Guild is a company that believes talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. They are seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager to lead the development of core product positioning and messaging for their Grow product, ensuring the product narrative resonates with key audiences and distinguishes Guild as a category leader.
Responsibilities:
- Market Insight Leadership: Be market and customer obsessed. Drive ongoing market, customer, and competitive research to inform positioning and long-term messaging strategy—translating insights into actionable recommendations for the business
- Own product positioning: Lead the creation, refinement, and articulation of the Grow product’s positioning and messaging, ensuring clarity, consistency, and market relevance. This includes effectively positioning our Grow product and features
- Shape the Narrative: Develop and maintain the strategic product narrative that communicates Guild’s unique value and competitive differentiation to employers, employees, partners, and the broader market
- Strategic Storytelling: Translate customer pain points and market differentiation into high-impact, narrative-driven assets (e.g., market-facing decks, core product messaging guides, executive talking points) that enable internal and external stakeholders to communicate Guild Grow’s core value proposition
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with Product, Marketing, Employer Partnerships, Sales, Executives, and Enablement teams to ensure alignment around core product positioning and consistent delivery of the strategic narrative
- Product Influence: Influence the product roadmap by gathering and synthesizing customer and market insights to ensure our positioning and narrative align with evolving customer needs and competitive dynamics
Requirements:
- 6+ years in product marketing or related field, with a proven track record in positioning and messaging—preferably in B2B SaaS or HR Tech
- Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives for diverse audiences, especially HR or L&D buyers
- Demonstrated expertise in competitive analysis, market research, and leveraging insights to shape high-level product strategy
- Expertise in positioning and messaging for a product suite, including effectively nesting multiple products or capabilities under a hero product
- Experience driving alignment and building consensus across executive and cross-functional teams, especially in highly complex organizations with complicated products
- Confidence working directly with executive leadership (Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Executive Officer) to build and refine effective positioning
- Ability to translate details & data to the 30,000-foot view, connecting market trends and customer needs to long-term positioning
- Analytical mindset with experience leveraging data to inform strategy and measure success