Senior Manager, Product Marketing - Red Hat Ansible

About the Job

The Red Hat Ansible Product Marketing team is looking for a Senior Manager of Product Marketing to join us in Raleigh NC. This position reports into the Director of Product Marketing for Red Hat Ansible. In this role you will be leading a group within the Red Hat Ansible Product Marketing team. This team is responsible for developing and carrying out the messaging positioning and gotomarket strategy for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

You will work crossfunctionally and globally with numerous teams including Product Management Product Marketing Technical Marketing Digital Experience Brand Experience Field Marketing Partner Marketing Engineering Sales and Services. You will conduct research craft market strategies and develop content to support demand generation and enable field sales and Red Hat channel partners. Well need you to be able to understand customer needs and develop compelling messaging as you will spend time in front of customers and partners. This role comes with management responsibilities. As a playercoach inside the product marketing team you will contribute to the overall success by leading and mentoring as well as delivering on projects.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with product management teams to ensure marketing plans align with the product roadmap and releases

• Create concise and compelling core product messaging that embodies key product attributes including value proposition positioning and differentiation

• Ensure the creation of effective marketing assets and content including whitepapers presentations case studies solution briefs web content data sheets and sales kits that can be used globally

• Develop marketing collateral and sales tools that will be used by Red Hats Sales team and partners.

• Develop and deliver enablement and training activities for Sales Presales and Professional Services teams and partners

• Collaborate with other product teams to create multiproduct/solution marketing materials that address customer use cases and pain points

• Monitors the development of business plans assesses market penetration and product positioning

What You Will Bring

• 3 years of people management experience ideally leading and managing geographically dispersed team members working in multiple offices and remotely

• 5 years of Product Marketing experience.

• 5 years of software industry experience preferably within an area of infrastructure software e.g. operating systems (Linux preferred) virtualization cloud or systems management

• Domain knowledge and experience with open source projects is a plus

• Bachelors degree in marketing engineering computer science or related area or equivalent experience; MBA preferred; Completion of Pragmatic Marketing training a plus

• Track record of success in a fastpaced technical environment

• Ability to develop proof points around turning messaging and positioning into highvalue assets

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills

• Ability and experience working in an inspirational influencedriven crossfunctional environment

• Ability to be meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks at once in a highly complex environment

• Experience with the following technologies and use cases is a plus: Ansible IT Automation Configuration Management Provisioning IT Operations Networking Cloud technologies Containers Kubernetes VMware etc.. Public cloud offerings like Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure and Event driven architectures AI/ML Edge computing

• Willingness to travel 1025%

Pay Transparency

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About Red Hat

Red Hat is the worlds leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions using a communitypowered approach to deliver highperforming Linux cloud container and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries our associates work flexibly across work environments from inoffice to officeflex to fully remote depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas no matter their title or tenure. Were a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative passionate people ready to contribute their ideas help solve complex problems and make an impact.

Benefits
Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
Flexible Spending Account healthcare and dependent care
Health Savings Account high deductible medical plan
Retirement 401(k) with employer match
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Leave benefits including disability paid family medical leave and paid military leave
Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan family planning reimbursement tuition reimbursement transportation expense account employee assistance program and more!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.

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