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# Senior Product Marketing Manager at Ahrefs

- **Company:** Ahrefs
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA / Palo Alto, CA / Singapore / Tokyo, Japan
- **Posted:** 2026-02-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ahrefsjobs/jobs/5790235004

## Job description

## About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Product Marketing Manager to join our growing Product Marketing team. You'll be the bridge between our product innovations and the market, ensuring we launch features that resonate and communicate their value effectively to our users.

This is an individual contributor role where you’re expected to lead with insights that directly shape product adoption, as well as execute on them.

This role is based out of one of our offices — Palo Alto, Cambridge (MA), Singapore or Tokyo. You can be based in whichever of these you have the legal right to work in, but this is an on-site role: we're looking for someone who'll be in the office with the team.

## Responsibilities

- Run customer research to uncover pain points, needs, and market gaps specific to our target audience.
- Collect and synthetize customer feedback into actionable insights for the product roadmap.
- Plan AND execute go-to-market (GTM) strategies for new features and products in collaboration with Product Managers
- Develop clear, compelling marketing assets that support GTM launches like:
- Landing pages
- Sales enablement materials
- Brochures
- Social media carousels
- Conduct user interviews, making sure we build tools that genuinely solve problems for our audience.

## Requirements

Must have:

- A deep, firsthand understanding of the challenges and workflows that marketers face today, ideally through direct experience.
- At least 5 years of practical, hands-on experience in a marketing role at a SaaS company.
- Proven ability to perform customer research, analyze feedback, and translate it into product-shaping insights.
- Experience developing and executing go-to-market strategies for SaaS products.
- A strong data-driven mindset for measuring and iterating on marketing efforts.
- A portfolio of your work/vibe-coded tools/personal projects that support your experience

Nice to have:

- Strong knowledge of SEO principles and market dynamics.
- Familiarity with Ahrefs products and how they're used by marketers.
- Experience with content creation and sales enablement material development.

What Success Looks Like

In 6 months: You'll have built strong relationships with Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams, actively contributing to product discussions and roadmap prioritization based on your market insights. You will have successfully executed at least one major feature launch, with demonstrable positive initial user sentiment and adoption. Your initial customer research efforts will be feeding directly into our product strategy.

In 1 year: You'll be seen as a critical thought partner in product strategy, proactively identifying opportunities for product growth and market differentiation. You'll have significantly influenced product direction, leading to measurable positive shifts in product usage, market perception, and overall growth. Your work will not only improve our products but also elevate our brand's reputation among leading industry professionals. You're not just executing; you're owning and shaping the future of our product marketing.

To apply:

- Please include a link to your portfolio showing previous product marketing experience.

Interview process

We do 2-3 short interviews, then pay you to do some real-life (or close to real-life) work.

- Step #1: Application (here)
- Our recruitment team will review your application
- Step #2: Recruiter Call (30-min call)
- We’ll explore why you want to join Ahrefs
- Step #3: Head of product marketing interview (30-min call)
- Chat with Andrei, the head of our Product Marketing team
- Step #4: CMO interview (45-min call)
- You have reached the final boss, a call with our CMO, Tim.
- Step #5: Ahrefs paid work assignment
- You’ll work on a paid, independent assignment to demonstrate your skills.
- Step #6: Offer
- If everyone is happy, we’ll make you an offer to join. Congrats!

Location: Palo Alto, Cambridge (MA), Singapore or Tokyo — on-site Ahrefs does not engage with agencies or third party recruitment solutions for the roles we hire for. If at any point we need help, we'll let you know!

## About Ahrefs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ahrefs is a bootstrapped SaaS marketing platform that helps brands become discoverable online through AI-powered SEO and marketing intelligence tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Singapore (Marina One East Tower, 7 Straits View, #08-02, Singapore 018936)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (references to “15 years of crawling the web” suggest ~2010)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Marketing intelligence, SEO, AI-driven search & content marketing
- **Target customers**: B2B – marketers, SEO professionals, content teams, agencies (44% of Fortune 500 use Ahrefs)
- **Mission or purpose**: “First do it, then do it right, then do it better” – helping people see and be seen on the web; making brands discoverable and unmissable online.

