Senior Director of Product Marketing, Forward Networks
Mathematically-accurate network modeling
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Mathematically-accurate network modeling
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform networks to be agile, predictable, and secure.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise software, with a strong background in product marketing leadership at growth-stage companies
- Proven success in defining and launching category-shaping positioning and messaging
- Strong technical aptitude and curiosity; comfortable going deep with engineers and equally effective in front of executives
- Demonstrated ability to craft compelling stories that connect technology to customer and mission outcomes
- Experience driving competitive intelligence and informing product/market strategy
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proven spokesperson with press/analysts and skilled presenter
- Track record of building and scaling high-performing PMM teams
- Familiarity with infrastructure, networking, security, or government/regulated markets preferred
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Director, Product Marketing to build and lead the global PMM function. This is a critical leadership role that combines strategy, storytelling, and technical depth
- You will own positioning and messaging, drive category creation, and help redefine infrastructure and operations for the AI era
- Partnering with product, sales, and marketing, you’ll shape go-to-market strategy and develop content that brings our platform and its key use cases to life for enterprises and government organizations worldwide
- You will establish a world-class product marketing function, set best practices, and build a high-performing team that scales with our growth
- This position reports to the Chief Marketing Officer
- Define and drive category-defining positioning and messaging that strategically differentiates Forward Networks
- Partner with product management to shape go-to-market strategy, including launches, packaging, pricing, and market expansion
- Translate complex technical capabilities into clear business outcomes through compelling narratives, demos, and content
- Build and lead a competitive intelligence program to provide insights that influence strategy, roadmap, and sales execution
- Create and deliver high-impact content—solution briefs, whitepapers, presentations, demos, and sales enablement tools—that bring our platform and use cases to life across industries and government
- Act as a thought leader and spokesperson with analysts, press, customers, and partners
- Collaborate with demand generation, field, and corporate marketing to ensure consistent messaging and content across all channels
- Recruit, mentor, and scale a world-class product marketing team aligned with company growth
Our take
The rapid flow of data from inside and outside organisations has rendered top-down planning difficult, and often ineffective, especially in an enterprise network setting. Forward Networks provides a solution by creating digital twins of a company's network architecture so planners and developers can see how their activities will affect operations across the entire network.
Although digital twinning is relatively new, there is already intense competition for this space. Forward Networks has carved out a unique niche in focusing on enterprise networks rather than the organisation as a whole, a focus which is needed given the complexity of modern hybrid networks which can span several cloud environments.
In 2023, Forward Networks completed a Series D funding round led by MSD Partners, with participation from Goldman Sachs, one of its long-term customers. This investment has supported the business in further developing its product, expand the services available to its customers, and scaling its core team.
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Insights
95% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2023
$50m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $112.5m
Company benefits
- We’re an agile team and early-stage company with plenty of opportunities to grow, as a company and as individuals.
- Every team member receives a compensation package that includes equity, so we can grow together.
- We offer top-grade insurance, with medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family.
- Vacations, holidays, family days. With no tracked time off, you can go as long as it’s okay with your manager.
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
David Erickson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University and Member of Technical Staff at big switch networks.
Brandon Heller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy. Prior to that, they interned at Google, Hewlett-Packard and Emerson Motor Company.
Nikhil Handigol
(Co-Founder)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy, as well as a Member of Technical Staff at ON.Lab and Research Assistant at Stanford University.
Peyman Kazemian
(Co-Founder)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy, and a Researcher and Teaching Assistant at Stanford University. Also in terned at Google and Ericsson.
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