MongoHQ (YC S11) is hiring a marketing brain
We are a Series A funded database infrastructure company with significant revenue and an enviable customer list. We're also not very good at marketing, and are fortunate to have grown almost entirely due to word of mouth referrals and a relentless commitment to customer support. It's time we got better at getting our message out there, and we're looking for someone to make that happen.

You might be a good person to own this problem if you are an experienced marketer with hacking skills, or a really good hacker with marketing experience. If you are good at creating a consistent voice and infusing a group of smart people with a "marketing identity" you have a good foundation to work from.

High quality content is (so far) the most effective way to reach our audience. We would desperately like to talk to you if you know how to build a machine that helps us consistently create and deliver content developers want. Content, in our context, is everything from published writing to presentations to open source projects. If you can expand the scope of "good marketing to developers" to be more than just content, even better.

The actual scope of the job could range from "first dedicated marketing hire" to "VP of Marketing", it totally depends on the person. Our investors want us to start with a battle hardened marketing VP, but we like to experiment and may do it differently. What we really want is a get-shit-done type who will build marketing capabilities into our company with a healthy combination of tools, metrics, processes and people (when necessary).

Our ideal customers (developers) are something of a unique market, and we are determined to make sure our company continues to interact with them in a healthy way. If you are interested in helping us build this area of our business, send an email to hello@mongohq.com with an example of how you'd approach developers if you were us ... and if you're brave ... challenge some of our assumptions (read on).

Boilerplate: we have offices in San Mateo, CA and Birmingham AL, with remote employees in London, two cities in Canada and Utah. We offer competitive benefits including an open vacation policy, individual technology budgets, and a comprehensive medical plan.

Assumptions: We have beliefs about the way the world works, where it's going, and what it means for our business. We're also a little bit overprotective of developers. Here are some assumptions that we frequently use to shape decisions:

Number 1: Developers are the most influential technology decision makers in many companies, and will soon be the most influential in every company. We should help developers achieve this utopia.

Number 2: Enterprise is changing and we are in the exciting early days of crazy self service. In the future, most companies will buy technology without directly interacting with a human. The extreme example of this is AWS, we spend 6 figures per month on Amazon's Cloud Services and would prefer not to talk to a sales person. We should position ourselves in a way that prepares us for this future.

Number 3: Our customers and not-yet customers are continuously inundated with shameless corporate promotion and crap messaging. This is not ok. We should give them something with value that compensates for the intrusiveness of how we're reaching them. If we're speaking to people who are already customers, teaching them how to solve problems with our product is valuable. If we're speaking to not-yet customers, we should leave them with some no-strings-attached knowledge they can use on their own.

We'd love to hear from you. Write to: hello@mongohq.com.