## Products & Services
- **Ahrefs AI Marketing Platform**: An all-in-one suite for planning, publishing, getting discovered, measuring, and optimizing online presence. Backed by 15 years of web crawl data and AI capabilities.
- **Agent A**: An AI marketing agent with unrestricted access to Ahrefs’ full dataset and pre-built “skills” trained by the Ahrefs team. Supports switching between Claude, Gemini, and other models.
- **Yep Search**: A separate search engine product (mentioned on the tech page).
- **Core SEO Tools** (inferred from platform): Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer, Content Explorer, Rank Tracker, Webmaster Tools – all powered by a massive proprietary web crawl (170 trillion links, 41.9 billion keywords, 400 million domains indexed).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (bootstrapped, no external funding)
- **Key Metric**: User growth – 19,715 users joined in the last 7 days (as of mid-2025); 44% of Fortune 500 companies use Ahrefs.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None – fully bootstrapped.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid AI product launch (Agent A), expanding from SEO into broader marketing intelligence, large-scale infrastructure (170T links, 41.9B keywords), global user base across 143 teammates and 26 locations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Bootstrapped independence**: No investor pressure, full control over product direction and long‑term vision.
- **Proprietary crawl infrastructure**: In‑house systems crawled the entire web for 15+ years – unmatched data scale and freshness for marketing insights.
- **OCaml & high‑performance engineering**: Backend built on OCaml for reliability and performance; contributes heavily to the OCaml ecosystem.
- **AI with unrestricted data access**: Agent A has full access to Ahrefs’ raw data (not a filtered API), giving it a unique advantage over competitors.
- **Simple, autonomous culture**: Engineers own products end‑to‑end; flat hierarchy, low-ego, and high trust.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI‑first marketing**: Integrating AI deeply across the platform (Agent A, LLM tuning, dense retrieval) to turn raw data into actionable insights.
- **Expanding beyond SEO**: Positioning Ahrefs as a comprehensive “AI marketing platform” that covers content, discovery, and measurement.
- **Global team growth**: Hiring remotely and in hubs (Singapore, Palo Alto, Cambridge) to scale both engineering and marketing teams.
- **Continuous infrastructure improvement**: Maintaining and evolving the world‑scale crawler, search engine, and data processing pipelines.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑moving, flat hierarchy, low‑ego, autonomy, and a “do it, do it right, do it better” motto. Described as “offbeat mix of people who love tech and challenges.”
- **Hiring process**: No LeetCode, no coding puzzles, no whiteboard exercises. Takes home task and unstructured technical discussions. Recruiter screen → take‑home task → interview → offer.
- **Remote & hybrid**: Work from anywhere with a remote equipment budget; also offices in Singapore, Palo Alto, and Cambridge. Spend 2 weeks a year in an office for in‑person time.
- **Perks**: Generous PTO (flexible vacation), conference budget, annual retreat (ski trip), modern office setup with premium coffee equipment.
- **Engineering highlights**: Trusted with high agency; a single developer can take a tool from idea to production; open source contributions; no red tape.

## Sources
1. [ahrefs.com/careers](https://ahrefs.com/careers) – Hiring process, culture, perks, locations
2. [ahrefs.com/about](https://ahrefs.com/about) – Mission, bootstrapped status, team size (143), locations, 15 years of crawling
3. [ahrefs.com/team](https://ahrefs.com/team) – Team photo, description of “offbeat” culture
4. [ahrefs.com/tech](https://ahrefs.com/tech) – Tech stack (OCaml, Melange/ReasonML, Python), infrastructure, engineering principles
5. [ahrefs.com](https://ahrefs.com/) – Platform description, Agent A, user growth stats, Fortune 500 adoption, crawl data scale

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