Forward Deployed Marketer (FDM)

About enso

enso is building the new wave of marketing. We find where a company’s customers actually spend time, identify the growth opportunities inside those environments, and turn them into real pipeline and revenue. We work with ambitious companies, from startups to enterprise teams, and move fast as a small, NFX-backed team.

About the role

We are looking for an exceptional technical performance marketer to join enso as a Forward Deployed Marketer (FDM).

The FDM takes what we build and makes it work for real clients. You will understand a client’s market, ICP, positioning, and growth goals, then deploy and improve AI-powered systems around that strategy. You will move between marketing research, a technical implementation, and a client call in the same day.

This is not a traditional marketing role, and it is not a pure engineering role. It is for someone who is genuinely strong in performance marketing and technically fluent enough to work with AI, understand how systems connect, read API documentation, use GitHub, and solve implementation problems without needing everything handed to them.

What you’ll do

• Research each client’s market, ICP, positioning, competitors, and demand channels, then turn that into a clear growth strategy.
• Deploy, configure, and improve AI agents and workflows for real client use cases. You will make sure the work reflects the client’s market, messaging, and commercial goals.
• Work with technical systems when needed: understand APIs, endpoints, authentication, webhooks, data flows, and how tools connect. You do not need to be a software engineer, but you need to be technically capable enough to understand the setup, use GitHub, investigate issues, and get things moving.
• Launch and optimise growth activity. Use performance data to identify what is working, what is not, and what should be tested or improved next.
• Advise clients as a growth partner. Bring a point of view, explain what the data and market are telling you, and recommend the next highest-impact move.
• Feed what you learn back into enso’s product, agents, and playbooks so every client cycle improves the next one.

You must

• Come from performance or growth marketing, with numbers to prove it. You should be able to show how you have improved acquisition, conversion, pipeline, revenue, or another meaningful commercial outcome.
• Have built something real that shipped or was used: a product, tool, automation, agent, campaign system, or side project. We value people who can take an idea, make it work, and put it in front of users.
• Be technically fluent with AI. You must understand how AI products and agents work in practice, be comfortable experimenting with them, and be able to apply them to real marketing and growth problems.
• Understand the technical basics behind modern software: APIs, GitHub, webhooks, authentication, data, and integrations. You do not need to write production software every day, but you must be able to read documentation, work with technical teams, troubleshoot problems, and confidently get hands-on.
• Be able to learn a new tool or technical domain quickly and put it to work without waiting for step-by-step instructions.
• Be commercially sharp and comfortable with clients. You should enjoy presenting a recommendation, discussing business outcomes, and helping a client decide what to do next.
• Have a true startup mentality: high ownership, fast learning, strong judgment, and a bias toward action.

This is not for you if

This role is not for a pure engineer with no marketing instinct, or for a marketer who only wants to make decks, run standard campaigns, or avoid technical work. If you do not enjoy both growth strategy and getting hands-on with AI and technical systems, this will not be the right role.

Why enso

• You will become one of the strongest builders in modern marketing: a performance marketer with real AI and technical fluency, plus the commercial confidence to advise businesses on growth. You will work closely with the founder, have real ownership, and see your work create actual client pipeline—not just presentation slides. (edited)