Sr Marcom Mgr, Online Marketing, Dash Navigation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA, relo=no

Sr Marcom Mgr, Online Marketing, Dash Navigation
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
relo=no

Reports To: VP

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Online Marketing Manager (Silicon Valley, CA)

Please direct your responses to: apply@dash.net 

Dash Navigation (www.dash.net) a Silicon Valley startup backed by some of the world’s top Venture Capital firms including Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is fundamentally changing the commuting experience. If you enjoy an entrepreneurial, dynamic working environment in a very hot market space, Dash is the place for you!

Dash is preparing to launch the first Internet-connected GPS device in early 2008 and the Web will be a critical component in its advertising and customer acquisition efforts and is looking for a Manager of Online Marketing to join our growing Marketing team. We are looking for a smart Web-savvy marketer with solid SEO experience to manage our Internet marketing programs.

Responsibilities:

This individual will be responsible for coordinating all of Dash’s Internet advertising and online promotion activities, as a part of the company’s positioning and branding campaigns. He/she will oversee the planning and buying of paid search and banner advertising by agency partners, as well as initiate and manage online viral initiatives and promotional partnerships.

This individual will be expected to test and (where successful) optimize new and innovative ways to reach Dash’s potential customers online. He/she will also be responsible for the dash.net website, including constantly optimizing its organic search ranking. The successful candidate will monitor and report on the success of the online initiatives and continuously optimize each initiative and the overall online mix to maximize awareness, understanding, and purchase (both online and at retail) of the Dash device.

A successful candidate must have demonstrated success in online media planning and buying, for both organic and paid search optimization. Must be “Web 2.0 savvy” individual with a detailed understanding of current online advertising and partnership trends and opportunities.

Professional Experience

Search Marketing Skills:

• Implemented Search Engine Marketing Strategies to optimize returns.

• Extensive use and knowledge of Search Engines and Search Engine Optimization.

• Produced Pay-Per-Click marketing campaigns for a wide range of companies.

• Developed in-house SEO/PPC marketing strategies from the ground up.

Online Marketing Skills:

• Designed and launched collateral and creative for E-mail Marketing campaigns.

• Established best practices for Search Engine Optimization and Online Marketing practices.

• Initiated Web Analytics to produce web site statistics for reporting and testing purposes.

• Utilized Social Media Marketing and Optimization to increase brand awareness and web presence.

Other Qualifications

• Creative, positive attitude, quick learner, with excellent writing and communication skills.

• Proficient with Mac and Windows, Google, Yahoo and MSN Search Marketing Systems.

• Great team player as well as self-starter.

 

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Katherine Bretz
Staffing Dir.
KBretz & Associates
apply@dash.net

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Dir Prod Mgmt, Enterprise Video Com, Media Publisher, Inc., Emeryville, CA, USA, relo=no

Dir Prod Mgmt, Enterprise Video Com, Media Publisher, Inc.
Emeryville, CA, USA
relo=no

Reports To: VP of Engineering

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The Product Management Director will take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify market requirements, define the product vision and strategy, create preliminary design concepts and lead the implementation of the overall product from concept to delivery. As such, as PM you will own the execution of MPI’s vision and roadmap. You will be responsible driving product requirements, product development, and managing the development process for timely product and program launches.

This position works closely with the Engineering, Marketing and Sales to understand customer needs and market trends, define market requirements, assess competitors, and translate these findings into executable market requirement documents. It supports the tactical activities and product lifecycle management, inclusive of strategic definition launch, lifecycle and end of life planning.

Job Function & Responsibilities

·         Product roadmap creation and development

·         Drive strategy alignment, create / contribute to development of product positioning, packaging and pricing strategies

·         Lead product development process and drive new feature development for existing application products

·         Translates customer/clients needs into new features and services through written product requirements specification

·         Assimilate target customer requirements - define subsequent product feature releases to meet evolving market demand

·         Work with Strategic Marketing on positioning, messaging and partner marketing initiatives

·         Perform competitive analysis and identify areas for competitive differentiation.

