Product Marketing Lead
Company websitegoodfire.com (Goodfire, opens in new tab)
Base salary $200K to $375K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since
About this job
About Goodfire
Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab. We build interpretability agents and infrastructure to understand, monitor, and align AI models.
We believe that AI is the most consequential technology of our time. Yet AI models are trained by trial and error today, with limited understanding of what drives their behavior. Our goal is to advance the research and technology needed to fully understand and align AI so humanity can trust superintelligence.
Goodfire is a public benefit corporation founded by researchers who helped pioneer the field of interpretability at OpenAI and Google DeepMind. We are headquartered in San Francisco and have raised over $200M from leading investors including Lightspeed, Menlo, and B Capital.
About the role
We're looking for a Product Marketing Lead to tell the Goodfire story to the AI researchers, engineers, and technical leaders who are building and training AI models. This role demands a rare combination: the technical credibility to engage deeply with an audience that trains AI models, the instinct to translate complex research into accessible stories, and the strategic vision to create a new category in the AI market.
This is a foundational role where you will define how the world understands what interpretability makes possible. That means owning our messaging strategy end to end: crafting positioning and messaging, orchestrating product launches, and shaping the broader market narrative around interpretability as a critical capability for the next generation of AI.
You will need to deeply understand our research, our product, and our market - translating frontier science into compelling value propositions that resonate with Heads of AI, CTOs, and research leaders at the companies building the most important models in the world.
Key responsibilities
- Own positioning, messaging, and narrative: define how Goodfire and our platform are understood in market
- Shape the category: establish an interpretability platform as a must-have capability in the AI stack through thought leadership, content, and strategic communications
- Drive product launches: plan and execute launches that generate awareness and pipeline, from major research milestones to new platform capabilities
- Build deep market intelligence: develop a rigorous understanding of the competitive landscape, buyer needs, and emerging use cases across verticals — and translate those insights into product and go-to-market strategy
- Create sales enablement and field materials: arm our forward-deployed team with the positioning, demos, case studies, and collateral they need to win technical buyers
What you’ll bring
Required experience
- Strong ability to translate highly technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives for deeply technical audiences (researchers, ML engineers, Heads of AI).
- Strong strategic instincts and the ability to build a go-to-market playbook from scratch in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
- Experience speaking to deeply technical buyers at AI labs, frontier model companies, or research-driven organizations.
- Scrappiness, speed, and a bias toward action. You ship, measure, and iterate — not deck-build.
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated experience owning product marketing end-to-end at an infrastructure, developer tools, or AI company - from positioning through launch execution and sales enablement.
- Background as an early marketing hire at a high-growth startup, or experience building a product marketing function from the ground up.
- Familiarity with the AI research landscape - interpretability, model training, alignment, and the broader ecosystem of labs and model developers.
- Track record of defining or shaping a new product category.
Our values
Goodfire is looking for individuals who embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible. We are building a team first and foremost.
Put mission and team first
All we do is in service of our mission. We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.
Improve constantly
We are constantly looking to improve every piece of the business. We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization. We are pragmatic and consistently implement the obvious fixes that work.
Take ownership and initiative
There are no bystanders here. We proactively identify problems and take full responsibility over getting a strong result. We are self-driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we’re building.
Action today
We have a small amount of time to do something incredibly hard and meaningful. The pace and intensity of the organization is high. If we can take action today or tomorrow, we will choose to do it today.
Where we work
We are hiring for this position in our San Francisco HQ. We are in person 5 days a week, with one company-wide remote week per month.
What we offer
This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
The expected salary range for this position is $200,000 - $375,000 USD.
Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory — we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity. If you want to do your life’s work with us, even if you believe you do not meet every single requirement, apply now.
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($200,000) is above 78% of the 838 Marketing roles in California listed on this site; 27 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $160,000; the middle half runs from $133,271 to $190,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
This listingProduct Marketing Lead$200K to $375K
Platform - Member of Technical Staff$200K to $400K
Senior Counsel$200K to $400K
Research Scientist$200K to $400K
Machine Learning Engineer$200K to $400K
Demand Generation Lead$200K to $375K
Forward Deployed Engineer$200K to $325K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Product Marketing Lead (this listing) | $200K - $375K |
| Platform - Member of Technical Staff | $200K - $400K |
| Senior Counsel | $200K - $400K |
| Research Scientist | $200K - $400K |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $200K - $400K |
| Demand Generation Lead | $200K - $375K |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $200K - $325K |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
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- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-04-15
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco, CA
The expected salary range for this position is $200,000 - $375,000 USD.
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- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
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