[Remote] VP, Product Marketing, Observability
Auto ImportNote: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. They are seeking an outstanding leader to helm their Observability Product Marketing team, responsible for defining the marketing, messaging, and go-to-market strategy for Elastic Observability.
Responsibilities
- Provides thought leadership around market trends and competing solutions
- Brings excellent leadership and teamship to the company, interfaces effectively with Leadership, Product, Sales and Marketing
- Leads a growing Observability PMM team, including hiring and development of talent
- Set the Observability marketing strategy — including messaging, technical content, priorities, field enablement, and GTM
- Clearly articulates Elastic’s position and differentiation vs similar offerings. Be the expert on competitive capabilities
- Create, curate and present compelling content for consumption on the web, press releases, executive briefings, blogs and sales enablement
- Is the expert on target personas and segments, how customers buy and users adopt our products, and the value they derive from them
- Represent the company at various speaking engagements, conferences and press interviews
- Act as a technical product marketing lead for Elastic Observability
- Serve as an internal authority on the developer and SRE personas
Skills
- Outstanding leader to helm our Observability Product Marketing team
- History of leading teams to achieve outstanding results
- Deep technical understanding of Observability solutions
- Nuanced understanding of the Observability market technologies and competitive dynamics
- Excellent leadership and teamship to the company
- Interfaces effectively with Leadership, Product, Sales and Marketing
- Leads a growing Observability PMM team, including hiring and development of talent
- Set the Observability marketing strategy — including messaging, technical content, priorities, field enablement, and GTM
- Clearly articulates Elastic's position and differentiation vs similar offerings
- Expert on competitive capabilities
- Create, curate and present compelling content for consumption on the web, press releases, executive briefings, blogs and sales enablement
- Expert on target personas and segments, how customers buy and users adopt our products, and the value they derive from them
- Represent the company at various speaking engagements, conferences and press interviews
- Act as a technical product marketing lead for Elastic Observability
- Serve as an internal authority on the developer and SRE personas
- Well respected leader who has built, scaled, and lead global teams of 5 - 15 people
- Several years experience creating outbound messaging and content that resonates with a technical SRE audience
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Familiarity with Elastic products is a plus
- Creative energy, courage to throw out the playbook, and out of the box thinking
- Technical depth with respect to our products, solutions and industries we play in and capable of learning quickly
- Ability to be hands-on with the product (former practitioner a plus)
- Comfortable working in a cross-functional role with a highly distributed team
Benefits
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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