Principal Product Marketing Manager

The Role

You own how the market understands ZeroDrift and the enforcement category we created. Our buyers are technical and senior: Heads of AI, AI governance and risk leaders, CISOs, CTOs, and engineering leaders, alongside compliance teams and the C-suite at the most regulated firms in the world. Your job is to turn a deeply technical product into a story those buyers trust and repeat.

You are ZeroDrift's cheerleader, the person who carries the narrative everywhere it needs to go. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role. You will be our first marketing hire, working directly with the founder, with the ownership and equity upside that come with defining a category from day one.

What you will own

• Own positioning and messaging for ZeroDrift and for the enforcement category itself, and make it land with technical buyers (Heads of AI, AI governance, CIOs, CTOs, and engineering leaders), compliance teams, and the C-suite
• Own product launches end to end: the narrative, the assets, the timing, and the cross-functional rollout
• Build the sales enablement that helps our AEs win: decks, one-pagers, battle cards, demo narratives, and objection handling
• Own competitive and market intelligence: who else is in the space, how we are different, and where the category is moving
• Own the words we use everywhere, from the website and docs to campaigns, analyst briefings, and press
• Partner with the founder on category strategy and analyst relations
• Run the feedback loop from customers and sales back into our messaging and our roadmap

What you bring

• 6+ years in product marketing, ideally B2B or enterprise SaaS sold to technical buyers
• Proven ability to market a technical product: you understand what you sell deeply enough to earn the trust of engineers and security leaders, and to make executives act
• A track record of owning positioning and launches that moved pipeline, not just produced assets
• Sharp, structured writing, and the ability to make a complex technical product simple and compelling
• Comfortable going deep with engineers and product, and credible in front of the C-suite
• You move fast and own the outcome

Bonus points

• Marketed to technical or regulated buyers in AI, security, financial services, healthcare, or insurance
• Category-creation or 0 to 1 marketing experience
• A background that lets you go deeper technically, such as computer science, data, or hands-on work with AI products
• Early-stage startup experience

How we work

We are hyper-focused on speed of execution and on owning our work end to end. This is a full-time hybrid role: three days a week in our office at 4 World Trade Center in New York City, and the rest remote.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary $200,000 - $250,000.
• Meaningful early-stage equity.
• Top-tier medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a 401(k).