Vice President of Marketing, Mirantis
Enterprise on-prem cloud & kubernetes support
Job no longer available
Enterprise on-prem cloud & kubernetes support
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower developers and innovators to create extraordinary products and services by automating the discovery, integration, and operation of the best cloud and open-source technologies for their unique needs.
Role
Who you are
- You were part of the cloud native rise — you understand how Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure orchestration became categories, and you have real scar tissue from that era
- You've immersed yourself in the AI infrastructure buildout — not as an observer, but as an operator with a point of view across the stack: GPU orchestration, AI clouds, model serving, and inferencing
- You've worked at, marketed to, or competed against companies like CoreWeave, Nebius, Crusoe, Together.ai, Fireworks.ai, BaseTen, Modal, Northflank, VAST, Netris, ClearML, or NVIDIA — and/or bring infrastructure pedigree from AWS, Red Hat, Rancher, HPE, or Dell. A mix of the two is ideal
- You are more entrepreneur than corporate marketer — you've likely spent more time at high-growth startups than large enterprises, and you default to speed and judgment over process
- You can show your work: specific launches, campaigns, positioning shifts, or brand moments you drove, and the measurable outcome that followed
- You have enough technical depth — whether from product marketing, product management, or technical sales — to be credible in a room of infrastructure engineers and AI researchers, but your edge is building brand awareness and demand, not writing specs
- Based in the United States, with flexibility for travel
- Comfortable operating with a moderate budget and making sharp trade-offs rather than running every playbook
What the job involves
- Mirantis is repositioning from a recognized private cloud infrastructure leader into a full-stack AI Infrastructure company — the vendor-agnostic, open-standard platform for building and operating AI clouds for Neoclouds and AI outcomes for enterprises
- We need a VP of Marketing who can force that shift in market perception quickly, and who has personally lived through the transitions that matter: the rise of cloud native, and now the rise of AI infrastructure — from GPUs and orchestration up through models and inferencing
- This is not a role for someone who runs a marketing function well
- It's a role for someone who has helped build a company's gravity — the person who gets a brand into the center of the conversation, who is known in the ecosystem, and who can point to what they built and what happened because of it
- You will own marketing across both our Enterprise and CSP/Neocloud businesses, reporting to the SVP & GM, with a path to the executive table based on impact
- Reposition the company, fast. Take Mirantis from "private cloud infrastructure" to "full-stack AI infrastructure" in market perception — not just in messaging decks
- Build gravity, not just pipeline. Get Mirantis into analyst conversations, buyer shortlists, and ecosystem conversations alongside NVIDIA and the leading Neocloud/AI infrastructure players — through earned attention, not just paid programs
- Own the narrative personally. Craft the positioning and messaging yourself — the story of why an open, vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure standard matters to Neoclouds and enterprises. You won't write every blog post, but the strategic narrative is yours
- Run marketing for two distinct motions. Enterprise (long-cycle, ABM, expansion into AI workloads within the installed base) and CSP/Neocloud (fast-moving, technically sophisticated, reputation-driven buyers) — with a coherent brand across both
- Prove it. Every claim of impact should be backed by a documented artifact — a case study, a metric, a launch that moved a market. You'll be expected to bring these from your own track record and build the same discipline here
- Lead and reshape an existing team. Assess, develop, and where needed replace — building a team capable of executing at the speed and technical fluency this market demands
- A genuine ground-floor opportunity to reposition a company with real customers and real infrastructure pedigree into the next category
- Executive-table seat earned through impact, not tenure
- Direct partnership with Sales, Product, the CEO, and the executive staff to shape company direction
Our take
The global cloud-native applications market has grown rapidly in recent years, as more companies look for scalable and flexible ways to build and run software. Managing these environments - often spread across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid setups - has become increasingly complex. SO that's where Mirantis comes in, focusing on open cloud software and what it calls a ZeroOps approach to simplify operations.
Mirantis offers a range of products used by millions of developers, designed to make it easier to build, deploy, and manage modern applications, Its tools help teams move away for manually handling infrastructure so they can focus more on writing code and delivering new features. As cloud environments continue to evolve, the company is a flexible, open alternative that adapts alongside changing developer needs.
Recently, Mirantis has been pushing further into this space with the development of k0rdent, an open-source platform designed dot act as a "super control plane" for managing Kubernetes across multiple environments. With its latest updates, k0rdent helps teams standardize how they deploy, scale, and monitor applications across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid setups. This focus on simplifying large-scale infrastructure management, combined with an open, community-driven approach, shows Mirantis is doubling down on helping organizations stay flexible while avoiding vendor lock-in.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2015
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2014
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $220m
Company HQ
Pruneyard / Dry Creek, Campbell, CA
Leadership
Alex Freedland
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside Mirantis, Alex is an Advisor, Investor & Board Observer at Session AI and a Strategy Advisor at Nova Labs. Previously, he served as the CFO at FreedomFi for 3 years.
James Walbom
(CFO)Prior to joining Mirantis in 2026, James was a Global VP of Finance at SUSE and a VP of Finance & Operations/CFO at Rancher Labs.
Shaun O'Meara
(CTO)Shaun joined Mirantis in 2015 as a Senior Systems Architect, moving into the role of Field CTO in 2017 and CTO in 2024. Prior to Mirantis, he spent 15 years at Business Connexion as a Senior then Principal Systems Engineer and Solutions Architect.
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