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Passive

Chief Marketing Officer

Passive, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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This range is provided by Passive. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range $200,000.00/yr - $275,000.00/yr

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Co-Founder @ Passive | Helping great people quietly discover great work | DFW-ZAG About Passive

At your level, career decisions aren’t about escaping a job — they’re about pursuing impact. Passive makes that exploration frictionless. In seconds, you can surface roles aligned to your trajectory, tailor a resume automatically, and evaluate opportunities privately — without recruiters, noise, or wasted cycles. It's a smarter way to stay open to what’s next while remaining fully focused on the work in front of you.

The Role

We’re looking for a

Chief Marketing Officer

to define and lead Passive’s entire growth and brand engine. This is a foundational executive role responsible for building awareness, demand, and trust at scale — across consumer and enterprise audiences.

You’ll own the narrative, the channels, and the systems that turn Passive into the default career platform for high-performing professionals. You’ll work directly with the CEO and CTO to translate product value into market pull and to build a brand that people recognize, trust, and talk about.

This is not a “run campaigns” role. This is a

category-defining leadership role

for someone who knows how to turn product truth into market gravity.

What You’ll Own

Brand & Positioning

Define Passive’s brand strategy, voice, and narrative across all channels.

Establish Passive as the trusted career platform for passive, high-performing professionals.

Build long-term brand equity while driving near‑term growth.

Growth & Acquisition

Own B2C growth strategy across organic, paid, influencer, and content channels.

Design and optimize lifecycle marketing, referrals, and premium conversion.

Partner closely with Product to drive activation, engagement, and retention loops.

Go-to-Market Leadership

Lead consumer GTM strategy for launch and scale.

Support B2B GTM messaging for employer and ATS‑partner distribution.

Align marketing strategy with product launches, partnerships, and revenue goals.

Team & Systems

Build and lead a world‑class growth and marketing organization.

Establish scalable systems for experimentation, attribution, and performance measurement.

Set KPIs across CAC, LTV, conversion, retention, and brand lift.

Who You Are

10+ years of senior marketing leadership experience (CMO, VP Marketing, or equivalent).

Proven success scaling consumer or marketplace products — ideally with subscriptions or PLG motion.

Deep understanding of brand, growth, and performance marketing — you know when to invest in each.

Strong product intuition and ability to translate complex value into simple, compelling messaging.

Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building from zero.

Belief that the hiring and career ecosystem is broken — and ambition to fix it.

Why Join Passive

Massive opportunity:

A $67B market across consumer and enterprise hiring.

Founding‑level impact:

Shape the brand and growth engine from the ground up.

Experienced founding team:

Deep expertise across HR tech, ML, SaaS, and scaled systems.

Meaningful equity:

Real ownership in a company built to scale globally.

Mission that matters:

Help millions of professionals access better opportunities — quietly, confidently, and on their terms.

Seniority level:

Executive

Employment type:

Full‑time

Job function:

Marketing

Industries:

Technology, Information and Internet

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