Technical Product Marketing Manager, SUSE
Travel up to 20%
To bring the infinite potential of open source to the Enterprise
Posted today
To bring the infinite potential of open source to the Enterprise
1001+ employees
Posted today
Travel up to 20%
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform open source innovations into enterprise-grade solutions to give customers choice.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS in Computer Science (or equivalent technical degree), MBA preferred
- 8+ years of experience in technology product marketing in the enterprise software market segment - ideally with Kubernetes and container management products
- Proven track record of growing new products and technologies into successful businesses, especially for enterprise products
- Subject matter background in the enterprise infrastructure and applications software space, especially understanding of Kubernetes and containers
- Aptitude to quickly come up to speed on new technology concepts
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Ability to translate technology features into business benefits. Previous experience interacting with and presenting to customers and industry analysts
- Proven analytical skills and strategic thinking. Demonstrated ability to develop customer-obsessed, creative/non-traditional solutions and use cases
- Strong leader, self-starter and proven team player in a high achievement-oriented environment
- Ability to travel up to 20% of time to support events, conferences, or customer engagements
- An experienced presenter who is comfortable presenting to various size audiences both technical and executive-level
What the job involves
- The SUSE Enterprise Container Management product marketing team is seeking a Technical Product Marketing Manager who will help drive the continued fast-growing of our container management portfolio
- The SUSE Enterprise Container Management product portfolio delivers a comprehensive Kubernetes and container management platform across private, hybrid, and multi-clouds. We enable customers to ensure rapid creation and delivery of their cloud-native and modern applications and run them on private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments
- This role is specifically for our open-source Kubernetes and container management platform, SUSE Rancher. In this role you will work with a tightly integrated team of technical marketing, community marketing, solution marketing, product management, and field solution architects, and contribute directly to our hyper-growth story
- As a product marketeer, you will drive overall positioning and messaging, marketing content development and sales enablement. You will be responsible for crafting and delivering go-to-market plans, communicating our value proposition across solution use cases
- You will be a great fit for this role if you have product marketing experience with relevant enterprise software, working closely with sales, marketing, and management functions to deliver products to market; sales and support enablement; and writing blogs, white papers, and presentations
- Develop an understanding of the Container Management Platform market for private and multi-cloud environments. Identify customer goals, challenges, buying behaviors and sales motions and define the corresponding go-to-market strategies
- Launch new products and releases, be the key central ‘launch owner’ coordinating resources across the company
- Work in a great environment to directly influence marketing efforts that lead to sales pipeline expansion
- Create outbound marketing materials including white papers, blogs, presentations, data sheets, web content, social media, sales tools, webinars and training materials
- Collaborate with corporate marketing, digital marketing, solutions marketing, product management, sales, and technical marketing teams on projects to help drive demand, awareness, and pipeline
- Create and deliver sales enablement content
- Support go-to-market planning and execution
- Help support industry events, and conferences
- Support analyst briefings, and working with tech evangelists
Application process
- Sounds like the right fit for you? Click Apply to submit your resume. A recruiter will contact you if your skills match our current or any future positions
Our take
The tech world is facing a shift and businesses are under pressure to modernise, cut costs, and stay flexible, all while dealing with increasingly complex IT demands. Many are finding that traditional software just don't offer the flexibility or value they need anymore.
This is where SUSE steps in with its open source tools that help businesses run their IT systems better. From managing cloud services to running virtual machines and containers, SUSE's software makes it easier for businesses to scale and streamline complex infrastructure, all from one central platform.
The company is making a name for itself by blending open source freedom with solid support and real results. Aussie Broadband, for example, boosted efficiency and trimmed down deployment times by switching to SUSE. With its sights now set on edge computing and AI, SUSE is showing that open source isn't just practical, but is powering the future of scalable tech.
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Meet the team
Michael Rennett, Director, Analyst Relations
Insights
24% female employees
Company
Company benefits
- Company bonus: We believe that everyone makes an impact on the success of the company, so we reward our employees for our achievements as one SUSE team.
- Agile Worker Policy: Unless your role requires a specific work model, we offer flexibility in how our people work - home-base, office-based or hybrid
- Flexibility: To maintain a healthy work-life balance, our people can adapt their work schedule to their personal and family needs
- Global Parental Leave: 20-week maternity leave with full salary and time off with pay for pregnancy-related appointments will be provided to pregnant SUSE people. Leave is also available to employees adopting a child or using surrogacy
- Health & well-being benefits program: We offer a well-being program designed for our people and their families. We also provide an excellent benefits plan including insurance, medical package and more, depending on the local market
- Employee referral program: Earn a financial reward or every successful referral you make – help us build a great team and get rewarded in the process
- Employee Resource Groups: Our main people networks are Women in Tech, Neurodiversity, GoGreen, Pride at SUSE and Open Source Community Citizen network. Through them our people can align to personal values, build bonds, and engage with communities of interest
Company values
- Choice
- Innovation
- Trust
- Community
Company HQ
Gare, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Articles
Leadership
DP held executive roles, including Red Hat GM for APAC and NA, before SUSE. He's on the NUS Institute of Systems Science board and mentors women in business. DP is an open-source programming hobbyist!
Ian Halifax
(CFO)Ian has more than 30 years' experience in Senior Financial Leadership positions, including as CFO at leading global tech providers such as Trellix (McAfee Enterprise/FireEye), Riverbed Technology, Wind River Systems, Micromuse, and Macrovision.
Andy McDonald
(Chief Legal Officer)They have extensive experience in Legal Affairs and Governance in a variety of companies, including Interserve, Premier Foods plc, Uniq plc, and Spirent plc. They also worked as a Corporate Lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer before moving into Industry.
Lisa Sherwell
(CPO)Lisa Sherwell, CPO, is a global strategy & transformation exec with 25 years in B2B tech - led SUSE's strategy, and was GM/Sales Director at SAP/Merchants. Lisa champions people-centric leadership!
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