Principal Consumer Product Marketing Manager
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
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GoFundMe is the worlds most powerful community for good dedicated to helping people help each other. By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place GoFundMe makes it easy and safe for people to ask for help and support causesfor themselves and each other. Together our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010.
Join Us! GoFundMe is seeking a customer-obsessed insights-driven and savvy Principal Consumer Product Marketing Manager to lead high-impact consumer-facing initiatives across our platform. Youll be instrumental in shaping compelling product narratives crafting GTM strategies and influencing cross-functional teams to drive measurable results across our consumer lifecycle.
From early strategy through activation and continuous optimization youll help connect people to the causes and communities that matter most. Youll be expected to operate with a high degree of independence manage ambiguity with clarity and lead initiatives that impact both team and company-wide goals.
Candidates considered for this role will be located in the San Francisco Bay Area. There will be an in-office requirement of 2-3x a week.
The Job
Strategic Product & Go-to-Market Leadership
- Lead end-to-end go-to-market strategies that bring our products to lifeshaping the vision rallying cross-functional partners and turning ideas into impactful launches.
- Obsess over understanding our ideal customersgrounded in data and human insightto define clear segments and craft standout messaging and tactics that inspire people to help others.
- Flex your analytics muscle through defining tracking and communicating key metrics that show the impact of product marketing efforts on product adoption engagement and growth.
- Translate business objectives and consumer needs into integrated marketing and channel strategies that drive meaningful adoption engagement and growth.
- Keep the momentum going after launches leading energizing retros uncovering what worked (and what didnt) and turning those insights into smarter tests sharper iterations and scaled impact.
- Bring a highly data-driven approach to decision-making leveraging quantitative and qualitative insights including a deep partnership with research to optimize strategy and performance.
- Bring a right-brained spark to GTM - using creative unconventional thinking to solve tough challenges and help us stand out in a crowded competitive space.
- Leverage journey mapping to better understand consumer experiences and inform full-funnel strategies.
Positioning & Messaging
- Craft clear differentiated and emotionally resonant messaging frameworks that map to business objectives customer needs behaviors and motivations.
- Synthesize complex product information and research into clear compelling product narratives aligned with user motivation market opportunity and business strategy.
- Build and maintain messaging frameworks positioning guides and audience strategies to be used across all GoFundMe business teams.
- Maintain an understanding of the competitive set ensuring messaging and positioning stand out in the market and reflect current trends and dynamics.
Strategic Influence
- Serve as the glue between Product Marketing Research and Data translating insights and data into action particularly in fast-moving high-complexity environments.
- Partner closely with PMs Engineers Researchers and Designers to inform product strategy and roadmap through consumer insights competitive landscape market dynamics and a deep understanding of emerging cultural trends shaping user behavior.
- Identify and validate product hypotheses through testing frameworks and research driven feedback loops.
- Be deeply connected with research using it as a foundational input for strategic decision-making across GTM and product marketing efforts.
Operational Excellence
- Ensure alignment across Marketing Comms Social and Growth teams on execution timelines assets and performance goals.
- Proactively identify risks or misalignments and take initiative to realign plans or surface strategic pivots.
- Lead by example with rigor clarity and a bias toward action.
What Success Looks Like
- GTM strategies are clearly defined well communicated and executed with confidence resulting in product adoption engagement and business growth.
- Stakeholders feel informed empowered and aligned across functions and priorities.
- Product marketing consistently fills the strategic and executional gaps across launches for both product and marketing functions.
- Messaging resonates with users and scales across surfaces from lifecycle emails to landing pages to all other owned earned and paid channels.
- You are seen as a strategic leader and reliable owner by Product Marketing and Executive teams alike.
You
- 610 years of experience in Product Marketing with proven impact on consumer-facing product launches and strategic initiatives.
- A strong track record of independently owning high-impact product launches including testing frameworks and full-funnel marketing campaigns.
- Exceptional ability to synthesize ambiguity into actionable strategy and to provide clarity where there is none.
- Mastery of product storytelling messaging frameworks and positioning across varied user segments and lifecycle stages paired with prolific writing skills that translate complex ideas into clear compelling narratives across channels.
- A consumer-obsessed mindset consistently advocating for user-first thinking and grounding decisions in user behavior and research.
- Excellent project management communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Familiarity with tools such as Figma ClickUp Amplitude and Slack to drive GTM planning and collaboration.
Why youll love it here
- Make an Impact: Be part of a mission-driven organization making a positive difference in millions of lives every year.
- Innovative Environment: Work with a diverse passionate and talented team in a fast-paced forward-thinking atmosphere.
- Collaborative Team: Join a fun and collaborative team that works hard and celebrates success together.
- Competitive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits.
- Holistic Support: Enjoy financial assistance for things like hybrid work family planning along with generous parental leave flexible time-off policies and mental health and wellness resources to support your overall well-being.
- Growth Opportunities: Participate in learning development and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow.
- Commitment to DEI: Contribute to diversity equity and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups.
- Community Engagement: Make a difference through our volunteering program.
We live by our core values: impatient to be great find a way earn trust every day fueled by purpose. Be a part of something bigger with us!
GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion ethnicity nationality or national origin sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression pregnancy status marital status age medical condition mental or physical disability or military or veteran status.
The annual U.S. salary range for this full-time position is $171000 - $257000. The company also offers equity and other benefits to employees including healthcare dental vision life insurance and 401(k) saving addition to this wage there are geolocation differentials that will increase pay depending on the work location. Additionally pay may vary depending on other factors including skills experience education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific total compensation packagebased on your location during the hiring process.
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