Group Product Marketing Manager

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$155K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own core product marketing by translating insights into strategy, then drive campaigns that reach defined audiences and move metrics tied to broader goals.

  • Product positioning and messaging with stakeholders to articulate a clear value proposition.
  • Cross-functional collaboration with analytics, content, and research to shape campaigns, measurement, and collateral.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop product marketing strategies based on insights, and aligned with content and product strategies, to achieve defined success metrics tied to broader organization objectives
  • Create and execute campaigns using marketing levers, channels, and tools that will most effectively reach and communicate to a defined target audience
  • Own and maintain evergreen marketing strategies for select products in our portfolio
  • Partner with analytics to set target metrics for each campaign and/or initiative that ladder up to organizational goals
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop product positioning and messaging that articulates a compelling value proposition and product narrative
  • Influence product development by understanding the user’s needs and their journeys, supporting the creation of an intervention product portfolio with a focus on early involvement through research, message testing, segmentation, and persona development
  • Partner with the Advancement team to refine the donation messaging strategy across the product portfolio and drive donations from existing users through research, testing, and optimization
  • Develop content for internal and external use, including product collateral, web pages, case studies, blog posts, emails, app store listings, FAQs, and more
  • Be an internal product evangelist, including socializing product/content roadmaps and being a connector between the Product team and Marketing
  • Coordinate and communicate roadmaps between Product and Marketing to align launches and campaigns

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience in product marketing (or comparable marketing and/or product experience), preferably at a tech start-up or direct-to-consumer (DTC) digital-first brand. You have owned projects or workstreams end-to-end. You may have some experience leading a small team or a project team.
  • Domain expertise: Ability to distill research and data into actionable insights, and apply them to decision-making, segmentation, messaging, and strategic planning.
  • Strategic thinking and execution: You own specific projects and workstreams within a team. You translate team priorities into purposeful, mission-oriented plans for your owned work. You solve operational and tactical problems within your projects.
  • Stakeholder and cross-functional partnership: You partner with other teams and functions where the work overlaps. You’re skilled at influencing and aligning with key stakeholders. You make tradeoffs within owned projects. You build trust with senior partners through clear communication and reliable delivery.
  • People leadership and development: You serve as a subject-matter expert to the team and mentor junior teammates.
  • Communication: You communicate clearly with teammates, your manager, senior leaders, and cross-functional partners. You adapt to the audience. You lead working sessions, are a strong presenter, and present work to leadership when needed.
  • Writing skills: comfortable with both long-form material (e.g., case studies and white papers) and concise content (e.g., one-pagers and webpages).
  • Data and analytics: You use data to develop insights and make decisions within owned projects and workstreams.
  • Project management: You plan and run complex multi-stakeholder projects and workstreams end-to-end. You set milestones, manage risk, and coordinate the work of contributors under tight deadlines and with quick turnaround times.
  • AI fluency: You apply AI tools to improve output and efficiency within owned projects. You evaluate where AI adds value in the work and share good practices with the team.

Preferred

  • Experience marketing podcasts: Proven track record of scaling listenership and developing launch strategies for podcasts, as well as a deep understanding of podcast analytics.
  • Prior experience working with/alongside social impact organizations, non-profits, or the education sector
  • Experience leading product naming or messaging development exercises
  • Deep familiarity with marketing automation, project management, technical product development processes, and campaign measurement

Benefits

  • We offer a comprehensive benefits package that supports wellness for our team members and their families.
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Founded in 2017
Bristol, England, GBR
15 employees (2 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
625
Traffic Source Mix
Search
65.9%
Direct
18.4%
Referral
8.5%
Social
6%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~15

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
14.5 years
Median Tenure
4.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1