Job Title: Product Marketing Manager V
Duration: 7+ months
Location: Seattle, WA (Onsite)/Open anywhere in the US if candidate is a good fit
 
The Client is seeking a Product Marketing Manager to join our team.  The Business Product Marketing team finds the intersection between people's needs, marketers' needs, and the client's strongest differentiators to drive the development, launch, and growth of industry-leading business products. The products we build enable businesses to grow and communities to prosper. 
The ideal candidate will have experience in digital advertising, product management, or marketing, and an understanding of the advertising market. They should have demonstrated experience partnering cross-functionally to drive results within a fast-paced environment.
 
The Product Marketing Manager will be responsible for driving market requirements and launch plans for the client’s solutions across our advertiser interfaces for all advertisers using our platform. This includes assessing market needs, conducting research to influence new product development, evaluating approaches to mitigate product risks, owning go-to-market strategy and identifying opportunities to improve existing products. The ideal candidate will have excellent cross-functional collaboration, analytical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and comfort with ambiguity.
 
Responsibilities:

• Lead market assessment, quantitative analysis, qualitative feedback, and represent the requirements of the market internally with Product Management and Engineering
• Deeply understand advertiser needs/requirements and product risk areas in order to prioritize recommendations to product, engineering, and design teams for new and existing products
• Partner with cross-functional teams across the client that build new innovative solutions for advertisers to ensure that products and solutions are incorporated into the platform in a consistent and strategic manner
• Ensure the right level of alignment, consistency and flexibility in approach across regional and vertical teams, with the goal of scaling impact while meeting market-specific needs
• Own go-to-market strategy for a portfolio of ad products and solutions by guiding cross-functional teams in developing client communications, product documentation, and positioning

 
Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years professional experience in technology or internet technology, strategic marketing, product management, management consulting.
• Experience in market research, product development, outbound marketing and a background in adtech.
• Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams with the experience to influence behavior and drive resolution in the context of competing perspectives.
• Analytical, data driven decision-maker with experience using deductive reasoning to simplify and communicate complex issues.
• Organization and people skills and experience setting priorities, problem-solving, multi-tasking and working independently in a dynamic, rapidly changing workplace.
• Communication skills that are effective with technical, business, and external stakeholders.
• Track record of effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive results
• Experience in the advertising space with online media related products.
• Experience in a product marketing capacity (partnering closely with product management, product marketing and/or engineering to represent market/customer requirements and supporting product launches).

 
Must haves:

• Inbound and outbound experience – must be able to build a strong plan and carry through, synthesize it in a way that persuades stakeholders and must have demonstrated history of establishing GTM strategy from the ground up.
• Must understand advertising.
• Project management skills – the selected candidate must be able to efficiently manage teams. They must be able to work in cross functional teams in a cohesive way.
• Product team is going through various changes, and the selected candidate must be able to work through these changes, must be agile and adapt in ambiguous situations.

 
Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in consulting background PMM roles.
• Experience in the retail space and understanding customers.

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.

 

About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $102.00/hr.