Buffer is a platform of social media products made for small businesses. We help our customers stand out online and drive meaningful engagement and measurable results for their brand and bottom line. Our mission is to provide essential tools to help small businesses get off the ground and grow. Through exceptional customer service and uplifting content, we help companies believe they can succeed and do good along the way.
As a Senior Product Marketing Manager, and in partnership with other PMMs you'll own the roadmap for Buffer product launches and help shape the Buffer go-to-market strategy. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams at Buffer to align marketing efforts with our strategic vision, define success criteria, and develop clear plans and milestones to maximize Buffer's adoption by the small business market. Day-to-day, you'll work hands-on and collaborate with marketing and product teams to execute on the go-to-market roadmap and engage our users by creating resonance through the art of storytelling.
About Buffer's Go-To-Market StrategyAs a Senior Product Marketing Manager, and in partnership with other PMMs you'll own the roadmap for Buffer product launches and help shape the Buffer go-to-market strategy. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams at Buffer to align marketing efforts with our strategic vision, define success criteria, and develop clear plans and milestones to maximize Buffer's adoption by the small business market. Day-to-day, you'll work hands-on and collaborate with marketing and product teams to execute on the go-to-market roadmap and engage our users by creating resonance through the art of storytelling.
As the Senior Product Marketing Manager, you'll be joining a team of marketers driving market awareness of Buffer's brand and products and bringing new products and features to small businesses in partnership with the EPD organization (Engineering, Product, and Design).
Buffer's primary way of acquiring new customers is via a direct, self-service model using the principles of Product Led Growth. Buffer does not have a sales team and relies on its strong brand, word of mouth, product-market fit, innovation, and marketing to grow its user base. While Buffer primarily targets small businesses – businesses of all sizes and prosumers worldwide rely on its publishing and audience engagement capabilities.
Our vision is a world with more small businesses that do good while doing well. As a Senior PMM, you will help broaden our core offer and create a stronger emotional connection with small businesses and audiences by highlighting what Buffer stands for as a company and brand beyond the product. You can read more about our vision and values here. You will define how our company brand purpose informs new product initiatives and campaigns and use these campaigns to differentiate our brand.
We have big plans to better connect our company values of transparency and positive impact on the world with product innovation for customers in 2022 and beyond. We're looking for a creative product marketer to drive generative research to better understand Buffer customers and use cases in order to deliver innovation to our growing user base. Working closely with the Design, Engineering, Data, and Product teams, you'll find, execute, and grow the next significant growth opportunities.
In this role, you’ll report to the VP of Marketing. Day-to-day you’ll work closely with other PMMs, the marketing team, product managers, and the data and advocacy teams. As a member of a marketing organization you will help shape Buffer’s overall go-to-market strategy, user experience for www.buffer.com (website), email campaigns, and marketing collateral.
- Drive market impact: Ensure cross-functional alignment and lead product and feature launches of Buffer's essential tools for small businesses;create and drive comprehensive go-to-market plans for new features from audience definition, development of core value proposition, to launch and sustain through owned and in-product channels. Collaborate closely with product, design, engineering, data, and marketing and contribute to the ideation, research, discovery of new features and product improvements.
- Be the message owner: Develop compelling narratives and positioning for each stage of the self-serve customer journey that differentiates Buffer against our competitors and communicates value to our small business users.
- Become the Market Expert: Understand the ins and outs of the marketing tools SaaS landscape, conduct market analysis, be the company's go-to expert, understand our competitors, and keep track of the evolving market landscape. Keep a strong pulse on the social media management landscape.
- Build Compelling Marketing Content: Be the product's messaging guru and work across our team to help develop the website, blogs, podcasts, and other external-facing content to ensure the right messages are hitting the right audiences. Guide the marketing and growth teams on nurture campaigns to achieve activation and conversion metrics.
- Be the voice of the customer: Understand the needs, pains, and dreams of new users signing up for Buffer. Actively participate in discovery stages of product development work and contribute ideas and recommendations to the product roadmap. Keep your team focused and excited to solve customer problems by connecting the work they do to our customer’s success and our larger mission.
- 5+ years of product marketing or growth marketing experience, with experience marketing B2B SaaS products to small business and prosumers.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills: You love writing, have experience developing narratives and persuading people to try something new, and you care about producing content that will resonate with a broad global audience.
- Prior experience working at product-led growth organizations and/or freemium business models is a big plus.
- Successful track record of launching SaaS products;web products a must. Mobile or developer products (APIs) is a nice to have.
- Experience working with a global team of marketers, product managers, data analysts, and engineers.
- Strong customer focus and empathy.
- Passion for creating a high quality marketing collateral and customer journeys with a keen eye for detail and intuitive user experiences.
- Adept at pairing data with market intuition to always keep decisions moving forward.
- Understanding of key SaaS metrics including MRR, Churn, LTV, ARPU, and how these metrics impact one another.
- Bias towards action with an ability to drive results near term as well as the ability to zoom out and connect the day to day work to our larger mission.
Clear communication, transparency, open-mindedness, empathy and patience are just a few of Buffer's cultural values. We are looking for a person who understands this culture and will thrive within a team of people passionate about self-improvement, honesty and openness. Here's a guide on how we strive to communicate with customers.
Working at Buffer is collaborative and positive thanks to our core values. We try to be “No Ego Doers” who are aware of our assumptions, and joining us means you'll work together with the team in order to test and confirm our ideas. In our career framework, we choose to focus on the journey, the growth and evolution that is a career.
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Buffer is an equal opportunity employer with teammates all around the world. Our team is made up of amazing individuals who hail from startups to the theatre - we value diverse and non-traditional backgrounds.
We're united by Buffer's values, and we celebrate our unique differences. We value creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and are actively working on building a culture where under-indexed groups are truly welcomed and can flourish.