·         Analyze the market and customer requirements in the context of the EVC platform strategy to identify the most compelling solutions, partnerships and GTM strategies

·         Identify solution use cases for development

·         Quantify business value and customer ROI for targeted solutions

·         Serve as industry and solution evangelist at external events / industry tradeshows

·         Deliver training and build capability in sales, SEs, consulting, and partner teams to articulate and deliver on EVC solutions.

·         Develop sales tools, presentations and customer demonstration content

·         Collaborate in cross-functional teams to analyze business and pricing models for strategy and penetration considerations

·         Interface with customers, analysts, and internal stakeholders to incubate and validate strategic concepts

·         Drive strategic investment decisions in R&D to support solution level business cases

·         Communicate strategy effectively to diverse audience including executive management, analysts, customers, and employees

Skills, Education & Requirements

·         5 to 7 years of experience in product management,

·         Track record of driving product requirements and working with a product teams (including Engineering).

·         3-5 years related experience in enterprise video communications technologies and applications. (video, audio, or other media products a strong plus)

·         Requires 5+ years of directly relevant, hands-on marketing or product mgmt.

·         3-5 years Enterprise software development experience

·         Partner program experience and  technology integration

·         Understand customers IT infrastructure and capabilities.

·         Knowledge of software development methodologies

·         High energy, enthusiasm, initiative and passion amidst startup environments

·         Networking and Enterprise software / end-user solution experience preferred.

·         Proven matrix management abilities in cross-functional environments including sales, marketing, business management, customer support and engineering teams.

·         Ability to translate technology issues and customer needs into features and market requirements

·         Superior communication skills, both written and verbal

·         Strong quantitative analysis skills

Alternate Skills

·         Top tier MBA preferred.

·         Outstanding intellect, drive and interpersonal skills, and the drive to challenge the status quo are paramount to cover the scope of responsibilities required for this position.

·         Knowledge of competitive landscape highly preferred

·         High sense of urgency and entrepreneurial work ethic

·         Must be able to roll up your sleeves and "go deep" with customers or partners when necessary to drive desired business outcomes.

·         Self-starter comfortable leading in a high performance company known for execution excellence who can also effectively matrix-manage projects and build consensus across teams.

·         Strong skills in driving product line strategy, portfolio management and all other aspects of product management to ensure ongoing delivery of market leading solution capabilities

Education/Training Required

·         Requires 7+ years of prior product management experience accompanied by a BS degree in a technical field (i.e. computer science or engineering or equiv); a MBA is highly desired.

Compensation

·         Commensurate with experience

 

Please email you cover letter and resume in confidence to resumes@mediapublisher.com. Please include “Product Management Director” in the subject line of your submission.

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Jeniffer Dyer
Human Resources Manager
Media Publisher, Inc.
jdyer@mediapublisher.com

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Sr Prod Mktng Mgr, E-Commerce, Sharpcast, Palo Alto, CA, CA, USA, relo=no (CONTRACT)

Sr Prod Mktng Mgr, E-Commerce, Sharpcast
Palo Alto, CA, CA, USA
relo=no (CONTRACT)

Reports To: VP, E-Commerce - Minesh Shah

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Sharpcast is creating a next-generation converged digital media experience with our award-winning, patent-pending technology. Sharpcast allows consumers to unify their entire digital world, by automatically synchronizing all aspects of a consumer’s life – mobile phones, computers (PCs and Macs), digital cameras, and their online social sites. After seeing Sharpcast’s technology, industry analysts rave “I have seen the future and the future is sync” (Forrester Research) and “It really could be the next killer application” (Enderle Group).

Sharpcast is looking for an Online Marketing Manager/Senior Manager to lead the company’s product, online, email and partner marketing efforts. The Online Marketing Manager will be responsible for the strategy and day-to-day execution of Sharpcast’s marketing programs, managing the marketing budget and achieving key business objectives such as traffic, sales and user and subscriber growth by monitoring and improving campaign performance. This individual will report directly to the Vice President of Marketing.

