Product Marketing Manager, Adtech

Hightouch Hightouch · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Marketing

Product Marketing Manager, AdTech at Hightouch, an AI platform for marketing and growth teams. The role focuses on owning the go-to-market strategy for Hightouch's adtech solutions, including defining positioning, developing thought leadership, launching campaigns, and building sales enablement. Requires experience in advertising/adtech, product marketing, and enterprise B2B background, with strong understanding of media channels and data strategies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy and execution for Hightouch’s AdTech products, integrations, and industry solutions.
  2. Conduct customer, partner, and market research to identify unmet needs, quantify opportunities, and sharpen how our products win versus alternatives.
  3. Develop compelling competitive and category narratives around topics like signal loss, identity and audiences, measurement, and AI-driven media optimization.
  4. Create and refine differentiated positioning and messaging for key media buyer and media seller personas (e.g., advertising, product, and data teams).
  5. Translate complex technical capabilities (identity resolution, onboarding, clean rooms, conversion APIs, etc.) into clear, outcome-focused value propositions for prospects, customers, and internal teams.

Skills

Required

  • Experience in advertising or adtech: 5+ years leading advertising go-to-market or working as a paid media practitioner (as a media buyer or seller).
  • Product marketing or solutions ownership: 3+ years owning product marketing, solutions, or sales enablement for an AdTech offering (e.g., SaaS platform, agency solution, or enterprise-owned media solution).
  • Enterprise B2B background: Experience marketing, selling, or solutioning for enterprise companies, ideally focused on marketing, advertising, or data teams.
  • Deep media & AdTech subject-matter expertise: Strong understanding of modern media channels, data strategies, and technology across paid social, search, programmatic, CTV/OTT, retail media, and/or measurement. Fluency talking about pixels, audiences, conversions, identity, clean rooms, attribution, lift, and optimization strategies with both marketers and technical stakeholders.
  • Proven go-to-market execution: Demonstrated track record driving go-to-market for technical products or solutions, including positioning, launch planning, content and asset creation, and cross-functional execution.
  • Market and competitive insight: Experience researching customer needs and market dynamics in advertising and adtech, and using those insights to sharpen positioning and prioritize opportunities.
  • Communication & storytelling: Excellent written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical executive stakeholders. Ability to synthesize complex concepts into clear, concise narratives and assets (slides, one-pagers, talk tracks) that help Sales and partners sell.
  • Cross-functional leadership: Comfortable driving alignment across Product, Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships, influencing without authority, and keeping projects moving in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

  • Direct experience running paid media campaigns or media sales teams.
  • Experience with identity, data clean rooms, or measurement and analytics (MMM, MTA, incrementality testing, or experimentation frameworks for media).
  • Previous experience in a high-growth startup where you’ve worn multiple hats and helped build GTM programs from 0 → 1.
  • Familiarity with adjacent tools such as CDPs, data onboarding platforms, analytics tools, and data warehouses and lakeho

What the JD emphasized

  • AI agents
  • AI marketing
  • AI-driven media optimization
  • data and AI