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Notion

Builds a workspace for notes, docs, and AI agents

Head of Demand Engine

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$245k - $275k/yr+ Equity
Expert
San Francisco, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: New York, NY, USA
HybridOffice attendance is required Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
Growth & MarketingGrowth Marketing

About the job

Requirements
  • A track record of building and scaling business-to-business demand programs that create qualified pipeline.
  • Strong judgment and taste, demonstrated by specific programs that succeeded through effective audience, offer, creative, and execution choices.
  • Deep digital demand experience across paid strategy, email, web, webinars, nurture, and integrated campaigns.
  • A testing mindset and the operating discipline to turn learnings into repeatable programs, systems, and investment decisions.
  • Comfort working with Marketing Operations and Revenue Operations on attribution, reporting, forecasting, and return on investment, and translating the numbers into clear action.
  • Executive presence and the ability to earn trust with Sales and company leaders, maintain a strong point of view, and make hard calls.
  • Experience leading and developing strong teams in a fast-moving environment.
  • Experience operating across regions, or genuine curiosity and appetite to build globally.
  • Comfort with ambiguity.
Responsibilities
  • Own the demand programs strategy, calendar, and operating rhythm across priority audiences, segments, and offers.
  • Turn product stories, content, customer proof, and market opportunities into integrated programs that scale across channels and regions.
  • Build a high-velocity testing practice, set a high bar for creative and execution, learn quickly, and increase investment in what works.
  • Serve as the global point person for paid digital demand strategy by defining audiences, offers, creative, programs, and goals, and partnering with Performance Marketing on execution and optimization.
  • Lead digital demand across webinars, email, web, review sites, nurture, and new formats, creating programs where the strategy calls for them.
  • Partner with Marketing Operations and Revenue Operations to build a trusted global approach to marketing return on investment, attribution, forecasting, marketing-qualified account and marketing-qualified lead methodology, and campaign reporting.
  • Work with Enterprise Product Marketing on audience, offer, and campaign strategy, and with Field Marketing and Events on coordinated execution.
  • Help build account-based marketing and partner marketing capabilities as those motions develop.
  • Partner with Sales and executive leadership, make performance numbers clear, and advocate for the highest-impact work.
  • Hire, coach, and lead a team across demand programs and digital demand.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building account-based marketing programs.
  • Experience with partner or ecosystem marketing.
  • Experience working across both product-led and sales-assisted growth motions.

About the company

Notion builds a workspace app where people and teams write notes and documents, plan projects, and keep company wikis, all made from the same flexible blocks. It announced an AI writing assistant built on an OpenAI model in November 2022, two weeks before ChatGPT's launch set off the generative AI boom. A page can mix text, checklists, and databases that turn into task boards or calendars, while AI agents search the workspace and connected apps like Slack and run routine tasks on a schedule. Notion is free for individuals, and teams pay per-member subscriptions plus credits to run custom agents. Notion was founded in 2013, released its app in 2016, and is based in San Francisco.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$335M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2013

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What believers are saying

  • AI pays off: customers using AI drove over 50% of Notion's recurring revenue in 2025, more than double 2024's share.
  • Equity turns into cash early: investors bought $270 million of staff shares in January 2026, open to nearly every employee.
  • Room to start a career: Notion listed 133 open roles in October 2026, including new-grad engineering jobs and 2027 internships.

What critics are saying

  • Equity has barely grown: Notion's valuation rose only from $10 billion in 2021 to $11 billion by January 2026.
  • Microsoft competes head-on at scale: its Loop app mirrors Notion, and Copilot passed 30 million paid seats in July 2026.
  • Expect three office days a week: Notion's October 2026 job posts require Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office.

What makes Notion unique

  • Teams, not solo users, pay the bills: about 90% of Notion's business comes from shared team workspaces.
  • Unlike most startups, it funds itself: Notion has more cash than the $330 million it has raised, its COO said.
  • Startups' default workspace: Notion says 98% of the Forbes Cloud 100, the top private cloud companies, use it.

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Benefits

  • Medical, dental & vision insurance
  • PTO
  • Mental health & wellbeing package
  • Parental leave
  • Fertility coverage
  • Retirement matching
  • Commuter benefits
  • Monthly stipend

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

4%
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