Responsibilities

Product marketing:

• Customer insights – Understand customers’ needs and desires specifically related to the existing Sharpcast product and generally related to their day-to-day interactions within their digital world.
• Product enhancements – Convert customer’s feedback into new product features and functionality; partner with Product Management team to create product map
• Product messaging – Determine most effective way to communicate product benefits to customer; incorporate messaging into product, corporate website and marketing materials

 Campaign execution and optimization:

• Search -- Work closely with Search Marketing agency to recommend bid strategy, monitor results and optimize bids to maximize ROI.
• Grassroots marketing -- Establish relationships with websites that attract the Sharpcast target demographic; convince these websites to evangelize Sharpcast to maximize marketing exposure and reach.
• Viral marketing -- Through an in-house referral program, find product evangelists within Sharpcast customer base and incentivize them to acquire more customers.
• Affiliate program -- Manage the Affiliate Program to increase subscriber growth by implementing innovative contests and developing custom offers for top-performing affiliates.  Build relationships with affiliates through frequent outreach and communication.
• Strategic partnerships – Identify and build partnerships with other businesses to bundle the Sharpcast offering with their products and services.
• Email -- Manage the company’s email program, including marketing newsletters and ongoing transactional emails. Work with email service provider to setup, execute and monitor campaigns. Increase use to subscriber conversion by testing and implementing event-triggered emails.

Creative:

• Work closely with internal Creative team to develop marketing materials including marketing landing pages, advertising banners and email campaigns.
• Develop copy for all marketing materials and update copy for corporate website.

Forecasting and reporting:

• Maintain daily marketing report; work with Business Analyst on relevant analyses, including key trends
• Collaborate with Finance team on annual plan, monthly forecasts and budgets
• Identify reporting needs and collaborate with Development team to build reports necessary to manage the business and measure results vs. established goals

 Development projects:

• Identify and recommend marketing development projects; quantify projected financial impact of any proposed projects
• Work with Program Management team to ensure marketing development projects are scheduled and milestones are on track

 POSITION TYPE: Contract-to-Hire

 REQUIRED:

• Minimum of 5+ years of related experience with product and/or online/email marketing.
• Experience building a B2C product in a start-up environment.
• Experience directly managing search, affiliate and/or email marketing programs.
• Experience building and managing strategic partnerships.
• Experience working with Creative Designers to provide well-defined creative briefs.
• Thorough understanding of online marketing principles and metrics.
• Experience managing a marketing budget and preparing plans and forecasts.
• Experience working with Program Managers to provide well-defined Product Request Documents and specs.
• Ability to multi-task, determine and drive marketing priorities.
• Ability to work cross-functionally to drive projects to completion and resolve issues.
• Strong communication skills with both intra-company and external constituencies
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.

 DESIRED:

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Marketing, Business or related field; MBA preferred.
• Entrepreneurial drive, demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast paced environment.

About Sharpcast:

Sharpcast is a 40 person startup in Palo Alto backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Selby Ventures and Sigma Partners. We are building a universal synchronization platform that enables any application to work as a service seamlessly across desktops PCs, web and mobile devices.  Our patent-pending technology delivers a compelling user experience that combines the speed and flexibility of native client software with the advantages of web-based applications, making it irrelevant what device you are on and whether you are online or offline. The Sharpcast management team has a proven track record of starting successful software companies and building large online businesses.

Download our Photos client at http://www.sharpcast.com/download and experience the Sharpcast difference today!

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Annalynn Castillo
HR Manager
Sharpcast
jobs@sharpcast.com

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Prod Mktng Mgr, Data Integration, GoldenGate Software, San Francisco, CA, USA, relo=maybe

Prod Mktng Mgr, Data Integration, GoldenGate Software
San Francisco, CA, USA
relo=maybe

Reports To: Product Marketing Director

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Data Integration Product Marketing Manager

San Francisco, CA

 

GoldenGate Software Inc. is seeking a full-time Data Integration Product Marketing Manager to work from our downtown San Francisco headquarters.

 

As a member of the GoldenGate Marketing Team, this individual will be the product champion with direct responsibility for the success of our products.

