Startup Marketing Associate

At Render, we're building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure. Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users. Our platform is trusted by over 6 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $257M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development. We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you. The Render Startup Program is how we earn our place as the default cloud for the next generation of builders. The most important founders don't come to us through ads or big conferences, they come through trusted rooms, warm intros, and high-signal moments. This role exists to build and run those moments at scale. As our Startup Marketing Associate, you'll be the operational engine and the on-the-ground face of the program. You'll take ownership of the day-to-day mechanics that keep the program humming, and you'll build our SF founder-dinner motion from the ground up, curating the right rooms, running flawless events, and turning relationships into momentum for Render. You'll work hand-in-hand with our Startup Program lead and our Developer Relations team to reach founders where they actually are. This is a role for someone early in their career but already plugged into the San Francisco startup ecosystem, someone social and high-agency who can make a warm intro in their sleep, fill a room with the right people, and make every founder in it feel like their time was well spent. If you're looking to grow into marketing, partnerships, and growth at a company moving fast to capture a generational market opening, this is a front-row seat. You will run the operational backbone of the Startup Program, owning application triage and review, credit issuance, partner UTM tracking, and CRM hygiene across HubSpot and Airtable. You will build and run the SF founder engine, sourcing and curating guest lists, managing venues, invitations, RSVPs, and logistics, and owning flawless day-of execution. You will drive light event marketing and promotion, crafting invitations, event landing pages, follow-up sequences, and post-event nurture. You will partner with Developer Relations to reach founders at scale and ensure content credibility. You will grow Render's footprint in the SF ecosystem by building and maintaining relationships across founders, operators, accelerators, and VC platform teams. Finally, you will close the loop on impact by tracking attendance, attribution, and conversion from event to program to customer.

Qualifications

4-6 years of experience across some mix of sales, partnerships, marketing, program or operations management, recruiting/talent, or developer relations, Deep roots in the SF startup ecosystem, genuinely social, a natural connector, able to make a warm intro, Fluency in the venture landscape and a real understanding of the AI transformation, An instinct for how developers adopt tools, understanding technologies in the consideration set for technical teams, High agency and strong organization, finds problems before they're assigned, comfortable owning logistics from invite to follow-up, Based in San Francisco, including for evening events, Existing relationships with founders, operators, accelerators, or VC platform/portfolio teams (nice-to-have), Experience running events, community programs, or founder-facing initiatives (nice-to-have), Familiarity with the modern GTM stack (HubSpot, Airtable, Clay, Apollo, and similar) (nice-to-have), Hands-on familiarity with the developer-tools and cloud infrastructure landscape (nice-to-have)