Technical Marketing Engineer I (Full Time) - United States
Cisco
San Jose, CA (On-site)
$85K/yr - $140K/yrIn-houseFull-timeIntern/new grad
1 day ago
Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager
Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)
$148K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time
Posted 5 days ago
Job Summary
Own Alation's competitive source of truth, drive weekly discovery and engagements, and build AI-assisted workflows to turn field signals into shareable assets.
- Maintain and update competitive intel
- Lead discovery calls and customer storytelling
- Turn signals into AI-assisted assets with human-in-the-loop checks
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Own Alation's competitive source of truth. Track and analyze competitor products and keep it up-to-date. Ensure the right content is deployed in the right channels.
- Join discovery calls, POCs, and FDE engagements every week. Notice patterns, learn customer stories. Understand where real value lies.
- Build AI-assisted workflows that let you turn field signals into assets faster, and keep a human in the loop where accuracy and judgment matter most.
- Get hands-on with competitor products to build technically defensible comparisons, and validate every competitive claim before it reaches the field.
- Partner with Product Marketing leadership to sharpen positioning and messaging with technical detail from your competitive work.
- Support briefings to sales and Product Marketing on competitive moves.
Requirements
- 8–12 years of experience in technical product marketing, solutions engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience building and running technical demos for a sales, industry analyst or field audience.
- Exposure to competitive intelligence or competitive analysis for enterprise software.
- Comfort partnering with engineering, solutions engineering, or forward-deployed technical teams.
- Strong technical communication skills, with the ability to translate technical detail into material for broader audiences.
Preferred
- Bonus: You understand the difference between metadata management and active metadata management, and between technical lineage and business lineage.
- Familiarity with AI agent architectures, data governance, or data intelligence platforms is a plus.
Benefits
- robust benefits.
Alation
Alation is the data intelligence company. Nearly 600 global enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Alation to realize value from every data and AI initiative.Customers such as Cisco, DocuSign, Nasdaq, and Pfizer trust Alation’s platform for self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data, fostering data-driven innovation at scale. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alation has been recognized five times by Inc. Magazine as one of the Best Workplaces. To learn more, visit www.alation.com.
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$148K/yr – $200K/yr
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