Head of Product Marketing

Job description

Fonoa is the Tax Operating System for autonomous tax. AI that tracks every rule, acts on every obligation, and proves every decision, built on modular infrastructure. Fonoa’s modules cover the full indirect tax lifecycle: tax ID validation, real-time tax determination, e-invoicing, and returns. All on one shared data model and integration, with one audit trail. Each added capability makes the others stronger. Agents monitor obligations, populate returns, catch anomalies and assemble audit packs in seconds. The system does the work. Humans make the calls. That’s autonomous tax. We operate across 120+ countries, with clients going live in weeks, if not days. Trusted by Canva, Netflix, Spotify, Uber, Zoom and Booking.com. Rated 4.5/5 stars and a High Performer on G2 and 4.6/5 stars on Gartner Peer Insights. Find out more: www.fonoa.com http://www.fonoa.com About the Role As Head of Product Marketing, you'll own the product marketing function end-to-end as a senior individual contributor. You'll translate the AI Tax Operating System strategy into positioning, launch narratives, sales assets, and competitive plays — shipped on a release-by-release basis cadence. You'll sit at the intersection of Product, Sales, and Marketing — the connective tissue that turns complex regulatory and technical concepts into clear, compelling value for our buyers. A key part of this role is driving a narrative shift: moving Fonoa's GTM from compliance-first messaging to business transformation, so we speak directly to the CFO as our executive buyer. This is a hands-on IC role with no direct reports. It is a high-visibility, founder-level role, partnering closely with Product, Revenue, and Customer Success across EMEA and the Americas. What You'll Own - Product narrative & positioning. Own the category frame (Tax Operating System) and evolve the messaging discipline across Know, Act, and Prove as the product ships. - Go-to-market & launches. Own launch PMM for our 2026 AI product releases Intelligence, Agents, Audit, and the MCP Tax Server. For each: external narrative, sales talk track, battle cards, and analyst angle. - Competitive positioning. Own how we talk about our competitive landscape — from Vertex, Avalara, and ONESOURCE to Anrok, Harvey, and TaxGPT. Keep battle card live and usable. Have a point of view, not just a summary. - Sales enablement. Own the PMM half of enablement — first-call deck, persona one-pagers, module decks, objection-handling guides, and ROI framing. Make sure every commercial team member tells the same story. - Pricing & packaging narrative. Partner with Finance and Product to frame pricing across our enterprise ACV motion, emerging PLG tier, and usage-based AI pricing. - Proof-point development. Turn customer outcomes into crisp case studies, reference quotes, and solution-outcome numbers that replace feature-first selling. - Voice of the market. Read competitor releases, listen to sales calls, and feed patterns back into messaging and roadmap. Pattern recognition, not market research. Who We're Looking For - 5–8 years of B2B product marketing experience, ideally at a high-growth SaaS, - API-first, or fintech company at Series B to D stage. Scale-up experience strongly preferred. - Dual-buyer experience. You've marketed to both a technical buyer (engineers, CTOs) and a business buyer (CFOs, finance leaders) in the same company — not one or the other. - Has lived through a major repositioning — where the messaging, pitch, website, and competitive frame all had to change at once. You can describe specifically what you owned. - Has shipped an AI product narrative recently and understands the difference between selling AI and selling the infrastructure it runs on — this is the exact Fonoa framing. - A strong, precise writer. Direct, human, zero corporate filler. Writing is the first screen. - Competitive by instinct. You can name competitors with a specific point of view and have a draft response ready the same day they make a move. - Ideally have been a founding or first PMM — this is non-negotiable. You know what it means to build the function, not just inherit it. Bonus: an eye for design and the ability to give sharp feedback on decks, one-pagers,and product collateral. Fonoa is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220K -$280K + equity + benefits, and represents Fonoa’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation will depend on a variety of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to, the candidate’s years of experience, qualifications, relevant skill set, certifications, and geographic office location. Pay ranges may vary in different regions based on local market conditions and cost of labor. To learn more about life at Fonoa and our benefits, please visit fonoa.com/careers http://fonoa.com/careers. Additional Information Equal Opportunity Statement At Fonoa, we seek candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected status. Fonoa is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We comply with the requirements of all applicable California and federal employment laws, including those protecting disabled individuals. 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