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Salary: USD 165,000 - 200,000 / annual
Forward Networks, founded in 2013 by Stanford Ph.D.s, has built the industry's first network digital twin—a mathematically accurate model of production networks that enables autonomous networking. The platform allows engineers and AI agents to understand the impact of every change before it touches production. Trusted by global leaders including Goldman Sachs, PayPal, S&P Global, IBM, and Dell, Forward delivers an average of $14.2 million in annual benefits to customers (per IDC). The company is backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, and others.
You will serve as Senior Product Marketing Manager, reporting to the Senior Director of Product Marketing. This is a hands-on role focused on shaping Forward's market narrative and owning go-to-market execution for key platform areas.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own positioning, messaging, and value propositions for assigned products and use cases, aligned with Forward's company narrative
- Lead product launches end-to-end, coordinating readiness, announcements, field enablement, and post-launch measurement across product, sales, and marketing teams
- Partner with product management to translate technical capabilities into clear customer outcomes and bring market insight into product priorities
- Create compelling product content and sales assets including pitch decks, solution briefs, competitive battlecards, and demo narratives; partner with sales enablement to drive adoption
- Represent Forward as a credible product and industry expert at conferences, trade shows, webinars, and customer/partner meetings
- Lead competitive and market research for assigned areas to inform positioning and deal strategy; support analyst and press engagement
- Partner with demand generation, field marketing, and corporate marketing to develop campaigns and events grounded in customer needs
Requirements:
- 7+ years in product marketing within enterprise software or B2B technology
- Proven track record launching technical products and developing positioning, messaging, and sales assets that enable field success
- Strong technical aptitude and familiarity with networking, security, cloud infrastructure, automation, or agentic AI systems; ability to engage credibly with engineering and product teams and translate complex capabilities into business value
- Excellent writing skills with a portfolio of compelling product content for technical and business audiences
- Confident presenter capable of representing Forward as a credible expert at conferences, webinars, and customer/partner/analyst meetings
- Experience using customer research and competitive intelligence to inform go-to-market strategy (analyst relations experience is a plus)
- Self-directed and highly organized, with ability to work across functions and manage multiple launches and projects in a fast-moving, growth-stage company
