Product Marketing Lead

San Francisco, CA (Unknown)

$208K/yr – $221K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and articulate Paraform's category narrative and go-to-market strategy, driving messaging, product launches, and enablement across talent and recruiting audiences.

  • Define and refine category narrative and persona-based messaging
  • Lead end-to-end product launches and enablement to drive pipeline, adoption, and revenue

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define Paraform's category narrative — developing differentiated positioning across our key personas (talent leaders, founders, recruiters)
  • Own persona depth and segmentation by company size, vertical, and agency type to inform targeting and messaging
  • Translate product capabilities into clear buyer value and continuously refine messaging based on customer insight and competitive intelligence
  • Own product launch strategy and execution, from beta through full GA, partnering closely with Product on roadmap priorities
  • Build sales and GTM enablement — pitch decks, battlecards, ROI calculators, case studies, and competitive talk tracks
  • Oversee messaging across the website, thought leadership, and customer stories to shape executive narrative for speaking, PR, and industry presence
  • Define metrics for PMM impact on revenue and adoption, and report on them to leadership
  • Hire and develop a high-performing PMM team over time

Requirements

  • 5+ years of product marketing experience at a B2B SaaS company
  • Proven track record owning positioning and messaging for a complex B2B product — category narrative, not just feature-level launches
  • Experience leading end-to-end product launches with measurable impact on pipeline, adoption, or revenue
  • Exceptional writing and storytelling skills — can take a technical product and turn it into clear narrative for web, sales, and exec audiences
  • Strong sales partnership instincts — track record building enablement that moves win rates
  • Deep customer curiosity — you learn from sales calls, customer interviews, and market research
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity with minimal infrastructure — energized by setting direction from first principles

Preferred

  • Perfered
  • Experience marketing to talent, recruiting, or HR audiences
  • Experience launching AI-powered products
  • Experience building and scaling a PMM team
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Paraform

Paraform is a recruiting marketplace that connects companies with a network of specialized recruiters to fill their hardest roles.We partner with industry leaders like Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Rippling and many others to hire world-class talent. Paraform is backed by Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

Founded in 2023
San Francisco, California, USA
183 employees (7 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$208K/yr – $221K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

See all Paraform salaries

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
4.5 years
Median Tenure
1.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$25M
Last Raise
$20M
Series A, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Series A • $20M
  • Apr 2024
    Seed • $3.6M
  • Mar 2023
    Pre Seed • $1.4M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
376.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$336
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26.6%
Direct
61.2%
Referral
5.6%
Social
6%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~183
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Product Marketing Lead

Paraform · San Francisco, CA · Unknown