Misfits & Machines

Role Description At Misfits & Machines, the innovation sister company of Marketing Architects, we’re not just exploring what AI can create—we’re building transformative technologies that help marketers machine remarkable growth in the age of AI. You will own the commercial engine for Misfits & Machines. Every dollar, every deal, every demand signal, every story we tell the market. You'll lead the go-to-market for a portfolio of AI-native advertising and media platforms moving from build into beta and beyond. - Open and structure enterprise platform partnership conversations. - Build the social, content, and demand engine that gives our products voice in the market. - Work as a team of one, leveraged by AI tools, with executive air cover and a creative engine behind you. - Hire the team that grows underneath you when the model proves out. This is multi-year work: - Year one is foundation. - Year two is throughput. - Year three is the engine running at the scale our products demand. This is a founding commercial role inside a maturing company. The function is founding. The operating environment is not. What you'll do: - Building the partnership function: landscape research, target prioritization, partnership economics, GTM sequencing, and sales staffing plan. - Closing enterprise platform partnerships: opening and structuring conversations with large platforms and aggregators. - Owning the pipeline; sharing the relationship with our SVP of Strategic Partnerships. - Owning the full marketing function: positioning, messaging, brand voice, social, content, email, paid, and website. - Designing and operating the modern AI-leveraged GTM stack. - Translating product reality into market reality. - Building the commercial operating system: partnership economics, pipeline forecasts, and commercial reporting cadence. - Hiring your team when the math says it's time. Qualifications - 10+ years across some combination of marketing, sales, BD, growth, or RevOps. - Founding-team or early-stage experience. - A track record of being employee #5 to #50 at a fast-growing tech company, ideally B2B SaaS or platform. - Demonstrably AI-native. - Full-funnel operator. - Deep understanding of how advertising creates business outcomes. - Comfort with ambiguity, opinions held with conviction. - A portfolio of work: campaigns shipped, deals closed, pipelines built, workflows architected. Requirements - This role is not a traditional enterprise sales role with a quota and an SDR team. - This role is not a traditional CMO role with a marketing org underneath you on day one. - This role is not for someone who hasn't done the work themselves in five years. - This role is not for someone who needs a defined playbook handed to them. Your first year - Months 1 to 3: Inherit the brand and product context across our portfolio. Stand up the AI-leveraged operating stack. Begin partnership landscape research by industry. - Months 4 to 6: Refined GTM plan and partnership economics model ready for leadership review. Sales staffing strategy drafted. - Months 7 to 12: First platform-partnership LOI in active negotiation. Sales staffing plan moving from approved document to first hires. Compensation This is structured as a salary-and-bonus role, not an equity-driven early-stage package. The base is set at the upper end of senior commercial leadership compensation for this market, with meaningful annual variable tied to milestone-based deliverables in year one and transitioning to pipeline and revenue variable in year two. Benefits - Fully remote within the US. - 100% employer-paid medical, dental and disability, with vision option. - Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 4% company match. - Flexible paid time off, 9 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays. - Paid parental leave. - Annual office supply allowance, monthly internet stipend and employer-paid cell phone. - Opportunities to connect virtually and in-person twice a year with our fully remote team. Additional Information We want applications from everyone, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizen status, age, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected status. Our remote-friendly work model supports flexibility across the US, however we are currently unable to support employment in California. We are unable to consider applicants who live outside of the US. At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, location and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Role Description This is Misfits & Machines’ first internal legal hire—a practicing attorney who will serve as both deal lawyer and legal architect. You’ll own commercial contracts, AI and IP counsel, platform governance, and the legal frameworks that let governed AI ventures ship and scale. The role spans our two AI ventures: Audiotising, an AI-powered advertising platform, and AudioKnot, an AI music licensing platform, reports to the SVP of Strategic Partnerships, and works directly with Product, Engineering, GTM, and Finance. - Build the legal foundation: Design and own the legal operating model for Misfits & Machines from the ground up: stage gates, decision rights, governance frameworks, and the legal infrastructure that lets AI-enabled products ship with confidence. - Draft and negotiate personally: Own commercial contracts, product terms, creator licenses, and partner agreements hands-on, not through outside counsel proxy. This is a practicing attorney role, not a supervisory one. - Advise on AI, IP, and platform risk: Be the go-to counsel on training-data legality, copyright, voice and likeness risk, DMCA safe harbor, FTC advertising standards, and privacy across both Audiotising and AudioKnot. - Translate legal into product: Work directly with Product and Engineering to embed legal requirements before launch, turning regulatory constraints into actionable product decisions, not post-launch blockers. Qualifications - JD with active Minnesota bar license; 10–15 years of experience including progression to counsel or partner level at a firm and 3–5 years in-house at a tech, AI, adtech, or product-led company. - Demonstrated depth in training-data legality, copyright, right of publicity, voice and likeness risk, and synthetic-media issues. - Track record of personally drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements. - Comfortable operating without a legal team around you, and experienced working directly with Product and Engineering. Requirements - Licensed and seasoned attorney. - AI and IP fluency. - Hands-on commercial drafter. - Product-embedded mindset. Benefits - Fully remote within the US. - 100% employer-paid medical, dental and disability, with vision option. - Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 4% company match. - Flexible paid time off, 10 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays. - Paid parental leave. - Annual office supply allowance, monthly internet stipend and employer-paid cell phone. - Opportunities to connect virtually and in-person twice a year with our fully remote team.