Senior Staff Technical Product Marketing

at SolarWinds (View all jobs)

USA Remote

Req ID: 201233

At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.

The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!

Your Role:

This seasoned Senior Staff Competitive Marketing Manager will be responsible for presenting our platform in ways that will strengthen our brand and boost sales. Works closely with the product marketing, demand marketing, product management, sales, SE’s and Customer Success to ensure we are positioned for market leadership, have effective content, and are driving demand for new customer acquisition, expansion, and cross-sell. 

Your Impact:

  • Develop deep understanding of our product portfolio and serve as the internal authority on product capabilities, and competitive and market dynamics 
  • Develop technical sales enablement, and build and deliver clear, compelling, fact-based marketing collateral highlighting SolarWinds product and technology differentiation 
  • Develop insightful & compelling technical content (demos, whitepapers, blogs, ROI/TCO calculators, webinars, etc) targeting IT operations, security, database, applications, devops practitioners and technology leaders/economic buyers for marketing initiatives to influence customers, buyers, industry specialists, research analysts, key editors in the press and other third parties 
  • Collaborate with demo team, product marketing, product management, sales, SE and Customer Success teams to help drive technical and competitive positioning strategies and influence product roadmap and messaging 
  • Drive demos roadmap. Own the demos product vision and work with our data analysts to create meaningful problem statements / business drivers to increase leads and sales usage 
  • Drive in product launch initiatives and demand generation initiatives including Tradeshows, Conferences, and Technical Sales Training or Channel Partner Training activities from technical and competitive marketing perspective  
  • Analyze competitive landscape, develop competitive content and support sales teams in sales cycle 
  • Collaborate with PM and SE organization for win/loss analysis that informs go-to-market strategies and identifies standard methodologies for sales teams 

Your Experience:

  • 5-8 years of deep technical and competitive marketing 
  • A deep, detailed understanding of ITOperations, Observability, AIOps, Security, DevSecOps, markets and competitive dynamics
  • Strong business acumen to analyze competitive strategies and propose effective countermeasures 
  • Ability to translate information to accurately deliver actionable insights for sales, product, and marketing teams 
  • Ability to work amicably with key stakeholders while championing activities that advance our organizational objectives 
  • A deep sense of accountability and the ability to drive large projects to completion with urgency to achieve the intended business impact 
  • Experience testing, iterating, and evolving your approach to increase impactful engagement with external audiences 
  • Self-starting and highly motivated to help elevate SolarWinds external brand for technical audience 

SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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