about building a brand and reaching audiences.

Life at Parallel

Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.

We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:

  • Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.

  • Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.

  • Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.

  • Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.

  • Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.

Compensation & benefits

  • Competitive salary

  • Generous equity

  • Visa sponsorships

  • 401K plans

  • Daily lunch & office snacks

  • Dinner at the office

  • Unlimited vacation

  • Caltrain pass reimbursement