Product Marketing Manager

About the position

You will work within Western Digital cross-functionally to gather information related to product value propositions and to develop and influence our go to market channel strategies and content. Primary functional interfaces with other departments including Product Management, Business Development, Channel Marketing, Corporate Marketing, HDD Product Marketing, Web Marketing and Development, Public Relations and Sales.

Responsibilities

• Develop crisp, clear, compelling value propositions for our product and service offerings.
• Initiate and guide the development of promotional material including product literature, marketing campaign content for events, direct marketing, and social marketing, web content, promotional videos, tradeshow event content of various types, partner solution briefs and customer case studies, vertical marketing content (e.g. High Performance Computing, FinTech, xSPs, OEM/ODM, etc.), newsletters.
• Manage marketing projects which includes development and presentation of schedules and dependencies for creation and deployment.
• Manage a schedule and lead hosting activities for webinars and other events that are focused on Western Digital offerings and in some cases collaboration with channel or technology partners.
• Travel occasionally in support of events or content production.
• Manage a portfolio view of all planned activities and keep organizations aligned and on track for each project within the portfolio.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business or technical field, or comparable experience.
• 5+ years of experience in product marketing or product management role in a technology related field.
• Storage industry experience.
• Proven track record of product marketing for technical products.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical product capabilities into compelling market messages.
• Knowledge of the data storage industry or other datacenter infrastructure.
• Can show a compelling portfolio of product marketing content that was developed via direct oversight or contribution.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to develop compelling messaging and to work effectively and efficiently in this key cross-functional role.
• Knowledge and experience with content development tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro.
• Proven ability to develop amazing product presentations and high-level solution diagrams.

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan