Marketing Manager

About this job

MongoDB is hiring a Marketing Manager for their Startup Marketing team in Gurugram to expand their AI-native marketing strategy across the Indian digital-native and startup ecosystem. MongoDB provides a unified data platform designed to help organizations innovate, modernize workloads, and embrace AI through solutions like MongoDB Atlas. In this role, reporting to the Head of India Marketing, you will combine strategy with hands-on execution to build relationships with venture capitalists, founders, accelerators, and startup communities. A normal day involves planning and delivering regional startup initiatives, managing community activations, driving high-value startup acquisition for the MongoDB for Startups program, and coordinating cross-functionally with teams like Sales, MongoDB Ventures, and Regional Marketing to increase adoption and long-term brand affinity.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships across the India startup community including founders, VCs, and accelerators.
• Develop and execute strategies to drive high-value startup acquisition into the MongoDB for Startups program.
• Plan and execute regional events and physical presence strategies such as hackathons, demo days, and founder dinners.
• Collaborate with internal teams and startup customers to showcase success stories of companies building on MongoDB.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment with teams like MongoDB Ventures, Sales, and Builder Relations.
• Track success metrics for startup engagement to measure impact and continuously optimize programming.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in marketing, community, ecosystem, or events roles focused on startups or developers.
• Experience leading projects and collaborating across teams from strategy through execution.
• Familiarity with the Indian startup ecosystem with existing relationships across founders and VCs.
• Understanding of how early-stage companies operate through experience in or closely with startups or venture capital.
• Ability to thrive in fast-moving environments while managing multiple stakeholders and initiatives.
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to track engagement metrics and communicate impact.
• Clear communication skills to interact with founders, investors, and senior internal stakeholders.
• High degree of ownership and initiative to collaborate globally while maintaining local ecosystem presence.

Who should apply

This role suits marketing, community, or events professionals with over four years of experience who possess a deep understanding of the Indian startup and venture capital ecosystem. Candidates must be comfortable working in a hybrid model based in Gurugram, have a data-driven approach, and excel at driving both high-level strategy and hands-on program execution. The posting does not state that freshers can apply.

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