Product Marketing Manager

Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a realtime revolution. Whether chatting alongside a livestreaming event, receiving realtime financial information, or working with colleagues in an online collaborative environment - consumers simply expect realtime digital experiences as standard. At Ably we’re not just witnessing this revolution, we’re powering it - at scale.

At the heart of our mission lies a commitment to putting developers first. Ably provides a suite of products to build, extend, and deliver powerful digital experiences in realtime, delivering billions of messages for millions of devices every day and supporting organizations like Harness, EA, Panasonic and HubSpot.

Working at Ably means helping to build the infrastructure and technology that will power and shape the future of the internet. The opportunity in front of us is immense. And we’d like your help.

About this role

As our Product Marketing Manager, you’ll play a critical role in the go-to-market engine that powers Ably’s growth. You’ll translate our technical infrastructure into tools and assets that empower our Sales and Customer Success teams, and craft compelling narratives that resonate with developers and engineering leaders.

This role needs someone who thinks strategically, executes independently and can effectively bridge the gap between complex technology and commercial impact. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that both our internal teams and our users are set up to succeed.

Day to day, you will

• Set Sales and Customer Success up to excel. You'll build the tools, assets, and collateral that make it easy for our teams to demonstrate value and win deals, ensuring both new business and expansion motions are well supported.

• Build and own our competitive intelligence system. You'll establish a dynamic, AI-powered competitor tracking capability that keeps the business informed and responsive; not a manual spreadsheet, but an operating system that surfaces insights automatically and gives teams the information they need.

• Drive go-to-market for Ably’s suite of products and features. You'll own launches from positioning through execution, ensuring alignment with our ICP and commercial objectives. You'll drive collaboration between Product, Sales, and Marketing, translating product vision into narratives and bringing market insight back to the roadmap.

• Create high-impact technical content. You'll develop case studies, comparison guides, blog posts, and thought leadership that showcase Ably's value with a developer-first lens. You understand how to create content that works across the funnel and resonates with both technical practitioners and engineering leaders.

• Build presence in developer communities. You'll look beyond traditional marketing channels to grow Ably's visibility where our audience actually lives, through content, demos, video tutorials, or active participation in technical forums and open source ecosystems.

• Leverage AI to scale your impact. You'll use AI tooling to accelerate content creation, competitive research, and asset production. You’ll need to be AI-native, constantly looking for ways to compound your effectiveness and build systems that don't depend on manual effort.

We'd love to talk if you have

• Significant product marketing experience within a technology-driven B2B SaaS environment targeting technical or developer personas. You must have built effective, scalable frameworks and playbooks for product marketing in this environment previously.

• A genuinely strategic mindset. You can zoom out to shape positioning and messaging but also have a strong track record of owning initiatives end-to-end; not just contributing to them.

• Strong skills in sales enablement, with concrete examples of tools, assets, and resources you've built that drove measurable commercial impact across new business and expansion.

• Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand complex infrastructure or API products and translate them into narratives that resonate with both developers and engineering leaders.

• An AI-first approach to your work — you reach for AI tooling instinctively, use it to move faster and think bigger, and actively look for ways to build systems that don't depend on manual effort.

• A data-driven mindset, with the ability to measure and report on marketing effectiveness and iterate based on what's actually working.

• Experience at a startup or growth-stage company, or the adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with a focus on rapid iteration, with excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Bonus points if you have

• A background in or meaningful exposure to developer relations, with an understanding of how to engage technical communities and create content that resonates beyond traditional marketing channels.

• An active presence in technical communities — through blogging, open source contributions, conference talks, or developer forums.

• Familiarity with realtime infrastructure, messaging systems or pub/sub architectures.

What’s it like to work at Ably?

We’re tackling planet-scale problems and our ambitions are a testament to that. You’ll join a successful, deeply motivated and collaborative team that thrives on innovation, experimentation and autonomy. To get a sense of life at Ably, visit our careers page. You can also read about the origins of Ably's core values on our blog.

We believe in fostering a culture that's built on inclusivity and mutual respect among all team members, and we recognise that each individual is different and will want to be supported in their role in different ways. We provide a range of perks and benefits to aid folks' development and wellbeing, allowing them to be their best selves and do great work.

• A remote-first and flexible work environment. UK-based teams come together in person once per month in our London hub (next to Old Street) and we get together as a company twice per year. Aside from that, you’re welcome to work wherever suits best for you.

• Equity. We’re a growing start-up and we want all team to members to share in the success of the company through our EMI share options programme.

• Enhanced holiday allowance. Our policy provides Ablyans with 28 days of paid annual leave (27 regular days, plus a day off to enjoy your birthday).

• Enhanced parental leave package, so that you can take the time you need to get to know your new family member, rest and recover.

• Home workstation budget of £500 on joining (and £150 p/a thereafter), so that your home office is set up to serve you well and that you have everything you need to work comfortably.

• Personal learning and development budget of £1000 annually, and 5% L&D time during working hours to focus on improving your skillset.

• Private healthcare with BUPA.

• Medical cash plan to cover a range medical and dental costs.

• Mental wellbeing coaching and counselling from Self Space.

• Monthly wellbeing budget via Juno.

• Life assurance and income protection.

• Access to Tech & Cycle to Work schemes.

• Weekly snack allowance for our end-of-week “Need To Know” meeting.

• A fully-paid one-month sabbatical after five years with Ably.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Ably

We believe our differences as individuals is what makes us great. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we encourage everyone to be their most authentic self at Ably: we see inclusivity and openness as fundamental to creating long-term success as an organization. We encourage applications from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race, religion, educational background or neurodiversity. Ably has an amazing opportunity ahead of us, and we want anyone to be able to contribute to that opportunity.

If you enjoy working as part of a technology company, value open source, and love solving hard problems - then we’d love to hear from you, regardless of whether you fit the job description exactly or not. If in doubt, drop us an email; we’d be more than happy to give you some advice on your application.