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AthenaHQAthenaHQSan Francisco, CA

Founding Product Marketer

Founding Product Marketer to own messaging, launches, sales enablement, and customer insights for a B2B SaaS product helping brands optimize GenAI search visibility. Requires 5+ years PMM experience and strong cross-functional collaboration.

130k – 220k/yr
On-site5+ YOEProduct Marketing

About the role

What You Will Do

Own Product Marketing End-to-End

  • Develop and evolve positioning, messaging, and narrative
  • Maintain a crisp understanding of who we serve, why we win, and where we fit in the market

Lead Launches and Announcements

  • Plan launch strategy and timelines
  • Write and ship launch materials: release notes, blog posts, emails, in-app messaging, social copy
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to translate features into customer value

Drive Adoption with Customer Success

  • Define adoption goals and success metrics for new features
  • Create enablement and customer-facing materials that support rollout
  • Capture and distribute learnings from the field

Collect Use Cases and Voice of the Customer

  • Run customer interviews and synthesize insights
  • Build a use-case library, case studies, and reference stories
  • Turn insights into product feedback and roadmap inputs

Support Sales with Practical Enablement

  • Create how-to content, demo narratives, one-pagers, pitch decks, and competitive guidance
  • Build objection-handling and FAQ resources grounded in real customer conversations
  • Partner on sales motions, messaging tests, and pipeline influence

Use AI to Move Faster and Create Better Work

  • Leverage AI tools for research synthesis, drafting, iteration, personalization, and asset production
  • Improve team workflows with repeatable prompts and lightweight automation

What We Are Looking For

  • 5+ years in product marketing, B2B SaaS strongly preferred
  • Experience owning messaging and launches for products with both technical and non-technical users
  • Strong writing and storytelling across formats: web, email, decks, in-app
  • Ability to translate customer needs into crisp product value and vice versa
  • Comfortable working closely with Product, CS, and Sales and directly with the founders on positioning
  • Strong project management; able to ship independently
  • Data-informed: you define success metrics and learn from outcomes

Nice to Have

  • First or early PMM hire experience
  • Building customer evidence: case studies, references, ROI stories
  • Familiarity with sales-led motions, in-app messaging, and lifecycle marketing across multiple personas
  • Competitive positioning and category creation experience

What Success Looks Like in Your First 90 Days

  • A clear messaging framework the whole company uses
  • A repeatable launch process with templates and timelines
  • Core sales enablement assets: how-to's, objections, FAQ, landing pages and pitch narrative
  • A customer insights cadence with a lightweight use-case and quote repository
  • A strong cross-functional rhythm with Product and Customer Success

Compensation

  • Base salary starting at $130k plus benefits, generous equity plan and PTO policy

Skills

Product MarketingB2B SaaSMessaging & PositioningProduct LaunchesSales EnablementCompetitive PositioningCase StudiesCustomer InterviewsLifecycle MarketingAI Tools
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