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Upshop

Retail SaaS optimizing fresh-food operations

Product Marketing Manager

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Miami, FL, USA
In Person
Growth & MarketingProduct Marketing

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 3 years of experience in Product Marketing, Sales Enablement, B2B SaaS marketing, or a related role.
  • Strong understanding of product marketing disciplines, including positioning, messaging, buyer personas, competitive intelligence, go-to-market strategy, and product launches.
  • Demonstrated experience developing sales enablement programs and materials for customer-facing teams.
  • Experience managing, organizing, or governing sales and marketing content within a content management, sales enablement, or knowledge management environment.
  • Ability to simplify complex products and technical concepts into clear, compelling customer value through written and verbal communication.
  • Strong presentation and storytelling skills, particularly for sales and executive audiences.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Customer Success, Solutions Consulting, and Marketing.
  • Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple initiatives and stakeholders simultaneously.
  • Customer- and outcome-oriented mindset with ability to connect product capabilities to measurable business value.
  • Comfort using data, feedback, and engagement insights to evaluate and improve programs.
Responsibilities
  • Develop positioning, messaging, value propositions, and product narratives that communicate the value and differentiation of Upshop solutions.
  • Partner with Product and cross-functional teams to develop and execute go-to-market strategies for product launches, enhancements, and strategic initiatives.
  • Translate product capabilities into customer outcomes, use cases, and stories tailored to buyer personas and retail segments.
  • Develop customer-facing content, including solution briefs, presentations, landing pages, blogs, thought leadership, case studies, and other strategic assets.
  • Connect industry trends, customer insights, product capabilities, and business outcomes to inform product marketing strategy.
  • Partner with Sales, Solutions Consulting, Customer Success, and Product to identify enablement needs and knowledge gaps.
  • Develop sales enablement programs that build fluency and confidence across products, solutions, industries, competitors, and customer use cases.
  • Create and maintain enablement materials, including pitch decks, discovery guides, talk tracks, objection handling, battlecards, product guides, competitive resources, and value-selling tools.
  • Support product enablement initiatives that help customer-facing teams understand new capabilities, how to position them, and the customer outcomes they enable.
  • Establish repeatable enablement processes around product launches and major product enhancements.
  • Partner with stakeholders to measure enablement effectiveness and improve programs based on adoption, feedback, and business needs.
  • Establish and maintain a centralized, scalable content ecosystem for product marketing and sales enablement.
  • Own organization, governance, maintenance, and lifecycle of product marketing and enablement content so teams can find and use current, approved materials.
  • Identify content gaps, redundancies, and outdated assets, and develop processes for ongoing content optimization.
  • Partner with Marketing and Revenue teams to improve content discoverability, adoption, and usage across the organization.
  • Establish standards for content taxonomy, ownership, version control, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Use content engagement and usage insights to understand what is working and inform future content development.
  • Conduct market and customer research to understand buyer needs, pain points, priorities, and buying behaviors across target markets.
  • Support customer interviews and voice-of-customer initiatives to uncover insights that strengthen messaging, content, and go-to-market strategy.
  • Monitor retail technology trends and translate relevant developments into actionable insights for internal teams.
  • Support the competitive intelligence program by developing and maintaining battlecards, competitive comparisons, differentiators, and competitive positioning.
  • Partner with Sales and Solutions Consulting to capture field intelligence and incorporate it into competitive and enablement resources.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with sales enablement or content management platforms such as Seismic, Highspot, Mindtickle, or Showpad.
  • Experience with CRM platforms such as Salesforce or HubSpot.
  • Experience within retail technology, grocery, convenience, foodservice, supply chain, inventory management, or store operations.
  • Experience marketing SaaS or enterprise technology solutions.
  • Experience building or scaling enablement programs in a growing B2B SaaS organization.
  • Familiarity with content creation and design tools such as PowerPoint, Canva, Figma, or Descript.
  • Experience using AI tools to accelerate research, content development, enablement, and product marketing workflows.

About the company

Upshop provides a subscription-based software platform for grocery stores and supermarkets to optimize fresh food operations. It integrates tools for smarter ordering, inventory management, and demand forecasting to help retailers keep produce, dairy, meat, and bakery items well-stocked while reducing waste. How it works: retailers pay a regular fee to access Upshop’s platform, which coordinates ordering, tracks inventory levels, and analyzes demand to predict how much product to buy and when to reorder. Premium features or customized options may add to the base price. How it stands out: Upshop targets the fresh food segment and large retail chains, aiming to improve availability and profitability specifically for perishable items, which can be more challenging to manage than other groceries. Goal: help retailers increase sales and improve margins by delivering fresher products to customers with less waste and lower costs.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$1.8M

Headquarters

Tampa, Florida

Founded

1989

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • June 2026 Altitude expanded Upshop 360 with open API connectivity to existing systems.
  • July 2026 awards highlighted Gelson’s, The Fresh Market, Longo’s, Wegmans, and Weis Markets.
  • Upshop claims 450 retailers and 55,000 stores; one grocer reported $14 million annual savings.

