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Industries GTM Product Marketing Director

Salesforce

Chicago, IL
Full Time
Director
178k-258k
13 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Industries Go-to-Market Product Marketing Director (GTM) at Salesforce is responsible for defining, developing, and executing comprehensive GTM plans that drive growth, market leadership, and positioning Salesforce as the platform of choice for agentic AI CRM within specific industry verticals such as Financial Services and Retail. This role involves strategic planning, industry analysis, product marketing leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to accelerate Salesforce's market impact and support future marketing leadership development.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for new and existing product lines, features, and solutions, including market segmentation, targeting, and positioning within Industry Marketing.
  • Collaborate with market research teams to synthesize competitive analysis and customer insights to identify opportunities, validate hypotheses, and inform strategic decisions.
  • Develop compelling value propositions and messaging frameworks that clearly articulate the benefits of Salesforce offerings to target customers.
  • Create and manage cross-functional GTM plans, coordinating activities across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to ensure seamless execution.
  • Conduct in-depth market research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscapes across different industries, emphasizing agentic AI applications.
  • Translate market opportunities into actionable plans that drive pipeline growth, accelerate time-to-revenue, and improve customer acquisition and retention.
  • Partner with Product Management to influence product roadmaps, ensuring market fit and customer needs are integrated into development cycles.
  • Guide the development of integrated marketing campaigns that support GTM objectives, ensuring brand consistency and strong storytelling across all customer touchpoints.
  • Define, track, and report on key performance indicators to measure the success of GTM initiatives.
  • Analyze data and customer feedback to iterate on strategies and optimize GTM processes for efficiency.

Requirements

  • 10+ years experience in a related marketing role with product marketing expertise.
  • Marketing experience in the technology sector and the ability to manage day-to-day execution of both strategic and tactical activities at a very fast pace.
  • Hands-on ability to create a range of marketing assets including on-message product demo videos, sharp succinct slide pitch-decks in Apple Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams (Creative Services, Corporate Marketing, Demand Generation, Sales) to deliver marketing programs.
  • Marketing portfolio with examples showcasing writing style.
  • Ability to use data and analytics to drive decision making and a strong track record of delivering measurable marketing metrics.
  • Strong communication and writing skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into creative content.
  • Strong team player with excellent organization and people skills, able to set priorities, problem-solve, multi-task, and work in a global, dynamic environment.
  • Manage and lead through ambiguity and constant change.
  • Familiarity with the customer engagement lifecycle and CRM applications is a plus.
  • Bachelor's degree; MBA a plus, but not required.

Nice to Have

  • Familiarity with the customer engagement lifecycle and CRM applications.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • MBA (preferred but not required)

Benefits & Perks

  • Parental leave
  • 401(k)
  • Time off programs
  • Medical, dental, vision, mental health support
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Employee stock purchasing program
  • More details available at https://www.salesforcebenefits.com

Working at Salesforce

Salesforce emphasizes a workplace that is inclusive, non-discriminatory, and committed to equality for all employees. The company fosters a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth, supporting employees to find balance and be their best through comprehensive benefits and resources. Salesforce values merit, competence, and qualifications in its employment practices and aims to lead the path to workplace equality and diversity.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 30, 2025
Job CategoryProduct Marketing
Salary178k-258k
Job TypeFull Time
ExperienceDirector

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Location

Chicago, IL

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