Product Marketing Manager

What the role involves

• Own positioning, messaging and the narrative sales uses with customers
• Turn customer and market insight into positioning changes
• Plan and run product launches, including enablement for sales and support
• Build competitive intelligence and keep the team honest about it
• Define the ideal customer profile and the proof points that support it

Core skills

• Positioning & Messaging (level 4/5)
• Go-to-Market Execution (level 4/5)
• Customer & Market Insight (level 4/5)
• Competitive Intelligence (level 4/5)
• Launch Planning (level 4/5)
• Sales Enablement & Cross-Functional Leadership (level 4/5)

Preferred skills

• Content Strategy
• Customer Research & Interviews
• Product Analytics

Tools

Experience expected

3-6 years in product marketing, product management or go-to-market

Projects that prove the role

• Repositioning that improved win rates against named competitors
• Launch that hit its pipeline target in the first quarter
• Sales enablement kit that shortened the sales cycle

Evidence to collect

• A positioning and messaging framework you owned
• A launch plan with the results it produced
• Competitive analysis that changed a product decision

What the interview covers

• Repositioning a product that was not selling
• Explaining a product to a customer in one sentence
• A launch that missed its target and what you learned
• How you gathered insight without a large research budget

How the role progresses

• Product Marketing Associate
• Product Marketing Manager
• Senior Product Marketing Manager
• Director of Product Marketing
• VP Product Marketing

Certifications that carry weight

• Product Marketing Alliance certification
• Certified Product Manager (SaaS Frameworks)
• HubSpot Product Marketing Certification

Related roles

• product-manager
• brand-manager
• marketing-manager
• business-analyst

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