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title: 'Product Marketing Manager at Rime Labs'
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# Product Marketing Manager at Rime Labs

- **Company:** Rime Labs
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rime/c68d5cb9-06a6-44ef-a388-25bfe8eddab2

## Job description

SF Bay Area (hybrid) Salary range: $197,000 - $232,000 Reports to: VP of Marketing

## About the role

Product marketing at Rime is not a support function, it's a core part of how we build and sell. We're looking for someone who's ready to own real scope: shaping how the market understands our products, sharpening what we build next, and producing the content that fuels our GTM engine. You'll work closely with product owners, not downstream of them, bringing customer and market signals directly into roadmap conversations, and pushing back when priorities drift from what the market actually needs. At the same time, you'll be a prolific creator: fully focused on powering the pipeline, generating a steady stream of sharp, credible content that trains our sales team, fuels campaigns, and earns visibility in an AI-driven search and discourse landscape. This is a hands-on, high-output role for someone who wants outsized ownership. If you’ve had experience in fast-paced product marketing roles at developer platform, AI, or API companies, this could be the perfect role for you.

## How You'll Make an Impact

- Represent the customer: Champion the needs and pain points of our customers through interview analysis, market research, competitive intelligence, and by engaging with analysts and our sales teams.
- Own the story: Create positioning and messaging frameworks for our products, personas, and features by working closely with product and sales to understand needs and pain points. Develop persona specific messaging tailored for the needs of demand generation, SDR, sales, and channel partners.
- Enable the team: Ensure everyone at the company understands our product and our customers in a way that is relevant to their jobs. Working with Product Management, produce sales collateral including playbooks, sales plays, pitch decks, case studies, competitive analysis etc.
- Launch the product: Build and drive the strategy for launches by building plans and partnering with product management, demand generation, sales, and customer success.
- Educate the market: Work with Demand Generation on a content strategy to support our pipeline goals; produce creative, compelling collateral (blogs, whitepapers, webpages, demos, videos, etc) and campaigns.
- Bring your unique perspective: Develop and implement best practices and frameworks that improve outcomes for the company and the impact of product marketing.

## What You Bring to the Table

- View the written word and narrative as craft, not something to outsource to LLMs.
- You’ve built (or helped build) product marketing as a function from scratch within a fast-paced startup environment
- You know how to turn deeply technical capabilities into reasons a buyer actually cares.
- Have strong product marketing experience for LLMs, AI agents, developer tools, APIs, or technical products.
- Have a proven track record of owning launches end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.
- Have experience working with and guiding senior partners to launch new products, features, and programs.
- Excel at cross-functional collaboration.
- Possess strong storytelling skills, with experience crafting compelling narratives that interrupt patterns and stand out from the crowd. You roll up your sleeves to write, record, and publish content yourself.
- You have a strong product marketing background working on technical products that directly influence the growth of the company
- You represent the voice-of-the-customer and can distill actionable product roadmap recommendations from customer feedback, market research, and competitive analysis.

## Who You Are

Curious, sharp, energetic and a little relentless. You push on ideas, including your own. You want to win, and you want to win as a team.

## About Rime Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rime Labs develops enterprise-grade, ultra-realistic text-to-speech AI voice models designed for production contact center, healthcare, and financial applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Lily Clifford (CEO), Brooke Larson (PhD Linguist, ex-Amazon Alexa), Ares Geovanos (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Voice AI (Text-to-Speech), Enterprise Software
- **Target Customers**: B2B, Enterprise (contact centers, healthcare providers, financial institutions, telecom)
- **Mission Statement**: "Make voice AI sound and feel human."

## Products & Services
- **[Coda](https://rime.ai/)**: Flagship TTS model blending human-quality voice with enterprise-grade speed and concurrency. Optimized for production deployments.
- **[Arcana](https://rime.ai/)**: Most expressive and human-like TTS model with 300+ voices, bilingual/multilingual support, and instant code-switching (English, Spanish, Spanglish). Designed for warm, emotionally resonant conversations.
- **[Mist](https://rime.ai/)**: High-speed enterprise TTS with sub-200 ms cloud latency and <100 ms on-prem. Supports high-volume streaming and extensive customization.
- **[SpeechQA](https://rime.ai/)**: Tool to flag low-confidence words before deployment, enabling proactive pronunciation fixes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Conflicting reports – PitchBook indicates a post-money valuation of ~$9.6M as of May 2025; LinkedIn reports total funding of $8.6M. Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric (Private)**: Total Funding – $8.6M across two seed rounds (June 2023: $3.1M; June 2025: $5.5M). PitchBook lists a $6.5M seed round in May 2025 with 22 investors.
- **Notable Investors**: Unusual Ventures (lead), Cadenza Capital, Founders You Should Know, and angel investors.
- **Growth Signals**: 33 employees (+245.5% YoY); operates in 9 countries; powers tens of millions of conversations monthly across industries including healthcare and food service.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Dataset**: One of the largest collections of expressive, multilingual conversational speech, captured in-studio and across diverse U.S. locations.
- **Deep Linguistic Expertise**: Founders include a Stanford NLP PhD dropout and a PhD linguist from Amazon Alexa; models trained on real-world speech patterns (interruptions, laughter, disfluencies).
- **Enterprise-Ready Compliance**: SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant; deployable on-prem, in VPC, or via cloud API.
- **Pronunciation Control**: Fine-grained tools to fix pronunciations in minutes without retraining; built-in handling of brand names, drug names, and numbers.
- **Low Latency at Scale**: Sub-200 ms cloud latency; <100 ms on-prem; designed for production loads, not just demos.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening enterprise adoption in regulated industries (healthcare, finance, telecom).
- Expanding multilingual and code-switching capabilities (English/Spanish/Spanglish).
- Scaling the engineering and go-to-market teams to meet growing demand (VP of Engineering, Founding Account Executive roles open).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, passionate, lean team based in San Francisco. Emphasis on pushing boundaries in voice AI and creating technology that connects with real people.
- **Work Environment**: Likely hybrid/office in San Francisco (HQ); on-site recording studio. Notable perks: direct impact on product direction, access to cutting-edge ML and linguistics research.
- **Open Roles** (7 as of mid-2026): Solutions Engineer, Solutions Engineering Manager, Developer Advocate, Founding Account Executive, VP of Engineering, Revenue Operations, Product Marketing Manager.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong focus on ML, low-latency systems, and production reliability. Team includes engineers from Meta, Stanford, and speech startups.

## Sources
1. [rime.ai - Homepage](https://rime.ai/)
2. [rime.ai - Company Page](https://rime.ai/company)
3. [LinkedIn - Rime AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rime-ai)
4. [PitchBook - Rime Labs Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/528897-34)
5. [Ashby - Rime Labs Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rime)

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