Product Marketing Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships

Salesforce•Chicago, IL

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a self-starting, team-oriented, and passionate Product Marketing Senior Manager to join its Strategic Tech Partner Marketing team. This role will focus on top Strategic Partnerships, including Google, AWS, Anthropic, and OpenAI. The Senior Manager will be responsible for a variety of co-marketing initiatives, encompassing joint go-to-market strategy, content development, customer storytelling, enablement, and partner-facing activation. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment, navigate ambiguity with confidence, and be energized by building strategic co-marketing programs.

Requirements

8-10 years of experience in product marketing, partner marketing, field marketing, integrated campaigns, or go-to-market roles, ideally with a B2B SaaS or cloud technology background.
Demonstrated experience working with or within hyperscaler or cloud partner ecosystems (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent).
Strong content creation skills: ability to develop compelling messaging frameworks, sales plays, customer narratives, thought leadership blogs, and event/webinar content.
Exceptional storytelling ability: can translate complex technical co-integrations into clear, differentiated, customer-relevant value propositions.
Data-driven mindset with the ability to set, track, and report on measurable marketing metrics tied to pipeline and consumption goals.
Proven cross-functional collaborator with experience aligning with global peers, partner counterparts, field sales, and executive stakeholders.
Outstanding organizational skills and comfort balancing multiple high-priority workstreams against tight deadlines.
Confident presenter, comfortable speaking to audiences of all sizes including executive briefings and partner QBRs.
Hands-on executor: comfortable moving fluidly between strategy and detailed tactical delivery.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Salesforce products and the Agentforce / AI ecosystem (Agentforce, Data Cloud, MCP, Zero Copy, etc.).
Experience marketing in or around AI, LLMs, or agentic technology.
Comfort working in external partner-facing channels and co-developing content alongside partner marketing teams.
Understanding of AWS Marketplace procurement motions and/or Google Cloud go-to-market models.

Responsibilities

Serve as a co-marketing expert for strategic product partnerships, developing joint value propositions, partner narratives, and integrated messaging frameworks that align Salesforce products (Agentforce, Data 360, Slack, etc.) with partner platforms (AWS Marketplace, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, Vertex AI, Gemini, BigQuery, etc.).
Create compelling thought leadership content, including blogs, technical articles, and social-ready assets, in collaboration with partner teams, coordinating internal SME review and partner approvals.
Own the joint customer story pipeline: identifying candidate customers, partnering with AEs and partner counterparts to secure approvals, and helping to produce assets (story slides, blogs, video scripts, PR placements) for various channels.
Partner with digital, demand gen, and social teams to develop and execute integrated co-marketing campaigns, including ideating new formats tied to joint product launches and key moments.
Drive the Salesforce + partner presence at flagship events (e.g., Dreamforce, World Tours, AWS re:Invent, Google Cloud Next), developing event content, sourcing speakers, and producing materials.
Own quarterly co-marketing planning with AWS and Google marketing stakeholders, building visual plans and presenting to leadership, and tracking/reporting on key metrics.
Act as the connective tissue between Salesforce Product Marketing, Corporate Communications, Brand, Digital, and partner-side marketing teams to ensure coordinated, on-brand, and on-strategy joint programs.
Manage and track co-marketing budget submissions and vendor SOWs with fiscal discipline.