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Technical Product Marketing Manager

The SUSE Enterprise Container Management product marketing team is seeking a Technical Product Marketing Manager who will help drive the continued fast-growing of our container management portfolio. The SUSE Enterprise Container Management product portfolio delivers a comprehensive Kubernetes and container management platform across private, hybrid, and multi-clouds. We enable customers to ensure rapid creation and delivery of their cloud-native and modern applications and run them on private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. This role is specifically for our open-source Kubernetes and container management platform, SUSE Rancher. In this role you will work with a tightly integrated team of technical marketing, community marketing, solution marketing, product management, and field solution architects, and contribute directly to our hyper-growth story.

As a product marketeer, you will drive overall positioning and messaging, marketing content development and sales enablement. You will be responsible for crafting and delivering go-to-market plans, communicating our value proposition across solution use cases. You will be a great fit for this role if you have product marketing experience with relevant enterprise software, working closely with sales, marketing, and management functions to deliver products to market; sales and support enablement; and writing blogs, white papers, and presentations.

You will

• Develop an understanding of the Container Management Platform market for private and multi-cloud environments. Identify customer goals, challenges, buying behaviors and sales motions and define the corresponding go-to-market strategies.
• Launch new products and releases, be the key central ‘launch owner’ coordinating resources across the company
• Work in a great environment to directly influence marketing efforts that lead to sales pipeline expansion
• Create outbound marketing materials including white papers, blogs, presentations, data sheets, web content, social media, sales tools, webinars and training materials
• Collaborate with corporate marketing, digital marketing, solutions marketing, product management, sales, and technical marketing teams on projects to help drive demand, awareness, and pipeline
• Create and deliver sales enablement content
• Support go-to-market planning and execution
• Help support industry events, and conferences
• Support analyst briefings, and working with tech evangelists

Skills

• BA/BS in Computer Science (or equivalent technical degree), MBA preferred
• 8+ years of experience in technology product marketing in the enterprise software market segment - ideally with Kubernetes and container management products.
• Proven track record of growing new products and technologies into successful businesses, especially for enterprise products
• Subject matter background in the enterprise infrastructure and applications software space, especially understanding of Kubernetes and containers
• Aptitude to quickly come up to speed on new technology concepts
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Ability to translate technology features into business benefits. Previous experience interacting with and presenting to customers and industry analysts.
• Proven analytical skills and strategic thinking. Demonstrated ability to develop customer-obsessed, creative/non-traditional solutions and use cases.
• Strong leader, self-starter and proven team player in a high achievement-oriented environment.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of time to support events, conferences, or customer engagements
• An experienced presenter who is comfortable presenting to various size audiences both technical and executive-level

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