Senior Marketing Manager

Madrona Venture Labs; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nautilus is hiring a Senior Marketing Manager to drive go-to-market strategy, messaging, and coordinated campaigns across digital, email, content, events, and social. You will own the brand and coordinate with Sales to launch 2027 initiatives, while directing contract writers and freelancers to scale output.

Reporting to the VP of Marketing, you will lead multi-channel activities, manage events, and optimize marketing performance.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in marketing, communications, business, or related field.
• 5+ years of marketing experience, ideally in life sciences or biotech.
• Hands-on content creation and campaign development with external writers or agencies.

Responsibilities

• Execute go-to-market strategy, messaging, and campaigns.
• Coordinate multi-channel marketing activities across digital, email, content, events, social.
• Serve as a bridge between Sales and Marketing to improve efficiency.
• Develop marketing content and manage contract contributors to scale output.
• Own the Nautilus brand and maintain consistent voice and visuals.
• Plan and manage marketing events and budgets.
• Manage HubSpot as the core marketing ops platform.
• Drive go-to-market execution for the 2027 product launch.
• Monitor KPIs and optimize marketing performance.
• Support PR and investor relations communications.

Skills

Go-to-market strategy

Multi-channel campaigns

Content creation

HubSpot

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS/BA in marketing or related field

Tools

HubSpot

Job description

At Nautilus, we have a big and important mission: improve the health of millions by unleashing the potential of the proteome to accelerate drug development and enable a new world of precision and personalized medicine. We are developing a single-molecule protein analysis platform of unprecedented sensitivity, scale, and ease of use that we believe will democratize access to the proteome - one of the most dynamic and valuable sources of biological insight. To accomplish this, we are pursuing hard scientific problems with an entrepreneurial mindset and creating a world-class team of builders, innovators, and dreamers across a wide range of disciplines.

We are hiring for a Senior Marketing Manager to join our growing team. In this role, you will drive Nautilus's go-to-market strategy, messaging, and coordinated marketing campaigns across channels, translating our defined roadmap and positioning input into executable plans and deliverables. You will own our brand, be a critical driver of our commercial launch in 2027, and help ensure sales and marketing operate as one efficient team. This role also has responsibility for directing part-time contributors and contractors.

This position will report to the Vice President of Marketing.

Responsibilities

• Execute Nautilus's go-to-market strategy, activities, messaging, and coordinated campaigns, translating input from Product Management into executable marketing plans.
• Coordinate multi-channel marketing activities (digital, email, content, events, social) to ensure consistent messaging and efficient use of budget and resources.
• Serve as a key connective point between Sales and Marketing, identifying friction points and driving process improvements that increase efficiency between the two functions.
• Develop marketing content directly (web copy, campaign assets, sales enablement materials, thought leadership) and manage contract writers, designers, and other freelance resources to scale content production.
• Own the Nautilus brand, ensuring consistency of voice, visual identity, and messaging across all internal, customer and market facing materials.
• Plan, manage, and execute marketing events (conferences, trade shows, webinars, road shows), owning logistics, budget, and post-event follow-up.
• Own and manage HubSpot as our core marketing operations platform, including campaign setup, list management, and performance tracking.
• Serve as a central driver of go-to-market execution for our planned 2027 product launch, working cross-functionally to ensure marketing deliverables are on track.
• Monitor marketing KPIs to increase efficiency and efficacy.
• Support PR and investor relations activities as needed, including drafting or reviewing external communications and coordinating with leadership on messaging.
• Support internal communication activities as needed, including drafting or reviewing internal communications and coordinating with leadership on messaging.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in marketing, communications, business, or related field; 5+ years of marketing experience, ideally in life sciences or biotech.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing go-to-market strategy, messaging, and multi-channel campaigns in support of a product launch.
• Hands-on content creation skills (writing, editing, campaign development) paired with experience directing external writers, designers, or agencies.
• Experience with HubSpot.
• Experience planning and managing marketing events, from strategy through on-site execution.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly working with Product Management and Sales to align strategy with execution.
• Exposure to PR or investor relations communications is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple contractors or part-time contributors.
• Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating with ambiguity in a fast-scaling environment ahead of a major product launch.
• Ability to drive operational excellence and consistently deliver timely results independently.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Nautilus Team Culture

• We are determined to do whatever it takes to get our platform into the hands of researchers who will use it to upend the status quo in basic research and healthcare.
• We work on cross functional teams, wear many hats, take risks to work through uncertainty, enjoy working collaboratively on challenging problems, and celebrate one another’s victories.
• We go above and beyond, but also strive to provide a supportive atmosphere of colleagues who are willing to lend a helping hand and make working at Nautilus not only fulfilling in its end goals, but enjoyable on a day-to-day basis.

Our Values:

• Be Excellent
• Be a Good Human
• Catalyze Customer Success
• Dream Big
• Drive for Results
• Enjoy the Voyage
• Succeed as One Team