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Hearst

Global media and information services conglomerate

Product Marketing Manager

Full-TimeUpdated
No salary listed
Mid
Troy, MI, USA
In Person
Growth & MarketingProduct Marketing

About the job

Responsibilities
  • Turn customer, market, and competitive insight into clear positioning, value propositions, product messaging, and proof points.
  • Partner with Marketing and Product leaders on go-to-market plans for new products, major releases, and growth initiatives.
  • Coordinate launch activities with Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Support.
  • Bring market insight to discussions about target audiences, product naming, packaging, pricing, and launch priorities.
  • Set content priorities across product marketing, campaigns, thought leadership, sales enablement, and customer communications.
  • Manage and develop MOTOR’s assigned content team member, setting priorities and providing feedback.
  • Write or edit high-priority materials to ensure they are accurate, customer-focused, and aligned with MOTOR’s brand and goals.
  • Create practical sales tools such as pitch materials, battlecards, FAQs, discovery questions, demo narratives, and competitive comparisons.
  • Help customer-facing teams explain product features, use cases, and value to customers.
  • Work with the VP of Marketing to set priorities and campaign plans for MOTOR’s paid media contractor.
  • Align paid campaigns with product launches, messaging, and pipeline goals.
  • Review results, including spend, lead quality, cost per opportunity, and pipeline contribution, and recommend improvements.
  • Use AI-assisted tools to support analysis, ad testing, and reporting, with human review before campaign or budget changes.
  • Help monitor the contractor’s scope, hours, invoices, and performance expectations.
  • Own customer communications for product adoption, lifecycle, and renewal messaging.
  • Provide Demand Generation with offers, packaging, proof points, and materials for cross-sell and upsell campaigns.
  • Serve as business owner for Salesloft, with support from Demand Generation.
  • Help shape storylines and positioning for interactive product demos in Storylane.
  • Supply messaging, content, and campaign materials for outbound programs to prospects and customers.
  • Use customer and field feedback to improve messaging, content, launches, enablement, and product recommendations.
  • Apply AI and automation to research, content development, launches, and sales enablement.
  • Build practical workflows that improve speed, quality, consistency, and content reuse.
  • Validate sources and product claims, protect confidential information, and use human review for AI-assisted work.
  • Participate in Marketing’s AI Center of Excellence, with the VP of Marketing serving as business lead.
  • Track results across launches, content, paid media, enablement, product adoption, pipeline influence, and market response.

About the company

Hearst is a global, diversified media, information, and services group with magazines, newspapers, TV and radio stations, and business information companies. It earns revenue from advertising, subscriptions, and selling information services, delivering content across print, broadcast, and digital platforms, including Fitch Ratings for credit ratings and research. Its mix of traditional media brands with specialized data and analytics services sets it apart from firms that focus on a single area. Its goal is to be a leading worldwide provider of trusted media content and data-driven information services for individual consumers and business customers.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1887

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What believers are saying

  • Hearst reported 2025 revenue of $13.5 billion, up 3%, and record profits.
  • A+E reaches 414 million households, giving Hearst global content distribution.
  • DallasNews and Austin American-Statesman deals deepen Hearst’s local newspaper footprint.

What critics are saying

  • A+E still faces declining linear cable viewership; September 2026 close won’t fix that.
  • Fitch's profits tied to bond markets; a 2027 slump cuts Hearst's largest generator.
  • If Fitch loses ratings credibility, Hearst's profit engine and conglomerate valuation collapse.

What makes Hearst unique

  • Hearst controls Fitch Group, A+E, and 360 businesses, spanning B2B and media.
  • In August 2026, Hearst bought Disney’s 50% A+E stake, ending the JV.
  • CEO Steven Swartz said 2025 profits came mostly from B2B, especially Fitch Group.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Emotional Wellness Support

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-4%

1 year growth

-6%

2 year growth

-6%
Deadline
Jul 30th, 2026
Disney sells 50% A+E Global Media stake to Hearst for over $1B

Disney is selling its 50% stake in A+E Global Media to joint venture partner Hearst Communications in an all-cash deal worth over $1 billion, according to reports. The transaction is expected to be announced at Disney's earnings call next week. A+E Global Media owns cable networks A&E, History, Lifetime, and FYI, as well as A+E Studios. Disney and Hearst launched a sale process last year through Wells Fargo. Whilst profitable and debt-free, A+E Global has faced declining linear viewership like other cable networks. The company has adapted through early adoption of FAST channels and owns much of its content library. A+E Global Media President and Chairman Paul Buccieri will continue leading the company. This marks Disney's first major move to reduce its traditional television footprint.

PR Newswire
Jun 11th, 2026
Chptr raises $5.5M to distribute hyperlocal stories across TV, radio and digital in under 24 hours

Chptr, a company building distribution infrastructure for community stories, has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by CityRock. Tribute Technology participated, alongside strategic partnerships with iHeartMedia, Sinclair and Hearst. The New York-based startup delivers time-sensitive local content across television, radio and digital platforms within 24 hours. Chptr is now live in 132 US television markets and has delivered thousands of localised broadcasts. Starting with end-of-life memorial content sourced from funeral homes, the company uses human-reviewed AI for formatting and production whilst maintaining data privacy. Founded in 2020, Chptr will use the funding to expand into remaining US markets, deepen broadcast integrations and develop additional time-sensitive content categories beyond memorials.

Quiver Quantitative
Aug 27th, 2025
DallasNews Board Supports $15 Hearst Merger

DallasNews Corporation's Board rejected MNG Enterprises' proposal to acquire the company at $18.50 per share, reaffirming support for a merger with Hearst at $15 per share. Despite the higher offer from MNG, the Board, with backing from key stakeholder Robert W. Decherd, determined it was not superior. The Hearst deal represents a 242% premium over previous stock prices. Decherd controls over 96% of voting power, ensuring alignment for the Hearst merger.

Investors Hangout
Aug 4th, 2025
DallasNews Proposes $15/Share Hearst Merger

DallasNews Corporation (Nasdaq: DALN) has filed a preliminary proxy statement for a proposed merger with Hearst, offering shareholders $15.00 per share in cash, a 242% premium over the current stock price of $4.39. Robert W. Decherd, the majority shareholder, supports the merger, complicating a competing proposal from Alden Global Capital. The merger requires two-thirds approval from Series A and B stockholders and aims to maximize shareholder value.

The Business Journals
Feb 19th, 2025
Hearst to acquire Austin American-Statesman from Gannett

The community paper will be purchased by the owner of other news outlets such as the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News.