Product Marketing Specialist - Product Led Growth (PLG)

Sunnyvale, CA (Hybrid)

$109K/yr – $125K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive product marketing for Illumio's Trial experience and go-to-market launches, aligning cross-functional teams to define the prospect journey, enable sales, and govern market intelligence and demand generation.

  • Prospect journey definition
  • Sales enablement
  • Trial launch planning

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Journey definition and creation – Map the total prospect experience from researching about solving a problem, to learning about Illumio, to the different phases of a demo and Trial experience.
  • Sales enablement – Communicate value propositions to sales teams and develop sales materials and tools that support the selling process.
  • Trial aspects of product launches – plan the Trial updates for the go-to-market launch strategy for new releases, and manage the cross-functional implementation of the plan.
  • Market intelligence – learn about other Trial experience best practices from other vendors. Know the needs of our customers and prospects and be a knowledgeable authority on our competition with the ability to articulate value and differentiate our solutions.
  • Demand generation activities - Partner in demand generation activities with Marketing teams.
  • Cross-Departmental collaboration – Accomplish the above by having a constant communication flow with internal groups, including Marketing, Product Management, Sales and the office of the CTO.
  • Key product assets: written collateral, presentations, solution/demo videos, social media activities.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of product marketing experience in companies focused on enterprise security, data center or cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong organizational, prioritization, project management and time management ability with a deadline focus
  • Strong right brain, left brain balance — analytical + creative
  • Demonstrated success of leading projects, launching products and driving product marketing activities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proactive and driven to solve problems and find innovative solutions
  • Strong acumen about new technologies and commercial acumen in the software industry
  • Strong business acumen and the ability to forge and maintain relationships.
  • Exceptional communication skills including the ability to influence, guide, and work with senior executives to achieve joint objectives
  • Experience of working in collaboration with a diverse range of business functions and customers to drive change and achieve delivery
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Illumio

4.1 Glassdoor

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by an AI security graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester WaveTM for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.

Founded in 2013
Sunnyvale, California, USA
837 employees (63 in marketing)
79% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
133.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$176.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.3%
Direct
44%
Referral
10.5%
Social
4.1%
Paid
2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~840

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
52 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$557.5M
Last Raise
$225M
Series F, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2021
    Series F • $225M
  • Feb 2019
    Series E • $65M
  • Jun 2017
    Series D • $125M

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