Director of Field Marketing, Couchbase
Europe
Operational data platform for AI
Job no longer available
Operational data platform for AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how organizations develop, deploy, and run modern applications wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- +3 years of experience managing a European Field Marketing team
- Demonstrable focus on pipeline growth and high quality execution
- Proven track record of breaking into new markets, segments, or creative problem solving with a bias towards action and measurement
- A strong team player but still a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth start-up environment
- Experience marketing with Cloud Service Providers, in particular AWS or Google Cloud
- Has the ability to create or adapt technical messaging for local markets
- Experience in marketing to Software Developers and Architects is a plus
- Experience in database or infrastructure marketing a plus
What the job involves
- This role reports to the VP Global Field Marketing, but will work closely with the regional Vice President of Sales, Europe, as well as their management team including European leads for Partners, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Legal and Sales Operations
- The Field Marketing Director, Europe will be responsible for building the regional field marketing plan in order to help meet the European pipeline and revenue goals and raise awareness within key industries and personas
- Whilst you own the European Field Marketing strategy, you will also collaborate with the broader marketing team to present to sales the full European marketing plan
- Your input and strategic guidance will be critical to the success of PR, digital, partner and community marketing effectiveness in the European regions
- You will also work closely with marketing operations and our analytics tools to help make data driven decisions on where to focus time and investment
- We are looking for a creative and strategic Field Marketeer who can help accelerate the pipeline we already have, as well as find new opportunities and increase awareness of our brand
- This role will call for impressive relationship-building, people management and problem solving skills with a can-do attitude
- Develop, and be responsible for the execution of, the European Field Marketing plan
- Align with regional leadership (sales, solution engineering, partner) to meet regional goals
- Create and deliver full funnel marketing programs and activities that leverage many parts of the marketing mix including events, digital, PR, and our developer relations teams
- Oversee the sales management reporting and SDR/sales follow-up of marketing qualified leads
- Manage a regional spend as allocated within the marketing budget
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of Field Marketing programs
- Participate as a fully-engaged member of both the global Field Marketing and extended marketing team
- Plan and assist in the execution of partner events and conferences in cooperation with Partner Marketing and Business Development Teams
Our take
Critical functions for digital businesses such as computing and storage have become cheaper by orders of magnitude with the advent of cloud computing. However, these businesses still face the challenge of architecting their services under this paradigm. Couchbase’s NoSQL database is designed to help organizations build scalable, distributed systems that take advantage of cloud-native infrastructure.
The company's major bets on Kubernetes, mobile and NoSQL have paid off too. With many large enterprises now treating Couchbase as mission-critical infrastructure, a trajectory that culminated because of ts 2021 IPO. While it operates in a highly competitive database market, the company has continued to grow post-IPO and is now positioning itself around the next shift in enterprise architecture: AI-native applications.
The recent launch of Couchbase AI Services reflects an effort to unify operational data, vector search and model hosting within a single platform, reducing the complexity that often prevents generative AI and agent-based systems from moving beyond proof-of-concept. By embedding governance, validation and security controls directly into the data layer, Couchbase is aiming to make its database a core foundation for production AI workloads.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2020
$105m
SERIES G
Mar 2016
$30m
SERIES F
Total funding: $251m
Company HQ
Cypress, San Jose, CA
Leadership
BJ Schaknowski
(CEO)Prior to joining Couchbase in 2025, BJ was the CEO of symplr. He also served as the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Vertafore and as an SVP of Marketing, Sales & Services at LexisNexis Software Solutions.
Veronica Curran
(CPO)Veronica Previously founded Magnolia People Solutions where she served as a Managing Partner for nearly 2 years. Prior to that, she was the Chief People and culture Officer at SmartBear and the CPO at Alumni Ventures Group.
Gopi Duddi
(CTO)Gopi joined Couchbase in 2022 as an SVP of Engineering, moving into the role of CTO in 2025. Prior to this, he spent 10 years at Amazon AWS, joining in 2012 as a Senior Manager of Database Services before moving into the role of GM. He also spent 7 years at IBM In various Managerial roles.
Josh Harbert
(CMO)Josh is also the co-founder and President of SustainableIT.org. Previously, he served as the CMO at Delphix and the VP of Marketing at Tanium and Qumulo.
Amir Jafari
(CFO)Amir is also the CFO/Head of Finance & Operations at Blend. Previously, he served as the CFO at Plastiq and Reputation.com.
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