Startup Events & Community

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a founding member of our Startup Events and Community team, you'll be the growth engine behind Cursor for Startups, responsible for turning our startup strategy into high-impact programs that win the right early-stage companies, help founders get deeper value from Cursor, and turn our strongest…

• 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…
• 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…
• Build ecosystem relationships: Partner with VCs, accelerators, and other startup partners to reach their portfolio founders through growth programs, content, and co-hosted…
• Creativity: Fearlessly break the standard playbook by avoiding generic engagement formats - find out how founders actually build and gather and design around that.
• Founder advocacy: Surface and amplify founder/customer stories worth telling, and feature them in our events. Become a trusted partner and peer to the founders using Cursor.

What they're looking for

• Experience in or with startups: You have 4–7+ years in field, community, event, growth, or revenue marketing, ideally in B2B SaaS or developer tools.
• Builder mindset: You're a self-starter who can build a program from scratch and then obsessively optimize it based on data.
• Community obsession: You genuinely like being around founders and builders, and you know the difference between a program that feels authentic to that community and one that…
• Storytelling: Your communication is sharp, credible, and founder-native. You can hold your own in a room full of technical founders.