Lead Management Marketer

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.This role is a hybrid positionSome roles require an office while others may be done remotely. This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. The RoleThe Lead Product Marketer, Software drives Sonos' brand strategy into product launches, updates, and evolutions. Reporting to the VP of Global Brand Strategy, this role ensures brand ambition, product truth, and audience intelligence come together into product positioning and narratives for both hardware and software initiatives, and into the launch moment briefs that inspire breakthrough creative thinking across launch concepts, media/channel plans, and tactical ideas.This role focuses on the strategic level: the global product narrative, the upstream brief, and the connective tissue between the Sonos brand and its products. What You'll DoOwn the Global Product Narrative - Collaborate with Product Management to develop the authoritative product narrative for key software innovations — at the intersection of product truth, audience, and culture. Maintain narrative coherence as products move from launch into their commercial lifecycle.Lead the Learning Agenda - Collaborate with UX and Insights teams to develop research plans through the product lifecycle. Own the Launch Brief - Develop insightful, system-led launch briefs by combining Sonos brand strategy, relevant product narratives, and cultural, audience, and commercial insights. Ensure every brief reflects a specific audience, a clear cultural moment, and an unambiguous creative ambition — and pressure-test for strategic clarity before creative development begins.Partner with Marketing Teams to Define Success - Ensure that all campaigns, programs and activations have clear and measurable KPIs that align with strategic objectivesInspire Creative Teams - Partner with creative teams as a strategic collaborator. Help them understand the human truth and brand ambition behind a brief so they can exceed it. Champion work that is brand-true, culturally resonant, and channel-agnostic in its ambition.Enable Regional and Segment Marketing - Provide consumer, professional, and retail marketing teams with the global narrative and strategic inputs they need to adapt for their channels and markets — without requiring central approval at every step.What You Bring8+ years in brand management, marketing, or product marketing within global, software-product-led organizationsDemonstrated experience developing product narratives and creative briefs that inspire outstanding workAbility to gather, evaluate, and synthesize product, competitive, audience, and cultural intelligence across multiple sourcesStrong cultural intelligence: you track trends critically, connect them to brand opportunity, and bring them into briefs in a way that feels real, not forcedExperience integrating audience inputs from multiple sources (product, commercial, media) into a unified strategic point of view.Proven ability to partner with and inspire creative teamsClear, confident communicator across senior leadership, agency partners, and cross-functional teamsLeadership ProfileBrand-rigorous and product-fluent.A generous, elevating strategic partner who collaborates and shares, but also knows how to manage (and sometimes graciously decline to use) feedback in order to make the team and the work better.High standards for both strategic thinking and creative quality.Visa Sponsorship:Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time. Please note that compensation details listed in US job postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.We also offer a comprehensive benefits program with choice and flexibility in mind to help support the health, wealth, and overall well-being of our employees. Regular full time employees in the US are eligible for benefits on day one, including:Medical, Dental, and Vision InsuranceA 401(k) plan with company matching and immediate vestingAn Open Time Off policy (OTO) so you have maximum opportunity to disconnect and recharge, with no tenure-based vacation accruals required80 hours of sick time upon hire, refreshed annuallyUp to 12 paid holidays per calendar yearSonos offers a generous paid leave program for new parents or to care for a family member with a serious health condition, as well as short- and long-term disability for your own medical conditionCompany-paid Disability, Life, and AD&D InsuranceVoluntary benefits, including Voluntary Life, AD&D, Accident, and Pet InsuranceMental health benefits to support your holistic well-beingA generous employee discount program & Sonos Radio HD - on us!The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to View email address on click.appcast.io Barbara, CAType: Full time