Lead Product Marketing Manager

UpSlide is the document production layer for financial services . We orchestrate LLMs, machine learning, and workflow agents within Microsoft 365 to deliver reliable, quality outputs in the most efficient and cost-effective way. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner , with 14+ years supporting financial services teams, we bring together expertise from the tech, finance and design fields to help clients like KPMG, BNP Paribas, Rothschild & Co. boost productivity while improving brand consistency across their corporate documents. We are a certified B Corporation , upholding the belief that businesses should have a positive impact on society. Our values ✨ Our values guide our approach to work and are at the heart of our recruitment process. To join our team, we look for individuals who value: • Excellence: We think that every detail counts, and we place great importance on the quality of our deliverables. • Trust: We are passionate, committed, and free to act with autonomy. • Happiness at work: We enjoy looking on the bright side and we share our enthusiasm with our colleagues and clients. The team 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 UpSlide is a productivity platform for Microsoft 365 (PowerPoint, Excel and Word), built for financial professionals in investment banking, private equity, asset management and advisory. Product Marketing sits at the centre of Product, Sales and Marketing: we decide how UpSlide is positioned, priced and sold. You’ll join as Lead Product Marketing Manager , reporting directly to Matteo Bordin , our CPO. You’ll work with the PMM team, including Laure, Senior PMM, and day-to-day with Sales, Product and Marketing. Lead PMM is level L4 on our individual contributor track, one step above Senior PMM. You won’t manage people. You will own the positioning and go-to-market of a strategic bet end to end, starting with our AI offer, and you will set standards the whole PMM team uses. Why this role, now: AI is changing what our clients expect from their tools, and Microsoft Copilot and general AI assistants are now part of every buying conversation. We need someone who can make our value obvious in that market, price it right, and make Sales confident selling it. Team goals: Product Marketing makes UpSlide easy to understand, easy to sell, and priced right. Concretely: • Sharpen positioning and messaging so prospects grasp the value fast. • Arm Sales to win, especially against direct competitors and “we’ll just use Copilot”. • Own pricing and packaging decisions and the reasoning behind them. • Run customer communications that drive adoption and expansion. The impact on the business is direct: higher win rates, stronger pricing power, and shorter sales cycles. Team goals 🎯 Product Marketing's job is to make UpSlide easy to understand, easy to sell, and priced right. Concretely, that means: • Sharpen positioning and messaging so prospects grasp the value fast. • Arm Sales to win, especially against direct competitors. • Own pricing and packaging decisions and the reasoning behind them. • Run customer communications that drive adoption and expansion. The impact on the business is direct: higher win rates, stronger pricing power, shorter sales cycles. Your responsibilities 🖋️ Positioning of a strategic bet (35%) • Own the positioning and go-to-market plan of a product line or strategic bet, starting with our AI offer (including MCP). • Turn a vague market topic into a clear positioning and plan, with a 12-month view. • Explain why UpSlide is a must-have next to Copilot and AI assistants, not a nice-to-have. • Ship full launch kits for the bet: messaging, sales deck, demo, customer comms. • Send a monthly pulse on the bet to the exec team. Competitive intelligence & sales enablement (35%) • Own competitive intelligence acr