 

This position reports to the Product Marketing Director and will work closely with the rest of the marketing team as well as the global field sales team in providing product positioning and messaging in support of deal activities and execution of various marketing programs. This is a salaried position with health/vision/dental and other excellent benefits.

 

GoldenGate offers a casual yet highly professional work environment in the exciting computer software industry. You´ll work within the energetic, fast-paced marketing team which is supporting the expansion of our worldwide marketing, sales, and partnership development efforts.

 

Candidates should be already resident of San Francisco/ Bay Area.

 

GoldenGate Software Inc. is a leading provider of high availability and real-time data integration solutions for improving the availability, accessibility and performance of critical data across enterprise systems. GoldenGate´s technology offerings enable businesses to capture, route, transform, deliver, and verify transactional data in real time across heterogeneous IT environments. With more than 300 customers worldwide, GoldenGate is used to drive solutions for critical initiatives in high availability, disaster tolerance, and real-time data integration. Customers include Visa, Bank of America, US Bank, UBS, Sabre Holdings, DirecTV, Comcast, Federated Investors, Mayo Foundation and Overstock.com. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through relationships with leading application and hardware vendors including ACI Worldwide, Business Objects, Eclipsys, GE Healthcare HP, IBM, Ingres, Oracle, Teradata, and others. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the Web at www.goldengate.com .

 

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

•     Create and modify ROI/TCO models to help with quantifying the benefits of GoldenGate solutions

•     Analyze competitive landscape; maintain competitive analysis documents and keep management and sales team apprised of all key developments.

•     Build and maintain sales tools

•     Develop and deliver content for sales team’s training

•     Refine product positioning and messaging, and ensure consistent messaging in collaterals, presentations and training materials through guiding Marcom team and reviewing collaterals

•     Assist in the development of product marketing plans and/or sales support plans and in monitoring progress on successful implementation of plans according to budget.

•     Assist the Marketing Team with representing GoldenGate in marketing events and exhibitions.

 

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:

•     Bachelor´s degree in business or technical field. MBA preferred.

•     5 years of experience in Product Marketing or Product Management in any of the following markets: data integration, data replication, database management, high availability/disaster tolerance, or data warehousing

•     Created and modified ROI/TCO models

•     Basic level technical knowledge on database systems, data integration, data replication, data warehousing or high availability solutions is required.

•     Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills

•     Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communications skills

•     Experience in working with and supporting direct and indirect sales organizations

•     Strong attention to detail while following the high-level strategy and goals of the project.

•     Ability to multitask a variety of assignments and proven ability to meet strict deadlines.

•     Ability to be flexible and creative, and work smart in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

•     Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs (PowerPoint, Word)

•     Advanced in Excel

•     Excellent interpersonal skills, strong team leader and player

•     Organized and dependable 

•     Should already be a resident of the San Francisco/Bay Area.

 

OTHER

•     Occasional travel may be required.

 

Please send your resume, with a cover letter explaining your qualifications and desire for this opportunity to sbruschi@GoldenGate.com

 

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Sandy Bruschi
Staffing/Recruitment Manager
GoldenGate Software
sbruschi@goldengate.com

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Sr Prod Mgr, Web 2.0, ISV, SAS, WebEx/Cisco, Santa Clara, CA, USA, relo=no

Sr Prod Mgr, Web 2.0, ISV, SAS, WebEx/Cisco
Santa Clara, CA, USA
relo=no

Reports To: Director, Product Mgmt

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Find out what all the excitement’s about. Join WebEx—the hottest Cisco product line!

 

Take full advantage of the opportunities available in a fast-paced start up environment. And reap the benefits of a Fortune 100 company that’s considered one of the Best Big Companies to Work For.

 

Capitalize on your passion and product knowledge to deliver the #1 web meeting experience worldwide. Connect your customers to the collaboration solutions they need to work smarter.

 

Sr. Product Manager-WebEx Connect Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem 

Description:

Manage and drive requirements for the new and exciting WebEx Connect Marketplace, and work with other Product managers, engineering teams and product marketing in delivering a killer user experience for marketplace visitors, who are both business users as well as ISV partners that will be building applications on the WebEx Connect platform. 

