Product Marketing Manager - Ably

At Ably, we are powering the realtime digital revolution at scale, delivering billions of messages for millions of devices every day and supporting organizations like Harness, EA, Panasonic, and HubSpot.

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.

Day to day, you will

• Set Sales and Customer Success up to excel: Build the tools, assets, and collateral that make it easy for teams to demonstrate value, win deals, and support new business and expansion motions.
• Build and own our competitive intelligence system: Establish a dynamic, AI-powered competitor tracking capability that keeps the business informed and responsive automatically.
• Drive go-to-market for products and features: Own launches from positioning through execution, aligning with ICP and commercial objectives across Product, Sales, and Marketing.
• Create high-impact technical content: Develop case studies, comparison guides, blog posts, and thought leadership with a developer-first lens.
• Build presence in developer communities: Grow visibility through content, demos, video tutorials, or active participation in technical forums and open source ecosystems.
• Leverage AI to scale your impact: Use AI tooling to accelerate content creation, competitive research, and asset production efficiently.

We'd love to talk if you have

• Significant product marketing experience within a technology-driven B2B SaaS environment targeting technical or developer personas, with a track record of building scalable frameworks and playbooks.
• A genuinely strategic mindset to shape positioning and messaging while owning initiatives end-to-end.
• Strong skills in sales enablement with concrete examples of tools and resources that drove measurable commercial impact.
• Strong technical acumen to understand complex infrastructure or API products and translate them for developers and engineering leaders.
• An AI-first approach to work, reaching for AI tooling instinctively to move faster and think bigger.
• A data-driven mindset to measure and report on marketing effectiveness and iterate accordingly.
• Experience at a startup or growth-stage company with excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Bonus points if you have

• A background in or meaningful exposure to developer relations.
• 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 offer a collaborative, innovative, and autonomous environment tackling planet-scale problems.

• Remote-First Work Environment: Flexible remote work with UK-based teams coming together in person once per month in our London hub (next to Old Street) and company-wide get-togethers twice per year.
• Equity: EMI share options programme.
• Enhanced Holiday Allowance: 28 days of paid annual leave (27 regular days, plus a birthday day off).
• Enhanced Parental Leave: Comprehensive package for new family members.
• Home Workstation Budget: £500 on joining and £150 p/a thereafter.
• Learning & Development: £1,000 annually and 5% L&D time during working hours.
• Health & Wellbeing: Private healthcare with BUPA, medical cash plan, mental wellbeing coaching with Self Space, monthly Juno wellbeing budget, life assurance, and income protection.
• Perks: Tech & Cycle to Work schemes, weekly snack allowance for Friday meetings, and a fully-paid one-month sabbatical after five years.