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Startup Events & Community Lead (Cursor for Startups)

Cursor· Startup Events and Community
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Founding member role responsible for designing and executing growth programs to engage top Seed–Series B startups, drive adoption of Cursor, and turn founder-users into advocates. Based in San Francisco; in-office role.

Responsibilities

  • Design the startup events playbook: Build and execute a data-driven marketing plan for the startup segment, focused on landing and growing usage within top Seed–Series B companies across YC and the broader ecosystem.
  • Own the founder funnel and footprint: Deploy a mix of founder events, hackathons, executive/founder roundtables, and community activations to acquire the right startups and drive meaningful success using Cursor.
  • Build ecosystem relationships: Partner with VCs, accelerators, and other startup partners to reach their portfolio founders through growth programs, content, and co-hosted moments; identify which partners to engage deeply.
  • Creativity: Break the standard playbook by avoiding generic engagement formats and design around how founders actually build and gather.
  • Founder advocacy: Surface and amplify founder/customer stories and feature them in events; be a trusted partner to founders using Cursor.
  • Event orchestration: Own programs end to end from ideation to onsite experience and follow-up; ensure high-signal, founder-centric execution.
  • Data-driven iteration: Track spend against outcomes (activation, usage, retention, advocacy) and optimize budget for high-impact investments.
  • GTM partnership: Collaborate with Events, Growth, PMM, and Field Engineering; involve Field Engineers to help founders build automations and identify readiness for Enterprise conversations.
  • Product and marketing partnership: Provide real-time founder community insights on messaging, credits/billing, features, and competitive shifts.

Qualifications

  • 4–7+ years in field, community, event, growth, or revenue marketing, ideally in B2B SaaS or developer tools
  • Experience with startups and understanding of founders and early-stage engineering teams
  • Builder mindset with ability to launch and optimize programs from scratch
  • Strong communication and founder-native storytelling; comfortable in technical founder environments

Skills

Required:Program design & managementCommunity building & advocacyPartnership development
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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