SoundCloud

Senior Director - Product Marketing & Market Intelligence

SoundCloud$210K — $260K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in product marketing or growth strategy in consumer or platform businesses
  • Proven experience in leading product marketing teams influencing product strategy
  • Expertise in market research and competitive analysis with a focus on data-driven decisions
  • Strong understanding of consumer products, creator platforms, and marketplace dynamics
  • Exceptional storytelling skills and ability to present to executive-level audiences
  • Passion for music and deep curiosity about market trends and consumer behavior

Responsibilities

  • Shape product and business strategy as a strategic partner to leadership
  • Define audience positioning across multiple experiences, ensuring alignment with Brand and Communications
  • Lead comprehensive go-to-market strategies and manage key performance metrics
  • Establish SoundCloud's market intelligence function, translating trends into actionable insights
  • Drive audience insights and feedback mechanisms to inform product and business recommendations
  • Build and nurture a high-performing product marketing organization with a focus on strategic influence

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Robust 401k plan and Employee Equity Plan
  • Generous professional development budget
  • Flexible vacation policy with up to 35 days of PTO annually
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents
  • Creativity and Wellness benefit for personal development courses or gym memberships
  • Complimentary office snacks and lunches
Full Job Description
We9re looking for a Senior Director, Product Marketing & Market Intelligence to lead a modern product marketing organization and help us see those opportunities first. You9ll own how SoundCloud understands its market and turns that understanding into product and growth decisions. This is not a traditional product marketing role: you9ll build SoundCloud9s market and audience intelligence from the ground up, shape product and monetization strategy, and serve as the voice of creators and fans inside the company.

Reporting to the Chief Growth & Marketing Officer, you9ll build and lead a team of Product Marketers and act as the strategic bridge across Product, Marketing, Community, Partnerships, and Executive Leadership.

In your first year, you9ll build the engine that helps SoundCloud truly understand its audiences - the jobs-to-be-done frameworks, audience intelligence, and Voice-of-Customer programs that become the foundation for everything Product Marketing does, from strategy to positioning to launch. Success looks like a PMM organization that consistently influences product and business decisions - and becomes a durable source of strategic advantage for SoundCloud.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Shape product and business strategy as a strategic partner to leadership, including recommendations on consumer narratives, packaging, and monetization, some of the highest-leverage decisions at the company
  • Define positioning across creator, fan, AI, subscription, and monetization experiences, in close partnership with Brand, Creative, and Communications
  • Lead go-to-market strategy for major launches, defining audiences, positioning, and launch tiers, and owning the awareness-to-adoption-to-retention metrics that define success; own GTM strategy, positioning, and audience definition, partnering with marketing teams on channel orchestration and execution
  • Build SoundCloud9s market and audience intelligence function - tracking trends and competitive moves across music, AI, and the creator economy, and turning them into executive briefings, forecasts, competitive intelligence, and opportunity calls that sharpen how we compete
  • Own creator and fan insight, drive audience segmentation and sizing, build always-on feedback loops, partner with Community on creator councils and advisory panels, and translate what you learn into recommendations Product and Business act on
  • Build and develop a high-performing PMM organization, establishing a modern operating model and raising the strategic influence of the function across the company

Experience and Background:
  • 10+ years across product marketing, product or growth strategy, or consumer, marketplace, and platform businesses
  • A track record of leading product marketing teams and influencing product strategy, not just supporting launches
  • Deep experience with market and audience research and competitive analysis - and a habit of turning it into data-backed decisions.
  • Deep understanding of consumer products, marketplaces, creator platforms, subscriptions, or social ecosystems
  • Exceptional storytelling and executive presence across complex, cross-functional organizations
  • Relentless curiosity about people, markets, and culture, with a real passion for music and creators

The salary range for this role is $210,000 - $260,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!
Benefits:
  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
  • Robust 401k program
  • Employee Equity Plan
  • Generous professional development allowance
  • Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
  • Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
  • 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
  • Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

About SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a music streaming platform that allows users to upload, promote, and share audio. The platform was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. SoundCloud offers both free and paid subscription plans, with the paid plans offering additional features such as ad-free listening and offline playback. The company has faced financial difficulties in recent years, with reports of layoffs and a potential acquisition by Spotify. Despite these challenges, SoundCloud remains a popular platform for independent musicians and podcasters.
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Size
400 employees
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Founded
2007

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