Chief Marketing Officer

About QuintAce

QuintAce is building the Duolingo of strategic thinking—a platform designed to coach users through poker and beyond, expanding to turn-based strategy games and business simulations where success depends on complex reasoning, sequential decision-making, and Nash equilibrium-style logic.We’re starting with poker, but our mission is much broader: to become the go-to interactive learning platform for all strategy game enthusiasts—from card tables to corporate boardrooms.And we’re not starting from scratch: we already work with industry leaders like WPT, ClubWPT Gold, and WPT Global, collectively covering nearly 50% of the online poker market. This gives us a massive built-in audience to bootstrap our growth.

Your Mission

As CMO, you’re not just leading marketing—you’re helping create a category. Your goal is to turn QuintAce into a movement. You’ll define how the product launches, how it grows, and how we evolve from “a poker tool” to the strategy coach for an entire generation of gamers and thinkers.Key Responsibilities

• Lead Product Launches: Craft GTM strategies for our poker MVP and subsequent products across other strategy verticals.
• Own the Growth Engine: Build organic, community-led, and viral growth loops from day one; bootstrap from our operator partnerships to reach the broader market.
• Narrative & Positioning: Define and tell a compelling story that captures both poker players and long-term strategic thinkers across gaming, business, and education.
• Community Engagement: Embed yourself in forums, Discords, niche Twitter/X subcultures, and Reddit threads where the early adopters live.
• Virality by Design: Work closely with product to design in-app viral mechanisms—friend invites, challenge sharing, leaderboard bragging, etc.
• Marketing Hiring & Team Formation: Build a lean, high-impact team across content, community, performance, and user education.
• Strategic Partnerships: Collaborate with WPT and other strategic partners to unlock user funnels and co-branded growth opportunities.
• Product-Led Growth: Build feedback loops with product to optimize onboarding, activation, and retention metrics across strategy game verticals.

Who You Are

• A startup-native hustler: You’ve co-founded or led growth in a startup before. You’re allergic to corporate pace.
• A narrative architect: You know how to turn a technical product into a movement people want to be part of.
• A community infiltrator: You’ve built or nurtured grassroots growth before—think crypto Discords, Reddit nerd threads, or mid-core gaming forums.
• A strategic executor: You can see 6 months ahead but also ship next week’s email campaign.
• Deeply curious about how humans make decisions, especially under uncertainty. You may not be a poker expert, but you love what poker and strategy games teach.

Bonus XP

• Experience scaling freemium B2C apps
• Shipped a product in gaming, poker, crypto, or edtech
• Launched products with built-in viral loops or referral incentives
• Strong POV on the future of AI + learning + game theory

Why This Is Rare

• A blue ocean of underserved users—recreational players, not just pros
• Built-in bootstrap base: 50% of the poker market already within reach
• Backed by world-class engineers & poker experts
• Clear roadmap from poker → broader strategy verticals
• Real chance to build the Codecademy + Netflix + Duolingo of strategy thinking

Compensation

• Base + performance bonus
• Equity or revenue share negotiable