Director of Product Marketing, Redpanda Data
$170-230k
Salary applicable to candidates based in the US, dependent on candidates location
AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
Job no longer available
AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$170-230k
Salary applicable to candidates based in the US, dependent on candidates location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the best present and future of streaming data.
Role
Who you are
- Passion for building a fast growing business, with willingness to experiment, hire, lead, and drive the business through strategy and insights
- 8+ years as a product marketer and 3+ years leading teams for cloud infrastructure products, with hands-on experience in both sales and product led business models
- Expertise segmenting markets that drive commercial growth, developing messaging frameworks that connect to market segments, along with designing campaigns and content to educate and inspire software architects, developers and devops teams
- Experience developing product packaging for developer-centric or infrastructure solutions with multi-axis pricing
- Proven experience managing successful SaaS product launches, and relevant activities and content for blogs, press and analyst relations
- Experience in streaming infrastructure across transactional and analytical workloads, or the interest, technical background and aptitude to learn
- Hands-on experience developing sales enablement content, including competitive positioning, release training, deal support etc
- Proficiency with SaaS analytics, and ability to define, collect and analyze metrics hands-on to guide business decisions
- Meticulous project management, and ability coordinate across teams with an eye for details, and schedules, and empathy to operate in remote-first environments
- Proficiency in written and spoken English, with a command of grammar, and constructs for technical writing for blogs, articles, web copy etc
- Resourcefulness, curiosity, keen sense for web/graphics design, communication skills and the emotional intelligence to excel in distributed startup environments
- Bonus points for public speaking experience and desire to present in small and large groups, meetups and conferences
- Computer science degree(s) with an MBA or equivalent experience
- Please highlight if applicable to you: Your best examples of messaging frameworks, enablement content, web pages, campaign materials and quarterly planning decks
What the job involves
- In this role, we’re looking for an analytical product and portfolio marketer to lead product, content, partner, and customer marketing functions for Redpanda
- Reporting to the CMO, you will own the full-spectrum of our product messaging, packaging, segmentation, product launches, content and customer marketing strategy
- This foundational role will be critical to the success of the company in the market
- Own the market and customer perspective that connects to the GTM strategy for our Cloud and Enterprise products
- Shape, develop, and maintain the messaging framework utilizing internal and external feedback
- Define and drive the launch of new features and lead the development of related content including blogs, decks, press materials, analyst updates and sales training
- Design and develop sales ready enablement content across new features, solutions, packaging, pricing, and competitors
- Own the analysis and definition of our ICPs and partner with demand generation to design campaigns and messaging to meet our pipeline goals
- Lead and own customer marketing through segmentation, case studies, references, customer advisories, and surveys
- Support pricing and packaging efforts with stakeholders in product and sales
- Support AR and PR efforts to generate awareness in support of market and sales led activities
- Hire and lead a team of world class product, partner, content, and customer marketers to drive business growth
Our take
When dealing with real-time data streaming workloads, the simpler the infrastructure the better. Redpanda was developed as an alternative to the complex industry standard, Apache Kafka (which needed to be used in tandem with ZooKeeper). Redpanda’s Kafka-compatible platform increases businesses’ operational efficiency by allowing them to switch to a single platform.
With its platform running on hundreds of thousands of machines, Redpanda supports users to run the software that they’ve already invested in while addressing and eliminating past pain points. Building on its success with data streaming, the company is now pioneering the "Agentic Data Plane", a new AI infrastructure feature that enables enterprises to connect AI agents with their data and systems.
With this new direction, Redpanda ensures it remains a key player in the industry - as it supports the new endeavours of its established customer base. Having raised strong funding in the past, the company has continued to expand marketing and R&D efforts to increase its reach and support its growth plans moving forward.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Jun 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $265.5m
Company benefits
- Remote first: We’re a remote-first company that puts humans first. We advocate for working wherever you're most productive
- Comprehensive healthcare: We’ve got you covered with a mix of plans ranging from fully-paid medical, dental and vision, to premium coverage
- 401(k) matching: Our 401(k) plans let you save for your future. And for our US and UK employees — we match
- Unlimited PTO: Take time to relax and recharge. Option to select region-specific holidays. Our vacation policy puts you in control
- Home office & education reimbursement: $1,000 to gear-up your home office, $50 towards each wifi bill, $500 to invest in your learning and development annually
- Redpanda swag: Hands down the coolest swag in our industry! Your family will steal it. Guaranteed
Company HQ
Inner Richmond, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alexander Gallego
(Founder & CEO)Founder & previous CTO of Concord Systems, Inc. Previous Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies, and was a Software Engineer at both YeildMo and FactSet Research Systems. Also worked as a REU - Student Researcher for the Polytechnic Institute of New York Univeristy.
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