SUN DAY RED - Product Marketing Manager

TaylorMade Golf; San Clemente (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness

Product discounts

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

TaylorMade Golf, headquartered in San Clemente, CA, seeks a seasoned product marketing leader to drive GTM strategy and execution for premium apparel, footwear, and lifestyle lines. You will craft positioning, messaging, and content, coordinate cross-functional launches, and enable wholesale/retail partners while guiding performance analytics.

This role requires strong storytelling ability, strategic thinking, and hands-on collaboration with design, merchandising, and sales teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years in product marketing, branding or analytics.
• Experience with premium apparel, footwear or lifestyle brands preferred.
• Experience supporting wholesale partners and multi-channel commerce preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead go-to-market planning and cross-functional launch execution.
• Develop and own product storytelling, briefs, and collateral.
• Position products and messaging to differentiate across categories.
• Enable sales through events and partner training.
• Analyze performance and report KPIs to leadership.

Skills

Product marketing

Positioning & messaging

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities

Go-to-Market Strategy & Execution

Drive the go-to-market (GTM) launch process end-to-end: briefing cross-functional teams, recommending KPIs, reviewing marketing communication, and ensuring key messaging is consistent across every channel.

Ensures operational and commercial goals are aligned ahead of each product launch.

Ensures collateral, PR, social and external communication plans line up with the launch calendar.

Ensures value proposition, positioning, and messaging ladder to company objectives.

Own the master GTM calendar, keeping every team aware of upcoming initiatives and working in alignment to execute.

Facilitate recurring cross-functional GTM meetings; hold team members accountable to strategy, deadlines, and quality of work.

Define channel-specific launch phasing across wholesale, direct-to-consumer and athlete/influencer seeding.

Content, Creative & Product Storytelling

Author the documents that direct our creative output — creative briefs, content briefs, messaging documents, photoshoot plans, sell-in and training presentations, and customer-facing collateral — and secure approval from key decision makers.

Oversee and manage the product photography process: maintain key documents, hold deadlines, ensure product is where it needs to be, and confirm photography meets brand standards.

Partner with creative and design to develop product photography, mood direction, and lifestyle content that ladders to brand strategy.

Lead brainstorms with cross-functional teams and outside agencies to generate ideas for bringing product to market, encouraging broad participation and ideation.

Manage the day-to-day for external creative, video, production and paid media processes on assigned initiatives.

Product Positioning & Messaging

Own category positioning and competitive differentiation across apparel, accessories, and seasonal collections.

Develop product briefs, message hierarchies, and value propositions grounded in market research, consumer insight, and brand strategy.

Build the narrative around innovation, materials, construction, and design philosophy that earns a premium price point.

Serve as the internal expert on competitor messaging and market landscape; identify white space and opportunities to sharpen our position.

Ensure the value proposition, positioning, and messaging align to company goals before any asset is briefed.

Sales Enablement & Events

Act as the marketing liaison to wholesale partners, communicating positioning, differentiation, and selling strategy.

Train internal teams and retail partners on the value proposition, positioning, and how the product aligns with company goals.

Manage day-to-day execution of promotional events, ensuring brand and product are well represented, on strategy, and that all partnership deliverables are met.

Monitor wholesale feedback and sell-through to inform future product and marketing decisions.

Performance, Reporting & Analysis

Develop comprehensive consumer launch presentations with detailed plans for achieving KPI deliverables, for share-out with the leadership team.

Establish KPIs for product performance, track against targets, and report results to leadership.

Lead post-mortem sessions to define future improvement areas, including post-campaign analysis and ROI metrics.

Communicate project status, updates and business results to team members, agency partners and stakeholders in a timely and appropriate manner.

Performs other related duties and assignments as required.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

Demonstrated success bringing products to market and driving adoption in a competitive category.

Strong command of product marketing fundamentals — positioning, segmentation, messaging architecture, and competitive analysis — and how the full marketing mix influences consumer behavior, market performance and competitive dynamics.

Ability to translate brand strategy into actionable positioning and GTM plans, and carry through to execution.

Self-starter who takes initiative, anticipates and prepares for upcoming situations, acts quickly and decisively, and addresses issues before they become problematic.

Strong project management skills; ability to run multiple launches concurrently without loss of quality.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including proofreading and editing, content writing and research; able to clearly present ideas to groups.

Comfortable influencing without authority and aligning product, creative, commerce and sales stakeholders around a shared plan.

Ability to quickly develop relationships at all levels of an organization and across functions.

Strong design sensibility; able to evaluate creative work and give clear, directional feedback.

Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented and collaborative environment.

Proficient in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).

Education, Work Experience and Professional Certifications

Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Business or related field; or related work experience in lieu of degree 5+ years of professional experience in a product marketing, brand marketing or marketing analytics role.

Experience with premium apparel, footwear or lifestyle brands preferred.

Experience supporting wholesale partners, retailers and multi-channel commerce models preferred.

Work Environment / Physical Requirements

Normal office conditions with extensive computer and phone usage.

Ability to work extended hours as necessary.

Able to work efficiently and accurately in an atmosphere of frequent interruption.

Light physical effort equal to frequent lifting or moving of lightweight materials.

Occasional travel may be required.

Compensation and Benefits

TaylorMade/SUN DAY RED is a performance driven organization and our total rewards approach to compensation is designed to support this.

We consider many factors in determining base compensation, including position scope, job related knowledge, education, skills, experience and work location.

The expected annual base pay range for this position is $95,000 - $110,000.

Additional benefits, such as health & wellness, performance bonuses, product discounts, holidays, paid time off, etc. may also be offered in accordance with our plans.

Equal Opportunity Statement

TaylorMade Golf Company is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religious creed, color, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

About the Company

Sun Day Red is an apparel and footwear company that resides in the ath-luxury category.

In partnership with Tiger Woods, we leverage his lifetime of insights to create meticulously designed products.

Rooted in golf, SUN DAY RED is designed for people who live active lifestyles and seek elevated attire that can be worn on the course, to the gym, to the office or anywhere their busy lives take them.

We OUT THINK the limitations of body, material, situation and conditions to design apparel that creates performance advantages in fit, form and function.

We OUT WORK the field in preparation, in seeing the details in the details and discovering innovations that lead to novel solutions, ideas and styles.

So SUN DAY RED becomes the badge that signifies a desire to OUT PLAY the challenges the course, the competition and life present.

We live these values every day out of our San Clemente, CA headquarters.