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Placer Labs

Location analytics and customer behavior intelligence

Vice President Revenue Marketing

Full-Time
$220k - $260k/yr+ Sales-based commissions + Equity awards
Expert
Remote in USA
Remote

About the job

Requirements
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in demand generation, growth, or performance marketing, with a track record of owning the function within a B2B SaaS organization that sells through both sales-assisted and self-serve motions.
  • Experience owning pipeline forecasting and being held to it, comfortable presenting a forecast to leadership and explaining variance.
  • Fluency with customer acquisition cost, lifetime value to customer acquisition cost, and pipeline efficiency metrics as core operating key performance indicators, with a track record of using them to reallocate budget.
  • Demonstrated success building and running a strategic or enterprise account-based marketing program, with fluency in account tiering, account-based marketing technology, and multi-channel orchestration.
  • Working fluency in product-led growth mechanics, including product-qualified leads, self-serve conversion, and usage-based triggers, and how they operate alongside a strategic sales funnel.
  • A proven record of managing search engine marketing, paid social, and display at scale, with the judgment to reallocate or cut spend based on performance.
  • Strong command of search engine optimization fundamentals and current knowledge of answer-engine optimization, with experience owning a website's conversion performance.
  • Sophisticated fluency in attribution and funnel analytics, with the judgment to act on data.
  • Hands-on experience with marketing automation and customer relationship management platforms such as HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, or equivalent, and the reporting infrastructure built on them.
  • Demonstrated people leadership, having built and developed a high-performing demand generation or growth team.
Responsibilities
  • Forecast and own the demand plan by building and maintaining a rolling pipeline forecast by channel and segment.
  • Design and lead the Strategic team's account-based marketing program by defining account tiers, mapping buying committees, and orchestrating coordinated outreach across paid, direct, and sales-assisted channels in partnership with Strategic sales leadership.
  • Direct paid media strategy by owning budget and performance across search engine marketing, paid social, and display, and making investment decisions grounded in lead quality and pipeline efficiency.
  • Partner with content on search engine optimization and answer-engine optimization strategy, bringing conversion and revenue data to keyword, topic, and page prioritization so organic and AI-search investment is judged on pipeline contribution.
  • Optimize the full funnel by identifying conversion drop-off at each stage and leading experimentation, page changes, and process improvements required to close the gap.
  • Partner on product-led growth by working cross-functionally to define and act on product-qualified lead signals and connecting self-serve activity to the broader pipeline plan.
  • Own pipeline and conversion as the measure of success by setting and delivering targets for qualified pipeline generated and influenced across sales-assisted and self-serve motions, anchored to opportunity creation, product-qualified conversion, and win rate.
  • Own efficiency metrics by tracking and improving customer acquisition cost, pipeline velocity, and marketing-sourced or influenced revenue as a percentage of spend, and using those numbers to determine budget allocation.
  • Embed artificial intelligence into the operating model by applying Claude and Model Context Protocol-connected data sources to streamline reporting and campaign quality assurance and increase team output.
Desired Qualifications
  • Demonstrated use of artificial intelligence tools to work more efficiently, whether professionally or personally, and curiosity about finding new ways to apply them.
  • Comfort integrating generative artificial intelligence into day-to-day workflows to boost productivity, quality, and output.

About the company

Placer.ai provides location analytics and customer behavior intelligence by collecting and analyzing data on foot traffic, visit trends, market landscapes, and demographics. It offers a platform that helps clients understand property performance, benchmark against competitors, identify high-potential investment opportunities, and monitor a portfolio in real time. The product works by aggregating proprietary data into actionable insights—such as visit patterns, marketing impact, and optimal store locations—accessible through a centralized platform. The company differentiates itself with its real-world, data-driven approach and real-time portfolio monitoring, enabling retailers, property managers, investors, and marketers to optimize strategies and target the right customers. Its goal is to help customers understand the physical world more accurately, gain a competitive edge, and make informed decisions about marketing, investments, and site selection.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$301M

Headquarters

Santa Cruz, California

Founded

2018

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What believers are saying

  • Placer.ai launched a CMBS report on April 1, 2026, expanding lender and investor use.
  • Starbucks traffic improved for twelve straight months in Placer.ai research, boosting credibility.
  • July 2026 white paper codified site-selection methodology for high-growth retail and dining brands.

