Senior Product Marketing Operations Manager

<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Role Description</span></h2> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z">Dropbox is bringing together Product Marketing across a multi-product portfolio and strengthening the foundations that connect product strategy to market execution. As </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z">Senior Manager, Product Marketing Operations,</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z"> 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</span></p> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z">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</span></p> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z">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, and the organization can move from strategy to market with greater clarity and accountability.</span></p> <h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Responsibilities</span></h2> <ul class="listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1" data-testid="bullet-list" data-test-indentation="1"> <li><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z122zkz87zz82zz65zlz75zz65zy8z84zz75zkz82z3nz85z14c8euv6lez82zz89zz82z">Build, operate, and continuously improve the Product Marketing operating model across team planning, portfolio and roadmap visibility,</span> <span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z122zkz87zz82zz65zlz75zz65zy8z84zz75zkz82z3nz85z14c8euv6lez82zz89zz82z">foundational content systems, launch governance, and cross-functional accountability.</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z122zkz87zz82zz65zlz75zz65zy8z84zz75zkz82z3nz85z14c8euv6lez82zz89zz82z">Establish the lifecycle for messaging, positioning, and related PMM foundations, including templates, inventories, accountable owners, review and sign-off, refresh cadences, quality standards, and a discoverable source of truth. Product Marketers retain ownership of strategic substance and accuracy.</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z122zkz87zz82zz65zlz75zz65zy8z84zz75zkz82z3nz85z14c8euv6lez82zz89zz82z">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, and other downstream go-to-market dependencies.</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z122zkz87zz82zz65zlz75zz65zy8z84zz75zkz82z3nz85z14c8euv6lez82zz89zz82z">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 </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z">marketing</span><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z122zkz87zz82zz65zlz75zz65zy8z84zz75zkz82z3nz85z14c8euv6lez82zz89zz82z"> partners, and post-launch learning.</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z122zkz87zz82zz65zlz75zz65zy8z84zz75zkz82z3nz85z14c8euv6lez82zz89zz82z">Partner with PMM, Solutions </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z">Marketing</span><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z122zkz87zz82zz65zlz75zz65zy8z84zz75zkz82z3nz85z14c8euv6lez82zz89zz82z">, Integrated Marketing, Product, Communications, Sales, Customer Success, Enablement, and program-management teams to codify roles, decision rights, required inputs, and handoffs, then steward adoption and surface gaps or exceptions for leadership resolution.</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z9z122zkz87zz82zz65zlz75zz65zy8z84zz75zkz82z3nz85z14c8euv6lez82zz89zz82z">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.</span></li> </ul> <h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Requirements</span></h2> <ul> <li><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz82zfwz66zwhdz68zz78zz74zl2vz70z03z66zz80zrz77zt56z90zz81zz74zz69zpz80zkf">10</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z">+ years of experience in product marketing, product marketing operations, marketing operations, product operations, go-to-market operations, or a closely related discipline, including ownership of complex cross-functional programs in a technology or digital-product environment</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z">Demonstrated experience designing and leading launch or commercialization operating models across multiple products, teams, or audiences, including tiering, readiness, milestones, dependencies, risk management, and post-launch learning</span></li> <li><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85z92z66zpz73zz122zz67z0z78zz78zgz85z5f2sngz82zz65z4z69zm6z72zu8z84zz90z">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</span><