Principal Product Marketing Manager - GenStudio for Performance Marketing

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$145K/yr – $261K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the competitive positioning and messaging for a specific customer segment, drive GTM strategy, and partner across Product, Design, and Sales to turn insight into action.

  • Own positioning framework and ICP refinement to sharpen our differentiation
  • Shape narratives that connect product capabilities to business outcomes to improve ROAS
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, and Sales to ensure messages drive pipeline impact

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the competitive positioning framework for your assigned customer segment or use case
  • Develop and stress-test messaging around how we help performance marketers close the gap between insight and action
  • Create the narrative that connects product capability to business outcome, including why collapsing production cycles drives ROAS
  • Partner with Product and Design to ensure we're solving the right insight-to-action problems, not building features that sound good but don't matter
  • Conduct win/loss analysis and competitive intelligence to sharpen our differentiation
  • Contribute to refinement of our ICP and buying committee frameworks
  • Define customer success metrics, and what "activated" looks like in practice
  • Help Sales understand which performance marketers feel the insight-to-action gap most acutely, and why
  • Validate assumptions about customer pain through interviews and data
  • Build the customer stories and use cases that show insight flowing directly into action

Requirements

  • 12+ years in B2B product marketing, with at least 10 years driving positioning, messaging, and GTM strategy (not just campaign execution) [confirm total-years floor with HM]
  • Proven ability to influence product direction based on market signals
  • Track record of shipping positioning that moved the needle, with specific deals won or pipeline lifted
  • Experience working in or adjacent to marketing technology, performance marketing tools, or B2B SaaS
  • Comfort with data: you read dashboards, test messaging, and decide based on evidence, not intuition

Preferred

  • Intellectual honesty. You can articulate hard truths about product-market fit, customer concentration, and competitive threats. You don't spin; you solve.
  • Direct communication. You write clearly, present crisply, and give straightforward feedback. No corporate jargon.
  • Strategic flexibility. You can zoom from competitive battlecards to SVP-level business strategy and back.
  • Customer empathy with skepticism. You care about solving customer problems, but you don't accept feedback uncritically. You triangulate.
  • Cross-functional partnership. You work closely with Product, Sales, and Design. You build trust, not silos.
  • Comfort with ambiguity. We're still answering fundamental questions about our ICP, positioning, and go-to-market model.
  • Background in performance marketing, digital advertising, or analytics

Benefits

  • comprehensive benefits programs
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