What critics are saying

  • Senator Warren's 2022 scrutiny still shadows Placer.ai's sensitive-location data practices in 2026.
  • Placer.ai's business depends on partner app data, so platform policy changes can starve inputs.
  • If privacy backlash blocks collection or access, Placer.ai's location intelligence model collapses.

What makes Placer Labs unique

  • Placer.ai pairs foot-traffic analytics with CRE finance, adding CRED iQ CMBS data in April 2026.
  • The February 2026 TRS partnership links analytics directly to site selection and lease execution.
  • The August 2026 privacy FAQ says Placer uses aggregated, k-anonymous, identifier-stripped data.

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PR Newswire
Apr 1st, 2026
Placer.ai and CRED iQ merge foot traffic data with CRE finance intel for CMBS analysis

CRED iQ, a commercial real estate finance data platform, has partnered with Placer.ai to launch a Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities report combining foot traffic analytics with CRE financial data. The report layers Placer's location intelligence onto CMBS portfolio assets using CRED iQ's dataset, giving lenders and investors enhanced visibility into market and asset performance. The integrated platform enables users to benchmark property performance across sectors, identify early signals of asset deterioration or outperformance, and incorporate real-world consumer visitation data into underwriting decisions. The solution addresses three core use cases: performance benchmarking, early signal detection and smarter underwriting. The CMBS report is now available on Placer.ai's platform, aimed at helping CRE professionals make more informed trading and portfolio management decisions.

Placer.ai
Feb 12th, 2026
Placer.ai and The Retail Strategy Partner to Bridge the Gap Between Location Analytics and Deal Execution

Placer.ai and The Retail Strategy partner to Bridge the gap between location analytics and Deal Execution. February 12, 2026 Placer.ai Announces Strategic Partnership with The Retail Strategy to Bridge Location Intelligence and Retail Deal Making. LOS ALTOS, CA, (February 12, 2026) - Placer.ai, the global leader in location intelligence, and The Retail Strategy (TRS), a premier full-service outsourced real estate department, today announced a strategic partnership designed to transform how retail brands approach market expansion. By integrating Placer.ai's advanced data with TRS's negotiation and site selection expertise, the partnership offers retailers an end-to-end solution, ensuring expansion plans are backed by data and executed by professionals. In an era where retail markets are increasingly crowded and fragmented, the cost of a wrong location is higher than ever. Too often, expansion decisions rely on incomplete data or inconsistent broker anecdotes, creating an "execution gap" between analytical insights and signed leases. This partnership closes that loop. Closing the Loop: From Insight to Signed Lease The partnership leverages a five-step end-to-end workflow that guides clients from market prioritization to grand opening. While Placer.ai provides the "what" and "where" through foot-traffic intelligence, TRS manages the "how," interpreting those insights to drive physical site validation and lease negotiation. Key benefits of the partnership include: * Market Prioritization & Whitespace Modeling: Utilizing location analytics to identify high-potential markets and gaps for expansion. * Strategic Interpretation & Filtering: Translating data outputs into strategy to align with specific brand growth goals. * Site-Level Validation & Forecasting: A collaborative approach to validating physical sites through performance forecasting and trade area analysis. * Deal Execution & Rollout: Managing broker coordination, landlord engagement, and utilizing data to negotiate leases from a position of strength. * Marketing Optimization: Leveraging ongoing location intelligence to refine grand opening strategies and drive local competitive conquesting. About Placer.ai Placer.ai is the most advanced foot traffic analytics platform allowing anyone with a stake in the physical world to instantly generate insights into any property or chain for a deeper understanding of the factors that drive success. Placer.ai is the first platform that fully empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, economic development, and more to truly understand and maximize their offline activities. Find more information here: https://placer.ai/ About The Retail Strategy The Retail Strategy is a full-service outsourced real estate department committed to elevating retail expansion. From developing a market strategy through store opening, TRS acts as a "one-stop shop" for tenants seeking growth on local, regional, and national levels. By marrying the art and science of expansion, their dedicated Location Intelligence Team uncovers hidden insights to drive strategic growth. TRS prioritizes data visualization and brand-specific attributes to provide focused analytics, giving clients the confidence to make educated decisions and secure results-backed locations. Learn more at https://theretailstrategy.com/. Media Contacts: Ethan Chernofsky, [email protected], +972 54-316-2220 The Retail Strategy Recent Publications

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