Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager, CIQ
+ Employee stock options
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Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure
Open for applications
Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Employee stock options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify and unify software infrastructure, enabling customers to craft ground breaking technologies for generations to come.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Linux, HPC, and/or AI infrastructure and can translate that knowledge into content that drives awareness, engagement, and pipeline
- Strong hands-on background in Linux systems administration, HPC (high-performance computing), and/or AI/ML infrastructure
- Demonstrated ability to write deeply technical content (e.g., kernel tuning, workload schedulers, GPU clusters, container orchestration) that is both accurate and engaging
- Proven track record of translating complex engineering concepts into clear, compelling content for non-technical business audiences
- Excellent command of written English with strong editing and proofreading skills
- Experience working directly with engineering and product teams in an agile environment
- Familiarity with CMS platforms, marketing automation tools, and SEO best practices
- 5+ years of experience in technical content marketing, technical writing, or developer marketing in a B2B technology environment
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Sr. Technical Content Marketing Manager who can bridge the gap between deep technical expertise and compelling marketing storytelling
- This role is responsible for creating high-quality written content: blog posts, white papers, solution briefs, case studies, and executive summaries that make complex technical concepts accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Author long-form technical blog posts, white papers, solution briefs, tutorials, and case studies that showcase product capabilities and thought leadership
- Produce executive summaries and digestible overviews of complex technical topics for C-suite, business, and non-technical audiences
- Develop content across the full buyer journey - awareness, consideration, and decision, ensuring technical accuracy and marketing impact at every stage
- Write and edit website copy, landing pages, email campaigns, and social media content with a technically grounded voice
- Partner with engineering, product management, and solution architecture teams to extract technical insights and convert them into audience-appropriate messaging
- Attend sprint reviews, architecture discussions, and product demos to stay current on product capabilities, roadmap, and differentiators
- Translate command-line workflows, system architectures, benchmark data, and configuration details into clear, visually supported narratives
- Serve as the editorial bridge between R&D and marketing, ensuring technical fidelity in every published asset
- Own and maintain the technical content calendar in coordination with product marketing, demand generation, and communications teams
- Identify trending topics and emerging themes in Linux, HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, cloud-native computing, and adjacent spaces to fuel a proactive content pipeline
- Define and track content performance metrics (traffic, engagement, conversion, SEO ranking) and iterate based on data
- Develop SEO-driven content strategies to increase organic visibility for key technical terms and product categories
- Collaborate with the marketing, engineering, and product teams on messaging frameworks, competitive battle cards, and positioning documents, contributing from the editorial and content-creation perspective
- Support product launches by creating launch blog posts, announcement copy, and supporting collateral
- Assist in developing presentation decks, webinar scripts, and conference talk abstracts when content expertise is required
- Contribute to analyst briefing materials and customer-facing documentation as needed
Our take
Development of the Community Enterprise Linux Operating System (CentOS) was dropped by IBM’s RedHat in just 2020, leaving a gaping hole in the market. When CIQ’s founders swept in to offer a replacement, Rocky Linux, and a complementary support and servicing company CIQ, the demand reportedly skyrocketed - and, according to CIQ, it hasn’t subsided since.
That’s because the old CentOS was one of the principal OSs used by enterprise, cloud, VMs, and containers - Google, for example, was among one of its many enterprise users. Now Google has picked up Rocky Linux, and CIQ has consequently scooped up that major partnership too - and some healthy funding. It’s a fitting reward for a highly savvy play from the CIQ founders, picking up a tried-and-tested product that’s already achieved strong market penetration.
Besides Rocky Linux, CIQ has also developed cluster provisioning solution Warewulf, high performance computing (HPC) app containers tool Apptainer, and hybrid performance computing platform-as-a-Service Fuzzball. So it’s safe to say that CIQ has managed to skilfully manoeuvre its way into a pivotal position in the development of cutting edge high performance computing architecture. Now it will need to ensure it can capitalize on its lead.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$26m
SERIES A
Jan 2021
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $30m
Company HQ
North Valleys, Reno, NV
Leadership
Gregory Kurtzer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Spent over 16 years as a System Architect, Technical Lead, and Scientific Advisor at Berkeley Lab, before moving into a Corporate Advisor role at RStor. Alongside this, also founded and served as CEO at Sylabs.
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