Workyard is a growing startup focused on the U.S. construction and trades markets an industry where $300 billion is spent annually on labor. We're the operating system for contractors. We started with the most unglamorous problem in construction accurate time cards and solved it well enough that contractors trusted us with more: job costing, scheduling, payroll, and the intelligence that protects their margins.
We sell to the people who build the physical world. Skeptical. Burned by software. They care about making things easy for their crew. They don't buy "AI-powered platforms", they buy the thing that fixes the problem they had last Friday.
We're lean, efficient and growing fast. Workyard is a market-leading product, with clear PMF. The right marketing leader is a force multiplier from here.
Workyard's growth team captures the contractors actively shopping for what we do: paid acquisition, AEO, and product-driven growth. That machine works.
The goal of this role is different: attract more contractors to the brand and build market demand. Stop waiting to be found. Make Workyard the name contractors already know before they're shopping, and pull more of the market into our category in the first place.
That happens where contractors live, not where they search trade events, LinkedIn, Facebook groups, the partners who already have the relationships we want, the conversations contractors have with each other when nobody's selling.
The person we hire will:
Scope: Everything marketing except paid acquisition, AEO/SEO, and product-driven growth. Brand, positioning, demand gen, enablement, and customer marketing all sit with you, day one.
Market positioning. How we describe Workyard, who it's for, what makes us different, why a contractor cares in five seconds. The home page. The sales deck spine. The way we show up against competitors. The message through every channel. The most important thing you'll do.
Demand generation. Brand and demand built through events, LinkedIn, community, forums, content, partnerships wherever our audience already lives. You go to events. You talk to contractors. You make Workyard unignorable.
Customer marketing. The funnel doesn't end at the close. Case studies, references, testimonials, advocates, expansion revenue inside accounts we've already won. Customer stories are the fuel for everything else sales calls, the website, events, partner co-marketing. The highest-leverage work in your scope.
Every surface Workyard shows up on homepage, sales deck, booth at World of Concrete, LinkedIn post, partner one-pager, case study video, cold email, trade show banner has to earn attention from a skeptical, time-poor contractor in seconds.
That craft is the job. Positioning, copy, and content aren't separate from the things they live on; they're the same craft applied across surfaces.
You're world-class at communication and judgement the pitch, the words, the structure, the spine of a deck or a homepage, you produce yourself. For visual direction, video, events, booth design you don't have to be the maker, but you have the taste and the spine to push agencies and freelancers to genuinely great work and reject anything below that bar.
Every part of this function gets built the same way: do it yourself first, prove what works, then invest capital to scale it.
Write the first case study yourself before figuring out the repeatable process. Go to the event before sponsoring ten of them. Build the sales deck before standing up a deck process. Make partner co-marketing work with one partner before scaling to twenty. The 0?1 is your job, personally. The 1?10 is what you organize once you know what good looks like.
When a play is proven, Workyard puts capital behind it a hire, an agency, a sponsorship, a content engine, an events budget. You'll have real budget and the authority to deploy it.
If you'd rather start with a team and direct the work, this isn't the role. If you love the 0?1, then scaling what you've proven, this is exactly the job.
You're likely one of two people.
The unproven operator with a chip on your shoulder. A few years out of school, not from a marketing background you studied something serious and challenging, did a stint in consulting, finance, ops, or product. You're passionate about entrepreneurship, and decided you want to build GTM at a startup. Abnormally smart. Painfully self-aware. You've taught yourself more about positioning, distribution, and persuasion than most marketing managers we've interviewed. You want a hard job that grows you fast. You'll probably start your own company 5 years from now.
The operator who knows what good looks like. You've been on a great team learning from people who set a high bar, watching what worked, building the artifacts and you're ready to lead it yourself now. Or you've done this once or twice at an early-stage company, results were real, and you love this stage enough to do it again. Either way: you write copy, sit on sales calls, go to events, know which dashboards to check on a Monday.
Either way, you have: