Principal Product Marketing Manager (Remote)

USA (Remote)

$165K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own go-to-market strategy and cross-functional leadership for a major KnowBe4 product portfolio, shaping positioning, competitive strategy, and analyst engagement while mentoring the marketing team.

  • Lead GTM for launches and platform initiatives
  • Advise on roadmap, pricing, and competitive positioning; enable cross-functional campaigns
  • Drive analyst relations and thought leadership to establish category authority

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive product and portfolio positioning and messaging strategy across a major product line or platform pillar, ensuring differentiation and consistency across all customer-facing channels
  • Set the go-to-market strategy and narrative for major product launches, new market entries, and platform-level initiatives, coordinating execution across Marketing, Sales, Product, Competitive Intelligence, and Customer Success
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to Product Management on roadmap and pricing/packaging decisions, bringing market, competitive, and customer insight to influence what KnowBe4 builds
  • Drive and elevate KnowBe4's competitive strategy, translating competitive and market intelligence into actionable positioning, sales plays, and executive briefings
  • Represent Product Marketing in industry-analyst forums and support research/reports (e.g., Gartner, Forrester); build and maintain relationships with key analysts and influencers
  • Drive thought leadership initiatives (speaking engagements, bylines, executive content) that establish KnowBe4 and its leaders as category authorities
  • Mentor and coach Senior and Product Marketing Managers, providing guidance on positioning, messaging, and go-to- market craft, and helping to scale best practices across the team
  • Partner cross-functionally to support integrated marketing campaigns, sales plays, and ABM motions that drive measurable pipeline, revenue, and brand impact across all go- to-market channels
  • Conduct advanced market research, competitive analysis, and buyer/persona development to inform long-range GTM and product strategy
  • Assist and evolve sales enablement strategy for the portfolio (battlecards, feature comparisons, datasheets), ensuring sales is equipped to win against evolving competitive threats

Requirements

  • BA/BS or equivalent working experience
  • 8+ years of experience in product marketing, with a track record of leading GTM strategy for major product launches or portfolios
  • 8+ years of experience in product marketing, product positioning, messaging, and market research & analysis, including experience operating at a strategic/portfolio level
  • Extensive experience in the cybersecurity industry and B2B SaaS is required
  • Proven ability to independently set and drive GTM strategy with minimal oversight, and to influence senior stakeholders and executives
  • Demonstrated experience advising Product Management on roadmap and pricing/packaging strategy
  • Experience building and maintaining relationships with industry analysts (Gartner, Forrester, etc.) and representing a company in analyst or executive briefings
  • Track record of mentoring or informally leading other product marketers, with strong coaching and influence skills
  • Thorough understanding of the KnowBe4 platform and the broader human risk management / security awareness market
  • Comfortable delivering executive-level presentations and demonstrations, highlighting strategic value beyond individual product features

Preferred

  • Experience using Salesforce or other CRM platforms is a plus
  • Experience with Marketing software such as Highspot, Monday.com, Crayon, HubSpot, or similar is a plus
  • Thorough understanding of the KnowBe4 platform and the broader human risk management / security awareness market
  • Deep familiarity with enterprise sales processes and culture, including the tools and assets needed by a high-volume, high- complexity sales organization

Benefits

  • We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits .
  • Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.
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KnowBe4 empowers your workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by over 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 helps you strengthen your security culture and manage human risk. KnowBe4 offers a comprehensive AI-driven "best-of-suite" platform for human risk management (HRM), creating an adaptive defense layer that fortifies user behavior against the latest cybersecurity threats.The HRM+ platform includes modules for awareness and compliance training, cloud email security, real-time security coaching, crowdsourced anti-phishing, AI Defense Agents and more. As the only global security platform of its kind, KnowBe4 transforms your largest attack surface—your workforce—into your biggest asset, actively protecting your organization against cybersecurity threats.

Founded in 2010
Clearwater, Florida, USA
2.3K employees (124 in marketing)
70% recommend to a friend
74% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$165K/yr – $180K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($173K) is 8% above the median base salary for Senior Product Marketing Manager roles in the United States ($160K).

Senior Product Marketing Manager median pay in the United States

$160K/yr

Most pay falls between $135K and $179K. Based on 211 salaries.

See all KnowBe4 salaries

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
83 (4% of company)
Median Tenure
4.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$2.2B
Last Raise
$1.5B
Debt Financing, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Debt Financing • $1.5B
  • Jun 2023
    Debt Financing • $300M
  • Jan 2020
    Series Unknown

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$433.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
19.4%
Direct
72.4%
Referral
6.1%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.3K