What critics are saying

  • Grocers still run 8-12 disconnected tools, so integrations stay slow and messy.
  • Toast, Inmar, ReposiTrak, and others can bundle adjacent workflows and compress Upshop margins.
  • A failed Kroger or Wegmans rollout would wreck references and stall enterprise expansion.

What makes Upshop unique

  • July 2024 merger with Invafresh created one platform for fresh, center store, and eCommerce.
  • June 2026 Altitude launches added Cockpit and Commissary 360 for prioritized tasks and production planning.
  • January 2026 Toast partnership preserves existing scales and printers, avoiding hardware lock-in.

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Benefits

  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Competitive Salary
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Home Office Stipend

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

30%

1 year growth

33%

2 year growth

33%
Business Wire
Jun 10th, 2026
Upshop unveils AI-powered retail platform to boost efficiency and cut waste at Altitude 2026

Upshop, a provider of AI-powered retail operations software, has unveiled several innovations at its Altitude 2026 conference in Denver. The company introduced Cockpit, an action layer that transforms insights into prioritised tasks for store teams, and Commissary 360, which centralises production planning across multiple locations. The announcements include the Elevate Program, a structured framework helping retailers transition to Upshop's cloud platform, and an open API enabling integration with existing systems. Upshop's agentic AI autonomously identifies priority actions across demand, inventory, labour and waste management. The company serves over 450 retailers and 55,000 stores worldwide. CEO Mike Sanders said the innovations help grocers "move from reactive decisions to proactive, customer-first performance" by bringing intelligence directly into store operations.

Business Wire
Jan 8th, 2026
Upshop Partners with Toast to Bring Hardware-Agnostic Labeling and Scale Integration to Grocery and Deli Retailers

Upshop partners with Toast to bring hardware-agnostic labeling and scale integration to grocery and deli retailers. AUSTIN, Texas-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Upshop Inc., a leader in connected store solutions for grocery and food retail, today announced an integration with Toast, the all-in-one digital platform built for hospitality, as Toast continues to expand its retail capabilities, including into grocery and fresh food markets. This integration will offer a labeling, scaling and printing solution that can help simplify fresh item management and enhance operational flexibility across independent and regional grocery chains. "Grocery operators need flexibility, not barriers, when it comes to their in-store technology," said Chris Renda, Chief Revenue Officer at Upshop. Share The collaboration combines Upshop's hardware-agnostic label and scale management technology with Toast's point-of-sale and back-office platform and can help provide a key differentiator that allows grocers to connect to 100s of scale or label printer models, avoiding the hardware lock-ins common with proprietary systems. Implementation and ongoing service for the joint solution will be provided by Truno, a technology partner for both organizations. "Grocery operators need flexibility, not barriers, when it comes to their in-store technology," said Chris Renda, Chief Revenue Officer at Upshop. "Our open, hardware-agnostic approach gives retailers the freedom to work with their existing scales and label printers while seamlessly connecting through Toast's digital backbone." By uniting POS data with in-store labeling and scaling, the Upshop - Toast solution helps streamline labeling, product tracking, and price management from one connected platform. The result is a more efficient and consistent experience for operators managing high-volume deli, bakery and prepared foods departments. James Saylor, Head of Retail Commercialization at Toast, added, "We're thrilled to partner with Upshop as we bring our technology into more grocery and fresh market environments. Upshop's proven expertise in scales and labeling perfectly complements Toast's mission to simplify operations for food businesses of all types. This partnership helps enable grocers to deliver the speed, accuracy, and digital integration today's shoppers expect." About Upshop Upshop is the leading provider of AI-powered retail operations software, helping grocers and convenience stores sell more and waste less through a unified platform that synchronizes forecasting, ordering, production, and inventory across the store. From Fresh to Center Store, DSD to eCommerce, Upshop empowers better decisions, faster actions and more connected teams that improve labor efficiency, reducing shrink and driving profitability. With over 450 retailers and 55,000+ stores globally relying on Upshop to manage mission-critical operations, the impact is evident: In fact, one national grocer utilizing eCommerce order management and fulfillment functionality reported over $14 million in annual savings, in addition to increased basket sizes when using conversational commerce. To learn more about the Total Store Operations Experience, visit https://upshop.com/, and watch customer testimonials at Upshop Total Store Operations Experience - YouTube.

The Shelby Report
Sep 29th, 2025
Upshop Launches AI-Driven Grocery Operating Platform

Upshop introduced Upshop 360, a unified grocery operating system, Sept. 29 at Groceryshop 2025.

Retail TouchPoints
Jul 7th, 2025
Gelson's Adopts Data-Driven Store Operations Solution

Gelson's Markets has partnered with Upshop as part of an initiative to better use data, AI and operational insights to make operations more efficient and customer-centric at its 26 Southern California supermarkets.

SmartBrief
May 29th, 2025
Upshop enhances fresh ordering with unified platform

Upshop has introduced a total store ordering platform that integrates fresh perimeter and other departments to enhance fresh ordering.