Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.
Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible.
Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart.
At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient — and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success. If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you.
Here, you will be at the forefront of the next evolution of MarTech. You’ll have the autonomy to shape a massive new product category while working alongside a world-class team and some of the most forward-thinking consumer brands in the world.
The RoleWe are looking for our first Forward Deployed Creative Strategist to act as the crucial bridge between our cutting-edge agentic platform and the world’s most innovative brands.
Reporting into the Solutions & Success organization, you will be a zero-to-one foundational member of the team. You will speak peer-to-peer with performance marketing leaders, educating them on the paradigm shift toward agentic marketing systems, and guiding them through successful pilots. You will pair your deep marketing expertise with innate sales acumen to navigate complex buying processes and drive adoption.
What You’ll Do- Act as a Strategic Peer: Engage with performance marketing teams at top-tier, innovative companies. You will speak their language, understand their current attribution and campaign scaling challenges, and educate them on how agentic workflows can transform their operations.
- Drive Deals & Pilots: Partner closely with our sales organization to navigate complex enterprise buying processes. You will be instrumental in defining pilot success criteria and driving those pilots forward to closed-won deals.
- Collaborate with Creative: Work hand-in-hand with our Forward Deployed Creative Designers. You will bridge the gap between performance data and creative execution, ensuring that AI-generated assets (utilizing the latest generation models like Veo and Nano Banana 2) are optimized for conversion and pilot success.
- Shape the Playbook: As the first person in this role, you will help design the go-to-market motion, define the educational frameworks we use for new customers, and feed critical market insights back to our product and engineering teams.
- Performance Marketing DNA: Deep, hands-on experience running and scaling performance marketing campaigns. You understand the metrics, the pain points, and the day-to-day realities of a performance marketer.
- Sales Acumen: You possess strong commercial instincts. Whether you have formal sales experience or a natural ability to guide a prospect through an evaluation, you know how to build consensus, handle objections, and close.
- Cross-Functional Fluency: Proven experience working closely with creative teams and designers. You know how to brief creatives, evaluate assets, and tie creative performance back to marketing metrics.
- A "Zero-to-One" Mindset: You thrive in ambiguity and are excited by the prospect of building a new function from the ground up in a fast-paced environment.
- Technical Curiosity: An eagerness to dive deep into AI-driven creative performance and the evolving landscape of agentic marketing tools.
The on-target earning range for this position is $180,000-$250,000 per year, which is location-independent in accordance with our remote-first policy. We also offer meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options, and offer early exercise and a 10-year post-termination exercise window.
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Hightouch participates in E-Verify. After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This process happens post-hire only — we never use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.
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Skills Required
- Deep experience running performance marketing campaigns
- Strong commercial instincts
- Experience working closely with creative teams
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity
- Curiosity about AI-driven creative performance
Hightouch Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hightouch and has not been reviewed or approved by Hightouch.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Sales incentive plans are portrayed as competitive and well-structured, with on-target earnings that offer meaningful upside for high performers. Incentive design is highlighted as a strength within go-to-market roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage is presented as comprehensive, with employer-paid premiums for employees and substantial contributions for dependents. This reduces out-of-pocket costs and boosts overall total-rewards value.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are a standard part of compensation with a clear vesting schedule, and there is evidence of occasional liquidity via an employee tender offer. These factors make equity a more tangible component of total compensation.
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What We Do
Hightouch is the modern AI platform for marketing and growth teams. Our AI agents reimagine marketing workflows, allowing marketers to create content, plan campaigns, and execute strategies with transformational velocity and performance. Hightouch is a rare company built on the intersection of two fundamental technological shifts: advances in LLMs and agentic AI, and the creation and rapid adoption of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks. Building on these tailwinds, we’ve become a leader in AI marketing and partner with industry leaders like Domino’s, Chime, Spotify, Ramp, Whoop, Grammarly, and over 1000 others.
Why Work With Us
Our team focuses on making a meaningful impact for our customers. We approach challenges with first-principles thinking, move quickly and efficiently, and treat each other with compassion and kindness. We look for team members who are strong communicators, have a growth mindset, and are motivated and persistent in achieving our goals.
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