About the role

Role overview

Startup Marketing Associate (Startup Program) Join Render as the operational engine of its Startup Program. You’ll build relationships with founders, drive momentum, and partner with the Developer Relations team. This is an opportunity for an early-career candidate with strong ties to the San Francisco startup ecosystem.

Key missions & responsibilities

Run Startup Program operations
- Application triage and review
- Credit issuance
- Partner UTM tracking
- CRM hygiene
Build and run the SF founder engine
- Source and curate high-quality founder guest lists
- Manage venues, invitations, RSVPs, and logistics
Drive founder-facing event marketing & promotion
- Create invitations and event landing pages
- Build follow-up sequences and post-event nurture
- Ensure messaging resonates with founder and developer audiences

Requirements

High agency and strong organization; proactively solve problems and own logistics end-to-end (invite → follow-up)
Deep roots in the SF startup ecosystem; socially fluent and capable of making warm intros
Existing relationships with founders, operators, accelerators, or VC platform/portfolio teams
Integrity, humility, and strong drive to learn
Hands-on familiarity with the developer-tools and cloud infrastructure landscape
Instinct for how developers adopt tools (understands the consideration set; developers dislike being marketed to)
4–6 years of experience across a mix of sales, partnerships, marketing, program/ops management, recruiting/talent, or developer relations
Fluency in the venture landscape and understanding of the AI transformation affecting startups
Experience running events, community programs, or founder-facing initiatives
Familiarity with the modern GTM stack (e.g., HubSpot, Airtable, Clay, Apollo)
Based in San Francisco, including availability for evening events

Nice to have

Experience partnering with Developer Relations
Prior experience in developer-focused growth or technical audience programs
Event/creative marketing work that produced strong founder/developer engagement

About Render

Render is a fast-growing startup in the cloud infrastructure space. It supports modern application deployment and developer workflows, serving founders and technical teams with infrastructure-oriented products and programs.