Product Marketing Specialist (Entry-Level)

El Segundo, CA (Unknown)

$85K/yr – $95K/yrIntern/New Grad3+ years exp

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive product marketing for Gurucul\'s cybersecurity analytics platform, shaping messaging, launches, and sales enablement.

  • Must-have: Strong writing and the ability to translate complex security topics into clear messaging.
  • Standout: Analyst relations prep and a structured competitive battlecard program.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Messaging & Positioning: Support development and upkeep of product messaging, positioning statements, value props, and proof points for target personas (CISO, SOC leaders, Insider Risk, Security Architects, Security Operations, Identity Access Management)
  • Maintain a consistent narrative across website pages, decks, datasheets, and campaigns
  • Product Launch Content & Enablement: Assist with product launches: launch plans, internal readiness, and external content delivery
  • Create and maintain sales enablement assets: product one-pagers, solution briefs, pitch decks, talk tracks, FAQs, and demo “what to show/why it matters” guidance
  • Partner with Demand Gen to translate launch themes into campaign-ready content (email copy, landing page copy, webinar abstracts, social posts)
  • Competitive Intelligence & Battlecards: Build and update competitive research on key categories (SIEM, UEBA, ITDR/identity analytics, insider risk, SOAR/automation adjacencies)
  • Create sales-ready competitive battlecards including differentiators, positioning guidance, landmines, objections/handles, and win stories
  • Maintain a competitive library and refresh cadence aligned to market changes and field feedback
  • Analyst Relations Support: Briefing prep, presentation development, Q&A documents, and post-briefing follow-ups
  • Maintain an “analyst-ready” repository of company/product facts, differentiators, customer proof points, and roadmap narratives

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree (or Master’s degree) in Marketing, Business, Communications, Economics, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Minimum 3.5 GPA (overall or in major)
  • Strong writing and editing skills; ability to simplify complex technical topics
  • Strong attention to detail and comfort managing multiple deliverables and deadlines
  • Analytical mindset and willingness to learn the cybersecurity/enterprise software landscape
  • Strong collaboration skills; able to take feedback and iterate quickly

Preferred

  • Internship or project experience in B2B SaaS, enterprise technology, cybersecurity, or product marketing
  • Familiarity with analyst firms (e.g., Gartner, Forrester, IDC) and basic briefing mechanics
  • Experience creating sales enablement materials (battlecards, talk tracks, decks)
  • Comfort working with basic market/competitive research and synthesizing findings
  • Familiarity with tools like PowerPoint/Google Slides, Excel/Sheets, CMS basics, and collaboration tools (Notion/Confluence, etc.)

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • EAP
  • 401K
  • Paid Time Off
  • paid Holidays
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Gurucul

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Gurucul is a security analytics company founded in data science that delivers radical clarity about cyber risk. Our platform analyzes enterprise data at scale using machine learning and artificial intelligence. Instead of useless alerts, you get real-time, actionable information about true threats and their associated risk. The platform is open, flexible and cloud native. It conforms to your business requirements, so you don't have to compromise. Our technology has earned us recognition from leading industry analysts as the most Visionary platform and an Overall leader in product, market and innovation. Our solutions are used by Global 1000 enterprises and government agencies to minimize their cybersecurity risk.

Founded in 2010
El Segundo, California, USA
316 employees (24 in marketing)
57% recommend to a friend
67% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
29.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$17K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.2%
Direct
41.1%
Referral
8.5%
Social
4.5%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~319

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (5% of company)

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