London (Shoreditch) | Hybrid: 2–3 days per week in office | Up to £105,000
A growing B2B SaaS business is hiring a Founding Product Marketing Manager to establish and lead its product marketing function.
This is a high-impact IC role for someone who enjoys building from scratch: shaping product narratives, bringing launches to market, enabling commercial teams, and creating the foundations of a scalable PMM function.
What's in it for you?
- Build a product marketing function from scratch
- Shape the company’s product launches, positioning, and sales enablement
- Work closely with senior marketing, product, and commercial leaders
- Potential to grow into people leadership as the marketing team expands
The role
Reporting to the CMO, you’ll work closely with Product, Sales, Customer Success, and senior leadership.
You will:
- Own product positioning, messaging, and go-to-market plans for product releases
- Partner with Product to turn roadmap updates into clear customer and commercial narratives
- Rebuild sales-enablement materials, including battlecards and objection-handling guides
- Map the buyer journey and ensure consistent messaging across each stage
- Develop competitor and market insight to inform positioning
- Build the processes, assets, and roadmap for product marketing as the function grows
- Present ideas clearly and gain buy‑in across technical and commercial stakeholders
To be successful as the Product Marketing Manager, all you need to have is:
- 4+ years’ B2B Product marketing experience product within SaaS or tech
- Startup or scale‑up experience, ideally having built PMM capability in an ambiguous environment
- PMM experience across two businesses, or a strong founding PMM background
- Commercially mind ed, hands‑on and comfortable without an existing playbook
- Able to influence ir -
Join at a pivotal stage and define how a growing SaaS business takes its products to market - building a function, influencing senior leaders, and seeing your work make a visible commercial impact.
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Founding Product Marketing Manager employer: Venatrix
Venatrix is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee growth and development, offering a clear progression path from Sales Development Representative to Account Executive. With a hybrid work model and a 4.5-day week, employees enjoy a balanced work-life environment while being part of a dynamic team in Manchester. The company fosters a supportive culture that values structured training and rewards success through competitive compensation packages.
