Remote, US-based

The Product Marketing Manager is responsible for helping Lumen clearly communicate the value of its courseware to higher-ed faculty, academic leaders, and institutional decision-makers. This individual contributor role supports product positioning, audience insights, competitive analysis, sales enablement, campaign content, and customer proof that help drive awareness, qualified engagement, adoption, and expansion.

The Product Marketing Manager will work closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Learning to support priority courses, target audiences, key accounts, and strategic initiatives. This role requires someone who can write clearly, translate product and customer insights into practical messaging, create useful content, support campaigns and selected customer-facing initiatives, and use campaign data and engagement signals to inform follow-up, reporting, and marketing decisions.

This is a great fit for a collaborative, detail-oriented marketer who brings curiosity, follow-through, and hands-on execution and can translate product features and research into meaningful benefits for faculty and students.

The role will contribute to Lumen's marketing priorities through:

• Product positioning and messaging for priority courses, audiences, and strategic themes
• Campaign content that helps faculty and academic decision-makers understand Lumen's value
• Faculty stories, customer proof points, testimonials, and product-focused content
• Audience, market, and competitive insights that inform messaging and campaign strategy
• HubSpot campaign organization, audience segmentation, and reporting support
• Cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Learning, and RevOps

Organization Alignment:

• Reports to the Senior Director, Marketing & Customer Engagement
• Works under Marketing leadership to help translate Lumen's priorities into practical messaging, campaigns, content, enablement resources, and market-facing materials
• Collaborates with the Sales team to support messaging, enablement resources, campaign execution, and follow-up planning
• Collaborates with the customer success (DLS) team to support customer engagement, expansion, faculty stories, and proof-building
• Partners with Product and Learning to translate research findings, product updates, customer insights, and market needs into clear positioning and content

Key Responsibilities:
Positioning, Messaging & Market Insights

• Support the development of positioning and messaging for priority courses, audiences, and strategic themes
• Conduct market and competitive research
• Translate product updates, customer insights, research findings, and faculty feedback into clear, practical messaging that can be used across campaigns, sales conversations, and customer engagement
Campaigns & Go-to-Market Support
• Support go-to-market planning and execution for priority courses, product updates, strategic themes, and key audience segments
• Execute marketing campaigns that generate qualified engagement from higher-ed faculty and academic stakeholders
• Create and manage email campaigns, nurture programs, course preview campaigns, webinar follow-up, reactivation campaigns, and targeted outreach

• Contribute to campaign strategy by turning audience insights, customer feedback, product updates, and market research into practical content and messaging
Sales Enablement & Field Support

• Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success to support course- and audience-focused messaging, enablement resources, campaign execution, and follow-up planning
• Create practical enablement materials, including campaign briefs, email templates, sequence messaging, one-pagers, follow-up language, objection-handling resources, and course-specific messaging
• Support Sales handoffs by helping identify who engaged, what signal they showed, why they matter, and what next step may make sense
• Gather feedback from Sales on messaging, objections, audience needs, and materials that can help support active opportunities
Customer Proof & Product Content

• Help develop faculty stories, customer quotes, testimonials, short videos, case-study content, and proof points
• Create and repurpose digital content, including short-form videos, webinar clips, faculty/customer story assets, social content, email content, landing page copy, campaign graphics, and other digital materials
• Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Learning to turn customer outcomes, research findings, implementation examples, and product insights into market-facing content

• Support webinars, customer-facing programs, and selected field marketing activities that advance faculty engagement, customer proof, and priority course messaging
• Travel periodically for selected conferences, customer gatherings, company meetings, or field activities when aligned with company priorities
Campaign Operations & Reporting
• Build and manage HubSpot campaign assets, workflows, segmentation, nurture campaigns, reporting, and follow-up tracking
• Partner with RevOps to support campaign tracking, lead routing, Sales handoffs, and visibility into audience engagement
• Contribute to additional marketing initiatives and cross-functional projects that support company priorities as needed
• Personifies Lumen values of Commitment, Creativity, Generosity, Openness, and Belonging

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
• 2-4+ years of experience in product marketing, B2B marketing, edtech marketing, content marketing, demand generation, sales enablement, or a related role
• Strong writing and messaging skills, with the ability to translate product updates, customer insights, and market needs into clear content for professional or academic audiences.
• Experience supporting product positioning, audience messaging, competitive research, buyer or user personas, campaign content, or go-to-market materials
• Hands-on experience creating marketing assets such as email campaigns, webinar content, sales enablement materials, landing page copy, customer stories, or digital and visual content
• Comfort creating visual and digital content using tools such as Canva
• Experience using CRM or marketing automation tools, preferably HubSpot, to support campaigns, segmentation, and reporting
• Strong project management, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams in a remote environment
• Sound judgment and follow-through, with the ability to take direction, move work forward, and know when to escalate questions or decisions
• Experience in higher education, edtech, learning technology, publishing, or another considered-purchase B2B market is preferred
• Preference for candidates located in the Central or Eastern Time Zone

Benefits:

• Autonomy
• 401(k) matching
• Full employee medical premium covered by the company
• Flex PTO
• Paid holidays
• Work with exceptional people on an important, fulfilling mission
• Stock options
• Fully dispersed workforce