Product Marketing Manager - Ansible

$80,770 - $129,160/Yr

Red Hat - Raleigh, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Raleigh, NC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Product Marketing Manager for Red Hat Ansible will be responsible for defining and executing the product marketing strategy for Ansible as part of a larger Product Marketing Team. This role involves driving outbound product marketing activities and enabling Red Hat sales teams to effectively communicate the value of Ansible to customers.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of customer goals and challenges, target markets, use cases, and sales motions for Red Hat Ansible and translate into effective plans and activities.
• Develop marketing strategy and execution aligned with market directions, supported by the roadmap and releases of our offerings.
• Develop Sales plays and tactics focusing on customer pain points, benefits, and business outcomes.
• Lead and influence development of content to help gain mindshare and drive customer wins, including messaging, thought leadership, presentations, sales plays, demos, reference architectures, battlecards, webpages, and win wires.
• Evangelize Red Hat Ansible both internally and externally via webinars, social media, roadshows, industry events, customer briefings, and sales training workshops.
• Influence industry analysts, customer campaign, and field enablement programs.
• Develop and track the success metrics for the marketing strategy and execution plan.
• Deliver impactful presentations at key industry and Red Hat events to relevant audiences.
• Collaborate with technical marketing and product management on go-to-market strategy, including roadmap, positioning, messaging, and content plans.
• Collaborate internally at Red Hat with Product Management, Engineering, Alliances, Corporate Marketing teams, Sales teams, and Ecosystem.

Requirements

• 3+ years of product or technical marketing experience, preferably with B2B Technology companies.
• Bachelor's degree; master's degree is a plus.
• Critical thinking skills with a proven ability to develop creative solutions.
• Ability to translate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform features into customer benefits and business outcomes.
• Solid written and verbal communication and presentation skills; experience presenting is a plus.
• Experience working effectively in a persuasion-oriented, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to work with some supervision in a startup-like environment.
• Basic understanding of common technical jargon in IT, operations, software application development, databases, cloud, and DevOps.
• Willingness to travel 10-25%.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, IT Automation, Configuration Management, Provisioning, IT Operations, Networking, Cloud technologies, Containers, Kubernetes, Virtualization.
• Familiarity with public cloud offerings like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures, AI/ML, and Edge computing.

Benefits

• Salary range of $80,770.00 - $129,160.00 based on qualifications.
• Potential eligibility for bonus, commission, and/or equity.