Arena
Product Marketing Manager
SF Bay Area. Posted 16 days ago
The role
You will own the Arena narrative and shape how users understand and evaluate AI models. You will translate complex systems into clear value and lead go-to-market efforts for product launches.
What you will do
- Owning product positioning and messaging across core product surfaces
- Defining and refining value propositions for user experiences
- Partnering with Product and Design to improve onboarding and feature discovery
- Leading go-to-market efforts for launches, updates, and experiments
- Translating evaluation methodology and data into accessible explanations
- Developing frameworks to explain model differences and tradeoffs
- Collecting and synthesizing user insights and behavioral data
- Collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Research, Comms, and Community
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Product Marketing, Growth, or AI/Consumer/Developer Marketing roles
- Strong ability to translate complex technical or data-heavy systems into clear narratives
- Proven experience partnering closely with Product and Design on onboarding, UX copy, and feature launches
- Track record of leading go-to-market efforts for key products or features
- Deep empathy for users and strong instincts for clarity, trust, and usability
- Excellent communication skills across written, verbal, and visual mediums
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and iterating quickly in an early-stage, fast-moving environment
- Attention to detail and organization
- A proactive, self-directed work style with strong ownership and prioritization skills
Nice to have
- Experience working with AI products, evaluation frameworks, or data-driven marketplaces
- Familiarity with user research, experimentation, and behavioral analytics
- Background in communities, platforms, or products with network effects
- Experience explaining scientific methodology and complex systems to target audiences
- Familiarity with key software tools and software (such as Notion, Google Drive, PostHog, Figma, Linear, etc.)
- Prior startup experience
Benefits
- Competitive compensation aligned to the markets where team members are based
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and additional support programs
- The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team
- A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact
About the company
Arena is a platform for evaluating how AI models perform in the real world. The team consists of researchers, academics, builders, and creatives from UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, and DeepMind.