Senior Director - Product Marketing & Market Intelligence

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$210K/yr – $260K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Own and shape SoundCloud\'s product marketing and GTM strategy, building market intelligence, audience insights, and a high-impact PMM function that partners across Brand, Creative, and Growth to drive launches and monetization.

  • Lead market and audience research to inform strategy
  • Define positioning and go-to-market for major launches
  • Develop and scale a PMM organization

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Shape product and business strategy as a strategic partner to leadership, including recommendations on consumer narratives, packaging, and monetization, some of the highest-leverage decisions at the company
  • Define positioning across creator, fan, AI, subscription, and monetization experiences, in close partnership with Brand, Creative, and Communications
  • Lead go-to-market strategy for major launches, defining audiences, positioning, and launch tiers, and owning the awareness-to-adoption-to-retention metrics that define success; own GTM strategy, positioning, and audience definition, partnering with marketing teams on channel orchestration and execution
  • Build SoundCloud's market and audience intelligence function — tracking trends and competitive moves across music, AI, and the creator economy, and turning them into executive briefings, forecasts, competitive intelligence, and opportunity calls that sharpen how we compete
  • Own creator and fan insight, drive audience segmentation and sizing, build always-on feedback loops, partner with Community on creator councils and advisory panels, and translate what you learn into recommendations Product and Business act on
  • Build and develop a high-performing PMM organization, establishing a modern operating model and raising the strategic influence of the function across the company

Requirements

  • 10+ years across product marketing, product or growth strategy, or consumer, marketplace, and platform businesses
  • A track record of leading product marketing teams and influencing product strategy, not just supporting launches
  • Deep experience with market and audience research and competitive analysis — and a habit of turning it into data-backed decisions.
  • Deep understanding of consumer products, marketplaces, creator platforms, subscriptions, or social ecosystems
  • Exceptional storytelling and executive presence across complex, cross-functional organizations
  • Relentless curiosity about people, markets, and culture, with a real passion for music and creators

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
  • Robust 401k program
  • Employee Equity Plan
  • Generous professional development allowance
  • Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
  • Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
  • 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
  • Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
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SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

Founded in 2007
Berlin, Berlin, DEU
924 employees (360 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend
85% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$210K/yr – $260K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
86 (9% of company)
Median Tenure
2.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$542.8M
Last Raise
$75M
Corporate Round, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2020
    Corporate Round • $75M
  • Aug 2017
    Series F • $169.5M
  • Mar 2017
    Debt Financing • $70M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
122.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$9.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.7%
Direct
71.7%
Referral
2.5%
Social
1%
Paid
0.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~929

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Senior Director - Product Marketing & Market Intelligence

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