Senior Product Marketing Specialist

Campbell, CA

About the position

Mirantis is an open cloud company that helps organizations achieve digital self determination by giving them complete control over their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent automation and cloud-native expertise for managing and operating virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. We empower developers and innovators to create extraordinary products and services by automating the discovery, integration, and operation of the best cloud and open source technologies for their unique needs. The marketing team promotes Mirantis and our commercial offerings to prospects, customers, and the wider community to create brand awareness, support product-led growth, generate leads, and foster customer loyalty. We also promote open source projects that we lead or contribute to in order to help increase community engagement and adoption. The product marketing team focuses on three primary solution categories: container solutions, cloud native virtualization, and multicluster management. You will work with some of the brightest innovators in the cloud native ecosystem, helping to promote cutting-edge solutions and technologies in a fast-growing market, where we serve hundreds of customers, including ~⅓ of Fortune 100 companies. You will be part of the only independent company recognized by both Gartner and Omdia in 2024 as one of the world’s leading providers of enterprise container management solutions, and the only leading vendor committed to delivering truly open and flexible solutions based on open source technologies. You will work in an engineering-driven company that has a strong history of open source leadership as a founding member and top contributor to OpenStack and an industry-respected pedigree as pioneers in containerization with heritage in Docker Enterprise. You will have the opportunity to take Mirantis training course(s) in cloud native technologies. You will have the opportunity to collaborate in an agile, creative, and data-driven marketing team, with the freedom to pursue your own ideas.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of product marketing for one or more products, collaborating closely with the appropriate product managers and other stakeholders to stay up-to-date with the latest changes.
• Work with product management and other stakeholders to prepare materials for product launches and releases, including website content, datasheets, blogs, whitepapers, presentations, videos, emails, etc.
• Work with product management and other stakeholders to prepare user-centric materials for product-led growth, such as tutorials, guides, videos, etc.
• Work with product management, sales, and other stakeholders to prepare sales enablement materials, including messaging, presentations, FAQs, sales playbooks, competitive analyses, conversation guides, etc.
• Organize and present sales enablement activities as needed.
• Work with the demand generation team to help create and/or review content as needed for campaigns, including webinar abstracts, landing pages, emails, social posts, eBooks, infographics, tutorials, etc.
• Work with stakeholders in the sales and/or customer success teams to create and publish case studies, including customer outreach, information gathering, content creation, content approval, and legal release.
• Assist with PR/AR activities as needed, such as press release content, bylines, customer outreach, research, etc.
• Work with Mirantis Open Source Program Office as needed to assist with materials and/or promotional activities related to open source projects that Mirantis leads or contributes to.
• Create and/or review event-related materials, such as website content, handouts, signage, event messaging, partner activities, emails, social posts, etc.
• Assist with partner marketing content and activities as needed, such as website content, partner portal content, press releases, collateral, speaking proposals, webinars, etc.
• Assist with other marketing activities as needed.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience with product marketing, preferably related to cloud computing.
• Knowledge of open source technologies, bonus if you’ve previously used or worked in open source / cloud native technologies.
• Solid writing skills for technical topics, targeting technical practitioners and/or business stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage information, resources, and projects and meet deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues and achieve shared objectives.
• A self-starter who is dedicated and persistent to get the job done.

Nice-to-haves

• Linux command line.
• Linux desktop and server installation on desktop and server VMs.
• Basic IaaS cloud operations (e.g., AWS) via web UI, CLI, SDK, REST API.
• Basic deployment automation (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
• Git and GitHub.
• Ability to code in BASH, HTML+CSS+Javascript, Python, and/or GoLang.
• General familiarity with using open source and open source community mechanics.
• General familiarity with Kubernetes concepts.

Benefits

• Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry.
• Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies.
• Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation.
• Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued.
• Receive a competitive compensation package with strong benefits plan.