Senior Product Marketing Operations Manager
Dropbox•5h ago
United StatesRemoteFull-timeSenior Level10+ yrs exp
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- Role Description
- Dropbox is bringing together Product Marketing across a multi-product portfolio and strengthening the foundations that connect product strategy to market execution. As Senior Manager, Product Marketing Operations, you will be a senior individual contributor who builds and runs the operating systems that help Product Marketing work with greater clarity, consistency, and impact
- Your initial mandate will span four connected areas: the lifecycle for foundational messaging and positioning assets
- portfolio and roadmap visibility
- PMM-side launch strategy and governance
- and the planning rhythms and cross-functional interlocks that connect PMM with Solutions Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Product, Communications, Sales, Customer Success, Enablement, and program management partners - clarify decision rights and handoffs
- surface dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs
- and establish reusable standards, templates, and operating cadences that strengthen focus and accountability. Over time, you will create a foundation that allows PMM Operations to scale as the organization’s needs evolve
- This role offers broad visibility across Dropbox’s product and go-to-market priorities and the opportunity to shape how a growing PMM organization operates at a strategic level. Your impact will be reflected not only in stronger processes, but in whether PMM is engaged at the right decision points, cross-functional teams are aligned on the priorities and tradeoffs that matter
- the organization can move from strategy to market with greater clarity and accountability.
- Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and continuously improve the Product Marketing operating model across team planning, portfolio and roadmap visibility, foundational content systems, launch governance, and cross-functional accountability.
- Establish the lifecycle for messaging, positioning
- related PMM foundations, including templates, inventories, accountable owners, review and sign-off, refresh cadences, quality standards
- a discoverable source of truth. Product Marketers retain ownership of strategic substance and accuracy.
- Create and maintain a consolidated product roadmap that connects product direction to customer-facing roadmap inputs, release and launch planning, campaign and communications needs, sales and channel enablement
- other downstream go-to-market dependencies.
- Own the PMM-side launch strategy and governance system, including intake, launch classification and tiering recommendations, required strategic inputs, PMM readiness criteria, decision forums, escalation paths, handoff to marketing partners
- post-launch learning.
- Partner with PMM, Solutions Marketing , Integrated Marketing, Product, Communications, Sales, Customer Success, Enablement
- program-management teams to codify roles, decision rights, required inputs
- handoffs, then steward adoption and surface gaps or exceptions for leadership resolution.
- Build scalable templates, reporting, knowledge systems, and responsible AI- or automation-enabled workflows
- establish measures of adoption and effectiveness
- and simplify or retire processes that do not create sufficient value.
- Requirements
- 10 + years of experience in product marketing, product marketing operations, marketing operations, product operations, go-to-market operations
- a closely related discipline, including ownership of complex cross-functional programs in a technology or digital-product environment
- Demonstrated experience designing and leading launch or commercialization operating models across multiple products, teams
- audiences, including tiering, readiness, milestones, dependencies, risk management
- Working knowledge of Product Marketing fundamentals, including positioning, messaging, audiences, go-to-market planning, launch strategy, and the lifecycle of customer- and seller-facing assets
- sufficient judgment to distinguish a workflow gap from an unresolved strategy or quality issue
- Track record of influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority, clarifying decision rights, resolving competing priorities, and sustaining behavior or process change across functions
- Experience building a new operating capability or materially redesigning an existing one, with the judgment to identify a small number of high-priority changes and the ability to execute them hands-on
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience synthesizing complex inputs into concise recommendations, decision materials, operating plans, and executive updates
- Experience using data, retrospectives, and responsible AI or automation practices to improve recurring workflows, with clear human review, risk awareness, and accountability for final decisions
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or materially redesigning a Product Marketing, Marketing, Product, or GTM operating capability from an early stage or following an organizational integration.
- Experience in a multi-product, multi-audience, product-led and/or sales-assisted SaaS business.
- Experience establishing messaging and positioning governance, content lifecycle management, knowledge-management systems, or reusable product and solution playbooks.
- Experience supporting complex launches, migrations, deprecations, packaging or pricing changes, APIs, or other customer-impacting product transitions.
- Durable Skills
- AI fluency means using these tools to amplify human judgment, not replace it. We believe people with these skills will thrive as work and technology continue to evolve:
- Awareness: U nderstand yourself and others .
- Judgment: E valuat e information and mak e decisions in complex situations .
- Adaptability: L earn, adjust, and stay effective through change .
- Connection: C ommunicat e , collaborat e , and build trust .
- To learn more about why these skills matter and what the data shows about thriving through change, read this blog post from our Chief People Officer, Melanie Rosenwasser.
- Compensation
- US Zone 1
- This role is not available in Zone 1
- US Zone 2
- $185,100 — $250,500 USD
- US Zone 3
- $164,600 — $222,600 USD
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