Product Marketing Manager, Emerging Products

Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 6.9 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!

About the role

We’re looking for a product marketing manager to lead Afresh’s market and competitive research for emerging products and develop positioning and messaging to build new business lines and accelerate Afresh’s growth. This is a unique opportunity to bring insights and build plans that will shape strategic decisions and influence the product roadmap to ultimately transform the grocery industry and dramatically reduce food waste.

In this role you will:

• Serve as the subject matter expert for our product expansion areas including additional fresh departments beyond Produce and the Distribution Center product line
• Influence product roadmaps through providing best-in-class industry insights about the grocery industry
• Build and maintain a set of foundational marketing assets (e.g., battlecards, objection handling, messaging/positioning documents, personas, whitepapers) and sales tools (e.g., competitive takeout slides, trainings, playbooks)
• Understand competitive product offerings and positioning and be able to convert those insights into actionable plans and programs within Afresh to close product or operational gaps
• Be customer-obsessed and systematically bring customer and prospective customer feedback into your plans
• Partner closely with product, sales, account management, and sales engineering to bring an objective-oriented, iterative approach to competing in the trust & safety marketplace

Skills and experience

The following represent the skills and experience our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.

• 3+ years experience managing strategy and GTM efforts for a product / product line
• Technical fluency with ability to collaborate with product management and product design, and willingness to get hands-on with the product
• Strong strategic mind and ability to recognize opportunity and prioritize efforts accordingly
• Curiosity, creativity, and a strong ability to distil complexity into crisp, easily comprehensible messaging
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to gather data, both qualitative and quantitative, emerge with insights, and make and communicate well-reasoned decisions.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong ability to motivate cross-functionally and drive deadlines
• Ability to multitask, change priorities rapidly, and work through ambiguity with ease

About Afresh

Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.

Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $30 million in funding from investors including Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and James McCann (former CEO Tesco, Ahold, Carrefour). In 2021, we received an Honorable Mention for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas in Food.

Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.

Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.