Product Marketing Manager, Brand Partnerships

What You Will Do

Build Partner and Investor Presentation Materials

• Design and maintain a library of pitch decks used across partner conversations, RFP responses, and investor updates — balancing consistency with the flexibility to customize for specific audiences.
• Translate complex product and business concepts into visual narratives that are clear, compelling, and on-brand for both Cardless and its partners.
• Own end-to-end production of presentation materials: from initial brief to final polished deck, with the speed and independence to turn around work in hours, not days.
• Collaborate with the partnerships team to understand what each partner cares about and reflect that in how materials are framed and designed.

Design Product Mockups and Prototypes

• Build decks and materials to present to clients (using PPT, Figma or other relevant tools).
• Build high-fidelity Figma mockups of card products, cardholder-facing interfaces, and partner-facing dashboards that help prospects visualize what they are buying.
• Work closely with the product team to ensure mockups are grounded in what Cardless actually builds — not aspirational fiction that sets unrealistic expectations in the field.
• Maintain a library of reusable decks, documents, design elements and materials that speed up production of new partner mockups without sacrificing quality.
• Rapidly iterate on designs based on feedback from sales conversations, partner calls, and internal review.

Think Through Product Construction

• Participate in product discussions with enough depth to translate product decisions into accurate, visually compelling representations.
• Flag implications of product decisions early — before they become inconsistencies between what the sales team is showing and what engineering is building.
• Contribute to the product roadmap by surfacing product constraints and opportunities the product team may not have considered.

Own the Cardless Visual Brand

• Maintain and evolve the Cardless visual identity across all external-facing materials — pitch decks, one-pagers, event collateral, and social assets.
• Ensure every asset that leaves the building reflects the level of craft that Cardless's brand positioning requires.
• Use AI design tools to accelerate production without compromising quality — you should be fluent in what current tools can and cannot do.
• Build repeatable processes and templates that make the team faster without requiring you to be the bottleneck on every piece of output.

What We Are Looking For

Experience

• 3-6 years of product marketing / design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating high-quality work across presentations, product design, and brand materials.
• Meaningful experience working in or alongside commercial teams — design agency serving financial or tech clients, in-house at a startup, or a role with direct exposure to sales or business development.
• Experience marketing and designing for financial services or fintech is a strong plus — you should be able to design a card product without needing to be taught what a credit card is.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently at high output, without a creative director managing every deliverable.

Skills and Competencies

• Figma: Expert-level fluency — you build components, maintain libraries, and prototype interactions, not just static screens. You are faster in Figma than most designers are in PowerPoint.
• Presentation Design: You make decks that people actually want to look at. You know when to use a visual and when to use words, and you can make a complex argument feel simple without dumbing it down.
• Photoshop and Image Editing: Comfortable handling photo editing, compositing, and asset production at a professional level. You do not need to be a photographer, but you know what to do with raw images.
• AI Design Tools: Fluent in current AI tools for design acceleration — image generation, layout suggestions, copy assistance. You use them to go faster, not as a crutch.
• Communication and Collaboration: You ask the right questions before starting, give and receive feedback clearly, and can explain design decisions in terms that non-designers find useful.
• Speed and Judgment: You calibrate quality to urgency. You know when to ship a good-enough version and when to hold out for excellent — and you make that call without needing to be told.

Compensation

This role has an annual starting salary range of $170,000–$215,000 + equity + benefits.

Benefits

• Meaningful Start-up equity
• 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage
• 75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage
• Catered lunches
• $250/month Commuter benefit
• Parental leave
• Team building events & happy hours
• Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year
• Apple equipment
• 401k plan

Location

We're headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with a beautiful office in Jackson Square. This role is in-office 5 days a week.