Product Marketing Manager - Payments - Plaid

Job Title: Product Marketing Manager - Payments
Job Location: San Francisco
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/plaid/1d3a494a-ca7d-4b25-afc5-dc32ce1fc50d
Job Description: We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.

As a Product Marketing Manager for Payments, you’ll help bring Plaid’s vision for bank payments to life: making us the method of choice for Billers, Fintechs, and Financial Institutions. Our mission is to harness Plaid’s network—spanning coverage, intelligence, and conversion—to deliver seamless, secure, and intelligent payment experiences. This role is central to accelerating adoption, scaling product impact, and redefining how money moves across the financial ecosystem.

In this role, you will own the go-to-market strategy for Plaid’s payments solutions by defining cohesive product positioning and narratives that accelerate growth and drive adoption from initial launch through scale, Act as the voice of the customer internally, championing user feedback to shape future product development and improve market fit, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful product narratives and drive product adoption.

Responsibilities
Craft clear, compelling positioning and messaging highlighting the unique value of Plaid’s solutions.
Partner closely with the Product team to deeply understand product features and capabilities, translating technical concepts into impactful, easy-to-understand customer-facing content.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Enablement, Design, and Communications teams to create and distribute compelling collateral (presentations, case studies, one-pagers, blog posts, webinars, website updates, etc.)
Conduct ongoing competitive analysis and market research to inform product positioning, identify new opportunities, and ensure Plaid maintains a clear competitive advantage.
Work with our Marketing teams to build integrated campaigns targeting key customer segments to accelerate product adoption and expansion.
Qualifications
6+ years of experience with 3+ years in product marketing, sales, account management, growth or other strategic GTM role at a B2B software company.
Outstanding written communication skills – comfortable developing marketing and sales collateral, as well articulating our strategy with internal stakeholders (e.g. business case, narrative).
Strong presence and verbal communicator – comfortable engaging with leaders at the largest fintechs and financial institutions in the U.S.
Thoughtful strategic thinker with a bias for action; comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with a high degree of ambiguity.
Proven success in launching new solutions and driving market adoption.
Desire to engage deeply with cross-functional partners across Product, Marketing, and Sales.
Fintech payments experience, especially in a fast-paced environment, is a strong nice-to-have.