Product Marketing Manager

Saronic · Defense · Austin, TX · Marketing

Product Marketing Manager for Saronic, a company focused on maritime autonomy. The role involves defining product positioning, messaging, and marketing campaigns for autonomous platforms and software, primarily targeting defense and government audiences. Requires translating complex technical capabilities into clear narratives and collaborating with product, growth, and business development teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive product positioning, messaging frameworks, and win themes across Saronic’s portfolio of autonomous surface vessels and software capabilities
  2. Own and implement marketing campaigns designed to further audience understanding of Saronic’s core capabilities
  3. Work closely with growth to help maintain a library of product marketing collateral including presentation decks, slick sheets, capability briefs, and other materials
  4. Partner closely with the product team to deeply understand platform capabilities, roadmap priorities, and technical differentiators — and translate them into customer-facing value propositions
  5. Collaborate with the growth and business development teams to ensure marketing materials directly support capture efforts, proposals, and customer engagements

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of product marketing experience, preferably in defense, aerospace, or other highly technical industries
  • Demonstrated ability to distill complex, technical subject matter into clear, persuasive messaging for non-technical and semi-technical audiences
  • Exceptional writing and editing skills
  • Experience producing marketing collateral for government or defense customers, including familiarity with how defense procurement and capture processes work
  • Track record of close collaboration with product management, engineering, and sales/BD teams
  • Self-starter comfortable operating in a high-velocity startup environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, engineering, or a related field
  • U.S. citizenship required

Nice to have

  • Strong visual sensibility and experience briefing creative teams on asset production
  • Familiarity with defense contract vehicles, proposal support, and the language of government buyers
  • Experience with platforms such as Salesforce or similar CRM/marketing automation systems
  • Experience working in high-growth startup environments
  • Ability to operate autonomously and collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
  • Active security clearance is helpful but not required

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. citizenship required