Senior Manager, Product Marketing

Who We Are adMarketplace is the largest global marketplace for Native Search advertising. For over 25 years, we’ve connected brands with consumers at the moment they express commercial intent beyond legacy search engines. Today, our Native Search solutions are exclusively integrated across next-generation platforms where discovery happens, including web browsers, Buy Now Pay Later apps, and AI chat surfaces. Powered by vector search technology, our platform delivers relevant text and product ads that match consumers with the brands, products, and offers they’re actively seeking. Our award-winning culture is grounded in the principles of Curiosity, Collaboration, Creative Conflict, Commitment, and Competitiveness – our 5Cs. These values drive us to turn complexity into clarity and create measurable value for consumers, advertisers, and publishers alike. The Role The Senior Product Marketing Manager will own product marketing strategy and commercialization for a group of adMarketplace products and solutions. This person will determine how those offerings are positioned, packaged, launched, and scaled across priority audiences and markets. The Senior Product Marketing Manager will establish the strategy, standards, and cross-functional accountability required to bring products to market effectively. They will translate product capabilities, customer needs, competitive dynamics, market signals, and commercial priorities into differentiated positioning and actionable go-to-market strategies that drive adoption, revenue, and market clarity. The ideal candidate is a technical, strategic and commercially oriented product marketer who can simplify complex products, influence product and business decisions, and align senior stakeholders in a fast-evolving category. What You’ll Do Product Marketing Strategy and Commercialization Own product marketing strategy for an assigned group of products, solutions, and strategic initiatives. Define the target audience, customer problem, market opportunity, value proposition, competitive differentiation, commercial narrative, and route to market for each offering. Establish clear success measures for launches and GTM programs, including adoption, revenue influence, sales readiness, customer engagement, and market response. Identify opportunities to improve product strategy, audience strategy, and commercial activation based on customer and market needs. Ensure products are not only launched, but understood, adopted, sold effectively, and positioned to achieve their commercial potential. Build repeatable templates, standards, intake processes, launch frameworks, messaging systems, governance mechanisms, and operating rhythms that improve Product Marketing consistency and scale. Positioning, Messaging, and Competitive Strategy Develop and maintain differentiated positioning, messaging, value propositions, proof points, and claims for priority products and audiences. Build audience-specific narratives for advertisers, agencies, publishers, and internal commercial teams. Own the competitive positioning for assigned product areas, including competitor analysis, differentiation, objection handling, and strategic response recommendations. Translate product capabilities, performance data, customer evidence, market trends, and competitive intelligence into clear recommendations for Product, Sales, and company leadership. Partner with Insights and Measurement to identify benchmarks, proof points, case studies, and evidence that substantiate market-facing claims. Go-to-Market Strategy and Launch Execution Lead cross-functional GTM planning for new products, major features, strategic initiatives, and changes to existing offerings. Define launch objectives, audience strategy, positioning, commercial implications, readiness requirements, dependencies, risks, and measurement plans. Establish clear roles, decision points, timelines, and accountability across Product, Sales, Marketing, Advertiser Success, Publisher Supply, Campaign Management, Strategy, Insights, Analytics, and Measurement. Assess launch readiness and recommend whether, when, and how products should be introduced to the market. Monitor launch performance and market response, identify barriers to adoption, and lead corrective actions when outcomes do not meet expectations. Represent the Market and Customer Maintain structured feedback loops across customer conversations, sales activity, competitive developments, product performance, launch results, and internal stakeholders. Synthesize fragmented market signals into clear implications for product strategy, roadmap prioritization, positioning, and commercialization. Represent customer, market, and commercial considerations in product planning and strategic decision-making. Challenge assumptions and surface risks when product capabilities, customer expectations, positioning, and commercial plans are not aligned. Provide leadership with clear recommendations, tradeoffs, and points of view rather than simply summarizing stakeholder input. Required Qualifications 3 to 5+ years of product marketing experience, ideally in a B2B, advertising, media, marketplace, SaaS, or technology environment. Demonstrated ownership of product positioning, go-to-market strategy, commercialization, and launch outcomes. Strong commercial orientation, with the ability to connect product capabilities to customer needs, competitive differentiation, adoption, and revenue opportunities. Experience building differentiated positioning, messaging frameworks, value propositions, competitive narratives, and market-facing claims. Experience leading cross-functional product launches and managing complex workstreams, dependencies, decisions, timelines, and stakeholders. Strong written communication skills, with the ability to create crisp, executive-ready, customer-ready, and sales-ready materials. Ability to operate in ambiguity, impose structure, and move work forward across multiple stakeholders. Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage launches, workstreams, timelines, inputs, feedback, and approvals. Analytical judgment, including the ability to use data, customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and market signals to shape recommendations. Preferred Qualifications Direct experience in search advertising, retail media, commerce media, AI, search experiences, publisher monetization, or performance media. Experience supporting advertiser-facing GTM, including messaging for advertisers, agencies, sales teams, customer success teams, or account management teams. Experience creating sales enablement for complex or emerging products where the category, value proposition, or customer buying motion is still being defined. Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where products, narratives, and commercial priorities are evolving. Strong judgment on what needs to be standardized, what needs to be customized, and what needs to be simplified for scale. Experience building repeatable GTM templates, launch frameworks, messaging systems, or enablement standards. *Compensation $130,000 - $170,000 + Bonus & Equity Join Us adMarketplace has been named as one of the best places to work in New York City by Built In and Crain’s- the latter of which have recognized us the past three years straight! AMP is currently experiencing triple digit growth, and it’s never been a better time to join our team! We offer a robust continuing education program, management training, regular company-wide lunch and learns, and well-defined career paths to ensure all our employees have an opportunity to grow. At adMarketplace, we play to win, but we learn from our setbacks. Our commitment to a collaborative environment means no one succeeds alone, and no one fails alone either. We know you’ve come to expect comprehensive healthcare, wellness programs, paid time off, commuter benefits, and 401k matching from any company, so it’s a good thing we offer all of that and so much more. adMarketplace offers Summer Fridays, catered lunches, a fully stocked kitchen, ZogSports teams, happy hours and corporate retreats to encourage a strong work/life balance. This range represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of adMarketplace in the New York office. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience; training; associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire. #J-18808-Ljbffr