Product Marketing Manager

Carlsbad, CA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own product positioning, messaging, and go-to-market content for government and national security customers, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Sales to shape strategy and enablement across campaigns and executive communications.

  • Own positioning and messaging frameworks that clearly communicate customer value
  • Drive content and enablement across campaigns, digital channels, and sales teams
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and leadership to align strategy and go-to-market programs

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Product Positioning and Messaging - Develop product positioning, messaging, and value propositions that clearly communicate customer benefits and competitive differentiation.
  • Translate complex technical capabilities into compelling narratives tailored to government, defense, and national security audiences.
  • Analyze competitive offerings and market dynamics to inform product strategy and positioning.
  • Partner with Product Management and Engineering to understand product roadmaps and align commercialization strategies.
  • Develop buyer personas, use cases, and customer journey maps to support product and marketing strategies.
  • Create and maintain messaging frameworks aligned to customer missions, acquisition priorities, and operational challenges.
  • Ensure consistency of messaging across campaigns, sales materials, digital channels, events, and executive presentations.
  • Content, Thought Leadership, and Sales Enablement - Develop customer-facing materials including presentations, solution briefs, white papers, sales playbooks, case studies, demos, and videos.
  • Equip sales teams with the tools, training, messaging, and competitive insights needed to effectively position solutions.
  • Drive development of product-focused content across digital, social, web, and industry channels.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, solution marketing, or related roles.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting government, defense, aerospace, national security, or highly regulated B2B technology markets.
  • Experience developing product positioning, go-to-market strategies, and launch plans for technical products or solutions.
  • Strong ability to translate complex technologies into clear, compelling customer value propositions.
  • Experience collaborating alongside Product teams, Engineering, Business Development, and executive leadership groups.
  • Knowledge of government procurement processes, acquisition cycles, and defense market dynamics.
  • Analytical, research, and competitive intelligence skills.
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including executive-level communications.
  • Experience developing sales enablement tools and customer-facing product content.

Preferred

  • Active U.S. Security Clearance or ability to obtain one preferred.

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