Vice President, Product Marketing & Thought Leadership, Slack

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Slack is where work happens for millions of people every day; it is the AI-powered platform for work. Our mission is to make people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

The Vice President of Product Marketing and Thought Leadership is a strategic leader responsible for driving the marketing strategy and execution across Slack product marketing, ecosystem growth, analysts' relationships, and social, and customer marketing. You are the single most accountable leader for establishing Slack’s position in the market, accelerating our growth through world-class thought leadership, product launches, and breakthrough marketing that will accelerate Slack's momentum and brand love. 

The VP will be a critical member of our Slack leadership team, including tight partnerships with the Slack CEO, Chief Product Officer, CRO, and CCO. This individual will work closely across the organization to create differentiated product positioning, messaging, sales enablement, and go-to-market strategy for Slack. 

Reporting to the Slack CMO, you will lead an immediate team of product marketing leaders who cover the breadth of our expanding product portfolio. The ideal leader will develop a compelling and differentiating strategy, align and inspire an integrated team of marketing professionals, become a trusted advisor to organizational partners, and create a performance culture that helps everyone do the best work of their careers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and evolve a compelling narrative and value proposition for Slack. Lead the team that builds all collateral (website, digital, videos, demos, enablement, etc.) for Slack to reflect the positioning and showcase the vision of our overall solution. Partner with Product Management teams for the key Platform products and solutions to ensure the narrative is tied together.

• Develop and refine customer segmentation; understand and document detailed customer personas and needs.

• Build and maintain a robust demand generation engine to ensure a healthy, constantly progressing pipeline that aligns with the sales objectives.

• Oversee the creation and execution of high-impact, multi-channel marketing campaigns to drive marketing and sales qualified leads, and ultimately, customer acquisition and expansion.

• Launch new Slack solutions and capabilities in tight coordination with Product and Sales leadership.

• Drive field readiness and enablement for new Slack solutions and capabilities.

• AR/PR: Work closely with the industry experts and Analyst and Press Relations teams to ensure effective thought leadership and ongoing relevance in the market.

• Stakeholder Management: Communicate effectively and frequently to ensure all stakeholders across product, sales, product marketing, marketing, and customer success are aligned in a highly matrixed organization.

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and regularly report on the performance of product marketing initiatives.

• Team Development: Develop and grow a team of diverse product marketing talent.

Position Requirements:

• 15+ years of product marketing experience in B2B SaaS, with a minimum of 10+ years in a leadership role.

• Proven track record of launching and growing products in the enterprise space, preferably team collaboration platforms or similar technology.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling stories for diverse audiences.

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels of an organization.

• Demonstrated experience in synthesizing and translating market needs into product requirements; ability to manifest the product vision/direction via compelling positioning and messaging.

• Ability to influence and deliver results in global, matrixed environments comprised of internal and external stakeholders.

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally ~25% of the time.

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $219,400 to $351,000.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $239,300 to $382,900.

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