Director, Product Marketing

USA (Remote)

$232K/yr – $372K/yrDirector/ExecutiveOther

Posted 1 day ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end GTM process that moves opportunities from ideation to in-market execution, including setting the strategy, collecting feedback, sizing of opportunities, determining key debates and decisions with clear business cases, stage gates, launch readiness, and post-launch review.
  • Set the strategic goals and success criteria for each initiative up front, and drive alignment on them across Product, Engineering, Finance, Operations, Sales, Support, Marketing, and others.
  • Own launch readiness as a mechanism, not a meeting: clear owners, clear dates, clear go/no-go criteria, and an honest retro afterward.
  • Identify where the process itself is the bottleneck and fix it. This role is expected to build repeatable GTM motions and systems that can scale your work across teams.
  • Partner with Product Management to shape the roadmap that’s led with data: market sizing, customer research, competitive intelligence, channel input, and knowledgeable ways to leverage AI to organize the data into tangible next steps.
  • Maintain a working understanding of the market: competitive lineups, adjacent smart home platforms and protocols, pro channel dynamics, and where the category is heading.
  • Define positioning and messaging architecture for hardware, software, and subscription offerings, and translate technical capability into language customers and pros actually use.
  • Own the single source of truth for each product: positioning, claims, feature availability, competitive comparisons, FAQs, and objection handling.
  • Develop pricing and packaging recommendations in partnership with Product, Sales, and Marketing: good/better/best structures, subscription tiers, channel-specific SKUs, promotional strategy. Each should include financial modeling to support the recommendations.
  • Lead integrated launches across the professional channel, retail, and D2C.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of product marketing, GTM, or closely related commercial experience, including significant time owning initiatives end-to-end.
  • Comfort operating as a hands-on individual contributor. You write the narrative and docs, build the model, and run the launch yourself rather than assigning it.
  • Demonstrated ownership of a full product lifecycle from concept through launch and iteration, with results you can speak to specifically.
  • Experience marketing connected hardware, consumer electronics, IoT, or technical products, including the realities of long hardware lead times, supply constraints, certification, and channel timing.
  • Experience marketing software or subscription offerings: adoption, attach, retention, and monetization.
  • Track record of driving direction and alignment across product, engineering, finance, operations, and sales without owning those functions.
  • Strong analytical foundation: comfortable building the model, working in spreadsheets and BI tools, and defending the assumptions.
  • Exceptional written communication. Distill a complex set of decisions into a written narrative a leadership team can act on.
  • Bachelor's degree.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Preferred

  • Experience building GTM or NPI processes from scratch, or materially rebuilding one that wasn't working.
  • Experience in two-step distribution or professional trade channels (irrigation, landscape, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, building products) alongside retail and D2C.
  • Experience with smart home platforms and protocols: Matter, Thread, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and have enough technical fluency to be useful in engineering conversations.
  • Experience with outdoor products, lighting, water management, or the sustainability categories.
  • Experience with partner, OEM, or co-marketing programs.
  • MBA or advanced degree.

Rain Bird Corporation

3.4 Glassdoor

Rain Bird Corporation, based in Azusa, California is the world's leading manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services. Since 1933, Rain Bird has offered the broadest range of irrigation and water conservation products for farms, golf courses, sports arenas, commercial developments and homes in more than 130 countries around the globe. We have been awarded 450+ patents worldwide, including the first in 1935 for the impact sprinkler. Rain Bird's guiding philosophy is The Intelligent Use of WaterTM. Our commitment to water conservation management extends beyond products to education, training, and services for the industry and the community. Starting in 2015, the National Business Research Institute (NBRI) recognized Rain Bird Corporation with the Circle of Excellence award based on our outstanding Employee Engagement. And we received the 2016 Readers Choice Award from Facility Executive magazine in the category of “Water Management."Rain Bird maintains state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the United States, China, France, and Mexico. People who work at Rain Bird find rewarding careers in Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations and more.www.rainbird.com

Founded in 1933
Azusa, California, USA
1.2K employees (73 in marketing)
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Director, Product Marketing

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