Senior PMM: AI Inference Platform & Open-Source Growth

Upbound; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Upbound is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager in San Francisco to own go-to-market for AI inference infrastructure. You will align open source roots with a commercial product strategy, speaking to platform engineers, VPs of Eng, and CIOs.

You will drive messaging, competitive strategy, and end-to-end launches on a weeks- rather than quarters-long cadence, while enabling sales with plays, ROI models, and customer stories.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in B2B enterprise software product marketing, with infrastructure or data platform exposure.
• Proven enterprise go-to-market that closed real revenue and describes deal impact.
• Technical depth in AI/inference, cloud infra, and Kubernetes ecosystem awareness.
• Experience marketing open source projects alongside commercial products.
• Ability to take a new product to market in a rapidly evolving category.
• Hands-on copywriting and published messaging delivered by you.
• Comfort operating under speed and ambiguity with executive-facing communication.

Responsibilities

• Define positioning, messaging, value framework, and proof for AI inference portfolio.
• Shape competitive and market strategy; monitor landscape and craft defensible POV.
• Lead end-to-end launches including analyst briefings and sales enablement.
• Develop enterprise buyer fluency: CIOs, VPs of Eng, VPs of AI, platform teams.
• Create sales plays, discovery questions, objections, ROI models and customer stories.
• Input pricing and packaging aligned to enterprise buying and budgeting.
• Bridge open source projects with commercial product narratives for coherence.
• Represent the company publicly as a spokesperson in events and media.

Skills

B2B enterprise marketing

Messaging and positioning

Open source marketing

AI/inference depth

Pricing and packaging input

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Upbound is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager in San Francisco to own go-to-market for AI inference infrastructure. You will align open source roots with a commercial product strategy, speaking to platform engineers, VPs of Eng, and CIOs.

You will drive messaging, competitive strategy, and end-to-end launches on a weeks- rather than quarters-long cadence, while enabling sales with plays, ROI models, and customer stories.