Full-Time

Martech Product Manager

Marketing Technology

Posted on 8/26/2025

Balsam Brands

Balsam Brands

201-500 employees

Global eCommerce retailer of holiday décor

Compensation Overview

$141k - $176k/yr

San Carlos, CA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid model requiring in-office presence on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Agile
Product Management
Requirements
  • 8+ years of product management experience, ideally within ecommerce, wholesale, or omnichannel businesses and with a focus on Marketing/Marketing Technology
  • Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills with a proven ability to translate insights into business value
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams in an agile environment
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Comfortable working in both technical and customer-facing environments
  • Demonstrated AI literacy, enabling effective understanding, interaction, and critical evaluation of AI technologies and applications across diverse business functions
Responsibilities
  • Lead a complex and/or high-impact product pod, including collaboration with stakeholders, engineering, QA, and analytics
  • Conduct customer research and partner with business stakeholders to identify user needs and business goals
  • Stay current with martech tools and trends and evaluate which are appropriate for Balsam
  • Define and communicate the pod’s product strategy and ensure alignment with company objectives
  • Own and maintain the product roadmap; determine what problems the pod should prioritize and solve
  • Translate strategy into requirements and actionable plans
  • Ensure change management and training plans for new tools and features
  • Monitor product performance post-launch, define success metrics, and communicate outcomes and learnings
  • Champion an experimentation mindset and processes for data-driven decision making
  • Provide supervision to a small team, defining tasks aligned with common goals, and fosters the professional development of team members through active discussion, feedback, coaching, and mentorship
Desired Qualifications
  • Previous experience managing or mentoring others is a plus

Balsam Brands is a global online retailer focused on holiday and home décor products. Customers shop its online store to find decor items that help create joyful, meaningful moments with family and friends, and the company ships its products worldwide. The way it works is simple: design or source holiday and home décor items, list them on its eCommerce platform, and fulfill orders to customers around the world, often supported by teams across Boise, the Bay Area, Dublin, the Philippines, Windsor (Canada), and beyond. What sets Balsam Brands apart is its people-first culture: a focus on relationship building, authenticity, and doing the right thing, along with a commitment to empowering teams and partners and giving back to families and communities. The company’s goal is to create joy together by helping people love what they do, deliver products and experiences that inspire meaningful moments, and contribute to positive impacts in its communities.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Redwood City, California

Founded

2006

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Real-time insights optimize sales, acquisition costs, and profit margins.
  • AI data activation enhances shopper experience at balsamhill.com.
  • Nordstrom partnership expands retail operations and business performance.

What critics are saying

  • 90% Q4 sales concentration collapses revenue in economic downturns.
  • Nordstrom's 5.2% 2025 sales drop erodes wholesale margins.
  • Snowflake Cortex integrations breach customer data in Q4.

What makes Balsam Brands unique

  • Balsam Brands leads realistic artificial Christmas trees in $9.5 billion market.
  • SoundCommerce unifies data from Google, Meta, TikTok every 30 minutes.
  • CTO France Roy deploys Snowflake Cortex and Google Gemini for AI modeling.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Vacation

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Sabbatical Leave

Hybrid Work Options

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Mental Health Support

Professional Development Budget

Conference Attendance Budget

Home Office Stipend

Pet Insurance

Accident & Critical Illness Insurance

Company News

MarTech Cube
May 8th, 2024
Balsam Brands Selects SoundCommerce for AI, Analytics, Data Activation

Balsam Brands selects SoundCommerce for AI, analytics, data activation.

PYMNTS
May 8th, 2024
Balsam Brands Uses Real-Time Data To Make Its Holiday List

With the first quarter recently in the books and Q2 well underway, most companies have their collective eye on an uncertain economy and an inconsistent consumer. But for some companies, it’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays. Count Balsam Brands among them. The upscale eCommerce and D2C holiday decor retailer has to fit what would be a whole year’s worth of revenue for any other company into Q4. And with the runaway growth of artificial intelligence (AI), that means shaping up its data profile so it can continue a digital transformation that has been accelerated since the recent arrival of Chief Technology Officer France Roy. Roy, who came to Balsam from InBev, where he managed 400 data scientists and engineers, said he enjoys connecting technology and AI to revenue growth, even if it needs to be packed into the holiday season

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