Director, Product Marketing

Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)

$131K/yr – $272K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead cross-organization Go-To-Market strategy initiatives, turning market insights into data-driven growth plans while coordinating with senior leaders.

  • Drive executive steercos and align across teams
  • Develop data-driven growth strategies spanning multiple products
  • Incorporate market research and customer insights into strategy

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead the vision for cross-organization initiatives, connecting the team and ensuring we are informed by market research, customer insights, and are developing comprehensive strategies across our Go-To-Market surfaces.
  • Formulate business case proposals and whitepapers that build and frame strategy to align direction and accelerate from idea to market implementation.
  • Run executive steercos to manage the business with discipline, assess ideas, and ensure alignment across the company.
  • Champion work from across the team, empowering and supporting ideas, recognizing the work of others and ensuring opportunities for team members to present and receive recognition for their work.
  • Drive competitive research and gain understanding of where the market is moving related to developer and knowledge worker AI consumption that can be integrated into Go-To-Market strategies.
  • Develop data-driven growth strategy and go-to-market engines spanning multiple products.
  • Work with senior executives and their organizations to assess ideas, foster collaboration, and align direction.
  • Lead with trust, inclusion, and valuing diverse perspectives and ideas.

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 4+ years experience in business OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

  • Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years marketing or sales experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 12+ years experience in business OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience leading cross-functional, enterprise-wide initiatives
  • Understanding of go-to-market strategy, ideally in cloud, SaaS, or AI-driven businesses
  • Experience in conducting competitive and market research and turning that into business cases and proposals
  • Ability to structure ambiguous problems and drive them to clear outcomes
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills, including creating executive-level narratives and presentations
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority and build alignment across teams
  • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data and insights into actionable strategy
  • Experience operating in fast-paced, evolving environments with high levels of ambiguity
  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to partner across sales, marketing, partner, and product teams
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237K employees (11,715 in marketing)

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$5.2M
Traffic Source Mix
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33.6%
Direct
56.9%
Referral
7.3%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~225.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6,377 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
21 years
Median Tenure
14.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
44

Funding

Total Funding
$1M
Last Raise
$1M
Post IPO Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jan 2020
    Post IPO Equity
  • Sep 1981
    Series Unknown • $1M

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