Head of Industry Marketing

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
195K-235K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
Lead vertical go‑to‑market strategy for priority industries: develop ICPs, messaging, positioning, and sales enablement. Drive customer and market intelligence, coordinate launches and campaigns with Growth, and align Product and Sales to convert strategy into pipeline and revenue.
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About Decagon

Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences.

Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel.

We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others.

We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team.

About the Role

Decagon is looking for a Head of Industry Marketing to own our go-to-market strategy across our core verticals. You'll define how Decagon is positioned, messaged, and sold into each industry, and partner closely with Sales, Product, Agent Product, and Growth to turn that strategy into pipeline and revenue.

 

In this role, you will

  • Customer and market intelligence: Stay close to customers, prospects, analysts, and the competitive landscape in each vertical. Surface insights that sharpen positioning and inform product direction.

  • Vertical GTM strategy: Define and own the go-to-market strategy for Decagon's priority industries. Develop ICP definitions, buyer personas, key use cases, and competitive positioning for each vertical.

  • Messaging and positioning: Craft the core narrative for how Decagon wins in each industry. Develop differentiated value propositions grounded in real buyer pain, vertical-specific proof points, and Decagon's technical moat. Own the messaging hierarchy from category level down to persona level.

  • Sales enablement: Build the assets and plays that help the sales teams win: battlecards, industry primers, objection handling, discovery question frameworks, and deal-stage content. Measure what actually gets used and improves conversion.

  • Launch and campaign strategy: Partner with Growth to plan how vertical programs come to market, from ABM campaigns and field events to customer stories and analyst moments.

  • Cross-functional alignment: Serve as the connective tissue between Product and Sales for your industries. Ensure that new product capabilities get translated into vertical-specific value quickly, and that field feedback loops back into roadmap and messaging.

 

Your background looks something like this

  • 10+ years of experience in product marketing or industry/solutions marketing, ideally at a B2B SaaS company.

  • You've owned a vertical or segment GTM strategy, not just executed campaigns within someone else's framework.

  • You're a strong messaging strategist who knows how to develop a point of view, translate it into crisp narratives, and pressure-test it with buyers and sellers.

  • You've worked closely with enterprise sales teams and understand what it takes to influence a complex, multi-stakeholder deal.

  • You think in positioning before you think in deliverables. You ask "why does this matter to the buyer?" before "what should this say?"

  • You're comfortable with ambiguity and can define the structure others will execute against.

 

Even better if you have

  • Experience marketing to complex, regulated industries.

  • A track record launching new vertical motions from scratch, not just inheriting a playbook.

  • Familiarity with the AI or CX technology landscape and the ability to credibly engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

  • Experience building analyst and press relationships within a specific industry.

Benefits

We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees:

  • Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family

  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits

  • Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)

  • Parental Leave

  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot

  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best

These benefits are described in more detail in Decagon’s policies, may vary by location, and can change at any time according to applicable compensation and benefits plans.

Skills Required

  • 10+ years experience in product marketing or industry/solutions marketing
  • Experience owning a vertical or segment go-to-market strategy
  • Strong messaging and positioning strategy skills
  • Experience partnering with enterprise sales on complex, multi-stakeholder deals
  • Ability to operate with ambiguity and define executable structure
  • Experience marketing to complex, regulated industries
  • Track record launching new vertical motions from scratch
  • Familiarity with AI or customer experience (CX) technology landscape
  • Experience building analyst and press relationships within an industry
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
49 Employees

What We Do

Trusted by world-class companies, Decagon is the most advanced AI platform for customer support.

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