Marketing Lead

About Menlo
Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it. Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable, turning software into physical labor at scale. We build across the full stack: hardware architecture, locomotion, autonomy, simulation, and infrastructure. We move fast, ship to real robots, and open-source everything we can. If you want your work to matter beyond a paper or a demo, this is the place.
The Role
You are the PM of marketing. You own the strategy, the key partnerships, and the press, and you keep everything marketing does tied tightly to the product, the business, and the technical teams building it. This is the most generalist role on the team. You set the direction, you connect the dots, and you are just as comfortable writing the narrative as you are running the plan behind it.
What You'll Do

• Own the overall marketing strategy and turn the company roadmap into a story worth telling

• Drive key partnerships that expand our reach, credibility, and distribution

• Own press and media relations, and act as a trusted external voice for Menlo

• Keep marketing aligned with product, business, and engineering, so the message always matches the machine

• Set positioning and messaging for Asimov and the Menlo Platform

• Build and prioritize the marketing roadmap, then decide what ships and what waits

• Plan and run launches that make each milestone land

• Measure what is working, kill what is not, and double down where it counts

• Shape and grow the marketing team over time

What We Look For

• A generalist marketer who has worn many hats and can move between strategy and execution without friction

• A track record of owning marketing strategy and shipping launches that moved the needle

• Real strength in partnerships and press, with the network and instincts to match

• Credibility with engineers and researchers, and the ability to translate their work for the rest of the world

• Comfort being the connective tissue across teams, keeping everyone pointed the same way

• A bias to action and genuine comfort in an early-stage, fast-changing environment

• Excellent writing and storytelling

Nice to Have

• A background in deep tech, hardware, robotics, or AI

• An existing press and partnership network you can activate on day one

• Experience building a marketing function from close to zero

• Enough technical fluency to hold your own in a room full of builders

Why Join Menlo
We are a physical AI company building real robots, and marketing sits at the center of the story. You own strategy, partnerships, and press outright, with the mandate to shape the whole function and a direct line to product, research, and leadership, with no layers to fight through. You get to build in public at a company where the work speaks for itself, with the room to shape the function as we grow.

A Note on AI

You don't need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect everyone at Menlo to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement. When that's the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don't treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.

Equal Opportunity and Accommodations

We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you're excited about a role but don't meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Menlo Research is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Menlo provides reasonable accommodations during the application process. If you need one, please let your recruiter know.