Senior Product Marketing Manager (Partners & Portfolio)

Oro Valley, AZ (Remote)

$95K/yr – $113K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the core market-facing narratives and cross-functional launch playbooks that connect IM’s products with educators and partners, turning campaigns and audience insights into differentiated positioning and scalable GTM actions.

  • Own audience-specific positioning, messaging frameworks, and value propositions for IM’s offerings.
  • Collaborate with Product and Partnerships to design and execute scalable GTM launches for evolving digital and print products.
  • Build partner enablement materials and messaging guidelines to ensure consistent communications across IM and partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain audience-specific positioning, messaging frameworks, and value propositions for IM’s direct offerings, open educational resources, professional learning services, and emerging products.
  • Collaborate with Product and Partnerships teams to build and execute scalable go-to-market strategies and launch plans for new, evolving, and iterative digital and print offerings.
  • Build and maintain messaging guidelines, partner enablement materials, and marketing toolkits that ensure consistent communication across IM and IM Certified partners.
  • Serve as an embedded marketing liaison within Product and Partnerships planning processes, helping align market-facing strategy with broader organizational priorities and timelines.
  • Analyze campaign performance, market feedback, audience behavior, and product usage insights to refine positioning, strengthen messaging, and inform future go-to-market decisions.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in product marketing, go-to-market strategy, partner marketing, solutions marketing, integrated marketing, or related fields.
  • Demonstrated success building and executing GTM strategies, positioning frameworks, and launches for multi-tiered portfolios or complex partner ecosystems.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to influence and align stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Excellent communication and writing skills, including the ability to translate complex concepts into clear, compelling market-facing narratives.
  • Experience using campaign data, audience insights, market signals, and product usage data to refine positioning and marketing strategy.
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
  • Must reside in and be legally authorized to work in the USA.

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience within K–12 education, EdTech, curriculum publishing, professional learning, or mission-driven nonprofit organizations.
  • Familiarity with marketing to school district leaders, state agencies, and educational foundations.
  • Experience working in a fully remote environment.
  • Proficiency with cloud-based collaboration tools such as Google Workspace, Asana, Notion, Slack, and Zoom.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work environment. Everyone works from home!
  • Flexible work schedules within our Monday-Friday work week.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Closed for 10 company-recognized holidays, plus Winter Break.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package.
  • Three medical insurance plans to choose from, plus dental and vision plans.
  • Employer-paid Life & AD&D Insurance, and Voluntary Life & AD&D.
  • Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
  • Voluntary accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance plans are available.
  • 403(b) retirement plan with a matching employer contribution after 90 days of employment.
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ILLUSTRATIVE MATHEMATICS

Our vision is a world where people know, use, and enjoy mathematics.Illustrative Mathematics is a discerning community of educators dedicated to the coherent learning of mathematics. We collaborate at illustrativemathematics.org, sharing carefully vetted resources for teachers and teacher leaders to give our children an understanding of mathematics and skill in using it. We provide expert guidance to states and districts working to improve mathematics education.

Founded in 2011
Tucson, Arizona, USA
192 employees (30 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
318K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$12.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.4%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
16.8%
Social
0.2%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~192

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
24 (13% of company)

Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2018
    Series Unknown