Winning Your Growth & Marketing Job Search in 2025

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Winning Your Growth & Marketing Job Search in 2025

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

What you'll learn

Growth-specific positioning:

Marketing and growth are changing fast - let's talk about what you need to demonstrate in this modern market.

Adapt to changing jobs:

AI has impacted growth more than any role except engineering - let's talk about how jobs are different in 2025, and how

For leaders and individual contributors:

We'll cover themes for folks at any stage of career, and across sub-industries in tech.

Why this topic matters

Growth & marketing roles have dramatically shifted due to rapid technological advancements — especially the rise of AI. The old playbook won’t cut it anymore. To stay competitive, you must understand what exactly employers are now seeking. This session gives you the edge needed to position yourself effectively, adapt confidently, & secure your spot in the fast-paced 2025 marketing landscape.

You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Helping people reach the height of their ambition.

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Sherveen brings unique insight from all sides of the hiring equation, having built AI-powered recruiting technology and led product development at major startups like Toptal and Stella.

For a majority of his career, he's also been uniquely focused on the candidate side of the equation. He previously founded JobHero, a job search tracker with 100k+ enthusiastic users, and is now the founder and CEO of Free Agency.

Through Free Agency (backed by prominent investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Kevin Durant, Kygo), he now helps job seekers navigate the modern hiring landscape to land top of market roles. Since 2019, clients of Free Agency have won over $400M in job offers and landed at top companies like OpenAI, Amazon, American Express, Stripe, YouTube, Netflix, and hundreds more.

He has been a product leader at talent marketplaces like Toptal, AI hiring platforms like Stella, and is now the founder and CEO of Free Agency (backed by investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Resolute Ventures, Kevin Durant, Kygo, and executives + founders from companies like Twitter, MasterClass, and Snapchat).

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