Azul is hiring a
Product Marketing Director

Summary

Join Azul Systems as a Director of Product Marketing to lead product messaging and positioning for the Azul Platform Core product line. This high-visibility role will involve defining and building differentiated platform and application positioning, narrative, and messaging for a commercially successful, open source-based product with a disruptive value proposition.

Requirements

• 10 years of experience in enterprise B2B marketing in the product marketing function
• Team player exceptionally skilled in collaboration and communication and building productive relationships with Product leadership, Sales leadership, marketing team members, and Executives
• Expert in working cross-discipline, knows how to manage by influence other disciplines, both in and out of marketing, to get things done and have fun working collaboratively as we win together
• Believes marketing is a team sport – intuitively understands that ‘go fast go alone, go far go together’, recognizes others as masters of their craft, and trusts that together we are always better. Gives respect to get respect, and aligns to a decision and wholly commits to the results
• (highly preferred) A subject matter expert with deep understanding of the OpenJDK and Java landscape and associated open source business models, DevOps, and developer technology. Deep technical chops

Responsibilities

• An innovator in taking products to market and driving thought leadership, awareness, and pipeline
• Strategic thinker that looks out across the market and works with internal partners to lead and articulate GTM strategy & roadmap with identified milestones that meet company and marketing objectives for Platform Core, drive positive impact and scale our sales and marketing motions
• Strategic partner to Product, Sales leadership, & Executive team for defining the market opportunity, product positioning and messaging, personas, use cases, and pricing/packaging. Brings the voice of the customer and sales into every conversation

Benefits

• Directs GTM team to help identify repeatable sales motions and contribute to high-velocity and strategic sales plays
• Conduct comprehensive market analysis and competitive research to provide Sales teams competitive points of differentiation, assets, and enablement in the rapidly evolving Java and DevOps ecosystem and landscape