Associate product/project marketing manager

Simpson Strong-Tie is a leader in engineered structural connectors, software, and solutions for the building industry. We maintain a reputation as a trusted manufacturer, partner, and corporate citizen committed to our customers and employees.

Our founder, Barc Simpson established 9 Principles of Business we live out as company values and have made Simpson Strong-Tie an inspiring place to work since 1956. Our team of talented people are dedicated to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures.

Learn about our company culture directly from our team.

YOU

You are an organized, proactive professional who combines product marketing coordination with a strong focus on workflow clarity, alignment, and operational effectiveness. You enjoy supporting product launches, developing marketing tools and assets, and helping cross-functional teams move work from idea to execution. You bring structure to ambiguity by maintaining accurate plans, tracking priorities, supporting team systems, and communicating clear status updates, risks and next steps. You are a hub for communication, planning and collaboration across Product Marketing and its cross-functional partners. You should possess a flexible, roll-up-your-sleeves, can-do attitude with a strong passion for optimized efficiency. Strong organization, clear communication, attention to detail, and an interest in improving how work gets done will be important in this combined role.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING (% of Time)

• Support the planning and execution of product launches, including collateral development, launch support assets, presentations, internal announcements, training materials, and other launch-related deliverables. Manage smaller-scale launches or clearly defined workstreams with guidance. Coordinate with Product Marketing Managers & Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Creative, Digital, Packaging, Channel Marketing and other partners to gather input, track dependencies, communicate status, and support on-time delivery of final materials. (35%)
• Maintain marketing project workflows, timelines, resource information, requests and status reporting using Planview, Smartsheet, Lytho, Highspot, Salesforce, and other approved marketing and productivity platforms. Support the administration and continuous improvement of product marketing processes, templates, intake practices, documentation, team operating rhythms, and workflow standards. Support training, onboarding, meeting agendas, scheduling and follow-up actions that strengthen consistency, readiness, and alignment across the marketing team. (35%)
• Develop and maintain dashboards, trackers and recurring reports that support decision-making and provide visibility to workload, project progress, launch readiness, risks and operational performance. Review information for completeness and accuracy and identify gaps or issues requiring management attention. (30%)
• Serve as a day-to-day support contact for assigned marketing workflow and sales enablement platforms, helping users follow established processes and escalating technical or strategic issues when needed. (On-going)

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

If you can do everything listed above, you've got what it takes. Perhaps some of the following would be helpful too:

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college, preferred, or equivalent experience.
• 2-4 years of experience in marketing, product marketing, marketing operations, project coordination, communications or related functions.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines and stakeholders with accuracy and follow-through.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to learn technical product categories and translate information into clear marketing materials and status updates.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and project-management or collaboration platforms; familiarity with Planview, Smartsheet, Lytho, Highspot, Salesforce, dashboard tools or learning-management systems is helpful.
• Ability to maintain accurate project and asset information, synthesize updates, and call attention to risks, gaps, dependencies or decisions needed.
• Collaborative, professional, service-oriented approach and the confidence to coordinate across Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Creative, Digital, Packaging, Channel Marketing and other partners.
• Proactive problem-solving mindset with an interest in improving processes, documentation, training and team effectiveness.
• Experience in construction, building materials, technical products or sales enablement is a plus.

TRAVEL REQUIRED

This position requires domestic travel up to 5% of the time.

WORK STATUS & LOCATION

This full-time, exempt position is located in Pleasanton, CA, with the possible ability for remote work.

RELOCATION

Relocation is not available for this position.

PAY

$79,900 - $100,000 / year

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, and hear, and sometimes walk and stand. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift up to 25 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job operates in a professional office environment where standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers/scanners, etc. are frequently used.

REWARDS AT SIMPSON STRONG-TIE

We recognize and reward employees with a carefully designed and comprehensive rewards package, including competitive compensation, quarterly bonuses or commission and first-rate benefits. May exclude some positions, such as seasonal jobs.

Quarterly Bonuses/Commission: You will be eligible for either a bonus or commission, paid on a quarterly basis. We believe all employees affect customers, sales and revenue — directly or indirectly – and should be rewarded by sharing the company profits.

Benefits: We provide a wide range of benefits for eligible full-time employees including: medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, employee stock purchase and bonus plans, pay for holidays, vacation, sick days, funerals and jury duty, years of service awards, employee discounts, employee referral bonuses, charitable contribution matching, education reimbursement and more. View benefit plan details here: https://benefits.strongtie.com/.

In keeping with our values and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our communities, we are an equal opportunity employer. This means that our employment decisions are based on your qualifications and merit, and our business needs.

Please note all job offers are contingent upon a successful drug screen and criminal background check, in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws.

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