Lead product positioning, launches, and go-to-market strategy for AI materials products, translating complex scientific capabilities into credible commercial narratives and building a product marketing function as the company scales.
Product Marketing Lead
📜 Description
- Own positioning and messaging for the platform and product suite, highlighting differentiation and customer value.
- Develop proof points and case studies with measurable outcomes for the AI products Ari and Sidekick.
- Build and maintain sales enablement, including battlecards, competitive intelligence, value-calculation assets, pitch decks, and one-pagers.
- Lead go-to-market strategy and execution for product launches, and bring market and sales insights back to Product.
- Conduct customer and competitive research to sharpen the value proposition, particularly against AI-in-support vendors.
- Ensure consistent messaging across the website, sales collateral, in-product experiences, and launches.
🛠️ Requirements
- 5+ years of product marketing experience at a B2B startup focused on SMB and mid-market sales.
- Experience crafting compelling messaging for mid-market customers and decision-makers.
- Strong sales collateral skills, including competitive positioning and objection handling.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects.
- Entrepreneurial, high-ownership approach and comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
- Analytical, structured thinking, with creative flair and design instinct.
- Comfort working closely with senior leaders and confidently sharing your point of view.
- Individual-contributor orientation; this role does not manage others.
✨ Benefits
- Of a big company. We're a seed-stage startup and are competitive in what we offer at our stage
- Aren't excited about AI transforming customer experience (support & success)
- Aren't interested in working in person — this role is based in SF, and we work together in the office at least 3 days a week.
Full job description
Plain is redefining customer support and customer success for the next generation of B2B companies. We’re building the fastest, most powerful platform to help companies move beyond reactive support and build meaningful customer relationships.
Some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies - like Cursor, Vercel, and Granola - trust Plain to unify all customer interactions, enable faster team collaboration, and supercharge their workflows with AI.
We have offices in SF and London. This role is hybrid with 3 days a week in our SF office. Because we work closely with our teammates in Europe, we start early, but you’ll find quiet afternoons for heads-down work.
Why this role is special
B2B customer support is undergoing a seismic shift. AI is transforming the way companies engage with customers, shifting support from a siloed function to a more technical, company-wide effort across Slack, Discord, and in-product experiences. Plain is leading the charge in building this new world, but redefining a category takes credibility and trust, not just features — and that's where you come in.
What you’ll do
We're hiring a Product Marketing Lead to help sales hit their number by ensuring that our positioning is clear and relevant for our target audience of customer experience leaders and engineers.
You will:
Own positioning and messaging for our platform and suite of products, including how we differentiate and elevate customer value
Craft proof points for our AI suite: give Ari and Sidekick each a clear market presence and real case studies with specific, provable outcomes
Build the sales enablement system our AEs actually use: battlecards, competitive intel and the process to keep it current, a value-calculation asset, and a refined pitch deck and one-pagers
Partner with Product as a two-way channel: own GTM strategy and execution for launches, and bring learnings from sales and the market back into the roadmap
Conduct competitive and customer research that sharpens our value proposition, especially against other AI-in-support vendors
Apply consistent messaging across the website, sales collateral, in-product experience, and every launch
This is a great fit if you…
Have 5+ years of product marketing experience at a B2B startup focused on SMB and mid-market sales. Bonus points if you've previously sold to developers, other technical buyers, or customer support/CS functions.
Have expertise crafting compelling messaging for mid-market customers and decision-makers
Are a whiz at developing sales collateral with competitive positioning and objection handling
Have exceptional organizational and project management skills — you can juggle multiple projects simultaneously
Are entrepreneurial, with a high-ownership mindset — you thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments
Are an analytical, structured, logical thinker
Have strong creative flair and design instinct — an intuition for what sits right, sounds and looks good
Are highly driven and ambitious — you want to win
Love an experimental approach and are happy to try new things
Are comfortable working closely with senior leaders (CEO, CPO, Head of) and know how to hold your own point of view with them
This won't be the right role if you…
Are uncomfortable with ambiguity. We have some really exciting traction but are still at an early stage and are constantly learning and trying new things as our company grows.
Find learning about new technologies a key motivation for coming to work. We invest in what makes us productive but will prefer the known option to the experimental and novel. Postgres is great.
Are looking to manage others. We're firmly looking for someone who, for now, wants to be an individual contributor.
Expect all the perks of a big company. We’re a seed-stage startup and are competitive in what we offer at our stage, but it’s a different role and opportunity than working at an established tech company.
Aren't excited about AI transforming customer experience (support & success)
Aren't interested in working in person — this role is based in SF, and we work together in the office at least 3 days a week. You'll also likely visit customer offices, join in-person onboarding sessions, and build relationships face to face when it counts.
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