 

Overall Responsibilities:

·          Define requirements via MRDs, and PRDs and functional design documents for the Connect Marketplace

·          Work with Connect partners (ISV and technology) to define collaborative applications that get listed in the marketplace

·          Manage the product team through the product development processes to ensure introduction of the product to market on time and on budget

·          Define the structure and UI of the marketplace by working with human factor engineering teams and marketing/communications.

·          Drive cross-functional initiatives that promote the marketplace and the Connect platform to partners, customers and developers.
Track Web 2.0 industry trends and networks with key influencers
Evangelize and educates internal and external audiences

Desired Qualifications & Experience:

·          BS or MS degree in Engineering, Sciences or Business, and/or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.

·          4 - 7  years experience in product management and/or product marketing with application software vendors

·          Strong experience with web applications and passion/knowledge of Web 2.0 trends

 

Critical success factors include:

• Leadership abilities in motivating and driving execution across multiple teams

• Work cross-functional with many different groups internally and externally
• Energetic and self-motivated with strong interpersonal, persuasion, and facilitation skills with people of different levels, backgrounds, and personality styles.
• Excellent technical, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

 

EOE

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Monica Andrade
Sr. Recruiter
WebEx/Cisco
monica.andrade@webex.com

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Group Prod Mgmt Mgr, Mobile Linux, Wind River, Alameda, CA, USA, relo=maybe

Group Prod Mgmt Mgr, Mobile Linux, Wind River
Alameda, CA, USA
relo=maybe

Reports To: Director, Product Mgmt

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Product Line Manager, Linux for Mobile Handsets role at Wind River Systems!!!

(This full-time position is based in Alameda, California)

Linux solutions play a critical role in today’s embedded market. In a company with significant growth opportunities, you will be an integral part of a team creating a complete solution for the embedded market using Linux as a development host and target platform.

The Product Line Manager for Wind River Linux will focus on building our Linux RTOS strategy and product plan for the mobile handset industry - currently a fast growing and exciting Linux product. The product manager will own the complete product lifecycle deliverables including strategy, business plan, product requirements, product planning, positioning, pricing and sales enablement.

Responsibilities:

• Grow Wind River’s Linux in the Mobile Handset space.
• Understand embedded Linux device requirements and market characteristics, and translate this understanding into strategies, roadmaps, and product requirements for the networking industry.
• Develop business cases, Market Requirements Documents (MRD) and Product Requirement Documents (PRD).
• Own positioning, pricing strategies, and competitive activity related to the Linux platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to deliver required products.
• Collaborate with partners to assemble appropriate value-added products and services.
• Support activities of corporate marketing and sales.

Job Requirements:

• 7 years in product management or product marketing, preferably in the mobile handset or mobile middleware space.
• Complete understanding of operating systems and tools used by the mobile handset industry in all stages of products.
• Knowledge of open source business models critical.
• 3+ years experience with Linux technologies, products, and open source including

1. Carrier grade Linux, runtime, kernel & tools technology experience
2. Strong knowledge of the market ecosystem including semiconductor partners, Linux on MIPS and Linux on PowerPC
3. Industry experience in mobile device market

• Experience with real-time embedded technologies a plus
• Excellent communication and presentation skills are required
• Strong analytical skills.
• Technical degree (EE or CS) MBA desired

More about Wind River Systems…

Wind River helps you develop, run, and manage device software—faster, better, at lower cost, and more reliably—to accelerate your time-to-market for highly differentiated devices. Only Wind River can deliver on all of your requirements across the DSO life cycle, from development through deployment and management, from hardware optimization through middleware and application integration.

