Forward Deployed Product Manager

Gradial
Seattle, WA
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Enterprise MarTech professionals with implementation experience and technical fluency in CMS and DAM systems will find this customer-facing product role with high impact and travel requirements.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 7+ years in enterprise MarTech implementation or consulting roles
    — “7+ years in product, implementation, or consulting roles within enterprise MarTech”
  • Individuals who can bridge technical execution with business strategy
    — “translate business goals into technical implementations”
  • Professionals with a track record of deploying systems in complex environments
    — “proven success deploying technology into complex client environments”

Things to consider

  • Travel is a significant commitment, with potential for frequent client site visits
    — “Willingness to travel for critical client engagements”
  • This role demands ownership of time-to-value and post-launch impact
    — “Drive go-live, QA, and UAT processes with clear ownership of time-to-value”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate experience in designing AI-powered workflows for content creation and publishing
    — “Design and validate agent-powered workflows that streamline content creation”
  • Highlight your ability to translate client needs into product roadmap opportunities
    — “Act as the voice of the customer with Product and Engineering”
  • Showcase your ability to deliver enablement resources and training materials
    — “Deliver enablement resources, training, and documentation”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • product usage and roadmap shaping
  • implementation challenges into roadmap opportunities
  • customer impact
Typical background
7+ years in product, implementation, or consulting roles within enterprise MarTech

Skills & requirements

Required

Product ManagementEnterprise MarketingCMSDAMContent WorkflowAI Platform IntegrationImplementationDeliveryCustomer Success

Preferred

Ai-based Marketing AutomationForward-deployed Product Roles

Stack & domain

Product ManagementImplementationConsultingCMSDAMWorkflow AutomationAi-based Marketing AutomationAnalyticsCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingTechnical WritingLeadershipEnterprise MarketingAI PlatformContent CreationPersonalizationPublishing

About the role

Original posting from Gradial via Greenhouse

Gradial is building the AI-native system of work for enterprise marketing. Our agents turn ideas into live campaigns by executing across the tools, teams, and workflows enterprises already use—from content authoring and campaign assembly to quality assurance and brand compliance. We give marketers and creatives more time to shape brands, understand customers, and create work that moves people.

We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in applied AI: building agent harnesses, sandboxed execution environments, and orchestration that enable agents to plan, act, and verify their work reliably at enterprise scale. We’re growing rapidly, winning Fortune 500 and enterprise customers including AWS, T-Mobile, and Prudential. Our $65 million Series C led by Insight Partners is accelerating that momentum.

Join us to help define how people and AI agents work together. We move with urgency, reason from first principles, and take ownership from idea to customer impact. You’ll shape the product, own consequential problems, and build systems that some of the world’s leading brands depend on every day.

Role Overview

Gradial is hiring a Forward Deployed Product Manager to help enterprise clients activate our AI platform inside complex marketing technology environments. In this role, you’ll work directly with customers to translate business goals into technical implementations, shaping both product usage and roadmap. You’ll support late-stage sales, lead delivery, and ensure measurable impact post-launch - all while feeding critical insights back into product development.

Responsibilities

Define integration scope, success criteria, and deployment strategy during late-stage sales cycles

Lead implementation efforts across CMS, DAM, and workflow automation tools in client environments

Design and validate agent-powered workflows that streamline content creation, personalization, and publishing

Act as the voice of the customer with Product and Engineering, translating implementation challenges into roadmap opportunities

Drive go-live, QA, and UAT processes with clear ownership of time-to-value

Deliver enablement resources, training, and documentation to support long-term adoption

Build trusted relationships with client-side marketing and technical stakeholders

Requirements

7+ years in product, implementation, or consulting roles within enterprise MarTech

Deep experience with CMS and DAM systems (e.g., AEM, Contentful, Sitecore) and content workflow tooling

Proven success deploying technology into complex client environments with multiple stakeholder groups

Strong product instincts with the ability to scope features and influence roadmap based on real-world usage

Excellent communication skills; comfortable aligning cross-functional teams around technical decisions

Willingness to travel for critical client engagements and cross-functional planning

Desirable Attributes

Background in management consulting, systems integration, or forward-deployed product roles

Familiarity with AI-based marketing automation and analytics platforms

Compensation 

The salary range for this position is $130,000 – $190,000 annually. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications. In addition to base salary, this role will be eligible for performance-based bonuses and equity awards. Gradial offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental & vision insurance, 401K retirement plan, paid time off, paid sick leave and other employee wellness programs. 

What we offer

Performance-based annual bonus

Meaningful equity awards

Medical, dental & vision (fully covered for employees with 75% for dependents)

Fertility & family-planning support

401k plan

Unlimited PTO

A beautiful Seattle office with a gym, sauna, and bike parking

Free lunch three days a week in our HQ

A front-row seat to building category-defining AI infrastructure

You'll thrive here if you

Learn quickly, actively seek out new challenges, and regularly reconsider “how it’s always been done.”

Want to have real impact with zero bureaucracy.

Have an innate drive for being 1% better than the day before, building towards greatness.

Embrace AI as a core tool for problem-solving, innovation, and scale.

Show customer-obsession (internal or external), high ownership/accountability, and bias for action.

Communicate clearly, directly, with curiosity, and assuming good intentions.

Thrive in fast-paced, hyper-growth environments where building better > maintaining status quo.

AI Literacy & Interviewing Tools

As an AI-first company, we prioritize AI literacy as a core competency in our hiring decisions. We’re excited by candidates who thoughtfully apply AI tools in their work, but during interviews we’re focused on you. This is your opportunity to show how you think, communicate, and solve problems. Over-reliance on AI-generated responses during the interview process (especially when it obscures your own voice) will result in disqualification. We want to understand your unique perspective and how you approach challenges, both with and without AI.

Gradial is dedicated to creating an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and all team members can grow. We offer competitive compensation, equity, flexible work hours, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative culture focused on learning and impact.

Source: Gradial careers (Greenhouse)

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