Principal Product Marketing Manager, Category Creation & Strategic Positioning

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Hiring Remotely in United States
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Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Information Technology • Professional Services • Software
Apollo makes application development easier, better, and accessible to more people.
The Role
This role involves creating and defining the API orchestration category for Apollo GraphQL, crafting positioning, and leading strategic marketing initiatives to enhance market presence.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you a strategic Product Marketer who gets energized by big, bold storytelling? Do you love the challenge of shaping new categories, building market narratives from scratch, and helping the world understand why it matters? 


If you're excited by the idea of putting a category-defining company at the center of a new conversation around API orchestration, we’d love to connect.


Apollo GraphQL already owns the GraphQL category. With over 750 million downloads, we’ve become essential infrastructure for teams building modern APIs. Now, we’re expanding our reach and leading the creation of a broader, more inclusive category - API orchestration - that resonates with a much wider audience, including teams who’ve never touched GraphQL.


This is a unique opportunity to help reposition a category-defining company and put Apollo at the center of a critical new market conversation. You’ll lead the messaging, narrative, and strategy that defines API orchestration, helping internal teams align around it and external audiences believe in it.


A great outcome for this role is simple but ambitious: A year from now, the market is talking about API orchestration, and they’re talking about Apollo in the same breath.

What you'll do

  • Develop and Own Apollo’s API orchestration story. Define what this category is, why it matters, and how Apollo leads it. Build foundational messaging that helps internal teams align and gives external audiences something to rally around.
  • Craft compelling positioning. Connect the dots between Apollo’s capabilities and the real challenges developers and platform teams face in modern API environments.
  • Drive strategic launches. Create PRFAQs and narratives that tie new features to the bigger story we’re telling in the market.
  • Shape the market conversation. Write and ghostwrite content - blogs, white papers, executive keynotes - that credibly puts Apollo at the center of modern API strategy, distributed architecture, and trends like Agentic AI.
  • Support AR and PR. Partner with our comms team to prepare for analyst briefings, press conversations, and influencer moments that reinforce our category leadership.
  • Partner across GTM. Collaborate closely with Product, Sales, and Demand Gen to ensure messaging consistency, enablement success, and integrated campaign execution. Partner with our technical Field readiness and Enablement teams to ensure we are translating our positioning into content that supports sales - battle cards, narratives, and high-impact collateral for both sales-led and product-led growth motions.
  • Stay close to the market. Monitor competitive trends, industry language, and evolving needs to keep our story sharp and differentiated.

Who you are

  • You have 5–7+ years of experience in product marketing, with a strong track record in B2B technology.
  • You’re a category creator or repositioner - you’ve helped define new markets or shifted the perception of a product in a competitive landscape.
  • You have deep empathy for technical audiences (engineering leaders, platform teams) and can communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • You’ve marketed to technology decision-makers like CTOs, Heads of Engineering, Heads of Platform, or Heads of AI/Data.
  • You know how to take a complex, technical idea and turn it into a crisp, value-driven message that people get.
  • You write with precision and persuasion. Whether it’s a customer-facing blog, an analyst-facing brief, or an exec-facing script—you can flex tone and depth as needed.
  • You’re strategic but scrappy - able to zoom out to big-picture category thinking and zoom in to execute on messaging and content with excellence.
  • You’ve led cross-functional GTM work across Product, Sales, and Demand Gen, and know how to build alignment.
  • You have experience working in a high-growth startup environment, and you're energized by a fast-paced setting and love creating structure, messaging, and programs from scratch. You thrive in ambiguity, balancing competing priorities and fast iteration. You’re hands-on, curious, and accountable for outcomes.

Nice to have

  • Experience in the API Infrastructure space, GraphQL ecosystem, or other developer-forward platforms.
  • Experience enabling sales for both PLG and SLG motions.
  • Experience building messaging that speaks to both technical and business stakeholders.

Location: This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the US.


Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.


Privacy: California residents applying for positions at Apollo can see our privacy policy here.


E-Verify: Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit E-Verify.

Top Skills

Api Orchestration
B2B Technology
GraphQL
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
280 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Apollo GraphQL is powering the future of modern development, enabling businesses to accelerate product velocity and platform innovation with the power of the supergraph. Apollo is the most widespread implementation of GraphQL. The company is focused on using its market and technical leadership to make application development easier, better, and faster for everyone by combining APIs, databases, and microservices into a supergraph that can effectively be queried by GraphQL.

Why Work With Us

We’re the company responsible for bringing GraphQL to the global community. We are scaling to ensure that we have the wherewithal to keep our promises to our subscribers, community and GraphQL enthusiasts. Our revenue is going to more than 2x in 2022 and we’re planning on adding 100 new Apollonauts by the end of 2022.

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