[Hiring] Senior Manager - Brand Marketing @KUNGFU.AI

Role Description

KUNGFU.AI is hiring a Senior Manager, Brand Marketing, a senior manager-level role reporting to the CMO, to own how the market hears us: content, public relations, analyst relations, events, and the brand itself.

Our growth is concentrated in industries where the stakes and the rules are unusually specific:

• Healthcare and life sciences
• Government and defense contracting
• Regulated and specialized markets

This is a role for someone who can go narrow:

• Choose a real problem that a Chief Medical Information Officer, a VP of Regulatory Affairs, or a capture lead actually has.
• Learn it properly, including the standard, the regulator, and the deadline that make it urgent.
• Explain in short, plain, unhedged language why KUNGFU.AI is the right answer to that problem, with a number in it.

You will not be starting cold:

• 230+ delivered engagements to draw on
• Engineers and strategists with real depth in these sectors
• Five Gartner reports that cite us
• A team that will sit with you for as long as it takes to get a claim right

You will also start with a book: Wayfinding , by our CEO Stephen Straus and Sr. AI Strategist, Ben Szuhaj, publishes with BenBella on 20 October 2026.

What You'll Own

• Sector Content & Buyer Translation
  • Work with the CMO and marketing ops manager to build the sector content engine.
  • Produce at volume, with aim.
  • Learn the domain properly.
  • Translate our service offerings into buyer language.
  • Hold the line between sector specificity and one coherent brand.
• Public Relations
  • Work with the CMO to manage our PR efforts.
  • Build the trade press bench alongside the national one.
  • Make our proof public.
• Analyst Relations
  • Work with the CMO to manage our analyst program day to day.
  • Move us from cited to sourced.
  • Turn analyst validation into sales currency.
• Events, External & Internal
  • Manage the event portfolio and the standard it is held to.
  • Go where our buyers go.
  • Own the speaking program end to end.
  • Own internal events and employer brand.

What You Bring

• 5-10+ years across brand, content, communications, or product marketing.
• Proven work in at least one highly regulated or specialized industry.
• A portfolio of sector-specific work.
• A track record of getting technical depth out of experts and onto the page.
• Demonstrable earned media results.
• Direct analyst relations experience with Gartner, Forrester, IDC, or comparable.
• A track record managing events that were measured.
• Hands-on comfort directing AI tooling for research, drafting, and production.
• Category creation, book, or executive platform launch experience is a strong advantage.

Competencies

• You go narrow by instinct.
• You write short.
• You are both the architect and the operator.
• You measure brand work.
• You work without a large team today.
• You are comfortable in a fast-moving, remote-first, entrepreneurial environment.

Your First 90 Days

• Day 30: A content plan for our lead sub-sectors, with a named buyer and a named problem behind each. Analyst briefing cadence set.
• Day 60: First sector content set live. First vertical roundtable held.
• Day 90: A sector content engine producing on a predictable cadence.

How We Will Measure This Role

• Content published against a named buyer and sub-sector.
• Earned placements per vertical, per quarter.
• Analyst briefings held and evaluations entered.
• Cost per qualified opportunity on every event we run.
• Share of AI-generated answers in our lead verticals.
• Offering pages that state an outcome.
• Employer brand measured in qualified applicants for hard roles.

What This Job Is Not

• It is not a content-calendar role.
• It is not a volume-for-its-own-sake role.
• It is not a design and swag role.
• It is not a role where the agency does the thinking.
• It is not a role for someone who needs a large team or a settled organization to do their best work.