Director, Product Marketing - Sage HCM

San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

$200K/yr – $260K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years exp

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape Sage’s North American HCM, payroll, workforce management, and AI-enabled product marketing, guiding strategy, enablement, and cross-functional execution to drive growth.

  • Define differentiated positioning and messaging across product areas
  • Lead, coach, and scale a high-performing product marketing team

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own product marketing strategy for Sage’s North American HCM, payroll, workforce management, and AI-enabled portfolio.
  • Shape portfolio positioning, value propositions, and commercial strategy to support growth, adoption, retention, expansion, and market differentiation.
  • Influence roadmap, investment, segmentation, pricing, packaging, launch sequencing, and go-to-market priorities through market, customer, product, and commercial insight.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing product marketing team, raising standards and scaling product marketing impact.
  • Lead customer, market, competitor, analyst, and commercial insight to inform product strategy and go-to-market decisions.
  • Translate evidence into recommendations that influence roadmap, launch priorities, segmentation, pricing, packaging, and growth opportunities.
  • Challenge assumptions with data and customer insight to strengthen Sage’s position in the HCM, payroll, workforce management, and AI-enabled software market.
  • Define differentiated positioning, messaging, and value propositions across products, segments, buyer audiences, and customer lifecycle stages.
  • Build clear, evidence-based narratives that communicate customer value, competitive differentiation, and commercial relevance.
  • Strengthen Sage’s market story around connected HR, payroll, workforce management, financial management, and trusted AI-powered workflows.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of product marketing experience in B2B SaaS, ideally within HCM, Payroll or Finance solutions
  • People leadership experience with a track record of coaching, developing capability, and scaling product marketing impact.
  • Background leading product marketing strategy across a portfolio, product domain, region, or multi-product business.
  • Deep understanding of B2B SaaS go-to-market models, customer journeys, segmentation, pricing, packaging, adoption, retention, expansion, and commercial performance drivers.
  • Advanced capability in positioning, messaging, value proposition development, portfolio narrative, and executive-level storytelling.
  • Strong use of customer insight, market research, competitive intelligence, analyst perspectives, product signals, and commercial data to guide strategy and decision-making.
  • Track record influencing roadmap, investment decisions, go-to-market sequencing, segmentation, launch priorities, and commercial planning.
  • Strong commercial judgment and cross-functional leadership, with measurable impact on launch effectiveness, sales readiness, customer adoption, retention, expansion, or revenue growth.
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Founded in 1981
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, GBR
15K employees (1,099 in marketing)
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Direct
50.4%
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12.1%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.9%

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Current headcount: ~15.2K

Marketing Team

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875 (6% of company)
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17 years
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