Nelnet

Go To Market Manager

Nelnet • $125K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or related field; or equal professional experience.
  • 7+ years in go-to-market strategy, product marketing, or related area.
  • Experience designing and executing GTM strategy for new products.
  • Proven track record of taking products from pre-launch through to market entry.
  • Strong grasp of integrated GTM components including positioning, sales enablement, and demand generation.
  • Ability to evaluate market opportunities and convert strategy into actionable execution.
  • Experience collaborating with internal teams and managing external vendors.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement a comprehensive go-to-market strategy and launch plan.
  • Refine market positioning and messaging to create customer awareness and advocacy.
  • Drive demand generation through various channels including campaigns and partnerships.
  • Develop sales enablement resources to support product growth.
  • Incorporate feedback to adjust GTM strategies, messaging, and priorities.
  • Manage internal and external resources necessary for GTM strategy execution.
  • Evaluate GTM performance and recommend necessary adjustments.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision insurance, including HSA and FSA options.
  • Generous paid time off policy.
  • 401K plan with student loan repayment assistance.
  • Life and AD&D insurance along with employee assistance programs.
  • Employee stock purchase program and tuition reimbursement.
  • Performance-based incentive pay and short- and long-term disability benefits.
  • Robust wellness program to support employee health.
Full Job Description
The GTM Launch Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing launch strategies for new products, services, programs, or initiatives. This role partners with cross-functional teams to ensure successful market readiness, stakeholder alignment, customer adoption, and operational execution. The GTM Launch Manager develops and manages launch plans, identifies priorities and risks, and ensures resources, processes, and communications are in place to achieve business objectives. This role combines strategic planning with hands-on execution to deliver successful and scalable launches.JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Design and own the integrated go-to-market strategy and launch plan, defining the target audiences, positioning, channels, programs, priorities, resources, milestones, and measures of success required to successfully enter the market and scale.

  • Develop and continuously refine the market positioning, messaging, buyer value propositions, competitive differentiation, and supporting tools needed to create awareness, communicate value, and enable the sales motion.

  • Design and drive market activation and demand-generation approaches, determining the right mix of campaigns, conferences, speaking opportunities, partnerships, customer advocacy, cross-sell initiatives, and other channels to build awareness and qualified demand.

  • Build the sales enablement and market-facing resources required to support growth, including objection handling, competitive resources, customer references, case studies, outcome stories, and RFP and procurement support.

  • Translate customer, sales, competitive, and market feedback into GTM decisions, using what the team learns to refine messaging, programs, channels, and priorities as the product enters the market.

  • Determine the internal and external capabilities needed to execute the GTM strategy; scope, select, brief, and manage agencies, contractors, and other partners while coordinating effectively with key internal stakeholder teams.

  • Define the measures and operating rhythm needed to evaluate GTM performance, assess what is and is not working, and recommend where to adjust priorities, resources, channels, or investment.

  • Continuously evaluate the overall GTM approach, identify gaps and opportunities, and proactively recommend and implement changes needed to build a repeatable and scalable growth engine.

REQUIREMENTS AND SKILLS
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
  • 7+ years of progressive experience in go-to-market strategy, product marketing, product launch, growth marketing, commercialization, or a related discipline.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and executing the go-to-market strategy for a net-new product, including determining target audiences, positioning, channels, programs, resources, and measures of success.
  • Demonstrated experience taking a new product from pre-launch through market entry and establishing a repeatable GTM approach to support growth.
  • Deep understanding of how positioning and messaging, demand generation, sales enablement, customer advocacy, events, partnerships, channels, and measurement work together as part of an integrated GTM strategy.
  • Proven ability to evaluate a market opportunity, identify what is needed to successfully go to market, make informed recommendations, and translate strategy into execution.
  • Experience leveraging internal teams, agencies, contractors, and other external partners to execute a GTM strategy, with the ability to determine where specialized expertise or additional capacity is needed.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence decisions and drive outcomes across teams without direct authority.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience within K–12 education or education technology.
  • Experience launching or scaling products in public-sector or complex B2B buying environments.
  • Experience with education procurement, RFPs, customer reference programs, conferences, partnerships, or channel development.

Pay Range for this role is - $125,000 - $150,000 depending on experience

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, generous earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance & AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, performance-based incentive pay, short- and long-term disability, and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits:

About Nelnet

Nelnet, Inc. provides educational services in loan servicing, payment processing, education planning, and asset management. The company is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska and has additional offices in Omaha, Nebraska; Aurora, Colorado; Tigard, Oregon; and Sacramento, California. Nelnet was founded in 1978 and is one of the largest student loan servicers in the United States. Nelnet also provides software and data management services for the education finance industry. The company has three primary business segments: Loan Systems and Servicing, Tuition Payment Processing, and Communications. Nelnet is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NNI.
Learn more about Nelnet
Size
7,988 employees
Market Cap
$3.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$352.4 million
Founded
1977
5 Year Trend
+3%
Revenue
$1.4 billion
NASDAQ

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