Principal Product Marketing Manager, Nonprofits
San Francisco · USD 171,000-257,000 / year · Hybrid · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 171,000-257,000 / year
About the role
- GoFundMe is seeking a strategic, outcomes-obsessed Principal Product Marketing Manager to help shape the next chapter of how nonprofits grow.
- This role sits at the intersection of consumer and B2B, helping to shape the nonprofit marketplace strategy, identify organizations to serve, and deliver differentiated value.
- This is an early-stage opportunity with foundational questions still to answer, including validating the ideal customer profile and developing positioning.
Responsibilities
- Define our ideal customer profile by leading ICP and segmentation work grounded in customer needs, jobs to be done, priorities, and potential impact.
- Partner with Research, BizOps, and cross-functional teams to test assumptions, build confidence, and drive alignment with leadership.
- Shape our marketplace and peer-to-peer product strategy for nonprofits by leading product validations to test conviction and prioritization in our roadmap.
- Lead customer interviews and readouts on what would be the most valuable product solution and likelihood to adopt.
- Partner deeply with Product leadership throughout to inform long-term roadmap prioritization.
- Build differentiated positioning and narrative by developing and testing positioning for GoFundMe’s evolving nonprofit offering across customer segments.
- Connect positioning to a broader GTM strategy for how we roll it out and it shows up for the market.
- Lead through influence by leveraging a deep understanding of nonprofits to drive alignment across cross-functional leadership.
- Bring data, customer truth, and a clear point of view to inform both product and GTM strategy and make the company smarter about nonprofits.
Requirements
- Significant product marketing experience with principal-level scope, including work spanning business customers and consumer audiences.
- Proven 0-to-1 product and market development, having helped take a strategically important product from an unproven product thesis through customer validation and scaled growth.
- Demonstrated success shaping product strategy and influencing executive stakeholders beyond traditional launch execution.
- Strong analytical and commercial judgment, with the ability to assess growth potential, investment requirements, and the strength of evidence behind a recommendation.
- Excellent strategic and systems thinking, understanding how customer needs, consumer incentives, product capabilities, and business economics interact.
- Exceptional positioning and storytelling skills, including experience developing and testing a new value proposition or evolving how customers understand a company’s offering.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional go-to-market initiatives with measurable business impact.
- Executive-level communication and influence, building alignment across teams, making tradeoffs explicit, and challenging assumptions constructively.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and drive clarity by identifying important questions, determining how to answer them, and aligning teams.
- Uses AI to amplify impact, finding creative ways to solve problems, work more efficiently, and deliver better results with strong judgment.
Preferred qualifications
- Marketplace, network, or B2C2B experience is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) saving program
- Financial assistance for hybrid work and family planning
- Generous parental leave
- Flexible time-off policies
- Mental health and wellness resources
Workplace
- Financial assistance for hybrid work is provided.