Sr Product Marketing Manager

USA (Remote)

$160K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead product marketing for Kentik Cloud, Synthetics, and Security with end-to-end GTM and cross-functional launches.

  • Own go-to-market plans, messaging, and storytelling for Enterprise solutions.
  • Must-have: 4+ years in product or solutions marketing in high-growth software.
  • Standout: Proven cross-functional launch program ownership across product, marketing, sales, and success teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead product marketing activities for the Kentik Cloud, Synthetics, and Security products and solutions
  • Develop and own the go-to-market plan, segment and persona strategy, messaging, positioning, and storytelling for Kentik solutions for the Enterprise market.
  • Develop product level messaging and content reflecting end-to-end workflows and use cases which align to business outcomes
  • Enhance and own the integrated product launch program, partnering with product management, marketing, sales, customer success, partner teams, and enablement to drive business impact
  • Identify target personas, understand their key business problems, and pain points, and articulate Kentik’s value proposition to drive desired outcomes
  • Oversee creation of, audit, and maintain core assets: messaging frameworks, value propositions, customer presentations, web content, solution briefs, other marketing collateral, and executive buyer narratives
  • Partner with revenue marketing, sales, and channel teams to facilitate message pull-through in campaigns and sales and customer success conversations
  • Create effective plays and enablement for sales and CS teams
  • Work closely with product management to align marketing with product features and roadmap

Requirements

  • 4+ years experience in product or solutions marketing in a high growth software organization
  • Experience marketing IT, networking, management, and/or security solutions to practitioners and decision makers
  • Experience defining and leading product launches in matrixed environments
  • Experience understanding technology at a deep level and ability to translate into business needs and outcomes concisely
  • You must be comfortable communicating at all levels within Kentik, customers, and partners, including executive and C-level leaders
  • You are a team player, knowing how to work well cross-functionally to rally teams around your strategy and plans
  • A deep sense of ownership and accountability is required along with the ability to influence and inspire
  • Strive for excellence with a sharp eye for messaging accuracy and alignment

Benefits

  • 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
  • Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
  • Paid family & medical leave
  • Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
  • 401(k) retirement account
  • Home office reimbursement
  • Stock options
  • Note: Benefits are as listed for all US full-time employees. For compensation, international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.
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Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.

Founded in 2014
San Francisco, California, USA
248 employees (20 in marketing)
70% recommend to a friend
78% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
119.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.1%
Direct
40.6%
Referral
8.9%
Social
4.3%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~251

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
14 (6% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$101.7M
Last Raise
$40M
Series C, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2021
    Series C • $40M
  • May 2020
    Series Unknown • $23.5M
  • Aug 2016
    Series B • $23M

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