Product Marketing Manager Contract

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Sia Title:Project Consultant (Exempt Contractor) 

Project Title:Product Marketing Manager 

Level:Senior 

Project Hours: 40 hours per week 

Rate: $95-$150/hour

The exact pay rate will vary depending on a wide array of factors which may include but are not limited to skills experience and location. 

Location:SF Bay Area CA. This role requires regular in-person collaboration with client teams in the Menlo Park area. 

Role Details

Sia Experiences Marketing Advisory team is looking for a Seasoned Product Marketing Manager to join a high-impact engagement with one of the worlds leading technology organizations working at the forefront of AI research and is not traditional product marketing and there is no established playbook. 

Youll work closely alongside teams developing and bringing some of the most advanced emerging technologies to market helping determine how breakthrough AI research model capabilities and technical advancements should be positioned understood and introduced to highly sophisticated audiences. 

The work is fast-moving highly visible and often ambiguous by nature. Youll be expected to bring a point of view create clarity where the path forward isnt obvious and move fluidly from understanding complex technical developments to shaping the strategy narrative and go-to-market approach around them. 

For someone energized by frontier technology zero-to-one challenges and the opportunity to help define how entirely new innovations enter the market this is a rare opportunity to do exactly engagement is an example of that model at its most exciting:the opportunity to work at the intersection of AI research product strategy and go-to-market while helping shape how frontier innovations are introduced to the world. 

Our work is hands-on and high-impact. This role is for product marketing professionals that want to be close to the technology close to the decisions and close to what happens next. 

What Youll Do 

Youll be embedded within a leading technology client working directly alongside their research product engineering marketing communications design and cross-functional teams to shape and execute go-to-market strategy for frontier AI innovations. 

You will: 

• Shape go-to-market strategy for frontier AI innovations developing the positioning narratives launch strategies and execution plans that bring highly technical research and model capabilities to market. 

• Own complex GTM workstreams from strategy through execution bringing structure and momentum to high-profile initiatives where the path forward may still be taking shape. 

• Develop a sophisticated understanding of the AI and model landscape including emerging research directions model releases capabilities benchmarks competitive developments and broader industry dynamics. 

• Translate technical complexity into compelling market narratives connecting what a technology can do with why it matters to researchers developers technical communities industry leaders and other highly informed audiences. 

• Use market and competitive intelligence to inform strategy identifying meaningful differentiation and turning insights into actionable recommendations for positioning and go-to-market decisions. 

• Partner directly with highly technical teams including researchers and engineers to understand evolving capabilities model evaluations benchmarks and technical advancements while they are still being developed. 

• Bring an independent point of view. Youll be expected not only to synthesize information but to evaluate it challenge assumptions identify opportunities and recommend how emerging technologies should show up in the market. 

• Lead across functions without relying on formal authority aligning stakeholders across research product engineering design communications creative and marketing around shared launch strategies and outcomes. 

• Operate effectively at speed balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution as priorities information and market conditions evolve. 

This job description is not intended to beall inclusive. Duties responsibilities and qualifications may be addeddeleted ormodifiedat any time based on business needs.

Qualifications :

Were looking for an experienced product marketer who combines deep GTM expertise with strong technical fluency and exceptional strategic judgment. 

• 10 years of experience in Product Marketing Product Strategy Go-to-Market or closely related work with significant ownership of complex product or technology launches. 

• Demonstrated experience developing and executing go-to-market strategies for highly technical emerging or category-defining products. 

• Strong fluency in AI machine learning developer technologies cloud platforms technical infrastructure or another complex technology environment. Direct experience with generative AI AI models or AI research is highly valued. 

• Experience partnering closely with product engineering research or other deeply technical teams with the ability to quickly build credibility and communicate effectively with technical experts. 

• The ability to understand technical capabilities competitive signals benchmarks and market dynamics and translate them into clear positioning and strategic recommendations. 

• Experience developing narratives and messaging for sophisticated technical audiences such as researchers developers engineers technical decision-makers or industry experts. 

• A track record of independently leading complex cross-functional GTM initiatives from early strategy through launch and execution. 

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including the ability to synthesize complexity and influence senior stakeholders. 

• Strong program leadership and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple interconnected workstreams in a rapidly changing environment. 

Youll Thrive Here If You 

Youre intellectually curious and genuinely excited by what is happening at the frontier of AI and technology. 

Youre comfortable entering a situation where the answer is not already known. Rather than waiting for a playbook you ask the right questions develop a perspective and help create one. 

You can move easily between strategy and execution. Youre equally comfortable evaluating a competitive landscape debating positioning with senior stakeholders digging into technical details with an engineer and driving the many moving pieces required to bring something successfully to market. 

Youre highly collaborative but independently driven. You know when to bring people together when to push for clarity and when to simply take ownership and move. 

Most importantly you enjoy environments where the technology competitive landscape and priorities are evolving quickly. Pace and ambiguity sharpen your thinking rather than slowing you down. 

Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. At Sia Partners we are committed to treating all Applicants and Associates fairly based on their abilities achievements and experience without regard to race national origin sex age disability veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or any other classification protected by law. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract