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Principal Product Marketing Manager — Vertical Industries

Smartsheet · Bellevue, WA, USA · On-site

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About Smartsheet

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About the role

Smartsheet targets industries where workflow specificity is essential. As a Principal Product Marketing Manager, Vertical Industries, you will lead the strategic development of industry-specific value narratives, use case positioning, and sales-ready content for priority vertical, Professional Services. In this role, you will own the GTM narrative, ensuring positioning is grounded in quantified, defensible value claims.

What they're looking for

  • 10 + years of experience in product marketing, industry marketing, or GTM strategy in B2B SaaS, with at least 2 years managing or mentoring other marketers
  • Direct experience developing value positioning for complex enterprise buyers in one or more priority verticals (Life Sciences and Manufacturing strongly preferred)
  • Hands-on experience building industry-specific value propositions, ROI models, and use-case-level messaging grounded in buyer research
  • Strong instinct for competitive differentiation — able to identify where Smartsheet has a genuine right to win and sharpen positioning around that claim
  • Operational discipline to manage multiple vertical workstreams simultaneously and hold ICs accountable to quality, speed, and measurable impact
  • Bachelor's degree required, MBA or advanced degree preferred
More about this role

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day.

Smartsheet targets industries where workflow specificity is essential. As a Principal Product Marketing Manager, Vertical Industries, you will lead the strategic development of industry-specific value narratives, use case positioning, and sales-ready content for priority vertical, Professional Services. In this role, you will own the GTM narrative, ensuring positioning is grounded in quantified, defensible value claims. This role requires deep industry curiosity, methodological discipline, and the ability to drive multiple complex workstreams in parallel to maintain Smartsheet’s competitive edge.

This full-time position reports to the Sr. Director, Customer Value and can be located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely...

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