Head of Marketing
Formic provides full-service, robotics-as-a-service automation for U.S. manufacturers, including deployment, operation, monitoring, and maintenance of industrial robotic systems without upfront capital investment.
About Formic
Formic Technologies, Inc. is a Bolingbrook, Illinois-based industrial automation company founded in 2020. Its Full Service Automation offering deploys and operates robotic systems for manufacturing tasks such as palletizing, case packing, machine tending, pallet wrapping, and material movement. Its current platform combines Formic Core, an on-robot physical-AI execution layer, with Cortex, a fleet-level intelligence and operations layer.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build, optimize, and lead a scalable demand and qualified-pipeline engine. You will own marketing strategy, positioning, messaging, brand, campaigns, content, events, product marketing, and public relations. You will lead demand generation, Sales Development, and GTM Engineering; develop the marketing technology ecosystem; establish funnel metrics and operating cadences; partner with Sales and RevOps; and build, coach, and hold a multidisciplinary team accountable for commercial results.
Requirements
- Experience building and leading Marketing, Growth, Demand Generation, or similarly broad functions in high-growth B2B companies
- Track record of building, improving, and scaling marketing and pipeline-generation systems
- Deep understanding of B2B demand generation, funnel economics, segmentation, conversion, attribution, and the Marketing, SDR, and Sales pipeline
- Experience developing positioning and messaging for complex products, markets, and buying decisions
- Technical fluency with marketing technology, data, automation, and AI-enabled GTM systems
- Experience evaluating, integrating, and optimizing GTM systems
- Experience applying emerging technologies, rigorously experimenting, and scaling successful approaches
- People leadership experience, including team development, delegation, performance management, and organizational change
- Ability to operate strategically and tactically and communicate across functions
Responsibilities
- Own marketing strategy, brand positioning, messaging, and market presence
- Develop content, creative, video, website, customer stories, events, campaigns, thought leadership, public relations, and product marketing
- Create qualified pipeline through marketing, lead generation, SDR outreach, ABM, events, paid, organic, partnership, and emerging channels
- Lead and develop the Sales Development function, including targeting, prospecting, messaging, sequencing, coaching, productivity, and performance
- Establish funnel definitions, lead routing, follow-up processes, and handoffs to Sales
- Partner with Sales and RevOps on territory priorities, pipeline needs, lead quality, conversion, and market feedback
- Measure pipeline contribution, progression, conversion, cost, channel effectiveness, and commercial impact
- Lead GTM Engineering using AI, automation, data, enrichment, personalization, and emerging technology
- Own and improve the marketing technology ecosystem, including CRM integrations, outbound platforms, data quality, attribution, and reporting
- Build scalable systems for account identification, segmentation, prospecting, personalization, campaign execution, and lead management
- Drive disciplined experimentation and scale successful approaches
- Establish data governance, documentation, reliable GTM infrastructure, and clear ownership
- Define funnel metrics and operating cadences that guide strategy, budget, and resource decisions
- Lead, coach, develop, and hire a multidisciplinary marketing organization
- Manage accountability for agencies, contractors, and technology partners
Benefits
- Equity through a stock option program
- Uncapped commission structure for commission-eligible roles
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 99% of employee premiums and 75% of dependent coverage paid
- Optional healthcare buy-up plans
- FSA and DCFSA
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid short-term disability insurance
- Employer-paid long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401(k) plan
- One-time home office stipend for fully remote and hybrid employees
- Monthly cell phone and internet reimbursement
- Flexible paid time off
