The Mission 🪐
The Situation: Malt is actively shaping the "New Way of Work." As a European scale-up with over 600 employees across Europe, UK, UAE, and more than 1 million freelancers on our platform, we are in a thrilling growth phase—bolstered by a new Executive team. As we rapidly expand our footprint, we are treating this role as the foundation of a critical internal business unit. We need an exceptional Senior Product Marketing Manager to architect the narrative and go-to-market engine for our core business initiatives, operating with high autonomy in a dynamic, high-stakes market landscape.
The mission: Drive zero-to-one growth by architecting our go-to-market strategy, uniting cross-functional teams, and translating intricate customer insights into highly scalable commercial execution. Taking full ownership of our product positioning, you will develop deep mastery in advanced marketplace economics and multi-stakeholder enablement, delivering the tangible business outputs that will directly accelerate our Gross Sales Volume (GSV) and market penetration.
Key Responsibilities ✨
Action: Architect and drive comprehensive go-to-market strategies for multiple core product areas, decoding industry, market, and competitive intelligence to position Malt decisively.
Output: Compelling, highly differentiated value propositions, messaging frameworks, and full-scale GTM campaigns that tell a resonant story and set us apart in the market.
Metrics of Performance: GSV pipeline generated from new product launches and overall product adoption rates.
Action: Engineer and relentlessly optimize a robust commercial toolkit, empowering sales, account development, and marketing with the exact insights and narratives they need to win.
Output: A dynamic, scalable "bill of materials" encompassing high-converting content for demand generation, client lifecycle marketing, and sales acceleration.
Metrics of Performance: Sales cycle velocity (time-to-close) and conversion rate optimization across the entire funnel.
Action: Synthesize complex customer feedback and pilot data to proactively dictate general product releases, acting as the strategic bridge uniting Product Management, Sales, and Customer Success.
Output: Market-validated product pilots, beta programs, and seamless cross-organizational alignment that directly shape and de-risk the product roadmap.
Metrics of Performance: Beta-to-General-Availability successful transition rate and stakeholder alignment velocity.
Pillar 1: Go-To-Market Launch Architecture
Pillar 2: Commercial Enablement & Revenue Acceleration
Pillar 3: Product Strategy & Cross-Functional Synergy
Requirements & The Skills Matrix 🔍
Orchestrated and scaled go-to-market strategies from scratch for complex B2B platforms, drawing on 8+ years of experience in enterprise software, SaaS, or marketplace environments.
Distilled immense ambiguity into clear, actionable frameworks, demonstrating critical thinking and a relentless bias for action.
Forged strong, collaborative partnerships across commercial, product, and marketing organizations, adjusting communication styles seamlessly to influence diverse global cultures.
Demonstrated a proven track record of managing multiple high-stakes projects simultaneously, anticipating blockers and proactively engineering solutions.
Leveraged Analyst Relations to successfully elevate brand positioning and market credibility in the B2B tech space.
Advanced marketplace economics and dynamic matching optimization.
Complex multi-stakeholder enablement, aligning Product, Marketing, and Sales under a single, unified revenue objective.
Data-driven GTM sequencing and rapid pilot-to-launch scaling methodologies.
Cross-border commercial storytelling designed specifically for diverse European enterprise segments.
Proven Mastery (What you have already built)
Skills You Will Deploy & Develop
The Self-Selection Filter ❓
Embrace ambiguity with a genuine enthusiasm for problem-solving (Joy is our secret sauce), thrive on translating immense complexity into elegant frameworks (Simplicity wins), intuitively champion cross-functional team success (It takes a community), and possess the proactive drive to architect new solutions from the ground up (Dream big act big).
Prefer maintaining predictable, pre-existing playbooks over building new ones, hesitate to take decisive action without explicit step-by-step guidance, or view cross-functional feedback and friction as a roadblock rather than an opportunity for collaborative optimization.
This role is perfect for you if:
30-90-180 Day Impact Plan 🏁
Day 30: Dive deep into Malt’s marketplace mechanics, absorb our culture, and map out the current cross-functional processes. By the end of your first month, you will have built strong foundational relationships with Product and Commercial leaders while identifying and executing immediate enablement quick-wins.
Day 90: Take full ownership of the GTM pipeline and Metrics of Performance for your designated core products. You will successfully launch your first major enablement toolkit and actively influence upcoming beta programs by injecting structured, data-backed customer insights.
Day 180: Operate entirely autonomously, recognized across the organization as the definitive subject matter expert for your portfolio. You will have visibly accelerated GSV growth and conversion rates, continuously scaling and optimizing our product marketing engine across Europe.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise software, SaaS, or marketplace environments
- Experience building and scaling go-to-market strategies for complex B2B platforms
- Ability to translate ambiguity into clear, actionable frameworks
- Strong cross-functional collaboration across commercial, product, and marketing organizations
- Experience managing multiple high-stakes projects simultaneously
- Proven experience leveraging analyst relations to elevate B2B technology brand positioning
- Knowledge of marketplace economics and dynamic matching optimization
- Experience with multi-stakeholder enablement across Product, Marketing, and Sales
- Experience with data-driven GTM sequencing and pilot-to-launch scaling
- Experience developing cross-border commercial storytelling for European enterprise segments
What We Do
Malt is a platform that connects businesses with freelancers, finding the perfect match for every project. Our mission is to provide everyone with the freedom to choose what work they do and who they do it with. By helping to redefine the world of work and the relationships we have with it we hope to empower everyone to shape their careers to fit exactly what they’re looking for. Malt was founded in 2013 by Vincent Huguet and Hugo Lassiège, who were both joined by Alexandre Fretti as Co-CEO in 2020. In March 2022, Malt acquired Comatch, enabling us to create a dedicated category for independent management consultants and interim executives where clients can access vetted expertise, known as Malt Strategy. We have now gained the trust of more than 550,000 freelancers and 70,000 clients, becoming one of the leading marketplaces for freelance talent. We are currently operational in nine countries and regions: Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordics, Spain, Switzerland, the UAE and the UK. Malt has evolved into a successful scaleup with more than 700 employees from 44 different nationalities, who share the same values of care, ambition, joy and autonomy. Join us and become part of the future of work!
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