Senior Marketing Manager
Marketing & Communications
San Carlos, CA, USA
At Nautilus, we have a big and important mission: improve the health of millions by unleashing the potential of the proteome to accelerate drug development and enable a new world of precision and personalized medicine. We are developing a single-molecule protein analysis platform of unprecedented sensitivity, scale, and ease of use that we believe will democratize access to the proteome – one of the most dynamic and valuable sources of biological insight. To accomplish this, we are pursuing hard scientific problems with an entrepreneurial mindset and creating a world-class team of builders, innovators, and dreamers across a wide range of disciplines.
We are hiring for a Senior Marketing Manager to join our growing team. In this role, you will drive Nautilus's go-to-market strategy, messaging, and coordinated marketing campaigns across channels, translating our defined roadmap and positioning input into executable plans and deliverables. You will own our brand, be a critical driver of our commercial launch in 2027, and help ensure sales and marketing operate as one efficient team. This role also has responsibility for directing part-time contributors and contractors.
This position will report to the Vice President of Marketing.
Responsibilities
· Execute Nautilus's go-to-market strategy, activities, messaging, and coordinated campaigns, translating input from Product Management into executable marketing plans.
· Coordinate multi-channel marketing activities (digital, email, content, events, social) to ensure consistent messaging and efficient use of budget and resources.
· Serve as a key connective point between Sales and Marketing, identifying friction points and driving process improvements that increase efficiency between the two functions.
· Develop marketing content directly (web copy, campaign assets, sales enablement materials, thought leadership) and manage contract writers, designers, and other freelance resources to scale content production.
· Own the Nautilus brand, ensuring consistency of voice, visual identity, and messaging across all internal, customer and market facing materials.
· Plan, manage, and execute marketing events (conferences, trade shows, webinars, road shows), owning logistics, budget, and post-event follow-up.
· Own and manage HubSpot as our core marketing operations platform, including campaign setup, list management, and performance tracking.
· Serve as a central driver of go-to-market execution for our planned 2027 product launch, working cross-functionally to ensure marketing deliverables are on track.
· Monitor marketing KPIs to increase efficiency and efficacy.
· Support PR and investor relations activities as needed, including drafting or reviewing external communications and coordinating with leadership on messaging.
· Support internal communication activities as needed, including drafting or reviewing internal communications and coordinating with leadership on messaging.
Qualifications
· BS/BA in marketing, communications, business, or related field; 5+ years of marketing experience, ideally in life sciences or biotech.
· Demonstrated experience developing and executing go-to-market strategy, messaging, and multi-channel campaigns in support of a product launch.
· Hands-on content creation skills (writing, editing, campaign development) paired with experience directing external writers, designers, or agencies.
· Experience with HubSpot.
· Experience planning and managing marketing events, from strategy through on-site execution.
· Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly working with Product Management and Sales to align strategy with execution.
· Exposure to PR or investor relations communications is a plus.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple contractors or part-time contributors.
· Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating with ambiguity in a fast-scaling environment ahead of a major product launch.
· Ability to drive operational excellence and consistently deliver timely results independently.
· Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
Nautilus Team Culture
· We are determined to do whatever it takes to get our platform into the hands of researchers who will use it to upend the status quo in basic research and healthcare.
· We work on cross functional teams, wear many hats, take risks to work through uncertainty, enjoy working collaboratively on challenging problems, and celebrate one another’s victories.
· We go above and beyond, but also strive to provide a supportive atmosphere of colleagues who are willing to lend a helping hand and make working at Nautilus not only fulfilling in its end goals, but enjoyable on a day-to-day basis.
Our Values:
· Be Excellent
· Be a Good Human
· Catalyze Customer Success
· Dream Big
· Drive for Results
· Enjoy the Voyage
· Succeed as One Team