For more information please visit our website at www.windriver.com

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Darren Bronson
Product Manager
Wind River
darrenbronson@yahoo.com

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Group Prod Mgmt Mgr, Virtualization, Wind River, Alameda, CA, USA, relo=maybe

Group Prod Mgmt Mgr, Virtualization, Wind River
Alameda, CA, USA
relo=maybe

Reports To: Director, Product Mgmt

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Product Line Manager, Hypervisor Virtualization for Device Software

(This full-time position is based in Alameda, CA or Ottawa, Canada)

For decades, Wind River has been leading and transforming the device software industry.  Now, as we find ourselves on the brink of a major industry shift driven by multicore and multi-processing, Wind River once again is uniquely positioned to lead the industry with leading virtualization technologies.  Much as VMware is changing the enterprise IT landscape, Wind River is poised to solve a complex set of business and technical issues with industry-leading solutions for the device software industry.

Wind River is looking for a Product Line Manager to provide leadership for the Wind River virtualization product line.  The successful candidate must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. He or she must enjoy spending time in the marketplace to understand customer and partner problems, and to find and define innovative market solutions.  The candidate will own the complete product lifecycle deliverables including strategy, business plan, product requirements, product planning, positioning, pricing and sales enablement, and must be able to work cross-functionally to deliver the industry’s leading device software virtualization solution.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of seven years of proven high-level achievement in software product management with a track record in successfully and aggressively building a software business from scratch to $50M in revenue.  The individual will be very technical, experienced in articulating complex concepts to customers, prospects, industry analysts, partners and the press.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Defining the business opportunity and strategy
• Managing the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
• Developing requirements for current and future products by visits to customers and partners, and broad market and industry research
• Lead feature development in the product development organization
• Support sales efforts as required including some travel
• Work with Product Marketing to create content for outbound marketing material
• Contribute to developing and implementing go-to-market plans, working with all departments to execute

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum seven years experience in Product Management
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity
• Exceptional team player that works well in collaborative situations
• Ability to multi-task and follow-through on multiple projects and programs
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to effectively interact with executives, industry pundits, and large external and internal audiences
• Experience with real-time embedded & multi-core technologies
• Strong knowledge of RTOS such as Wind River Linux and VxWorks
• Understanding of embedded hardware architectures, including Intel, PowerPC, MIPS, and ARM
• Technical degree (EE or CS), MBA a plus

More about Wind River Systems…

Wind River helps you develop, run, and manage device software—faster, better, at lower cost, and more reliably—to accelerate your time-to-market for highly differentiated devices. Only Wind River can deliver on all of your requirements across the DSO life cycle, from development through deployment and management, from hardware optimization through middleware and application integration.

For more information please visit our website at www.windriver.com

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Darren Bronson
Product Manager
Wind River
darrenbronson@yahoo.com

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Sr Prod Mgr, Device Testing Tools, Wind River, Alameda, CA, USA, relo=maybe

Sr Prod Mgr, Device Testing Tools, Wind River
Alameda, CA, USA
relo=maybe

Reports To: Director, Product Mgmt

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 Sr. Product Manager – Wind River Lab Diagnostics

(This full-time position is based in Alameda, California or from a West Coast based home office)

Wind River Device Management products enable OEMs to streamline QA testing and support processes by shortening the time to resolution of issues encountered by development teams, and ultimately, by users of deployed devices.   Lab Diagnostics enables OEMs to deploy quality products to market faster and Field Diagnostics increases uptime of deployed devices.

Device Management is a major growth initiative for Wind River and the Product Manager for Lab Diagnostics will influence near- and long-term revenue growth.  A successful Product Manager must be customer focused, working to understand OEMs’ business and technical challenges during system integration, software verification and product validation testing.   He/she must clearly document the problems and solutions in product requirement documents (PRDs) and be the voice of the customer during the development.  Coinciding with product releases, he/she must develop and execute on the rollout and launch plans.  Broad skills will be needed to plan out the long-term product vision to win in the market as well as be able to execute on the day-to-day decisions to successfully deliver.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop requirements and plan roadmaps through direct customer interaction, market research, competitive analysis, and by working with the sales force.
• Communicate and refine those requirements with the development team, and successfully guide product design, implementation, testing, and maintenance.
• Prepare and execute on go-to-market plans, including sales training, ecosystem awareness and outbound marketing.
• Support sales and corporate marketing efforts as required.  Some travel required.
• Generate content for outbound marketing material - i.e. product literature, benchmark, white papers, web seminars, etc.

