Product Marketing Lead

DepthFirst

$120K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in product marketing, particularly as an early PMM hire in a fast-growing startup.
  • Proven ability to differentiate technical products in crowded markets.
  • Experience partnering closely with sales to create winning enablement tools.
  • Exceptional writing skills, with a knack for simplifying technical concepts.
  • Technical familiarity with developer tools, security, or infrastructure is preferred.
  • Proactive approach with the capacity to manage multiple responsibilities and projects.
  • Alignment with the company's mission to enhance software security.

Responsibilities

  • Own and refine positioning and messaging for depthfirst and its products as they evolve.
  • Translate technical differentiation into a compelling narrative for the market.
  • Oversee product launches, managing narrative creation, asset development, and team coordination.
  • Develop a comprehensive competitor intelligence system, including win/loss analysis and battlecards.
  • Collaborate closely with sales to produce effective enablement materials.
  • Create impactful website copy that drives conversion rates.
  • Gather market insights and competitive feedback to influence product strategy.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with meaningful equity stakes.
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan.
  • Provision of lunch and dinner at the San Francisco office.
  • Opportunity for ownership and career growth as the company expands.
Full Job Description
About This Role

depthfirst is hiring its first Product Marketing Lead. This is a founding go-to-market role for someone who wants to define how a category-defining security product is understood, talked about, and sold.

You will help define and iterate on positioning and messaging, and you will be the connective tissue between product, sales, and the market. The application security space is crowded and noisy, full of tools that overpromise, and your job is to make it obvious why depthfirst is revolutionary and better than the alternatives.

As the first PMM, you will wear many hats. You will write copy for our website, build sales decks, run product launches, lead sales enablement, and deliver competitive analysis. This is a broad, high-ownership role with room to build the function around you as we scale.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own positioning and messaging for depthfirst and each product, and keep it sharp as the product and market evolve
  • Make depthfirst stand out in a crowded, hype-heavy security market by turning technical differentiation into a clear, credible story buyers trust
  • Run product launches end to end: narrative, assets, timing, and cross-functional coordination across product, sales, and demand gen
  • Build competitor intelligence into a durable asset: track the landscape, run win/loss analysis, and equip the team with battlecards and objection handling that actually get used
  • Partner closely with sales to build enablement that moves deals, including pitch decks, one-pagers, demo narratives, and talk tracks, and sit in on calls to keep it grounded in reality
  • Write and own high-impact website copy that converts, from the homepage to product pages
  • Develop a deep understanding of our buyers and translate their problems into language that resonates across our website, pitch decks, one pagers, and enablement collateral
  • Feed market and competitive signal back to product to shape roadmap and priorities
Required Qualifications
  • 5+ years in product marketing, ideally including a first or early PMM hire at a fast-growing startup where you had to iterate on messaging
  • A track record of making technical products stand out in competitive, crowded markets
  • Strong partnership with sales, with real experience building enablement that reps rely on and win/loss or competitive programs that influence deals
  • Excellent writing: you can take something technical and make it clear, sharp, and persuasive
  • Comfort going deep on a technical product; developer tools, security, or infrastructure experience is a strong plus
  • High ownership and range: you are energized by owning many things at once and building from zero
  • Alignment with our mission of securing the world's software
  • Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate
What We Offer
  • Competitive salary with meaningful equity
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • 401k
  • Office lunch and dinner (SF office)
  • Ownership and significant room to grow as the company scales


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