Mendix is on a mission to enable anyone in any organization – from the marketing coordinator to the software developer to the CEO – to create things that are transformational for their company. We are fundamentally reinventing the way applications are created and we’re reinventing the future of software development. Sounds ambitious, right? We agree.
Not to brag, but nearly 4,000 organizations worldwide, including KLM, Medtronic, Merck, and Philips, rely on Mendix to build web and mobile applications. Thousands of our customers use our platform to delight their clients and empower their employees. It’s no surprise that we’re a recognized Leader by Gartner and Forrester in a red-hot market expected to exceed $21 billion by 2022. Ok, maybe we did want to brag a little. But we’re proud of what we’ve accomplished…and…we’re humble enough to admit that we need you to make us even more effective.
Product Marketing Manager - Cloud
Job Summary:
As part of a massive investment in marketing to support our market-leading growth, we are looking for a dynamic, creative, and results-oriented Product Marketing Manager. Our ideal candidate is someone whose education and previous experience demonstrate technical acumen, communication, and hands-on curiosity. Traditional product marketing experience is welcome, but not necessary. Successful candidates in the past have come from product management, sales engineering, and services domains.
Responsibilities:
· Become an expert in market problems, buyer pain, Mendix value, and competitive differentiation of Mendix Cloud products by spending 20% of your time in market.
· Create messaging and positioning that maps Mendix value to pain in our target audiences and articulates offensive differentiation.
· Collaborate closely with Product Management and other Product Marketers to drive market-driven, data-driven strategic product direction.
· Partner with Sales Enablement to ensure sales teams are up-to-date with the latest product updates and releases, as well as the messaging and Sales Plays to support them.
· Influence goals and strategy of Go To Market by acting as an SME within Marketing to support demand generation, lead conversion, PR, and AR stakeholders. Inform Campaign design and execution with industry knowledge and content/asset delivery.
· Engage with Press and Analysts to support team goals for Awareness.
· Prioritize customer outcomes relentlessly and balance diverse stakeholders
Minimum Qualifications:
1. 5-10 years of relevant professional experience
2. Success working across geographically dispersed teams.
3. Deep knowledge of cloud-based service delivery trends, including DevOps, immutable infrastructure, and cloud-native computing models (containers, serverless)
4. First-hand experience with products such as AWS, Azure, GCP, RedHat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Infrastructure Orchestration (e.g, Puppet, Ansible), and/or CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab)
5. Exposure to enterprise IT security landscape
6. Maniacal focus on delivery the best possible outcomes for our customers
7. Maniacal focus on market-driven, data-driven decision making