Required Experience and Skills:

• BA/BS (computer science or engineering preferred) required, MBA or equivalent a plus.
• 5-7 years experience in leading efforts in the device software tool market such as product management, technical marketing, or field engineering.
  • Prior experience in software testing applications a plus.
  • Familiarity with embedded software and server applications a plus.
• Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit and sense of urgency. Must be resourceful, proactive and aggressive.
• Natural leadership skills and the ability to work with all teams in the company.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity.
• Team player that works well in collaborative situations and start-up environments.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills required.

More about Wind River Systems…

Wind River helps you develop, run, and manage device software—faster, better, at lower cost, and more reliably—to accelerate your time-to-market for highly differentiated devices. Only Wind River can deliver on all of your requirements across the DSO life cycle, from development through deployment and management, from hardware optimization through middleware and application integration.

For more information please visit our website at www.windriver.com

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Darren Bronson
Product Manager
Wind River
darrenbronson@yahoo.com

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Prod Mktng Mgr, Software Tools, Coverity, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA, relo=no

Prod Mktng Mgr, Software Tools, Coverity, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, USA
relo=no

Reports To: Director, Product Marketing - John Essex

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Software Product Marketing Manager

San Francisco, CA

Coverity is seeking a Product Marketing Manger to provide product marketing expertise for our innovative software quality and security products.  Previous experience in software marketing is essential, ideally expertise gained from positions within a technology-rich business.  The right candidate will have a strong technical aptitude, sharp intellectual curiosity, and a passion for communicating the benefits of technology that will change the way software is produced.

 Functional Responsibilities

The Product Marketing Manager will work collaboratively with colleagues in Product Management, Corporate Marketing and the office of the CTO to deliver strategic direction, product positioning, marketing content, PR, events and other promotional activities.  This Manager will be responsible for working with the Sales organization to ensure that regional sales teams are enabled with appropriate sales tools and that product launches are consistently and efficiently executed throughout the regions.

This individual will report directly to the Director of Product Marketing and play a key role in helping Coverity during a period of significant growth and opportunity.  Additional responsibilities include

• Manage product positioning and go-to-market plans
• Identify and communicate Coverity's brand attributes within unique features and benefits messaging
• Support sales, manage/create datasheets, whitepapers, press releases, website content, product demos
• Drive product launches, product positioning, product planning, and competitive analyses

Professional Requirements

The ideal candidate will have experience in marketing highly technical software products to highly technical buyers. 

• 2-3 years experience in software product marketing, ideally software tools or enterprise technology
• Experience with and understanding of marketing communications activities
• Experience in field marketing, programs a plus
• BA/BS/MBA with Computer Science degree a plus
• Experience with developer tools, security, quality tools a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – communicating technology to non-technical audiences
• Proficient PC skills (MS applications: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, etc.)
• Entrepreneurial and results-oriented resume
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, cross-functional environment
• Strong work ethic 
  
• The ability to get things done in an emerging, high-growth company

About Coverity

Coverity provides the most advanced and effective source code analysis solution and removes the barriers to writing and delivering complex software.  A privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, Coverity was founded in 2002 by leading Stanford University scientists whose four-year research project resulted in a breakthrough solution to the costliest problems in the software industry.  Coverity’s technology and sophisticated, automated tools allow software developers to pinpoint software defects and vulnerabilities that could cause catastrophic failures or security breaches -- without imposing any additional burden on the development cycle.

Coverity’s products can analyze tens of millions of lines of new or legacy code and are used by more than 380 leading companies to significantly improve the quality of their software, including Cisco Systems, HP, Synopsys, NASA, Juniper Networks, Symantec, McAfee, Palm, Samsung, and Ericsson.

More Information and Contact

• More information on Coverity at www.coverity.com.
• Qualified candidates please send a resume to resumes@coverity.com.

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If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

John Essex
Director, Product Marketing
Coverity, Inc.
jessex@coverity.com

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